Healthy Low Fat Camping Recipes
We love camping, and we also love eating healthy, so we decided to make a list of our favorite and healthiest camping foods and snacks for you to serve. Some of these are low-fat camp recipes, but fat is not always a bad thing if you have the right kinds! The healthiest thing you can do when camping? Choose all natural and organic foods that aren’t filled with chemicals and preservatives!
Simple Veggies & Fruit
You really can’t go wrong with fruit and vegetables, though the one drawback is it does not have a very long shelf life, so you will likely need to eat it within a day or two, especially if the weather is very warm and you have no way for refrigerating it. Carrots and celery, broccolli and cauliflower, green and red peppers all make for great veggies to snack and crunch on – you can even bring dip if you have a way to refrigerate it. Good camping fruits are cantaloupe, apples, pears, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and many others. If you’d like, pack along some strawberry yogurt or peanut butter for dipping the fruit into. (Celery sticks, apples, and banana all go great with peanut butter!)
Grilled Meat/Fish, Veggies, and Potatoes
If you don’t mind cooking, you can make many healthy grilled dishes. Here’s a simple formula you just can’t go wrong with:
Salmon or other fish Skinless Chicken Breast, Ground Turkey Patties, Lean or Grassfed Hamburger Patties or Grassfed Steak
Red or Green Peppers & Onion
Sliced Potatoes or Instant Brown Rice
Salt/Pepper/Seasonings to Taste
Combine all ingredients in foil and grill until meat/fish reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
Hearty Chili
1 Can Organic Red, Chili, or Kidney Beans
1 pound of lean organic ground turkey or beef
1 Pepper, chopped
1 8 oz can of corn
1/2 an onion chopped
1 8 oz can of diced tomatoes
Chili seasoning to taste (you can use pre-made packets or mix together cumin, garlic powder, chili powder and cayenne pepper until you get the flavor right for you – just go easy on the cayenne pepper if you do not like it spicy!)
Combine all ingredients and cook over fire in a cast iron skillet or on the grill or camp stove – it’s done when the meat is browned and has reached a temperature of 165 degrees.
Beef & Chicken Kabobs
1-2 pounds of beef or chicken (depends on how big of crowd you are serving!)
1 red pepper and 1 green pepper
1 onion
1 zuchinni
Salt, Pepper, and seasonings to taste
Marinate the chicken or beef in salt and seasonings for 30 minutes or longer prior to cooking. Slice everything into 1 inch pieces and skew onto skewers. (Make sure if cooking over a fire and using wood skewers that you soak the skewers in water for at least 10-15 minutes first so they don’t burn!) Alternate pieces of meat with the veggies, grill until meat reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
Vegetable Stew
Everyone knows that campers need their vegetables, and this easy stew can be made in no time!
You Will Need:
1 cup carrots
1 cup of corn (again, fresh is always better!)
1 packet of organic beef gravy/beef stew seasoning or mix up your own before going camping
1 pound of beef
1 cup green beans
2-3 medium sized potatoes, cut into pieces
1 diced tomato
(You can substitute organic canned veggies, but fresh always tastes better!)
Combine all ingredients in a cast iron skillet and simmer for 3-4 hours until meat is cooked and vegetables are tender.
Do you have any healthy low fat camping recipes you’d like to share? We’d love to hear them in the comments section below!
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