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

[pasusan]

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?

[wowens79]

We like to get out and go in the mornings, so we keep some microwavable biscuit type items that we can cook quickly, and don't have to clean up.

Ice Cream is a good option also.

[rk911]

pasusan wrote:
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?

we dont have a gas oven in our class A MH and instead have a microwave/concection oven. our freezer has the same stuff in it that ee carried when we dud have a gas oven. other than size the MW/C oven can do what a gas oven can do. we can't roast a turkey but we never did that anyway.

[myredracer]

Popsicles, ice cream & ice cream sandwiches (it is summertime)... 🙂
Meat, frozen vegs., waffles, bread and probably more. Freezer could be a little bigger. 😞

Have never used the oven. How do you light them, lol?? Cooktop has rarely been used. Everything gets done outside on the BBQ and/or single propane burner.

[coolmom42]

Ice.

Pre-cooked items like spaghetti sauce, soup, chili. Frozen vegetables.

I avoid using the oven in warm weather because it generates so much heat inside the trailer.

[sdianel_-acct_c]

get a small crock pot or Instant Pot and toaster oven and buy things that will fit in them. We look for microwavable things for emergencies. We also grill when we're stopped. I have a pressure cooker for roasts, chicken, etc.

[DutchmenSport]

Anything you can fix in an oven, you can do in an electric skillet or a Dutch Oven over a fire.

When we had no oven in the camper (previous camper), we learned how to bake cakes, cookies, roasts, stews, even pizza using an electric skillet with a lid. Baked potatoes were OK, but found frying them was much easier.

We tried using one of these, but found it was difficult to retain a steady temperature, especially outside. Any wind would cool the temperature so fast, but inside the camper on the stove top it worked pretty well. However, these get very hot, and inside the camper, the risk of bumping into it and getting a burn is pretty high. It's because of using one of these, we navigated to an electric skillet.

Coleman makes these, and they sell for $39.

[colliehauler]

mattmountz94 wrote:
Lots of ice for the good beverages

Same as mine and I have a convection oven/microwave.

[BizmarksMom]

qtla9111 wrote:
Vodka, ice and frozen berries (breakfast shakes).

You win breakfast!

I use the freezer to store my meat, frozen veggies, ice cream, and gin. I don't use my microwave at all -- too much of a power draw. My meals are usually done on a grill or on the stove top, although I do use the oven as well.

[valhalla360]

We still eat meat most nights for dinner, regadless of oven, stove or grill.

Ice cream doesn't do well in the cooler, so that's usually up there. You can cook fries and a lot of other "baked" goods in an electric skillet.

[bukhrn]

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.

[JimK-NY]

Microwaves, ovens, crock pots, BBQ grills, electric coffee pots, and on and on. The amount of time people spend dealing with food seems incredible to me. I see it all the time in the campgrounds. It seems like endless preparation, eating, cleanup and then the cycle starts again. I suppose it depends on what RV camping means to each individual and family. I typically do a decent breakfast. Then a light and late lunch. If I am hiking or otherwise busy that might be just a peanut butter sandwich. Around 3 pm, I do a snack because that is typically when my day gets off to a major start. In the National Parks the crowds can be huge. By 3 pm I am traveling and reach my destination for the day at 4 or 5pm. By then the crowds begin to thin. By 6pm, the Parks start to look deserted. In the Summer, it might not get dark until 9pm. That is my time. I then return to the campground at 10pm or so. I am ready to eat, not fool around with food. I can start with frozen hamburger and make a pasta dinner in about 15 minutes, about the same for chicken and rice, or burritos with salsa, guac, and meat, or sausage with canned corn, or most anything else I fix. I travel in an RV to see great places, not sit around the campground fixing meals.

[RedRocket204]

We do have an oven but it doesn't get used very much. Something we did purchase and carry is a small sized crockpot where you can do a number of different recipes when we have an electrical hookup. A plus with a crockpot is the ability to get it set and cooking, leave for the entire day out hiking or whatever, come back "home" and dinner is mostly ready.

We also stock our freezer with sealed items such as pre-marinated tri-tip, Carne Asada, pre-marinated chicken items. All of those get grilled but yes, you need to remember to take them out to defrost. We also leave room in the freezer for the kids to make ice cream. Even teenage kids still love to make ice cream!

[Second_Chance]

We have an oven but don't use it. My wife cooks everything in a crock-pot or a Presto electric folding skillet. She even has a baking rack for the Presto skillet and bakes everything from lasagna to brownies to cookies to enchiladas in it. If something is particularly smelly - or the weather is particularly hot - we set the skillet up on a folding table outside. So, our freezer compartments contain the same things they did back in the stix 'n brix before we hit the road.

Rob

[pasusan]

OP here - lots of good ideas folks! Things I should have thought of, but didn't. You get used to camping (and cooking and eating) a certain way and you need a little help to think differently. 😉

One I'll be using for sure is frozen vegetables. When traveling with the trailer we depend on canned veggies simply because the freezer isn't big enough.

Another good one is frozen entrees to be microwaved. I can make things up ahead of time and freeze them.

With the B we just don't have much room to bring things - like the grill. So all the cooking is done on the stove top or in the microwave.

[jplante4]

Margarita Mix and ice.