Maybe I’m a sucker, but mac and cheese will always be a favorite on the trail or so home.

To feed a lot, spaghetti goes the distance. I like some good brats - if frozen solid they act as an ice pack on day 1. But my favourite… what makes a good camp out , is breakfast. Eggs scrambled , lots of Vermont maple sausage, all the grease and butter then to toast and perk pot death wish sludge. Soooo good

Can’t go wrong with a nice steak! A pain without a grill though.

MREs all day any day. Lasagna is top tier

Tortellini with shrimp and tomato sauce (we use frozen shrimp), grilled fish, and basically any stir-fried food.

I’ve only made pizza this way once, halfway through a week long canoeing/camping trip. but it was amazing. Not too fancy, but delicious nonetheless. A lot of weight to carry for 3-4 days, but a drop in the bucket when you’re in a canoe. Heavy rain started just before dinner, so we used the aluminum canoe as a lean-to to protect the fire:

Homemade tomato-based sauce dehydrated into a flaky powder and reconstituted on the day using filtered lake water

Dehydrated mozzarella similarly reconstituted

Store-bought, pre-made crusts

Pepperoni

Baked over coals on a wire rack (no direct flames)

I used to take bread, burger meat, onions, and sweet peppers and put them all in a pie iron.

We called it hillbilly meat pie. Honestly writing this makes me want to make one again lmao