When I'm backpacking I'm so lazy that I eat the same lunch every day. My buddies are all about variety. Not me. We eat dinner as a group, but pack our own food otherwise. I eat jerky (preferably Trader Joe's), two individually wrapped cheeses, and two fruit strips. My breakfast is oatmeal. I vary the kind.
Peanut m&m's are a valid gorp choice. I also pack a salty mix of potato stix and Fritos--very high calorie-weight ratio.
I'm like you, with a very repetitive backpacking meal plan. And that (very basic and boring) meal plan has filtered down to become my camping trip meal plan as well. I've looked up recipes for campfire meals, but the results were absolute failures--imagine hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls and then baked over the campfire, but the rolls ended up half burned and half raw. I've since given up, so now the main difference between my backpacking foods and my camping foods are whether I have minimized the packaging to make the stuff lighter/easier to carry!
When I'm backpacking I'm so lazy that I eat the same lunch every day. My buddies are all about variety. Not me. We eat dinner as a group, but pack our own food otherwise. I eat jerky (preferably Trader Joe's), two individually wrapped cheeses, and two fruit strips. My breakfast is oatmeal. I vary the kind.
Peanut m&m's are a valid gorp choice. I also pack a salty mix of potato stix and Fritos--very high calorie-weight ratio.
I'm like you, with a very repetitive backpacking meal plan. And that (very basic and boring) meal plan has filtered down to become my camping trip meal plan as well. I've looked up recipes for campfire meals, but the results were absolute failures--imagine hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls and then baked over the campfire, but the rolls ended up half burned and half raw. I've since given up, so now the main difference between my backpacking foods and my camping foods are whether I have minimized the packaging to make the stuff lighter/easier to carry!