| I did an awful thing to my son, I never took him | | | | marshmallows turning into charcoal over the fire. |
| camping. My husband and I traveled all over the | | | | Now that's what I call camping food. My father |
| country in our travel trailer. We stayed in Arizona, | | | | even showed us a way to take it to the next |
| Southern California or Florida in the winter. We | | | | level. First you build a good hot campfire. Wait until |
| visited upstate New York in the fall, the Smoky | | | | some of the wood burns down and you have a |
| Mountains in the summer. Just wherever we got | | | | good red-hot bed of coals to work with. Then |
| the urge to go. But once Tony was born, we sold | | | | you prepare the meal. Dice up potatoes, carrots, |
| the travel trailer and settled down outside the | | | | onions, and steak. Place a heap of it, mixed |
| Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and never went | | | | together, inside a fairly large piece of aluminum |
| camping again. So he never got to have camping | | | | foil. Wrap it up really well and make certain there |
| food experience like I did. | | | | are no holes. Now place that wrapped meal into |
| I feel sorry for people who have never | | | | the bed of coals. You'll want to use a set of tongs |
| experienced waking up in a campground , going | | | | to do this, and especially to take it out. Let it |
| out starting a fire and sitting around cooking and | | | | cook for a good thirty minutes and then check its |
| eating breakfast outdoors. So, as a consequence | | | | progress. If it's not quite done to your liking, stick |
| of not ever doing those things, my son thinks he | | | | it back for as long as you see fit. This makes for |
| wouldn't like it. My feeling is that he is missing out | | | | one outstanding meal, and some of the best |
| on some great experiences. He thinks the tent is | | | | camping food I've ever tasted. |
| too small, the ground is too hard, there are bugs | | | | Don't knock Mother Nature until you've relaxed a |
| everywhere, you can't take a shower in the | | | | bit in her vast serenity. The great outdoors is the |
| middle of the woods, bla bla bla. The list goes on | | | | ideal place to get away from it all, because you |
| forever. But instead of doing that, I address the | | | | really can get away from it all. Take a camping |
| finer aspects of wilderness life. There's the fresh | | | | trip with your family this summer, and really learn |
| clean air, the moon and stars above, the peace | | | | more about one another. Without the distractions |
| and quiet, the solitude and of course the tasty | | | | of TVs, PCs, cell phones and IPods. Oh, and be |
| camping food . Need I say more? | | | | sure to take along plenty of great camping food. |
| One of my favorite parts of camping out as a kid | | | | That's the best part! Camping food is just one |
| was the food. But that was back in the day when | | | | aspect of the whole camping experience and |
| I didn't do the cooking. Check this out; | | | | even though it is called 'roughing it' I can't imagine |
| hamburgers and hotdogs roasted over a | | | | a nicer way to spend a vacation. |
| campfire, soft drinks in a cooler, and | | | | |