Learning This Easy Recipe Made Camping like a Perfect Stroll Through the Forest.

Several years ago my husband and I were taking our young kids on a big camping trip. It was a nightmare just packing.
I looked at the rough totes that had been loaded with supplies, food, bedding, cook wear, well you get the basic picture.
“This isn’t a nature experience,” I grumbled, shoving a bag of marshmallows into one of the totes. “This is more like moving!”

I was pitching something and let me tell you it wasn’t a tent.
“I thought you loved camping as a kid,” said my husband John, picking up the sleeping bags to carry to our old Suburban.
“I did,” I fought back the tears. “But,my mom did the packing!”

It was a miserable beginning of the trip. There was a hole in the air mattress and I found myself sleeping on the hard ground in the middle of the night. Everything was dirty within 7 minutes of getting to the campground. Trying to make a huge breakfast of hash browns, pancakes, eggs, was a mess that took until lunch time to clean-up.

What was I doing wrong? I wondered. Our kids were having a blast, just like I used to when I camped with my grandparents and cousins.
I tried to relax and enjoy the moments, but all I could think of was how long it was going to take me to clean up everyone and everything.

Then it hit me. I had been making camping TOO big of a deal. I over packed, over estimated, over stressed and the result was pure misery.
I decided to simplify. Before we went camping again I tried several foil wrapped meals on our barbecue to make sure we had some winners.
The fact that the kids could make their own packets with their favorite fixings was awesome.

This is what Tiffany of Daily Leisure has to say about this Campfire Potato recipe.

Most of may know I attempted camping a few months back and it was not quite what I was expecting. Needless to say I didn’t run out a buy a new RV but what I did take away from the trip was a easy campfire potatoes recipe. Don’t tell anyone but I have made them on grill since we have been home a few times. They are so easy and good.

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Quick Tip: Make sure to have your family make their own packets so they can include their favorite fixings. Mark the outside of the foil packet with their name in permanent marker. It just makes life easier. Really.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Tiffany of Daily Leisure 

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When we moved to Southern California there was a restaurant that our older boys took us to. They raved about how zesty and fantastic the ribs were.

I thought maybe they were exaggerating a bit since they missed my cooking. I was wrong! Phil’s Bar-B-Que was a huge hit on our family trip and has since become one of our favorite rib places.

The big platter of food was devoured by our carnivorous offspring like Vikings after a plunder. When I saw that there was an actual sink in the family style dining room I assumed they were going a bit overboard. Not at all. The sink was perfect to rinse off what would have taken a small bale of napkins to clean up.

Ever since then I have been hoping to find a recipe that tastes similar and I think this one might be it.

Here is what the contributor Beverly Carson said about her down home recipe.

After not being able to find restaurant ribs that satisfied my hot sweet appetite, I carefully attempted various combinations of flavors until I found one that I and my family thought was perfect. Hope you enjoy them too.

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Quick Tip: Go ahead and make up pasta or potato salad the day before you serve these. If you are having a big get-together it will be nice to have your cooking done and the mess cleaned up already tackled.

 Photo and recipe courtesy of Beverly Carson

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Make “The Other White Meat” for dinner tonight. No Hobby Farm Required!

In 1990, our family moved from CA to MN and lived in a small midwest town for nine years.  When we first moved there, we purchased a small hobby farm. The old farm site had several outbuildings, including an old grain mill, a milking barn, and a pig barn.

Well, we weren’t planning to tackle the effort of getting a cow or planning to plan wheat, but because the prices were down and we were young enough to feel optimistic about everything, we decided to buy a few piglets and raise them for market, keeping one for ourselves.

Long story short, we ended up with 50 piglets that we raised to butchering weight. That is a lot of food and after cleaning up the barn several times, well, let’s just say that whatever goes in must come out.

Even just walking through the barn left your clothes and hair smelling like Eau de Piglet.

In the end, we were able to sell all the pigs at the highest market price because of what we had fed them. They were big, but they were very lean. Now that we have lived through that, I appreciate paying for a few pounds of pork we didn’t have to raise ourselves. There is always an adventure in learning something new, but sometimes it is easy to bite off more than you can

Now that we have lived through that, I appreciate paying for a few pounds of pork we didn’t have to raise ourselves. There is always an adventure in learning something new, but sometimes it is easy to bite off more than you can chew :~)

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Quick Tip: If you ever decide to buy a hobby farm and it has a few outbuildings, consider setting up an art studio!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Real Simple

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