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Camping should be a fun activity, but if you take the wrong type of food or you run out, it’s not going to be as much fun as it should be. I have been camping many times and it seems that we always run out of camping food or we had forgotten to take something with us. Luckily for us, we never were far from a store. Some are not that lucky. Thinking about the food and what you need before you buy are good ideas and can save you a lot of trouble.
The first year we went camping I took all of the wrong things, or perhaps I should say they were the right things used in the wrong order. We went for three days and I took hamburger patties with us as part of our camping food. We should have used them up the first day or two, but we saved them for the third night. That was not smart. Our cooler was not as good as it should have been and the hamburgers weren’t looking too good. We decided not to eat it. Had we been further from civilization, we would not have had dinner that night.
The next year I thought I did better with the camping food, but I forgot butter. Sometimes you don’t realize how important things like butter, ketchup and mustard are until you have forgotten them. I went to the camp store to get more, but they, like most camping supply stores, charge a lot for their camping food. I had to pay two dollars for a single stick of butter. I was not happy about it, but at least I finally had my butter.
Though perishable camping food items are okay, only have them for the first few nights unless you have refrigeration. They do okay in really nice coolers for a day or two, but after that they are probably not going to be any good. You should make sure you take a lot of things that can last without the cooler or the refrigerator when you are thinking about your camping food. On top of that, you should take more than you think you need. You may have to share with someone unexpectedly, or you may have forgotten something and you will be short. Having a back up supply is a mighty good idea when camping far from civilization.
Tags: Camping, Mountains, Nature, Packing
