Hi!
We go camping quite a bit throughout the summer, it's my favorite kind of vacation. Some travel-friendly foods are:
hotdogs (of course!), but we also grill steaks and burgers
canned stuff works ok, I've done baked beans cooked in their own can over an open fire and they tasted pretty good
salads are harder, but I love 'em so I make it work. The lettuce goes in the very top of the cooler, farthest away from the ice.
of course, marshmallows are a must. S'mores are popular in most families, I think (just not mine!)
we tend to do lots of finger foods...carrot sticks w/peanut butter, radishes, grapes and raisins, apples w/peanut butter, lots of fresh stuff to combat those hotdogs
our breakfast staple is pancakes. Those get cooked on a griddle over the fire, with lots and lots of butter. I buy pancake mix instead of trying to cart all of the ingredients with us. we also use the griddle to cook bacon or sausage and grilled cheese sandwiches.
I also like to take a hamburger patty, wrap it in foil with a piece of white onion and chunks of potato, then place in the coals of your fire for an hour or so.
I always take a couple of cans of fruit salad with us and toss them in the cooler so they're nice and cold when we're ready to eat them. don't forget to pack the can opener!
If we're backpacking, we take several kinds of Clif bars and jerky. The first time we hiked/camped I thought I needed to take a lot more cooking stuff and food, and then found that I really just wanted something light.
One thing to remember for sure, you need to double bag any meat in the cooler, in fact, I keep the meats in one cooler and everything else in another one.
Hope you have fun! :grin: