While your travel trailer provides you with a significantly improved camping experience, there are some challenges to traveling in a camper. One thing that people often struggle with is how to cook meals on a regular basis in the smaller kitchen of a travel trailer. The lack of space can make it hard to prepare food and it can feel quite hot on a warm summer day. But instead of relying on fast food or convenience meals, you can actually cook delicious and healthy meals quite easily with these tips!
1. Prepare & Freeze Meals in Advance
If you have some recipes that are more complex, you can prepare them the weekend before your camping trip in your home kitchen. Use tupperware containers to seal up separate servings that you can stick in your travel trailer’s fridge and heat up in the microwave while traveling.
2. Use a Slow Cooker
The slow cooker is an oft-underused tool even in residential kitchens and they’re indispensable when it comes to travel trailers. Slow cookers prepare food over the course of several hours, they don’t get very hot, and the food preparation time is pretty minimal. You can find recipes for chilis, soups, stews, pasta dishes, and even desserts that can be prepared in your slow cooker and left to cook while you’re playing cornhole or going for a swim.
3. Clean As You Go
Because of the limited space of your travel trailer kitchen, it’s helpful to clean up and put things away as you go, rather than doing it all at the end. Put ingredients away right after you use them, rinse your cutting boards and knives immediately after chopping vegetables, wipe down the counters, and compost food scraps to give yourself more space.
4. Grill Outside
Cooking outside is a staple of camping trips, and if you bring a small portable grill and some charcoal with you, there are many different foods you can easily prepare without having to spend too much time in your kitchen. Wrapping certain foods in aluminum foil can help you cook them on the grill, and you can prepare all kinds of cuts of meat, including chicken breasts, hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, and pork chops on a grill.
5. Cook Less
Eating some of your meals cold can cut down on cooking time and spare you from turning on the stove or oven. Yogurt and granola parfaits with fresh fruit make a delicious breakfast, while sandwiches are a good lunch option. Prepare a cold pasta salad with leftover noodles and chopped cook proteins from the night before.
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