Excited. Tired. Pressed for time. That’s how I feel right now as I am trying to plan for our one week camping trip at the lake. Our family has been eating real food for some time now and we’ve been camping many times doing it. This time will be a little different. My husband and son have both recently found out that they cannot tolerate gluten. So our family has been gluten-free for a while now. Previous camping menus relied heavily on sourdough products for sandwiches and breakfast items.

Surprisingly, I am not finding it all too difficult to put together a gluten-free real food camping menu for our one week trip. We tent camp, so that means no stove and no oven. Yes, I suppose we could purchase the propane Coleman versions of those items, but we like to rough it. We will be bringing our water kefir and milk kefir to maintain and enjoy on the trip since we are in the habit of doing them.

I’ll share the recipes for some of these as we make them during the week and link back here. When we get home I’ll upload them to the recipe database as well.

Note: Menu subject to change with my exhaustion level, meeting and sharing with friends and catching or gathering game, fish or wild veg or if I come up with something better.

Equipment:

2 cast Iron skillets
12″ Dutch Oven
sharp knives
cutting board
hand-cranked egg beaters
Gigantic Ice Chest plus Normal Ice Chest
Funnel, Sieve, Quart Sized Mason Jars (for soaking grains and doing ferments)
Wooden Spoons
2 bowls
Spatula
Foil
Parchment Paper
Measuring spoons and cups

Things to Prep before packing:
Grate Cheeses, chop veggies, make lara bars, soak and dehydrate nuts, make dips and salsa.

Sunday:

Dinner: Grass-fed Beefy Taco Bake
PM Prep: Milk Kefir, Soak Rice, Make Kefir Sour Cream

Monday:

Breakfast: Grain-Free Blueberry Grunt
Dinner: (Plan A) Steamed Trout with Lemon and Dill Creme Fraiche (Plan B if we don’t catch anything) Easy Sticky Glazed Chicken, Grilled Veggies
PM Prep: Milk Kefir

Tuesday:

AM Prep: Water Kefir,
Breakfast: French Onion Green Bean Scramble
Dinner: Awesome Bacon-Avocado Burgers
PM Prep: Milk Kefir

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Asian Fritatta
Dinner: Grain-Free Pizza Pockets
PM Prep: Milk Kefir

Thursday:

AM Prep: Water Kefir
Breakfast: Sausage Pancake Casserole
Dinner: Ultimate Baked Sweet Potatoes
PM Prep: Milk Kefir

Friday:

Breakfast: Baked Eggs and Sausage Veggie Hash

Lunches will consist of leftovers, boiled eggs, meat sticks, veggies sticks in various dips (like probiotic ranch dressing or lactofermented hummus, cheese sticks, salads, homemade lara bars, crispy nuts, fresh or dried fruit, etc. Perhaps an occasional smoothie.

Snacks will be the same as above. I will probably make a dessert or two (or three….don’t judge me!) since we are camping and it’s a special occasion. I am dying to try to make ice cream while we are camping and probably a brownie and some cookies in the Dutch oven other nights. Mmmm. Can’t wait!

Photo Credit: porah