I’ve loved camping since I was a kid and I’m excited to share all of the fun parts of camping with my boys. From taking them tent camping as infants to Glamping we have enjoyed a number of camping trips together.
To celebrate camping and all of the delicious foods you can make around the campfire we have gathered 25 Camping Recipes that will make your next camping trip the best ever!
Ensuring you are making the best camping recipes and preparing ahead for a delicious camping trip is key to everyone having a good time.
Even if it rains, there are bugs or the tent links, everything is made better with a fantastic hot meal, or even better a delicious hot meal made over a campfire.
If you have a favorite camping recipe be sure to share it. If you are in the mood for the ultimate camping breakfast make sure you try our best camping recipe: Camping Breakfast Skillet.
The Camping Recipe in the Photo is a version of this delicious Hungarian Goulash Recipe or as many call it, Hot Dog Stew. Perfect for a crowd and you can make it in a large cast iron pot over the fire and you will be a camping superhero!
Next up we have a collection of 25 best camping recipes from some of our favorite sites. From main dishes to desserts and everything in between you can enjoy all of the recipes by cooking them over the campfire or on a camp stove.
The Best Camping Recipes
1. Dessert made easy with this Campfire Banana Boat Recipe by The Clever Pink Pirate
2. Looking for a great side dish to go with any camping meal? We love these Simple Grilled Onions Side Dish from Earning & Saving with Sarah Fuller
3. Potatoes and Campfire go together like…ok maybe not a great rhyme but these Campfire Potatoes by Cincy Shopper are another great side dish the whole family will love.
4. Hungry for more potatoes? Try these easy Foiled Potatoes by My Heavenly Recipes – a camping recipe favorite!
5. We make these S’mores Cones on our BBQ when not camping. No matter how you cook them, these S’mores Cones from Thrifty Jinxy are delicious.
6. Another sweet treat, this Grilled Caramel Apple Crunch by Coffee With Us 3 is a great camping recipe dessert.
7. Pack this trail mix by Happy Hooligans for your camping trip – a great snack for kids of all ages.
8. Love dump cakes? This Campfire Dump Cake by Simply Budgeted made with cherries and cake mix for an easy, delicious dessert.
9. Foil wrapped dinners are perfect for camping and this Sweet Onion Grilled Salmon by Lori’s Culinary Creations is no exception.
10. Love cinnamon buns? Love orange? The combination of flavors in these cute little Orange Peel Cinnamon Rolls by Say Not Sweet Anne are truly amazing.
11. Need another potato recipe? Of course, you do! Delicious Grilled Spicy New Potatoes by Future Expat can be made on a BBQ or a camp stove.
12. Yum! The combination of flavors in this Dutch Oven Texas Peach Cobbler by My Turn for Us is sure to be a new family favorite.
13. Cheese and potatoes is a marriage in heaven. Try these 3 Cheese Bacon Campfire Potatoes for cheesy goodness.
14. Another foil package dinner these Hawaiian Packets by Around My Family Table bring a taste of Hawaii on your camping trip.
15. Side dish and main cooked together in this Grilled Meat and Potatoes Foil Packets by Thrifty DIY Diva is a great camping recipe.
16. Kabobs make a great grilled camping recipe – you will love these Steak & Chicken Kabobs by My Heavenly Recipes.
17. Perfect for breakfast or lunch, yummy Cheesy Ham and Egg Sandwiches by Thrifty Jinxy combine the best of breakfast sandwiches together.
18. Have you ever grilled breakfast? We have often made it separately, but this combination of Breakfast on the Grill by Mom VS The Boys is easy to make and delicious.
19. A great side dish, these Grilled Potato Packets by How to Have It All can be assembled by your little chefs.
20. 10 Minute Grilled Pineapple is so quick and so easy you won’t believe you haven’t made them before. Great snacks or desserts for any camping trip.
21. The smoky flavor that comes from these Campfire Quesadillas by Dirty Gourmet will make them the best quesadillas you’ll ever have.
22. Italian Sausage and Potato Tin Foil Dinner by One Sweet Appetite is another option for a great foil dinner. Change up the sausage to your favorite sausage (honey garlic? spicy?) whatever you choose will create a truly unique dinner.
23. Grilled Pizza by A Mom’s Take brings your favorite pizza to your tent.
24. Love a hearty breakfast? This Lumberjack Breakfast by Echoes of Laughter is exactly that!
25. Campfire Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich by Twin Dragonfly Designs makes a delicious dinner or lunch.
Looking for the perfect accompaniment to these easy camping recipes then make sure you take the ingredients to make these delicious S’mores recipes. What goes together better than camping and S’mores?
New to camping? We have a list of the best camping gear to make your camping trip dry and fun!
Coleman PerfectFlow Insta Start Grill Stove
Lodge Seasoned Cast Iron Deep Camp Dutch Oven 
Set Of 4 Hot Dog and Marshmallow Roasting Forks
Coleman Road Trip Grill LXE
Double Pie Iron 
Looking for a different make-ahead camping recipe? Try our Chicken Tamales and Green Salsa they are always a hit with some nacho chips by the campfire. No matter what you have planned for your camping trip these remarkable camping recipes are sure to make your camping experience delicious!
Do you have a favorite camping recipe you’d like to share? Leave it in the comments – we’d love to try it!
Thank you for including my Steak & Chicken Kabobs and Foiled Potatoes Recipes. They are really both pretty heavenly. We make them all the time at camp. I hope your readers enjoy them as much as we do! Cheers!
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they look amazing! Can’t wait to try them.
Yum! We love camping, and we love trying new recipes! Thanks for including our Grilled Caramel Apple Crunch! Pinning.
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Great timing for an Independence Day cookout. I’m going to have my girls pick out a couple and help me make a shopping list. We camp where there’s a 24-hour grocery store (and pizza joint) a couple of miles away – just in case!
We are gearing up to go camping this weekend. I can’t wait to try some new recipes.
Thanks for sharing!
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I HATE it when I see a picture of something I might like to try then can not find the recipe on the link! Which one is it that is pictured on facebook?
My apologies – it’s listed now – it’s hot dog stew
Just saw this collection for first time. Like a lot of other folks I was looking for the “hot dog stew”. When I went to your link all I found was “hot dog soup”, but it has a red base not yellow like the picture. Where can I find the pictured version. Thanks for the collection. Don’t camp much anymore but my son has a fire pit that these will be put to use for.
What I’d like to know is what is that picture it looks like some sort of Mac and cheese with hotdogs it looks good but I can’t find it in the recipes listed
The link is included now – Hot Dog Stew!
What is in the picture at the top of this article? Looks like Mac & Cheese and Weiners, but I can’t figure out which recipe it is?
It’s Hot Dog Stew!
What is cooking in pot on main photo? Which recipe is it? Thanks!
I’ve listed it at the top – It’s Hot Dog Stew!
The hot dog stew has something in it, that isn’t included on the list. What is the yellow looking ingredient, please?
Potatoes :)
What’s that one in the main picture, it looks like bits of hotdog in something stewy…
Yes it’s a hot dog soup.
I still do not see a link for the hot dog soup recipe. could you please direct me to it? Thank you for putting this collection together the recipes look awesome and I can’t wait to try them.
Judy – no problem – it’s Hungarian Goulash or Hot Dog Stew – https://familyfoodandtravel.com/2017/06/campfire-hungarian-goulash-recipe.html
It is not Hungarian Goulash, it can be a Hungarian potato soup, but definitely not goulash ☺️
You think so? My family has always called it goulash!
That is everyday cook out stuff
Thank you for including our Philly Cheesesteak!! xo
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LOL! Thanks!!!
Is there anyway yo download and print a copy of the booklet? They all look so yummy and would be nice to have a copy in the camper
Mary – love that idea but the recipes belong to a variety of bloggers so I cannot put them all together. Great idea though!
Wow. I’m getting a ton of visitors to my Grilled Spicy New Potatoes from being including on your list. Thank you!
I’m so glad Karen! Thank you for allowing me to include it.
some fantastic recipes here. I’ll have to pass them onto my son he and his family often go camping in the summer.
We do a lot of cast iron cooking while camping. Our set-up day tradition is chili dogs. I freeze leftover chili all winter long. Pop a freezer bag into the cast iron on the campfire and viola! We use Johnsonville smoked sausages and either toss them in the chili or poke them on a stick and roast them over the fire. Quick easy meal for a busy day of setting up camp!
We love doing a fish boil at our campout. In a large pot over the fire fill with water, add pickling spice, old bay seasoning, salt, pepper. Add quartered potatoes and onions. When they are almost done,corn on the cob, blocks of cod, Shrimp and any seafood you want. Cook till fish is done. Scoop out onto serving tray and add melted butter and lemon and enjoy. We make this every year on our trips. We also make Paella
Is there an option to pin this post that I’m just not seeing?
Yes, you can pin the main image and it will save to your pinterest.
We always made the Boy Scout supper…but put bacon at the bottom beneath the hamburger patty. Then we let our kids use any vegetables they wanted. Some used mushrooms, some green beans, some frozen peas…whatever they liked. Then we would put a big dollop of butter on top. This prevented the hamburger patty from burning on the foil.
We make Mulligan Stew over the camp fire in a dutch oven! Brown high quality hamburger, then add chopped onions. Add cubed potatoes, salt and pepper and water to just cover. Simmer for couple, then add canned red beans. Heat through and serve with bread and fresh sliced tomatoes!
sounds delicious!
Fish Pizza
this is one of the Sunday dish well home with your family or friends
very easy to cook and make just relax around the fire while enjoy a wine glass
Another tasty dessert —– Take chunks of good egg bread ( like Challah) – roll in condensed milk ( thinned a bit with water) – then in coconut- toast over fire with long forks or sticks.
Oh yummy! That’s a great dessert for camping.
Here’s 1 of my favs that everyone seems to like. I line a 9 x13 2in. Deep pan with foil long enough to make a tent cover over top. Quarter baking potatoes ( or new red ) , quarter 3good size yellow squash and 2 zuchani ( by quarter I mean a big bite size) and wedge slice sweet onion 1-2 ( your option) then sprinkle generously with McCormick salt free Garlic & Herb Seasoning ( wonderful flavor) then dab butter all over top and close up foil making a tent sealed right . I do this on my gas grill for 40 min. You want the veggies to brown a little but not burn …… Enjoy – actually now I’m going to have to make some ….got my mouth watering ! Lol
Yum! Sounds delicious
These look so good!! Bookmarked!
A bit too much junk food on this list.
We love camping. We have tried a few of these recipes but I do see a few more that we need to try. Thanks for sharing!
We’re going camping weekend (leaving tomorrow night) and I’m looking forward to trying some of these recipes. I’m so glad I stumbled upon your website. I can’t wait to take a look around when I have more time! Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for linking to our Banana Boat recipe!
You are very welcome! Thank you for allowing us too.
When I was a Girl Scout one of our camping staples to eat was canned corn, pork and beans, and cut up hot dogs all in one pot. Easy and surprising good and filling.
I am so happy to see your recipes for camping. They look yummy. My oldest son has purchased camping gear and we have been talking about what to cook. Problem solved with all your recipes. Thank you for putting together such a helpful subject for campers.
Thank you for your lovely comment. Happy camping!
Hey everyone. Super excited to see what I thought was one of favourite meals here. The hotdog stew looks great, but this is entry level noms. swap the hotdogs for d’orsognia Polish sausage, add equal parts pasta shells to the potato and (optional but recommended) finish off with a pinch of sauerkraut and dollop of tzatziki.
Oh yum! That sounds truly spectacular!
Get 4-5lbs of beef stew meat cut up already. Get 2-3 cans of Golden mushroom soup. 2bags frozen veg-all. Add half a sliced potatoe and 1 big onion chopped up small. Extra sliced mushrooms. And 2 things of aluminium foil.
First cut out 2 squares of foil and put one on top of the other for six servings. Put meat about a handful divided up into the center of each square. Dollop some soup on each one. Divide up the befriending each square along with the onions and mushrooms. Shake 6 good shakes of Worcestershire sauce on each one. Now make a bowl out of the foil. Put salt and pepper to season, maybe a bit of garlic salt. Gather foil up at top. Put on grill for a good hour. Check after an hour. Yummy! My dad called these goobies and we loved them.
Oh yum! Sounds delicious!
My boys, niece and nephews loved when we made omlets while camping! Pot of boiling water, good quart size freezer bags, eggs, ham, cheese, onions anything you like in an omelet! We even had chorizo that we cooked earlier. Crack the eggs in the bag let the kid smash them up! Then add what the want in their omlet. Close bags and drop in the boiling water over the fire. Flip them over. Only takes a couple mins. (Make sure the inside cooks.) Parents pull the Baggie out and open onto a plate and there’s your omlet!
Fantastic tip!
we love camping i will be bookmarking this awesome list of yummy camping meals for later
Thanks for this great list. I am definitely going to make some of these the next time we camp.
Bookmarking this page! What a great yummy collection :-)
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How can i bay the book
Dave,
Unfortunately these recipes aren’t available in book format at this time. Please just follow the links and print them off.
I’m going to try this Dutch Oven Texas Peach Cobbler on our next camping trip this summer. Hoping to surprise my kids and wife with this breakfast meal. I don’t cook, but looks like I can handle this. Crossing my fingers though…lol
More Vegetables!!!!
Don’t have website. Desert Burritos are good might add them. Put tortilla down then spread peanut butter down the middle, then add pie filling, marshmallows, and chocolate chips. Wrap in tin foil and cook for 4-5 minutes, or until warm and mushy on the inside.
I’m gonna try some of the recipes when I go camping with my buddies. Thanks for sharing!
Some great recipes to try out this season. Thanks for sharing.
Not sure my cooking skills will be up to all of these but gonna give it a shot anyway.
Great list and thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Gary
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Thanks for these great recipes, but I must admit I’m quite lazy when it comes to cooking meals while camping, anything that is quick and easy get my points.
I love the Grilled Pizza though, who can say no to pizzas.
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Can’t take this list seriously when it has nothing you could get when camping: fish, grouse, blueberries, etc
I’m sorry that you feel that way Kevin. I do agree the items you included are great for those who are interested in wilderness camping. I picked some great recipes that can be made over a fire anywhere!
bookmarked ,thanks for collecting those yummy camping meals
I’m an avid kayaker and camper. I love going to remote places on my kayak and camping out there. Sometimes my sweetie and I will go tandem. I love love LOVE this resource for recipes. I’m really excited to cook some of these for my girlfriend next weekend. Thanks so much. Cheers!
Fantastic James! Let us know which one was your favourite!
This list consists of best camping grills ever. I personally like the recipes you have here. Thank you for introducing these and please keep it up.
Steak & Chicken Kabobs on a camping trip sounds fantastic.
When I was in girl scouts at day camp the counselors made “Hunters Stew” I loved that and haven’t had it since. I remember corn and hamburger but that is all. Does anyone know how to make this?
Is this close to the recipe? – http://koa.com/camping-recipes/hunters-stew/
Can you send me these recipes?
Brandon – just click on the links and all of the recipes are there!
wow wonderful collection of camping recipes! We love camping and sure will use some of these! Thank you!
Shovel potatoes are always great.
I don’t have a picture but all you do is take potatoes wipe them with oil a sprinkle salt, wrap in heavy duty foil put them on a shovel and stick them in the fire for about 20 min.
Sounds delicious! Will definitely try the next time we go camping.
Number 10 and 15 are my favorite!
Good choices!
I recently read it’s not healthy to use aluminum foil when cooking. I used it for years, but have quit now. If I need to cover a casserole i use a sheet of parchment paper before covering with foil. But what would a camper do without foil?
Great question! I’m not sure. We use parchment paper for most of our cooking at home, but still make foil packages for BBQ and camping.
This sounds like my kind of camping!