Cooking in Your Camper

While there are many things to enjoy about living and vacationing in your camper, one task that often feels a little more challenging is cooking. The smaller size and more limited features in your camper’s kitchen can make it hard to prepare the same types of meals you might cook at home. However, all is not lost, and you don’t have to resort to eating fast food every night. These cooking tips will help you make healthy and delicious dinners for your crew of hungry campers that won’t stress you out.

1. Prepare in Advance

Since you’ll have access to your home or apartment kitchen before you depart in your camper, why not make the most of it? Use your kitchen to prepare your favorite meals with all the necessary ingredients right at hand, then seal up microwaveable portions in tupperware that you can stack in your camper’s freezer. Nothing could be simpler!

2. Batch-Cook Foods

Whenever you do have the oven or stove on, it can be helpful to prepare extra batches of certain foods to use in future meals. Add some extra chicken to the grill so that you can cut it up for salads or sandwiches at tomorrow’s lunch. Prepare another batch of rice or pasta that you can turn into a side dish. Or simply prepare a second batch of chili or stew that you can put in a container to serve later in the week.

3. Use a Slow Cooker

This oft-overlooked piece of cookware should be a bigger part of your camper cooking routines. All you have to do is plug it in, fill it with cuts of meat, chopped veggies, broth or water, and seasonings, put on the lid and turn it to the appropriate heat setting. In six to eight hours, you’ll return to a hot and delicious meal that took almost no time to prepare!

4. Clean as You Go

Because the space in your camper kitchen is rather limited, you’ll need to make sure you have enough room to prepare food. Put away ingredients as soon as you’ve used them. Rinse and stack cutting boards and pans out of the way. Compost scraps immediately after chopping up veggies. Throw away or recycle any packaging. Wipe down the counter so you can start the next step of the process.

5. Don’t Cook

This might seem like a strange tip, but bear with us. Instead of always preparing hot meals that use a stove or grill, why not make some of your meals cold? Breakfast can be fruit and yogurt parfaits instead of bacon and eggs; lunch can be a sandwich bar with all the fixings, and dinner can be a cold pasta salad with leftover proteins mixed in, either fish or chicken.

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