for greens: zucchini sliced and skewered for the fire? Can get bamboo skewers (compostable) or pack metal ones to bring home.

Or, fresh spinach or broccoli? Doesn't have to be kept super cold/refrigerated and you can add it to nearly anything you cook, or simply eat it raw.

FWIW if weight is a concern, I'd vote for dried fruit over fresh.

Nemos, those are not the directions I was thinking of—thanks! I might parboil a head of broccoli & cook half of it like this over the weekend. If he likes it, I’ll take the other half to cook the same way there. https://rakskitchen.net/brocco.....ian-style/
Likewise, I should check if he’s ready for dried fruit again. He’s been off it for a while.

On camping trips everyone is starving after a day of hiking in the cold and often rainy conditions. Things that would be horrible at home taste wonderful over a campfire. Our favorite is a big can of baked beans cooked in a pan with hot dog pieces. Don’t forget to take a can opener and some old hot pads. On cookwear it is hard to beat good old cast iron. A fry pan with a cast iron lid can even be buried in hot coals. The downside is that they are heavy. You also may need a small to medium saucepan or kettle to use to heat water for hot beverages and such.

Joy, thanks for mentioning potholders! I keep meaning to toss in the silicone one, which isn’t where I expect, so I skip it. I think of it later, open the drawer, it isn’t there…. Now I’ve added it to my list, because of your comment.

Beans & franks is an argument for rice & beans for that dinner I’m STILL undecided about. Rice & beans, Southern-style greens, cornbread in cocottes, or rice with dal & ginger broccoli. If we do the Indian meal, then I don’t have to take the cocottes, but then we don’t get to cook in the cocottes. If I do the southern meal, then we could chop up a Hot Dog to go with extra beans (& use some for breakfast burritos).

I’ve tried making these several times, & have always failed.

ETA Just heard from architect ex who is Jamaican, a good cook, and went to CIA (Culinary Institute of America) for a year or two. Think I’m going to spiff up a can of these (photo from his kitchen) the way he says. There are plenty of reasons we are not together; his cooking is not among them.