5 Healthified Camping Recipes for Your Outdoor Adventures
Want to enjoy s’mores or a delicious steak dinner beside a campfire without sacrificing your healthy lifestyle? With our healthified camping recipes, you can do just that!
Whether your summer camping adventures involve exploring the Rocky Mountains with your best friend or watching a movie in a tent with your kids in the backyard, there’s always room for a bonfire and some good eats, right? Regardless of where you are setting up camp this summer, it’s a nice idea to pack your healthy lifestyle up with you and bring it along for the trip. No one wants to feel bloated or fatigued while navigating the outdoors!
Even if you’re only taking a trip to the backyard, the following healthified camping recipes are perfect additions to your outdoor experience, and they’ll leave you feeling energized and satisfied!
5 Healthified Camping Recipes for Your Outdoor Adventures
Healthy S’mores
If you’re someone who likes to have a little something sweet after dinner, then these healthy tweaks to your normal “s’more” will satisfy your sweet tooth without giving you a stomach ache.
Here’s a few tips:
- You know those gluten-filled, cinnamon-sugar-covered graham crackers that you used to eat when you were a kid? Switch them out for Pamela’s Gluten-free Honey Grahams (can be found at Sprouts), or choose from a few other different flavors!
- The Jet-Puffed marshmallows that you’re familiar with aren’t so great for your digestive tract. The gelatin can cause digestive upset and the refined-sugars are definitely not benefiting your health either! Swap the Jet-Puffed mallows for these vegan marshmallows (also available at Sprouts).
- As for chocolate…do your best to seek out one that is dairy-free and free from refined-sugar. Ideally, look for a dark chocolate that is 70% cocoa or above.
Simplified Steak Dinner
Didn’t believe us when we said that steak by the campfire can be a thing? Try this: a steak dinner simplified and requiring only 7 ingredients (3 of which you probably already have on hand)!
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Ribeye Steak (grass-fed preferably)
- A few bell peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
- Red onion, cut into 1-inch pieces
- Sweet potato, diced
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
In either a cast-iron skillet or piece of foil, combine the veggies and cook over the campfire with olive oil, salt and pepper. Do the same thing for the steak and then enjoy immediately! Bring along a homemade seasoning if you’d like to add a little flavor.
Fireside Fajitas
This one can be made with beef or chicken – you decide!
Ingredients:
- Pasture-raised chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
- Seasoning of choice (here’s an easy one: garlic powder, lemon pepper, and sea salt)
- Olive oil
- Green, yellow and red bell peppers, cut into strips
- Onion
- Whole-wheat or gluten-free tortillas
- Salsa (optional)
Once the fire is ready, season the chicken (or season the chicken at home before you leave) and cook on grill-rack or in cast-iron skillet with olive oil until no longer pink on the inside. Remove the chicken from the fire and cook the veggies however you would like to do so. If you have extra seasoning, throw it in with the veggies! Heating the tortillas over the fire is optional, but definitely makes for a better fajita. Throw the chicken strips and veggies into tortillas and enjoy topped with salsa.
Breakfast Skillet Hash
This recipe is great for camping or in your home kitchen!
Here’s what you’ll be working with:
- Olive oil
- Sweet potato, peeled and diced
- Onion, chopped
- Organic ground turkey
- Pasture-raised eggs
- Italian seasoning
- Baby spinach
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Goat cheese (optional)
Cook the sweet potato and onion before adding anything else to the skillet. After about 15 minutes, add in the ground turkey and seasoning. Once the veggies and meat are tender, add the eggs until fully cooked. Lastly, toss in the spinach until it is wilted. Sprinkle the hash with goat cheese if you’d like!
Garlic Butter Campfire Corn
Could this flavor combo sound anymore delicious? This recipe serves as a great side for any campfire dinner that you decide to whip up. All you’ll need is ears of corn (husked), grass-fed butter, minced garlic, fresh chives (chopped), salt and pepper.
Combine the butter, garlic, chives, salt and pepper in a small bowl and rub the flavored butter over the ears of corn. Wrap each piece of corn with foil and pack until ready to use.
Let the campfire burn down to the coals and then cook the ears of corn in the foil, turning occasionally, until tender (about 15 minutes). Let them cool slightly before unwrapping!
When you’re exploring the outdoors, your health doesn’t have to be thrown to the wayside and replaced with hotdogs or packaged food. Instead, try one of the recipes mentioned above this summer to add a little flair to your campouts!
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