Camping Meals... Granola? Not Me!

Granola?  No thank you!

As someone who loves the outdoors and camping, I believe that having a great meal should go hand-in-hand with the experience.  I entirely admire those hardcore campers who can go into the woods for days at a time and only bring dehydrated food, nuts and granola along with a water filter.  But that's just not for me and my group of friends.  In fact we usually go overboard and bring far too much food for just a few days. 

When we reach a park, one of our main challenges is unloading and carrying all of the gear and packed food coolers that each of us usually bring.  It's heavy, hard work but it's worth it when we settle in at a campsite and prepare a meal.  Steak and potatoes are usually reserved for an evening meal while burgers and sausages become the norm throughout all of the other meals.  Breakfast is always the best meal of the trip since it kick starts the day with a ton of greasy fuel. 

One of the best camping meals that I've had was for breakfast.  We were all cranky and incredibly hungry since the night before there was some drinking.  This breakfast meal hit the spot like no other. 

Camping Breakfast Recipe

Ingredients

1 pack of bacon
1 Vidalia Onion
12 eggs
Salt & Pepper
1 Loaf of Texas style toast
1 tomato

Instructions

Using an entire pack of bacon, cut all of the strips into small squared pieces.   Place into the pan for frying.  When the bacon is semi browned, about midway through, add an entire onion that's already been finely chopped.  Mix into the grease of the bacon.  

The bacon should brown while the onions become translucent at the same time.  At this point, drain as much of the grease from the pan as possible.  Then add all 12 eggs to the pan.  Mix the entire contents together while making sure break to through each of egg yolks.  All of the ingredients should now be cooking together while the eggs become firm and resemble scrambled eggs with bacon and onion pieces mixed throughout.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Place a heaping amount onto one side of toast bread then place a couple of tomato slices on top.  Voila!  A not so healthy but awesome way to start the day out in the woods!   

You don't eat like this all of the time (I hope).  But when you're out all day and doing all sorts of activities like canoeing and hiking, this is perfect!