10 of the Weirdest and Fun Camping Meals for Kids That You Need to Try

What could be more fun than taking your little ones camping? There’s no work, no distractions, nothing but quality time with your family. And if the young ones start complaining, there’s also no escape!

Picky eaters make for cranky campers. That’s why we’ve made a list of fun, awesome camping meals your kids will love. Make your camping trip a hit with these quirky camping meals for kids.

1. Paper Bag Bacon and Eggs

Campfire cooking is one of the joys of camping. Or, at least, it would be if it didn’t end with you scrubbing burnt egg off a skillet under ice cold water. But unless you were lucky enough to snag a campsite catered by CampFood, it looks like you’ll be doing all the work.

So why not make it easy on yourself? Use this camping hack to cook the world’s most popular campfire breakfast without the skillet. Who knew you could use a paper bag as a frying pan?

What You Need

• Bacon
• Eggs
• Paper bag
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to Make

First, here’s a tip on transporting the food. To keep the raw eggs from cracking and making a mess, crack them ahead of time and put them in a plastic drinking bottle. If you don’t have an ice chest, you can freeze the eggs and bacon so they stay cold.

Take a paper bag and thoroughly rub down the inside with the bacon until the bag gets all greasy and see-through. The grease is what keeps the bag from catching fire over the burning coals.

Next, lay the bacon flat on the bottom of the bag, covering the bottom. Thick bacon works best to protect the bag while cooking. Pour the eggs on top of the bacon and close the bag.

Make a hole through the bag and put one end of a thick stick through the hole. Using the stick, hold the bag over the hot coals and roast. Cook for 5-7 minutes, exposing sides and bottom to the heat evenly.

2. Breakfast Bread Bowls

None of your campers will still be hungry after this hearty bread bowl breakfast.

What You Need

• Bread rolls
• Eggs
• Ham
• Cheese
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to Make

Slice the top off the bread roll as a lid. Scoop the center of the bread out to make a bowl.

Line the bottom of the bread bowl with ham. Put in an egg, salt and pepper, top with cheese, and put the lid back on.

Wrap with foil and bake on the fire for 20-25 minutes, turning every 8-10 minutes. Then, unwrap and enjoy!

3. Blueberry Muffins in an Orange Peel

Here’s another delicious, dish-free treat: perfectly moist muffins with a blast of fruity goodness.

What You Need

• Oranges
• Blueberry muffin mix batter
• Foil

How to Make

Before the trip, prepare the muffin batter according to the instructions and pour into a zipper bag or plastic bottle.

Slice the oranges in half. Remove the fruit without tearing the orange peel halves. You can serve the fruit with the muffins or juice it.

Fill an orange peel half with batter and put an empty peel half on top like a lid. Wrap the whole thing with foil and place it in the fire. (Don’t burn yourself.)

Cook for about ten minutes, turning every minute for even cooking. After ten minutes, check one to see if they’re fully cooked. If so, let them cool then enjoy with a spoon!

4. Fire-Roasted Cinnamon Rolls

Move over, s’mores. This delicious, anytime treat is sure to become a new campfire cookout staple.

What You Need

• Canned cinnamon rolls

How to Make

Pop open a can of refrigerated, uncooked cinnamon rolls. Put them on a roasting stick whichever way seems best to you. Roast, eat, repeat, repeat, repeat, and so on.

It’s perfect for a quick breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, activity, hobby, etc. Once you try it, you’ll probably just keep doing it without stopping, forever.

5. Foil Pack Chilli Cheese Fries

So easy, so good–try it!

What You Need

• Chili
• Cheese
• Frozen fries
• Aluminum foil

How to Make

Wrap a big batch (or several single serve batches) of frozen fries in foil and throw it in the fire until fully cooked. To cook evenly, don’t make the batch too thick in the middle. Check it at about 10 minutes, then every 5.

Unwrap the fully cooked fries, top with your family’s favorite chili and cheese, and wrap it back up. Cook another 5-7 minutes.

Unwrap and eat right out of the foil with a fork (or your bare hands, like a savage). Top with sour cream and other stuff if you want.

But beware. After trying this, your kids may want this for every meal for the rest of their lives.

6. Octodogs

Let’s face it: you were already planning on roasting hot dogs this trip. Why not make it more fun? If you have any chili left over or need to distract your kids from chili cheese fry addiction, try this next!

What You Need

• Hot dogs
• Whatever you serve hot dogs with

How to Make

Start slicing a hotdog in half lengthwise but leave one inch at one end unsliced. The hot dog should now have two “arms” hanging from the “head.” Keep making lengthwise slices until it has 8 arms.

Poke two eye holes and a smiley mouth in the head. Put it on a roasting stick.

Watch the arms curl and writhe as you roast! Serve with leftover fry chili or however you want!

7. Taco Bag

They’re tacos you walk with. They’re walkos! That is, uh… never mind.

What You Need

• Your favorite taco fillings
• Several small bags of Fritos

How to Make

Prepare taco meat and all your favorite taco toppings and condiments before the trip. Bag them all in plastic zipper bags and refrigerate. Throw them in an ice chest and take them to the campsite.

At dinner, put all the bags on the table with plastic spoons for serving. …That’s it!

Everyone grabs a bag of Fritos, fills it with taco toppings, devours it, and returns for more. Eat with a plastic fork or just dump it in your mouth! It’s a customizable, stand-and-eat taco salad everyone will love!

8. Pizza Pockets

Pizza and camping, together–is this a dream?

What You Need

• Pizza dough
• Pizza sauce
• Pizza toppings
• Cheese

How to Make

Cut refrigerated pizza dough into medium-sized circles or squares with cookie-cutters. Top with sauce, cheese, and toppings. Cover with another layer of dough and crimp the ends with a fork.

Cook over the fire on an oiled skillet for 10-15 minutes on each side (or until brown). If you don’t have a skillet, you can bake beforehand at home.

Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Then, wrap them in foil and reheat on the campfire.

9. Campfire Cones

Mmm… What? Oh, sorry, we couldn’t hear you. We were too busy thinking about these warm, melty, sugary, delectable campfire cones.

What You Need

• Waffle Cones
• Your favorite dessert toppings (candy, fudge, berries, cereal, anything you would put on a sundae)
• Canned whipped cream

How to Make

Fill a waffle cone with all your favorite things. It can be any dessert treat you desire–ANYTHING! Think of this as a warm, melty sundae without the ice cream.

Wrap the whole thing very well with foil and place in the campfire for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, unwrap, and fill remaining space with whipped cream.

Enjoy your food coma. Oh, and bring LOTS of Wet-Naps.

10. S’more Skillet Cake or Brownies

Why settle for cobbler or s’mores when you could gorge yourselves on this gooey, chocolatey goodness?

What You Need

• Chocolate cake or brownie mix batter
• Marshmallows
• More chocolate
• Graham crackers

How to Make

Mix the batter at home before leaving. Get your kids to throw in marshmallows, chocolate, and grahams to their hearts’ content. They can even mix it with their bare hands!

Pour it all into the skillet and heat over the fire until done. Then eat it all, then make some more.

Fun Camping Meals for Kids

Try these fun camping meals for kids on your next camping trip. Your kids, and your stomach, will thank you.

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