Eating Healthy While Camping

Camping is no excuse to let your nutrition go out the window, and there is absolutely no excuse to eat like garbage while camping either. “It is too hard to eat healthy while camping,” is just an excuse. If you have said this, you simply haven’t made a plan and you haven’t put your nutrition as a priority in your life.

Every year Brandon and I go on a three-night canoe trip. We launch in Outlook, Saskatchewan and canoe into Saskatoon. We camp overnight in Outlook, take off early in the morning, and spend three days and two nights on the beautiful South Saskatchewan River. This is roughing it to its core! No cell phones, showers or bathrooms, and no make-up, no fridges, or stoves. Everything we need for three days needs to fit into one canoe, so we plan, plan, plan! If we can eat healthy on this style of camping trip, you can definitely stay healthy while RV’ing!! Of course, we indulge in some cool beverages and the occasional campfire smore, but that’s the thing about summer, indulge in what you really want, and stay healthy the rest of the time! Here is our meal plan for three days of camping to help you all out.

Friday Night – The Start of the Trip!

We have already fuelled ourselves up with a breakfast smoothie and healthy lunch, so Friday night is our first campfire meal.

Dinner: Campfire Paella

Saturday

Breakfast: Mushroom and Smoked Cheddar Frittata (precooked! Just needs to be warmed up over the fire in a cast iron skillet)

Lunch: Pre-cooked cold deer sausage, baby bell cheese, pickles, crackers, hummus, and veggies

Dinner: Bison Burgers with Kale and Squash Salad

Sunday

Breakfast: Egg Scramble (premade, in a plastic bag with all the veggies already in the cracked eggs), organic turkey breakfast sausage, pre-made hashbrown package for the fire!

Lunch: Chicken Quinoa Salad

Dinner: Chili (pre-made, just needs to be warmed up in a pot!)

Monday

Breakfast: Chili and Eggs

Lunch: Last Stop!  The Berry Farm by Saskatoon for brunch!

Camping is all about friends, family and food! We definitely bring a lot of snacks as well:

• Homemade bison jerky
• Precooked Sausage, gluten free crackers, pre-cut cheese, pickles, hummus, cut up veggies, hard boiled eggs
• Pasta Salad (gluten free and full of veggies!)
• Smore stuff!
• Popcorn