What is your menu for the weekend (include recipes)

[HappyGirl]

I'm trying to get some ideas on menu planning (keep it simple) for weekend trips - usually about 3 days.  Care to share what you fix?

[OC Campers]

I'm trying to get some ideas on menu planning (keep it simple) for weekend trips - usually about 3 days.  Care to share what you fix?

Breakfast:  my family loves breakfast burritos.  I buy the bacon already cooked and warm it in the microwave or a pan, scramble up some eggs and add cheese and your done.  Another fav is pancakes using "batter blaster".  No mess, just spray in the pan.

Lunch--My kids love Boboli pizza's on the bbq.  Put foil on the grate of your grill,  put Boboli shell on the foil, sauce from a jar, sliced pepperoni, sliced olives or whatever topping you like and pre-shredded cheese.  They also like quesadillas.

Dinner--Meatball subs.  Frozen meatballs, spaghetti sauce, rolls and stredded cheese on hoagie rolls.  Or spagheeti, cook noodles at home and put in ziploc bag and a jar or sauce or some of your homemade sauce from home.

Jacqui

[GrizzlyTaco]

Here's a few thing we like to make.

Breakfast: Chorizo and eggs or Biscuits and gravy, brown a tube of Jimmy dean sausage and dont drain off grease, now add some flour and mix in well, then add some HEAVY CREAM, salt and black pepper, go a bit heavy on the pepper and let simmer until the gravy is thick. We use pre-made biscuits from smart and final, they heat easily on the grill. Heavy cream is very important to this gravy.

Lunch: We usually do sandwiches.

Dinner: We always do Blue Cheese Burgers, take a pound of ground beef (not lean) and add salt, pepper, garlic powder and 2 to 4 ounces of bleu cheese crumbles and mix well. Grill to your liking, top with extra bleu cheese if you like and serve on a fresh kaiser roll with lettuce, tomato and red onion......Yummy

[McCampers]

Blue Cheese burgers ROCK!  

We like to have steak on one night.  We always take along a couple noodle in a boxs to go with it.

We also like to do pancakes in the shaker jug.  They are easy, and do not require anything other than water.  We always through some fruit in the mix and some water and shake it up.

Lunches are usually sandwich with chips.  

We keep it simple except for supper.

Night time snack is always the mallow and the chocolate and the graham.  Can't beat an old school favorite like that.

[GrizzlyTaco]

I have a question about the pancake mix in the shaker jug. Do you have to use it all at once or can you store what you dont use without it going bad since its already mixed with water?

[Jaxx]

Grizzly. We just cook them all and then store them in a ziplock bag and warm them up if the kids want them for breakfast the next day. I don't know if the wet mix lasts.  

As far as easy meals we like:

Tin foil dinners.

One dinner that is fairly easy that I love is ribs with corn on the cob and biscuits. The ribs I just put in a dutch oven with coals on top and bottom and cook for about a half hour. I pour a whole bottle of our favorite bbq sauce and cook another half hour or until the meat is falling off the bone. While that is cooking I put a few coals on top and bottom of another d.o. and cook the biscuits. Of course the corn is going in a big pot on the stove. It is actually a super easy dinner that makes people think you spent a bunch of time cooking. And the fellow campers usually get jealous when they smell your dinner

garlic bread warmed up on the griddle (side dish). Pre make the garlic bread, or buy the gross stuff from the store, and wrap it in tinfoil. Warm up the griddle and keep turning the bread over so it doesnt burn.

Frilllies-Warm up chili, pour over fritos, sprinkle shredded cheese on top. you can add ranch, salad, and veggies for a more of a salad type dinner. My kids love ranch on theirs.

Stew- cubed steak or ground hamburger, V8, celery, chopped potatoes, carrots, onions. Some season salt and peper to taste.

All in one breakfast. Meat, eggs, hashbrowns, cheese. Let it cook in the dutch oven after cooking the meat.

I love a good pb&j so we usually have that for a lunch. with chips and string cheese.

super easy breakfast: poptarts warmed up on the griddle, instant oatmeal, cereal. We freeze a half gallon of milk and have cereal the last day. Make sure the milk isn't frozen the day before and leave it out a little while to thaw.

bagel sandwiches. cream cheese with meat. We use flavored cream cheeses.

Bagels for breakfast with cream cheese and cut up fruit to put on top. This is one of my favorite breakfasts. Bananas, strawberries, kiwi, peaches, etc.

We always prepare as much as possible at home and put it in ziplocs so it takes less prep at camp.

concentrate juices for breakfast/dinner. juice boxes for lunch. We usually just do water but we mix it up a little to not get sick of water.

[Chez Way]

I'm ready for some bleu cheese burgers and frillies after reading this!

My favorites for breakfast are banana pancakes and DO apple/sausage/cornbread.  For dinner I like tri-tip, caprese salad (sliced tomatoes, mozzarella and basil w/ olive oil and s&p) and corn on the cob.

[dandreas]

My kids are very picky about their pancakes and only Bisquick from the box tastes right to them.  Before I leave on a trip I measure out enough mix to double the recipe and put it in a tupperware container.  I take 4 eggs and nestle them right in on the powdery mix and add about a cup/cup and a half of chocolate chips.  The container goes in the cooler, the eggs are kept from being broken by the Bisquick and all I have to do in the morning is break the eggs and add the milk.  I mix the whole thing right in that container.  Since the choc. chips are in the pancakes we skip the syrup and the annoyance of bees!

Lunch is always a simple one of cold cut sandwiches and chips.

We've had pulled pork sandwiches in the crock pot at an electric site.  That has to be just about the easiest meal I've ever made.  I just put a pork butt or roast in the crockpot without any additional liquid in the morning on low for about 8 hours.  Once it was tender, I drained out the fat, pulled it apart with two forks and then added a bottle of bbq sauce.  Adding the bbq sauce at the end keeps it from getting too watery and makes for a stronger bbq flavor.  Throw some of that on a roll, serve with corn on the cob and you've got dinner.