15 Easy Camping Meals for Family Adventures

These one-pan crack bean burritos from Heather Likes Food are incredibly easy, requiring just five ingredients cooked together in one pan for a creamy and flavorful filling. Spoon into tortillas for a quick and satisfying meal.

Amanda Banta said:  These bean burritos are right up my alley because they are easy to cook, healthy and a meatless recipe I can serve my entire family. All five ingredients go into the skillet, creating a warm, creamy masterpiece. Serve over rice or wrap up in tortillas and top with slices of avocado, fresh diced tomatoes, shredded lettuce, and whatever toppings you like. Use the mild Rotel if you want to reduce the spicy factor for young kids.

It's so easy to make campfire popcorn, and the experience of making it is half the fun. This recipe from Delish teaches you how to make your own Jiffy Pop style popcorn popper with an aluminum pie tin and foil.

Shila said:  Freshly popped popcorn is a must-have snack around the campfire!

Tuck your favorite s'mores ingredients into a banana with the peel still on, and toast the whole package right on the campfire for an easy camping dessert!

Lisa R said:  I love grilled bananas. I think they taste like hot icecream. Fun to make and easy to pack.

This easy recipe for campfire bread on a stick teaches you how to make a simple dough and cook it over a fire for a fun and tasty camping treat.

Lisa R said:  Flour. Water. Salt. Stick. That's all you need to make fresh bread while camping. Simply mix and knead the ingredients into a paste, wrap it around a stick and (slooowly) roast it over a fire while pretending you're a voyageur (early French Canadian explorer). I like it as a less sugary alternative to roasting marshmallows, especially in the morning. "Official" recipes vary and often call for extra steps and ingredients, but I usually just mix and go and no one notices the difference.

Taste & Tell's pound cake and berry campfire skillet dessert is an easy and creative camping treat featuring toasted pound cake cubes, melted chocolate, and fresh berries cooked in a skillet over a campfire.

Shila said:  Use any mix of berries you want - bonus if you can freshly pick ripe and edible ones in the woods!

It's worth bringing along a muffin tin on your trip to enjoy this easy protein-packed camping breakfast.

Sometimes the best camping recipes are the easiest. Whether you call them walking tacos or frito pie, these were made for eating around a campfire! Seasoned meat and a variety of taco toppings (whatever you and your kids like!) are added right into an individual bag of corn chips for a simple handheld meal.

Load up on the toppings, and campfire nachos are a filling and easy camping meal that the whole family will love. You'll want to assemble your nachos at the campsite and not ahead of time, so they don't get soggy.

Kristy Pepping said:  The nice thing about nachos is you can add or take away what your family prefers. I like that this recipe uses fresh veggies like avocado for some nutrition while you are camping.

Once you've got the technique down for this protein-rich camping meal, you can mix up the veggie and cheese add-ins endlessly to suit your family's tastes.

Kristy Pepping said:  Usually, breakfast is a bowl of cereal while camping, but having a warm fire is a great excuse for a homecooked breakfast. This frittata recipe is packed full of veggies and is also vegetarian. You can add other vegetables for added nutritional value. Plus, frittatas also make for a "camping pizza" of sorts during dinner.

These Pillsbury BBQ chicken foil packs offer an easy camping meal: simply combine chicken pieces with BBQ sauce, pineapple, and vegetables in foil packets and cook them over your campfire until the chicken is cooked through. This method provides a flavorful, all-in-one meal with minimal cleanup.

This grilled cheese and pepperoni pizza mashup from Taste of Home is a super-simple camping meal kids love.

Hot dogs are the ultimate easy camping food, and this is a fun way to mix up the standard hot dog on a stick. For a campfire version of pigs in a blanket, wrap your favorite hot dogs in crescent dough and roast over the open flame.

Make ahead camping meals are well worth a little effort in advance, so you don't have to spend a lot of time preparing fussy recipes at the campground. This clever french dip recipe stuffs roast beef and cheese into a sliced baguette to create fun pull-apart sandwiches that can be packed into a cooler and cooked over the campfire.

This tasty make-ahead camping breakfast is prepped ahead of time and can be heated up in the morning over the campfire. Hearty breakfast burritos are filled with eggs, bacon and cheese for a filling meal that will give you energy for the day's adventures.

This campfire mac and cheese recipe is prepped at home in advance, and finished off over the campfire until it's hot and melty.