Make Camp Cooking Interesting and Festive

March 3, 2010 by  

What do you like to do on family holidays? Go to the beach or spend a week in the country? Maybe you like camping or visiting relatives. Whatever you enjoy, family holidays are a chance for everyone in the family to get reacquainted and spend quality time together. It’s a chance for parents to really talk with their teens and find out what’s going on in their lives. It’s important to keep the communication lines open, and a camping holiday is an especially good time to do that. After all, where else can they go? The key to a successful camping trip is planning. Check your list for list for camping.

Your kids, and you, will be happier on camping holiday if they have snacks, drinks, and entertainment. Few kids enjoy a long ride in the car! Try to provide individual CD players or hand-held video games, and don’t forget to take plenty of bathroom stops. Sometimes kids enjoy the ride more if they can help you follow the map. This is an educational activity for them as well. Once you get to your camping spot make meal times interesting and festive. Make sure there is coleman stove on your list. Everybody will thank you for it.

Did you pack a couple frozen steaks in the cooler? Do not cook meat on a grill while it is still frozen, or even partially frozen. Thaw your meat by sitting it out several hours if need be before you plan on cooking it. If your meat has been thawed in a refrigerator, set it out long enough for the meat to get to room temperature. Poking holes in meat while it is cooking will cause the juice inside to leak out into the bottom of the grill. Not only will this make your food dry and unappealing, but it also could clog the orifice on your gas grill. At the very least, it will cause a buildup of unwanted grease and juices on your coleman bbq grill, which will make cleanup harder. Once meat is cooked, never put it back in on the same plate you had it on when it was raw. This could cause the spread of many unwanted illnesses. Do not handle cooked meat with the same utensils that you used when it was raw.

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24 Responses to “Make Camp Cooking Interesting and Festive”

  1. caro fan on May 30th, 2010 5:39 pm

    that’s NASTY the way he ate all that lmaooo what a joker

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  10. johanna on December 9th, 2010 3:05 am

    I'm possibly moving to the UK from the US next year, & am already scouting out possible brands to switch my cats (currently eating part-raw, part good grain-free brands like Wellness & also some Merrick, & yeah, some Evangers–all wet food, no dry) to when we get there. So thank you for writing up this post!

    One thing I noticed was that UK pet food websites rarely list all the ingredients of the foods! That's shocking to me–when I order from, say, PetFoodDirect here, we have access to a complete ingredient list. I want to avoid grains & it doesn't seem like there are any good brands that don't have any (Applaws & Almo seem to have some). I wonder if I'm missing any? Any suggestions re: food would be appreciated, as I'm finding it a bit tougher going just googling than I'd anticipated! (like where could one order Evangers in the UK?)

  11. Val Dalton on February 23rd, 2011 9:08 pm

    We love everything you made for Luke! I can't wait to take his picture in them. I will try to get the too you after this busy holiday weekend. Thanks again!! We can't wait to hear about Zombie Thanksgiving 2007.

    PS – You should tell Zombie lady that she should get a kerosene heater, they are a lot safer than a gas grill. Hell if she has the money to buy beer and POM Juice she can afford a decent heater!

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  14. Anna on August 9th, 2011 8:19 pm

    My cat got lucky as he was on a diet that integrated human quality proteins, supplements, canned pet wet food and dry kibble. His food risk was diversified, so he survived. But I missed integrating the early signs of “never before” behaviors into a full red alert: *Repeated( vomiting, tinkle *on the carpet*, hibernating, lethargy, running from the food bowl, drinking *an entire bowl* of water … I can't shake the feeling that the dry food was involved too. He used to like Science Diet kibble and won't go near it any more, he got most sick over their recalled wet food.

    This all happened before the recall, so technically it's a moot point for me. Liek so many others, I had to deal with it in the dark. My vet bills had better be repaid, his condition is still watchful, his urine samples still need future testing.

    As far as all these numbers being anecdotal, and some likely not quite attributable to the tainted food, in the end, we all go with our gut feel about a written story. I'd give + or – 5 percent what you get with most fast surveys.

    What's important to me: No statistic or court decision is going to convince me that the Science Diet dry food in my house wasn't ALSO involved… he went “off” the dry first … and no settlement can cure my kitty being afraid of his food bowl even his new one, or the way that makes me feel, in the end that is not the answer.

    What this has done was give the Global Industrial Food Order a heads up that our entire food chain (and the water chain if you follow the China wheat gluten story) – human and pet – is in great jeopardy.

    Our pets took the first big hit for us. But we can honor their memory and suffering by doing something real about it: Eat locally.

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    looking forward to the long weekend… going to Gwalior… yummy food… dry cold weather and cant wait to see our duplex in making

  24. pissedconsumer on February 1st, 2012 2:47 am

    some food, dry clothes and a good glass of wine and you’ll be all set! :)

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