Prep Ahead Camping Meals: Easy, Tasty, and Stress-Free

When you're out in the wild, the last thing you want to worry about is complicated cooking. That’s where prep ahead camping meals come in. By doing the bulk of the work before you leave home, you can enjoy hearty, delicious food without the hassle at your campsite.

Five Prep Ahead Camping Meals

1. Breakfast Burritos

Super easy to make. Grab some tortillas, fry up some scrambled eggs. Add in some sausage, onions, green peppers, tomatoes, and any additional ingredients. Put the cooked ingredients in the tortilla, cover it with tin foil, and you're all set to go. Store them in the fridge overnight and microwave them in the morning before you hit the road to the campground. Alternatively, once you're at the campground, warm them up on the grill or simply toss them in the fire for a minute to heat them. Retrieve using tongs. 

2. Sub Sandwiches 

Another easy meal. Perhaps this one's even better than breakfast burritos because it doesn't require reheating. I think you know the drill. You get your bread, cut it open. Throw down some lettuce, tomato, cucumber, turkey, cheese, mayo - whatever ingredients you like. Wrap it in tin foil or plastic wrap. Store in fridge. Grab and go when you're ready to hit the road. 

3. Salad

Another excellent prep-ahead camping meal is salad. When you think camping, your brain might not jump to salad. You might think hotdogs, hamburgers, marshmallows. But salad is where it's at. Like subs, salads require no reheating. They can be kept cool in a cooler, and can be easily stored in Tupperware. Plus they're healthy. Unless you start adding a bunch of unhealthy stuff to your salad, like bacon bits, and ranch dressing and croutons and fried chicken and all the stuff you can get in those massive deli salads that taste delicious but are probably about as healthy as a Big Mac. 

4. Trail Mix / Nuts

Okay, this is more a snack than a full meal. But it's a darn good one when it comes to camping. Get yourself a plastic bag. Throw in a handful of cashews. Now throw in a handful of peanuts. Add a dash of M&M's. Toss some raisins in there. Maybe some of that dried fruit. Shake it all around and you've got yourself a tasty trail mix that you can munch on the road or on a hike. 

5. Roast 

Prepare a roast for the road! Get yourself a rotisserie oven. Impale a large piece of beef on there and spin it around for a few hours and you've got yourself a succulent roast. Remove the roast from the spit. Let it cool down and then carve it into thin slices, to be eaten as a snack or on bread. If you've got a pet dog, he will probably come begging for a piece. Go ahead and give him a piece. You know you can't withstand those adorable puppy eyes. 

Conclusion

There you have it! Five super simple prep ahead camping meals that will make your life easier and your camping trip amazing. And now for a shameless bit of product placement: After all that food, you're probably thirsty. You grab for your water bottle, but something feels off. Your water bottle seems, well, kinda naked. There's a solution for that. It's called a BottleBand. You know you need one. You've been thinking about getting one. And you should. It'll make your life easier, and if you're even remotely athletic, you'll find yourself using it every day. 

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