Cooking outdoors is one of my favorite pastimes during a camping trip. But when there is no option, I often switch to sandwiches, salads, and no-cook meals.
Snack food from the store, such as crackers, hummus, or salami and cheese combos.
Besides, you can prep long-lasting food at home before your trips. Here are simple no cook camping meal ideas that you can try on your campsite.
🥪 Classic Peanut Butter & Banana Wraps
Thanks to no-cook food, which helped me survive the rainy night in Alabama. It was all dark and stormy everywhere and had no cooking setup.
That night I only ate peanut butter and banana wraps.
This can be your camping lunch, a great afternoon snack, and a simple, indulgent dessert for your trip.
It’s a nutritious, energy-packed meal that offers a great filling option for you.
To start, you will need whole wheat tortillas, peanut butter (or any nut butter), sliced bananas, and optional honey or granola.
How to Make:
- Lay out peanut butter on the tortilla.
- Place pieces of banana on half of the tortilla. Make sure the pieces are on the topic of peanut butter and don’t overload the tortilla.
- (You can eat extra slices if banana pieces are large enough.)
- Now, fold the tortilla in half and veil the banana slices.
🥗 Chickpea Salad with Olive Oil & Lemon
It’s also known as Mediterranean Chickpea Salad, which you can customize according to your taste preferences.
To start the recipes, you need 30 ounces of canned chickpeas. Rinse it quickly and pour it into a large mixing bowl.
Then, you need to have some vegetables. I often make a salad with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, red onions, fresh herbs (a mix of mint and basil), lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Chop all the ingredients and put them in the mixing bowl.
To add some taste, pour lemon juice, olive oil, honey, and vinegar into a small bowl. Sprinkle salt and pepper on that bowl, and now mix all of them well.
Pour all the liquid ingredients into the large bowl and mix them with the cut vegetables. Done!
🫙 Overnight Oats in a Jar
If you want to have a quick breakfast and don’t want to do a whole lot of work in the morning, overnight oats can be a great choice.
All you have to do is stir a few ingredients in a jar and place them in the cooler.
In fact, it’s the easiest breakfast or snack and no-cook camping meal that you can enjoy throughout the week.
Use a mesh jar and put rolled oats in that. You will also need other ingredients, such as milk of your choice, chia seeds, fruits, yogurt, and maple syrup, before heading out.
You can add ingredients based on the jar size.
For example, I start with 1/2 cup of rolled oats, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/4 cup of yogurt, 1 tablespoon of chia seeds, and honey.
Give all the ingredients a nice stir and mix them well.
Now top it with chopped pineapples or other fruits.
Make sure a jar has some room, as an overnight jar will expand after chilling. Place the jar in the fridge for at least two hours, and you can enjoy.
If you want to experiment with flavors, you can try combos like apple-cinnamon, berry-honey, or chocolate-peanut butter.
🍎 Apple Sandwiches with Nut Butter & Granola
This no-cook snack is easy to make, kid-friendly, and healthy for all.
Ingredients: peanut butter, Granny Smith apple, Gala apple, seedless raisins.
Baked nuts and fruits: Peanuts, almonds, coconut, walnuts, cranberries, and sunflower seeds.
Slice apples into 1/2 inch rings and core each apple. If you don’t have a corer, you can use a small cookie-cutter to remove the core center of each slice.
Add the raisins into the baked nuts and fruits and mix together until they’re well combined.
Spread one side of the apple slices with peanut butter and sprinkle the granola mixture over the butter. Repeat the process until you finish with the final slice.
Put the slices on a plate and make layers to turn it look like a sandwich.
You can make 3 layers of apple slices, ensuring they won’t fall off. You can pair this snack with a protein bar for a complete meal.
🥬 Tuna Salad Wraps
You can simply make tuna salad wraps with lettuce or a large flour tortilla.
I want a creamy salad wrap, so I want to try this way. Put 1/2 cup of low-fat Greek yoghurt and 2 tablespoons of cold water in a large bowl.
Give it a whisk until it is mixed well together.
Then add 1/4 finely chopped red onion, grate one clove of garlic in the bowl, and pour 2 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley.
And squeeze 1/2 fresh lemon into that bowl.
To season, you can take sea salt and black pepper. Again, mix all together.
Now, take 2 tuna cans and drain the olive oil into a fine sieve with a bowl beneath, the size of the cans. Flake the tuna gently to remove the excess oil.
Cheese, avocado, mayonnaise. The flavored packets are good, but a little hot sauce can help if you aren’t using the flavored ones.
Then, add the drained tuna into the yoghurt mixture and give it a final mix.
Slice one large tomato and take some shredded iceberg lettuce.
For the wrap, I like to have a large flour tortilla. Put a generous portion of tuna mixture on it and top it off with slices of tomato and shredded lettuce.
Fold the tortilla and tightly roll it like you do with a burrito. You can chop the wrap in half and enjoy it at your campsite.
💬 Final Thoughts
Long ago, I used to have moderately long hikes with a friend, about 5 – 6 hours.
There, he introduced me to roasted red pepper, basil, and brie sandwiches on baguettes with oil and balsamic. He would not keep it cool while hiking.
They were perfectly fine with room temperature by the time we ate. Though I remember, the cheese was lightly melted but super delicious.
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