We get so many questions about how we plan our dinners for a longer off-grid camping trip such as The Gibb River Road or Cape York where there are limited or no shops along the way. So here you have it… a Menu Plan & Shopping list for a 20-night off-grid camping trip!
This was our exact menu plan from our most recent trip up to the Cape York Peninsula. We treated this trip as we did the Gibb River Road and planned all our meals and ingredients before we went and didn’t rely on the smaller grocery shops that are up there for the communities. If you are planning to hit the Gibb River Road, there are NO groceries along the whole way. The majority of the recipes below are from our Camp Cooking eBook that we released this year.
We both don’t eat breakfast and never had, so this does make our menu planning a little bit easier & cheaper! We usually plan all our dinners and then just have a few lunch ideas so we can just make what we feel like. We find that we’ll eat wraps for the first few days while all our salads are fresh & then eat brown rice or pasta salads once there is less fresh food left.
Just like the lunches, we cook all the meals that have the freshest food in them first and then have the meals that have more tinned vegetables in them or food that lasts such as zucchini. If we have time we will cook up one or two of the meals & freeze them so that there are a few nights already sorted out for the nights after you have had a big day and don’t feel like cooking from scratch. Things like Spaghetti Bolognese or Chilli Con Carne freeze well.
For all dinner recipes see our Camp Cooking eBook below:
We have spent a year creating this eBook of our favourite recipes and we are so proud to bring it to you. A book of recipes that have been trialled and tested by yours truly while camping our way around Australia! This recipe ebook will give you a variety of dinner ideas (14 recipes), as well as bonus recipes at the end to keep your tummy happy! This might not be the fanciest ebook you will ever read, but the recipes are delicious!! Enjoy and thank you for supporting us!
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