If you want to shake up the typical boring camping meals, these yummy make ahead camping meals will do the trick! Enjoy some sweet and savory breakfast ideas, lunch and camping dinner ideas, as well as some sweet camping dessert recipes too! All of these easy make ahead camping meals pack well in coolers and have easy cleanup so you can spend more time enjoying the great outdoors.
The best part of these make-ahead camping meals is that you don’t have to only make your favorites on camp outs. Your backyard fire pit will work just as well. Planning an outdoor party? These make ahead options take the stress of party planning to actually enjoying your party.
I hope this epic list of easy make ahead camping meals inspires you to get outdoors and try some of these tasty recipes for your next camping trip! Your little picky eaters will be begging for more!
Make Ahead Camping Meals - Breakfast Ideas
This healthy and easy make ahead camping breakfast idea is perfect to heat up over a campfire.
These Make Ahead Breakfast Burritos are perfect for a family camping trip. No prep, no dishes, no clean up, just heat and eat.
A 3 ingredients banana oatmeal breakfast bar recipe that is super healthy yet delicious. They are perfect as an on-the-go breakfast or an easy snack!
Breakfast Hobo Packs with Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage, and Scallions
Start your day off right with a hearty make ahead Breakfast Hobo packs.
These make ahead cinnamon rolls can be made two ways, grilled or cooked over the campfire. Easy and yummy camping breakfast ideas.
Easy grab and go make ahead breakfast idea for your next camping trip.
Our make ahead camping meals list wouldn't be complete without a healthy gluten-free fruit and yogurt breakfast parfaits stored in mason jars for easy packing.
These savory loaded breakfast biscuits are packed full of bacon, eggs, and cheese. Perfect for your next camping breakfast.
Cheesy Western Skillet with Hash Browns and Ham Breakfast Casserole
This make ahead breakfast casserole should be on your camping menu for a large gathering/group camping trip.
These boil in a bag omelets are the perfect introduction to freezer ziploc bag cooking in just 15 minutes.
Easy french toast foil packet with cinnamon, strawberry, and walnuts. This can be cooked in the oven, on a grill or even over the campfire!
This simple and delicious banana bread recipe can make a tasty breakfast or dessert treat for the whole family.
Make Ahead Camping Meals - Lunch & Dinner Ideas
This Mediterranean chickpea salad is the perfect summer salad side dish that you’ll be making over and over again. It makes a healthy, filling, and delicious lunch and the leftovers on the next day are so flavorful!
Campfire Stew is a hearty, flavourful and meaty stew that can be easily made on a campfire or in an Instant Pot, slow cooker, or oven. Learn how to make Campfire Stew 4 ways in this post.
Use aluminum foil to create a steam packet full of shrimp and sausage with a cajun flair that can be grilled to perfection for an easy shrimp boil. Make-ahead and store in the foil until you are ready to cook on a grill or open fire.
Make ahead camping meals, fan favorite chicken skewers! Just chop ingredients into chunks, skewer with a stick, and cook over the camp fire.
These tater tot meatball foil packet meals are a hit with my boys.
Perfect for lunch or dinner, just premake and warm up in foil next to a camp fire.
If you like your food to be full of spicy flavor, then try this delicious paella foil packet meal.
This meal is perfect way to use what you already have in the fridge. Just add cheese and you will have a tasty meal for lunch or dinner.
If you love potatoes and cheese, than you will love these potato slices tossed with sweet onion and sprinkled with cheese.
Hamburger hobo foil packs always makes it into my family's camping menu at least once a year. It's delicious and always requested by the kids.
Turn your traditional chicken pot pie dinner into a handheld camping friendly meal.
Bacon ranch chicken foil packets are flavorful and easy meal prep that can be easily be cooked on a campfire.
Once you bake a batch of this easy granola, no store-bought granola will ever be good enough! Plus 10 ways to use granola recipe meal ideas. It's sweetened just enough to make you reach for the next bite but not so much that you give back all of the benefits of that last hike - and it's gluten-free without even trying, so everyone can enjoy!
Beef hot dogs, melted string cheese and bacon; grab your tinfoil because it's time for a campfire!
This mac n cheese recipe is the easiest and cheesiest make ahead camping meal. Prep at home, warm up over a campfire.
Shrimp with zucchini foil packets are flavorful and easy meal prep that can be easily be cooked on a campfire.
Whether is a weekend camping or a day at the beach, these sliders are so good for any make ahead meal.
This creamy spinach dip is an easy make ahead recipe that will be a new favorite on your camping menu.
Garlic butter steak and potato foil packets are flavorful and easy meal prep that can be easily be cooked on a campfire.
Easy meal prep, tin foil pack nachos recipe. Loaded with spicy beef, cheese and all the fixings atop crunchy tortilla chips or corn chips.
Barbecue chicken dinner foil packets are flavorful and easy meal prep that can be easily be cooked over a campfire.
These herb marinated veggie kabobs will pair well with any of these make ahead camping meals.
These campfire pizzas are fast and easy to put together and pack well for your big camp out.
These steak fajita skewers are absolutely mouth-watering not to mention a creamy cilantro chimichurri sauce to dip it in.
Margaritas. Alright, it's not a meal, but does pair well with many of these delicious and easy make ahead camping meals.
A seasoned beef patty cooked on a mound of potatoes, mushrooms and onions wrapped in foil over a campfire. Is there anything about this that doesn’t scream a fun camp out in progress?
These classic turkey club wraps is great way to make those long hike worth it!
Super easy make-ahead creamy potato salad will go great for a picnic or camping trip.
These delicious and simple 4 ingredient healthy shredded chicken tacos can be prepared in an instant pot before your camp out. This is a great option for fun family buffet style meal.
Perfect for that busy week or for a family favorite camping meal.
One of my favorite easy camping meal ideas is the classic chicken salad sandwiches. It's for sure a crowd pleasurer.
Make Ahead Camping Meals - Desserts
There's nothing like a warm apple crisp cooked on a campfire.
A new twist on the classic smores.
This make ahead camping dessert is simple and delicious, just heat the foil wrapped banana next to the campfire.
Perfect campfire dessert when your little ones are on the go!
Have you ever had fresh baked chocolate chip cookies cooked over a campfire?
Perfect dessert for a cold winter night to warm your belly.
This easy plan ahead dessert bar is a delicious way for everyone to dig in and make their own pie iron dessert.
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