Everyone has their favorite vacation or camping foods. They are the tried and true, easy to fall back on, comfort foods and remind us of relaxing times. Since I’ve been camping all my life (since I was a baby), we have our camping meals we rely on for weekend camping. Now that we live in our camper, I try to continue healthier eating for every day. I told Mike when we were moving into the fifth wheel that he wouldn’t be finding those Little Debbies or other goodies in the cupboards like he would on vacation!
Two things I do try to keep on hand, especially if I know any of our kids and grandkids are coming to visit, are the fixings for s’mores and doughboys. Now I’m pretty sure you all know what s’mores are: those gooey delicious treats made by toasting marshmallows over the campfire and putting them between two pieces of graham crackers and a piece of chocolate (or peanut butter cups), but I know there aren’t too many of you who know what a doughboy is.
A doughboy is a camping treat my family learned about when I was around twelve years old. We were camping with my aunt & uncle, and some of their friends, when this man pulls out an aluminum pole with a wooden handle on it. They then proceeded to teach us the way of what they called “doughboys.”
Take a biscuit from a can of refrigerated biscuit dough (try not to buy the buttery or flakey variety or they come apart while baking) and stretch it out. Make sure you have no holes in your dough! Cover one end of the metal pole (or a stick about 1″ in diameter) with the end of the stretched-out biscuit and then wrap it down the pole, overlapping the edges. Next, you bake it over nice coals from the campfire and turn the biscuit so it doesn’t burn. It is done when you grasp and turn it gently on the pole and it doesn’t stick. Take that baked biscuit off the pole and fill it with goodness: we use butter and jelly, cinnamon & sugar, or Nutella. I recently discovered some friends who call these pole pies and fill them with pudding. Maybe you can find something else you’d like to fill them with, but these are a family favorite, and my girls will expect them when we go camping.
What are your favorite camping treats?
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