What we ate while camping

Although I tried to make this trip as cheap as possible I still managed to spend about $300 before we left, but only a small portion was on food. I had to buy $80 hiking boots for my son, solar shower (not sure that was worth it yet), chips, soda, plates, utensils. We only went out to eat once and that was actually on the way there. I didn’t want to take the time to make dinner and clean up before we left, so we got a pizza and a sub before we even left town. I am comforted by the fact that I shouldn’t have to spend so much, next time we go camping, although I just spent about $13.50 this morning on some items we realized we would like for our next venture-hatchet, camp soap, big spoon, and starter sticks.

Here is what we had for meals;
Day one
Breakfast-Eggs, bacon, toast (all items taken from my pantry)
Lunch-Homemade Soup (made days before hand) LOVE Ziploc Twist and Loc!
Turkey cheese sandwich
Dinner-Cheese Burgers and Mac N Cheese
Snacks both days-Smores (duh), Jiffy Pop, tater chips, pudding (I made it before we left), cheez its

Day two
Breakfast-Bacon and Pancakes
Lunch-Soup for hubby and Mac N cheese Hotdogs
On the way home we stopped at Linville Falls to see a campfire program on Venomous snakes, spiders and ticks-And at the picnic area
Dinner-Cheeseburger, Hotdogs, Mac N cheese

So the only money that was spent once we left the house was
Pizza and Sub $30
gas and a candy bars (not enough pizza)
bottle of Ketchup-$1.50 (I forgot it!)
1 bottle Propane that cost $6+ that killed us knowing I had left a FULL bottle at home and it is only $2.77 at WALMART!
5 candy sticks from the camp store ($1.00)

Our next camping trip I want to try and do some different foods ones that are a little bit more involved, but I have 2 kids that are really picky and that really takes the fun out of it.