Camping Mosaic

This year, we did our group camping trip at Cape Croker Indian Park, just north of Wiarton on the Bruce Penisula. I think the Peninsula is my favourite place to be in nature, in Ontario. It is part of the Niagara Escarpment and contains some of the Bruce Trail, both of which run through southern Ontario from Niagara to Tobermory. Georgian Bay is so beautiful, and at times is almost as blue as tropical water.

We drove up on Friday even after getting a bit of a late start. On our way to pick up my sister, we discovered that we had forgotten the tent. The tent! Of all things. I guess it was just too obvious for us to even think about! Anyway, I called my awesome cousin, who was on his way, to ask if my sister could sleep in the tent with him and his partner and we decided to try sleeping in the car. The rear seats of the Fit fold down flush, so we just made arrangements for others to house our cooler at night (my mom also lent us a small tent that we used for storage) and we fit quite comfortably in the back, with our Thermarest mattresses and sleeping bags!

The fresh air was very welcome after some stinking humid hot days in the city. We lounged, hiked, swam, read, ate incredibly tasty food - we had no tent, but we had tofu fercrissakes - and got all smokey by the fire. The long weekend was too short, as it usually is, and, as I usually do, I left wishing for another week in the woods.

1. Harry Potter shot 5
2. Chippy!
3. Rugged Cousin
4. Fun + games
5. Sister loves the rock
6. Vegan Camping Breakfast
7. Our car tent,
8. Campers
9. I was reading Ender's Game
10. Don't leave avocadoes unattended

Camping season begins! Let's eat!

This weekend will be the first camping trip of the summer. And that means that I'm starting to think of one of my favourite parts of camping - cooking and eating outdoors!

I'm hoping to not bring too much food this time. When I start figuring out the food list, it's like I'm shopping for an army instead of just 2 people! This is my list so far:

• pre-marinated scrambled tofu: crumbled tofu, marinated in lemon juice, soy sauce, garlic and mixed with sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, nutritional yeast
• (maybe) premade potato salad: potatoes, vinaigrette, broccoli, asparagus
  
• premade quinoa salad: quinoa, red lentils, sun-dried tomatoes, leafy greens, lemon juice
  
• 1 can of baked beans in tomato sauce
• 1 package of veggie bacon
• package of whole wheat bagels
• 1 box of Lick's Nature Burgers
• burger buns
• burger toppings: tomato, onion, lettuce?
  
• potatoes, carrot and onion pouches (vegetables, foil)
  
• Earth Balance, canola oil
• ketchup, dijon mustard
• bannock mix - flour, oil, salt
• peanut butter
• apples
• V8, water, pop
  

We know a couple who went on a camping trip with nothing but trail mix. Just to see if they could last eating nothing else! I think they lasted 2 days before they started trading trail mix for their friends' food.

What veg-friendly food do you using bring with you on camping trips, car trips and picnics?