Dinner food ideas?

[Brittany Dogs]

When we do a weekend campout often times the Friday dinner has to be simple and quick. This is because we both put in a full day of work, then head off to the campground and by the time we set up and need to cook dinner, it is 8PM.

When we owned the Coleman tent camper which had no oven like we have now, our Friday meal was always the same. We would have a dozen paper thin slices of roast beef frozen in a Foodsaver vacuum pack, open up the pack and then just toss that into a pan with a the beef juice (au jus) and heat that up. We would also match that up with pre-made packs of Foodsaver vacuum packs of German potato salad mixed with canned corn for a starch and veggie. We would heat that up in a second pan.

So we would have roast beef sandwiches, the German potato salad / corn mix plus a salad-in-a-bag cold salad.

Then when we got the TrailManor unit, we just buy a quality frozen pizza and throw that into the oven as we do the final touches of setting up. After a day of work and setting up camp, that quick meal has really come in handy.

The rest of the meals we get a lot more fancy.

By the way, we gave up the zip lock bag with frozen foods thing a long time ago. I got tired of the bags getting a small hole in them when it contained frozen foods inside and being tossed around in the freezer. We would have a cooler of water-logged bags of food or the cooler would be contaminated with leaking raw meat juices.

I invested in a Cabela's vacuum food sealer which not only preserves the food better by pulling out all the air, the bags are 5mil thick and won't puncture even with rough handling inside the home freezer.