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Our culinary expertise usually runs to reheating previously made frozen pasta, sandwiches, and burgers (from our local butcher). We were both veggie for 17 years and have reverted to meat eating this year which I have to say widens our camping food options. Now it is bacon butties all the way, plus we have bought a Cobb (so far used just for BBQing but might get a bit more adventurous!)

For those travelling into North Wales along the A5, why not do as we often do and call in at the Rhug estate cafe/shop/butchers near Corwen (right on the A5, lots of parking). Reasonably priced tea/coffee/bacon baps plus a stall selling great home reared burgers, sausages, meat etc and a wonderful deli.

As for eating out, we do as a treat sometimes, but we ALWAYS go for a pint!

I really enjoy cooking when camping, we do have pub lunches and fish and chips when we're out but cooking a full breakfast on a two ring stove and a nice meal for tea is all part of the fun for me. My wife would eat out all the time but if she ever cooks its either jacket spud or pizza and even then she finds away of cocking it up.

And no she does'nt use this site so i can say what i like. 

My first post!

We cook onsite mostly, but will have a meal out as a treat for one day of our trip.

My partner almost made me puke when on our first camping trip he said he was going to cook a gourmet meal on our little one-ring stove, before cracking open a can of 'Westlers' tinned hamburgers.

Before our last camping trip to the Scottish Highlands 2 months ago we bought a two-ring cooker with grill for just £12.00 from B&M bargains sale, worth £45.00 in Go Outdoors!  Since then have 'splashed out' on more adventurous cooking such as chicken fajitas!

We prefer cooking onsite as it only adds to the camping experience, and food tastes better in the great outdoors (but not Westlers tinned hamburgers). 

Eating out is nice, but can prove expensive, especially if you're in a tourist hotspot like Cornwall.  We take food we've cooked at home for some meals, and cook simple meals at camp, and treat ourselves to the odd pub lunch if we find a nice one.  It's good not to have to rely on eating out, as our luck is lousy in finding good eateries - they're always closed for redecoration or the chef has died or their prices have been hiked through the roof!

These days we always try things out before we go camping, to be sure they'll work with billy-cans on the stove.  I was camping with mates once when we tried to concoct a rice dish with plum sauce... it was not a success.  In fact it was rather disgusting, because we didn't know the gelatinous properties of cooked rice and tried to boil it up in the sauce.  (My partner in that particular crime is on this forum, in fact.  You know who you are! )

I love cooking bacon and eggs in the middle of a field, so I usually cook the brekkie.

FoO

Most of our campsite cooking so far has involved opening a tin or packet and heating the contents up in a pot, although we went out on a mackerel fishing boat one day, caught some fish for our dinner, went back to the campsite and fried it up. I'd never been fishing before or filleted a fish - was a bit of a challenge without a chopping board, but we managed. Best meal of the holiday I reckon.