Group Camping Cooking Breakfast suggestions?

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Hi,

Looking for some suggestions for easy to prepare but delicious camping breakfast. Going camping this up coming weekend (Central Florida) with a group of Dad’s and there daughters. Group size 6 Dads and 12 kids. I have been assigned breakfast for the group (Saturday and Sunday). We will have gas grills with us. Of course will have the assorted cereal bowls, milk, juice and coffee. You know how much kids need a cup of coffee in the morning. Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
 
nothing wrong with bringing some fresh peppers, onions, bacon, sausage, eggs (or egg whites in cartons) and making a BIG cast iron pan full of scrambled eggs, western omelet style. Or a big pile of flapjacks with syrup (or both). Its fast to whip up if you pre-dice all your veggies into one big ziploc bag, then all you need to do is heat the cast iron pans, oil, saute the veggies, mix the eggs and add em in. same with the flapjacks, pre mix your dry ingredients add powdered milk, then at camp just add water and mix
 
I don't know what you have for cooking gear but it is darn hard to beat bacon and egge for camp breakfast. Also some ham steaks on the grill are great food. If you have a griddle then hot cakes or french toast is good too.
 
I use a restaurant aluminum sheet pan for a griddle on the grill. If you are careful you can also use a disposable aluminum sheet pan. Just make sure you grease it well. You can use cooking spray if you are worried about calories. Brown and serve sausages are quick and only need to be reheated. You can buy eggs in a carton rather than bring whole eggs. Another quick one bowl meal is to dice up some bacon than saute it on the griddle with (if you want)onions and peppers. When the bacon is almost done, poor off some of the grease then scramble eggs over the bacon. One blow, quick and tasty. You can also add bottled salsa to the eggs no prep necessary.
 
Just done that. Bacon, fried egg with cheese on English muffin.

Kids get to eat with their hands, less clean-up mess. Mighty tasty in the morning.
 
A big pot of oatmeal. Cut up a bunch of apple slices and cook with the oatmeal. Have some of the fixings available for folks like butter, cream and brown sugur and they will be happy. If its a bunch of men there, throw on a bunch of breakfast sausages for eating on the side. Include ketchup for the kids to eat them. The boys/men will be plenty happy with oatmeal and meat.

Don't go down the road of pancakes. Way too much effort unless you have a really big cooking surface. Likewise eggs is difficult to do with many people and then you always get some goof who wants their eggs just so. If you do go eggs, do them all scrambled.

I say stick with the oatmeal. If you have to do lunch. Than a big old pot of chilli with toast will keep them satisfied at a minimum of preparation work.
 
As you have more than one burner-

I'd brown off some Churizo sausage pieces in one pan just to get them breaking down a bit and sweating the paprika up.

In pan #2 I'd have some shrooms, cherry tomatoes and a bit of garlic going on.

Pan #3 is the omelette just for assembling each individual omelette and setting the egg protein.


All the donkey work is in pans #1+#2. Pan three just ensures immaculate presentation when you fold them out and that each gets theirs cooked right and hot.

I'd put those up with chiabatta or olive bread.
 
baldtaco-II said:
As you have more than one burner-

I'd brown off some Churizo sausage pieces in one pan just to get them breaking down a bit and sweating the paprika up.

In pan #2 I'd have some shrooms, cherry tomatoes and a bit of garlic going on.

Pan #3 is the omelette just for assembling each individual omelette and setting the egg protein.


All the donkey work is in pans #1+#2. Pan three just ensures immaculate presentation when you fold them out and that each gets theirs cooked right and hot.

I'd put those up with chiabatta or olive bread.
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That sounds great to me...I think I'm going to try that out right now :D
 
when camping, I usually make up an omelete mix..... eggs, meat, and veggies, and put it in a good ziplock bag. You can then drop the whole bag in a pot of boiling water and cook it up right in the bag....Makes an easy breakfast. If you make up multiple bags(one per person) they can eat em right out of the bag, an save on dishes. The water(if no egg leaked into it) can be used for some cowboy coffee!!
 
j williams said:
when camping, I usually make up an omelete mix..... eggs, meat, and veggies, and put it in a good ziplock bag. You can then drop the whole bag in a pot of boiling water and cook it up right in the bag....Makes an easy breakfast. If you make up multiple bags(one per person) they can eat em right out of the bag, an save on dishes. The water(if no egg leaked into it) can be used for some cowboy coffee!!
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That is a great idea. I have been doing more and more of the cooking in a bag (ramen, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, etc). It sure makes cleanup a breeze.
 
We do the cakes and eggs quite often, the first one to complain is the dish washer of the day.:)
 
Another great way to eat camp breakfast is rolled up in a flour tortilla. Use your imagination for the combinations.
 
We do a combo of J's and Chickenplucker's ideas. We take pre-cooked bacon (or pre-cook bacon seperately), eggs, and cheese in a boiling bag. Poor it onto a flour tortilla for breakfast burittos. One big boiling pot of water is all the cooking you need.
 
i like the boiling bag idea....that would work perfectly with my MSR Reactor stove.......

whats the brand names for boiling bags?
 
When I did a canoe trip through Algonquin we did a fried granola several mornings. I can't remember exactly how we did it, but I remember it being really good and hearty and keeping me full for a morning of paddling. I found a recipe here that looks about right
http://camprecipes.com/recipe-Fried-Granola-782



Basically melt some butter (I don't remember what we used for fat) and then fry up the oats. Mix in some brown sugar or cinnamon.

Then because it's kids, you could make a "topping bar" with some chocolate chips, coconut shreds, assorted fresh/dried fruit, whatever else looks good.
 
When my wife used to go camping, she would cook mexican chorizo with onions and jalapeno. Eggs scrambled into the mix. She'd eat it with tortillas mexican style and I'd eat it with rice and vinegar filipino style:D The good thing about car camping is that you can cook anything you want to.
 
hey ray.... What do you mean "filipino style".... How do you use the rice and vinegar? White or brown rice? Sounds awesome!!!
 
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