Cooking for a crowd can be challenging in a conventional kitchen. Cooking for a crowd when camping can seem almost impossible to a novice campfire cook. However, there are many dishes that are easy to prepare, even when camping. Recipes for pasta dishes and soups are easy to make for a crowd of campers.
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- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Prepare quick and easy French toast bits. Tear up hamburger and hot dog buns into bite-sized chunks and dip them in an egg-milk-cinnamon wash. Fry them up in a skillet over a cookstove or on a rack over a fire pit with a hot bed of coals in it.
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Bring along a bag of frozen hash browns or tater tots and make a breakfast bake big enough for a crowd. Mix one dozen eggs with a quarter cup of milk and eight slices of crumbled bacon together. Pour over the frozen potatoes, and bake in a covered skillet or Dutch oven until cooked through. If you'd like, throw in some fresh tomatoes, mushrooms or onions.
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Skip cooking all together, and serve cold cereal and milk with fresh bananas and strawberries for a healthy start to your camping trip.
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Make up an assortment of sandwiches cut into quarters. Serve with chips, fresh veggies and dip.
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Prepare a large pot of beef stew before you leave for your camping trip. Simply reheat it and serve with biscuits.
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Serve baked beans (homemade or canned) warm on toasted bread for a quick and easy old-fashioned lunch.
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Bake cornbread in a Dutch oven using the coals from your fire, and serve with pre-made chili (either canned or homemade) that you heat over a campstove or over the coals.
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Fry up some chicken drumsticks (two to three per person) in barbecue sauce in a skillet over the campfire. Serve with a fresh salad and potatoes wrapped in tin foil and baked right in the campfire.
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Make spaghetti by boiling a large pot of noodles over the campfire and using jarred sauce. Serve with salad and garlic bread for an ultra-easy crowd pleaser.
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