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wmoses
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Mar 15, 2014

Cost of food while camping ... does it have to be high?

We are principally weekend campers since I have every other Friday off and I try and get to some place closer than say 4 hours away on one of those long weekends per month.

For us, the (extra) cost of food is ZERO since we bring all the food from home. We even bring leftovers, and on one trip we only ate leftovers for lunch and supper! That got kind of boring so we still bring leftovers just in case we are too busy / lazy, but we bring all the eggs, bacon, bread, meats, veg., rice/potatoes etc. and we eat that for breakfast and supper. No eating out, because we are ... camping!

I see some folks saying that their camping trip food costs can run into the hundreds of dollars and I am wondering if they are eating out while going camping.

What do you do for food and how much do you typically spend on food?

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  • Maybe it's not the food but the drinks, just sayin....
    Before we became full timers, when we went camping we cooked food ahead of time and had home cooked meals to warm up. Cook spaghetti and put in zip lock bag. Bottled sauce. Tuna salad for lunch. When we grilled, we made hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken not steak. Our food costs are about the same camping as they are at home because we don't change our eating habits.
  • I'm like you, we eat camping what we eat at home. Usually brings hot dogs, burgers, bacon, eggs, will make pizza and sometimes steak. Just depends on how long we are camping as to what we bring. One campground is near a Steak and Shake so we treat the kids to that on Saturday for lunch.
  • We go shopping for our camping weekend, and the food bill is usually 60 for the 2 of us. We buy thing that we don't buy on a regular basis

    If I wanted left overs i'd stay at home :)