camp food

I just got back from another camping trip, and this one was a little more luxurious, shall we say, than my last trip, in the sense that we brought tons of food, including cold stuff in coolers, and did a bunch of cooking rather than living off energy bars, dried fruit, or packaged stuff that only requires the addition of boiling water. I had vague plans to photograph our meals, but that never happened, so I will instead just have to list some of what we ate, with the idea that such a post might help give ideas to other camping vegans. The night before we left I made banana bread (I reduced the sugar and used whole wheat pastry flour instead of AP), a half batch of Veganomicon's Prospect Park Potato Salad, and a half batch of Texas Chocolate Cake to take along, but otherwise we just worked with groceries. Here's what we had over the course of our 4.5 day trip.

We ate:

Breakfasts
-Coffee with almond or rice milk, which we brought in the 8oz packages so we didn't have to keep them chilled
-Banana bread, sometimes topped with Tofutti cream cheese (the non-hydrogenated kind)
-Bagels with Tofutti cream cheese, sometimes topped with Gardenburger breakfast sausages cooked in the skillet
-I brought stuff to make tofu scramble and had a package of dehydrated hashbrowns, but we never bothered making them
-I brought cereal but ditto above

Lunches
-Hummus, tomato, and cucumber sandwiches, seasoned with salt and pepper
-Veganomicon's potato salad
-Baby carrots dipped in hummus
-Fruit such as nectarines, oranges, apples, grapes, and watermelon
-Kettle chips
-Hint O' Mint Newman O's

Dinners
-Hot dogs cooked on the grill over the fire (we used Yves Veggie Brats) with corn on the cob (boiled on the stove, but could also have been grilled)
-Trader Joe's boil-in-the-bag Lentil Rice Biryani with boil-in-the-bag Chana Masala
-Boil-in-the-bag brown rice, kidney beans, and steamed carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower (we used the pre-washed and cut veggies from Trader Joe's), topped with FYH's low fat vegan Ranch dressing
-Capellini with TJ's tomato basil marinara plus a package of Lightlife Smart Ground, topped with grilled veggies and seasoned with garlic salt

Snacks
-Fruit (see lunch)
-Chips and salsa (why do I always crave this when in the mountains? I have no idea)
-Tamari almonds
-Primal strips

Dessert
-Texas Chocolate Cake! (this worked perfectly because it was chocolate and frosted, yet very stable/not subject to melting)

Other things we brought but never used: Popcorn, a can of Amy's medium chili, Imagine creamy tomato soup, stuff to make tacos, loads of energy bars, and loads more I can't remember. We were definitely well-fed on this trip!