Articles
Healthy Camping Food
Camping is a popular pastime for many families at Easter. Easter egg hunts in the woods or on the beach are fun, but lead to excess chocolate consumption over the Easter holiday. With this in mind, it is wise to choose healthier meals to make up for all that extra chocolate!
Camp Fire Breakfast
Just because you have a camp fire or a BBQ does not mean you need greasy bacon, eggs and hashbrowns every morning. If bacon and eggs are your thing, choose 97% fat free bacon cuts, available in the packaged meat sections of the supermarket. Purchase a non-stick camping fry pan. Make scrambled eggs with skim milk, no butter, or boil eggs in a billy can! Disposable cereal packages are also available from supermarkets, including one serve porridge packs.
Lazing Lunches
Camping is a time to relax, so don't bother with preparing full meals at lunch. Fresh meat and salad rolls/sandwiches are very easy to prepare on the picnic rug or table. Use leftover BBQ meat or purchase reduced fat ham in re-sealable packages. A BBQ chicken, skin removed, is a great roll or sandwich stuffer. For something a little more fancy, buy low fat beef BBQ patties and BBQ them topped with a slice of low fat cheese for healthy burgers.
BBQ Dinner
A BBQ can go both ways, really unhealthy or really quite healthy. Avoid the ‘snagger in a bun’, topped with oily mushrooms and onions. Purchase some quality, low fat cuts of meat such as lean steaks, chicken breasts, low fat sausages or even fillets of fish. Season them with salt, pepper or seasonings such as Thai, Moroccan or Italian before BBQ’ing. Wrap small potatoes and corn cobs in alfoil and give them a good hour on the BBQ. Asparagus is also great on the grill, seasoned with salt and pepper. Serve it all with a nice big side salad and some tomato sauce. Any leftovers can be used as sandwich or roll fillings the following day.
Added to site on : Monday, 3 March 2014