When camping, especially for an extended period of time, it is important to vary your diet so you don’t begin to go insane. In the first week or so, while traveling in New Zealand, 90% of our meals have been prepared on our fold out table and heated using a Whisper Lite camp stove. Most everything is water based, usually originating from a bag or a box, dehydrated and crusty until doused with boiling hot water. A college freshman would succeed at a higher rate in the wild, due to their love and reliance on ramen noodles to get through the rigors of class and studying. We’ve played around with different combinations of foods, sauces and seasonings, but I believe the true MVP goes to canned chicken. We’ve discovered this treat at many of the local grocery stores and they come in a ridiculous amount of preparations and flavors. Diced, shredded, pulled, the chicken is seasoned with sea salt, cracked black pepper or flavored with Italian tomato, sweet chili or just basic chicken salad. You can add them to rice, noodles, or just eat them alone with a slice of cheese and stuffed in a pita.
Cooking at a campsite is sometimes a chore, because in our case, we spend all day walking miles along a river and then come back tired and wishing we had a menu to order from with an extensive beer selection. But, we don’t have that luxury and in that case we must continue to make things interesting and further hack into the creative side of our culinary mind. College students will have so much to learn from us when we’re through with this interim in Kiwi land.
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