Camping Food Checklist: Easy Camping Meals with Printable Shopping List

Looking for an easy, simple and typical Camping Food Checklist to make packing for camping easier?

Well, you’ve found the right place for all the food you’ll need for your weekend camping trip with the family.

We’ve put together a 2 day camping checklist for campsite food and included is a camping grocery list pdf that you can print off and take with you to the store!

Food List for Camping

This list is for the camping essentials food that you will need for your next camping trip.

Fruits & Vegetables

Try for fruits that have a peel so you don’t need to be washed and/or fruit that can get bumped around and durable. Pre-cut and wash all veggies at home if you can prior to going camping.

• Apples / Oranges / Pears
• Bananas * Banana Boats
• Pre-Cut Veggies – carrots, broccoli, etc.
• Cucumber
• Lettuce
• Tomatoes
• Pre-made Potato Salad, Coleslaw, etc. You can either make your own or buy it pre-made from the store.
• Veggie Dip

Dairy

• Milk
• Butter
• Eggs
• Cheese Slices
• Yogurt

Meat

If possible, freeze any meat that you can this will help with keeping things fresh and act as ice packs in your cooler for all your food items.

• Hamburgers
• Hotdogs
• Bacon or Breakfast Sausage
• Lunch Meat
• Chicken
• Smokies or Sausages

Dry Goods

• Hotdog Buns
• Hamburger Buns
• Sandwich Bread / Buns
• Muffins
• Chips
• Trail Mix or Nuts
• Granola Bars
• Campfire Popcorn
• Candy Snacks
• S’mores – Graham Crackers, Marshmallows, Chocolate

Condiments & Miscellaneous

Try to buy smaller sizes of these so that you aren’t taking up too much space in your camping gear.

• Salt, Pepper & Prefered Spices
• Sugar
• Ketchup, Mustard, Relish
• BBQ Sauce
• Non-stick cooking spray
• Apple Pie Filling & Cinnamon * Campfire pies

Drinks & Beverages

Use cans, boxes or bottles to make it easier for camping. Most campgrounds have recycling services.

• Coffee / Tea – We use instant coffee, but you decide and ensure you have the right camping equipment for making it.
• Water
• Juice Boxes
• Pop
• Alcoholic Beverage (Beer, Wine, etc)

Camping Meals

Meal planning can sometimes be the toughest part of getting packed up for packing. So this is the ideal camping food meal plan for 2 days or a weekend camping trip. We try to make things simple, easy, traditional campers food, fun and let’s the kids get involved with making all these foods outside. Just keep it simple!

When you have a meal plan for camping this ensures you have all the ingredients in your shopping list, saves your time and let’s you relax when camping because you’ve already planned your food out for camping.

Day 1 Camping Meal Plan

Camping Breakfast

• Eggs & Bacon/Breakfast Sausage
• Fruit
• Coffee/Tea
• Milk/Juice

Camping Lunch

• Sandwiches
• Veggies & Dip
• Fruit

Camping Supper

• Hamburgers
• Potato Salad
• Veggies & Dip
• Fruit

Day 2 Camping Meal Plan

Camping Breakfast

• Muffins & Yogurt
• Fruit
• Coffee/Tea
• Milk/Juice

Camping Lunch

• Smokies / Sausage
• Veggies & Dip
• Fruit

Camping Supper

• BBQ Chicken
• Pork & Beans
• Salad (Green or Coleslaw)
• Fruit

Campfire Cooking

It’s always fun to campfire cook! Food just seems to taste better cooked over the campfire. Here are some ideas for some campfire cooking snacks or meals. These are always part of our campsite food, especially with the kids and fun for the whole family.

• Banana Boats
• Campfire S’Mores
• Campfire Pies

Camping Snacks

Consider snacks that you can pack in a backpack for hikes, trips to the beach or going for bike rides. You’ll need backpacking food that can fuel you up and provide you energy.

• Veggies & Dip
• Fruit
• Granola Bars
• Chips
• Trail Mix

Camping Necessities for Cooking

HERE is our Camping Checklist with Kids that includes ALL the things you’ll need for camping with a printable checklist too!

• Foil Packet
• Campfire Iron for making Campfire Pies
• Hotdog and marshmallow roasters
• Coolers for food
• Dry Food Bins to keep it dry and animals out. These are the food bins that we use camping.
• Chip clips like these to keep the bag closed
• Ziplock bags

The above camping food checklist can easily be extended into a camping food list for 3 days by simply adding on more of the same food and one main supper. We often sometimes throw in a package of spaghetti and sauce as an extra just in case we need extra food and it’s an easy meal for camping.

We’ve used this camp food list for when we are tent camping or rv camping, we always try to have a separate cooler just for the drinks which makes it easier with kids to grab the drinks and not impact the food stacking in the cooler.

I use this list of food for camping and add in any extras that we may need or add more to it to fluctuate for what my kids like and enjoy the most. If you are looking for some more creative ideas for campsite cooking check out there are many out there to give some variety.

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