When camping with our trailer my freezer is packed with meats, french fries, waffles, turnovers... All stuff I would bake in the oven.With our B there is no oven and my freezer is always empty.Give me some ideas... What's in yours?

Lots of ice for the good beverages

We virtually never use our oven at home and do not have one in the camper. There is just the two of us. We don't oven cook big roasts or the like. We don't eat frozen French fries or frozen waffles. When camping we eat even more simply than when at home. Most of what is in the freezer are hamburger patties and precooked meats: hamburger, sausage and chicken meat. We make sauce for pasta, chili, meats for tacos and burritos and the like. Most of what we have can be turned into a meal in less than 15 minutes. In many cases, starting from the freezer and refrigerator items we would be eating dinner before an oven even heated up.

Anything grillable-hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks, chicken, ribs, boneless pork chops, etc., frozen veggies, hamburg to make spaghetti or tacos, plus pre-cooked items like lasagna or stew. A microwave was a must-have for us but we never used our stove.

We have an oven and sometimes use it but we also use the freezer to put water bottles in it to freeze instead of buying ice. We can drink them when they thaw too and less hassle with dumping water from the cooler.

We do have an oven and use it frequently, but we also stock a number of items in our freezer that we grill, fry, boil, etc. We usually even have a couple of quick microwave meals of one sort or another. And sometimes leftovers of course... ;)

What's in your freezer when you don't have an oven?

afidel
Explorer II
Jul 24, 2017
It's only about 35 pounds, it's not that big either, wish it was about 2" shorter though so it would fit under the tonneou cover =)

It's made of steel and rockwool, not ceramic like the traditional eggs.
pennysmom09
Explorer
Jul 24, 2017
bukhrn wrote:
Can't help you with this one, an RV without an oven was a deal killer with my wife, when we started looking, we walked into some very nice units, but as soon she noticed there was No oven, she didn't even want to look at the rest of it.

X2. If it's too hot, I use the crockpot, microwave or toaster oven.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Jul 25, 2017
I didn't read the whole thread.

There is no reason you can't cook all of that stuff without a oven. A Dutch Oven over the fire might help with a lot of that.

Check out recipes on line for other ideas.
RGar974417
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
We don't use the oven either.But my wife makes meals at home and freezes them.Then we just defrost them at the campground. She makes and freezes,chilli,pot pie,shepard's pie, quiche,etc.
jnharley
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
We are full timers in a 5th wheel but also love to camp with out trike and motorcycle tent trailer which is basically a bed on wheels. That means using a cooler and a cook stove. We really have to simply our meals and find that there are some really good frozen complete meals available nowadays. We were out last summer for 49 nights and used a cooler and a cook stove for all our prepared meals. We bought lots of ice!
ctilsie242
Explorer II
Jul 25, 2017
I use the microwave, so keep frozen foods in there. I also keep water bottles and freezer packs, periodically swapping a few between the freezer and fridge.

If you have a freezer, might as well pack it full of freezer packs, so you have thermal mass in case you lose power, so you have the ability to keep stuff cold even without power available.
paddykernahan
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
BizmarksMom wrote:
qtla9111 wrote:
Vodka, ice and frozen berries (breakfast shakes).
You win breakfast!

I use the freezer to store my gin.

Sounds like the making of a great Bombay Sapphire Churchill Martini.
DryCreek
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
Well, everyone is dancing around the correct answer:

Tow the trailer with the B. You'll have two of everything, except an oven.

All jokes aside, we carry a toaster oven with us. There are days where you just gotta have a biscuit to go with a slice of country ham.

One thing we noticed when we were shopping for our used Class A earlier this year was that if the unit didn't have a gas oven, it usually had a convection/microwave oven. Strangely enough, the motor home we ended up buying has both. I guess that it was an option added by the first owner (we are the third owner). I think we've made biscuits in it once. It took me quite a while to figure the thing out. So many buttons, such short patience.....
mr__ed
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
Sam Spade wrote:
pasusan wrote:

Give me some ideas... What's in yours?

The only oven I use is the MICROWAVE oven.
That dictates what is in my freezer.

X2. I've never used the oven in any RV I've owned; only the stove top or microwave. I also got a lot of use out of my crockpot. Put ingredients in during morning and enjoy delicious meal in evening. Meals always taste great from a crockpot. :)
Padlin
Explorer
Jul 25, 2017
When shopping for a small RV we looked at B's, never thought about not taking along a grill. Good thing I didn't get one.

Freezer... frozen stir fry mix veggies, veggies, meats for the grill, ice cream, blue ice packs. We take a few frozen meals from home, but they are gone after a week or so. Occasionally we'll get a frozen dinner of some sort for when we're not into making anything more involved.