THE GREAT OUTDOORS — The taste of food when camping is somehow always better than at home.

Maybe it’s because you feel like you’ve earned it: you set up camp, you hiked the trail, you got dirty and sweaty. Or maybe we tend to eat hearty, comfort foods when outdoors.

As such, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite camping foods.

Easy desserts

Many a camper has come up with an easy dessert to make over the fire. From the classic S’mores to tin foil wrapped treats, your sweet tooth will be taken care of with any of these goodies.

Roasted bananas

These are like S’mores but with fruit and Nutella.

Ingredients: Banana Nutella Marshmallows

Without cutting all the way through, cut a banana lengthwise in half. Stuff the opening of the banana and peel with Nutella. Top with marshmallows.

Wrap stuffed banana in a square of tinfoil. Place in fire among the coals for 5-7 minutes. Carefully remove from fire, unfold foil and let cool. Eat directly from cooled foil or in a bowl.

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Waffle cone dessertApparently, if you can stuff it, you should.

Ingredients: Waffle cones Banana Fresh berries Chocolate chips Marshmallows

Buy pre-made waffle cones, cut up fresh berries or bananas, and stuff the fruit in the cones alongside chocolate chips and marshmallows.

Wrap in foil and roast until the chocolate is melted. Unwrap foil and eat the treat directly from the cone. Spoons optional for this self-contained dessert.

Cinnamon sticks

Fire roasted cinnamon rolls on a stick? Please, and thank you.

Ingredients: Pre-made cinnamon bun dough and frosting

Carefully wrap the dough around a clean roasting stick or dowel and roast over the fire until golden brown. Drizzle the twisted bun with frosting and enjoy.

Fry bread

This is one of those oh-so-easy treats that are just so satisfying, and only as sweet as you choose.

Using frozen roll dough, a Dutch oven and some cooking oil, this fry bread comes together quickly. Just be sure you bring a container in which to dispose the oil once its cooled.

Rhodes has an easy recipe on its site for cooking the dough. Follow that, then choose your toppings.

Topping suggestions: Honey butter Apple butter Preserves Butter Butter with cinnamon and sugar Butter with powdered sugar

Dutch oven desserts

Luckily for those with a penchant for baked goods, the Dutch oven exists. Use it for baking peach cobbler, cinnamon rolls and other cakes and desserts.

Recycling meals

Making extra or simply ending up with too much food can end up being a happy event. Put your leftover meat, vegetables or whatever else to good use with any of the following recipes.

Pot pie

The pot pie is an easy way to finish off the meat and vegetable leftovers from the night before. Use what you have for a loose recipe. Don’t fret too much about exactness. Dutch Oven Dude uses canned cream of chicken soup and prepackaged crescent rolls to make this dish even easier.

Breakfast burritos

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Ingredients: Leftover Dutch oven potatoesEggs Cheese Tortillas Salsa of your choice

Use your leftover potatoes the next morning in your breakfast burritos by warming them up among cooking scrambled eggs, essentially making a Mountain Man Hash. Just before the eggs are cooked through, top the potato and egg mixture with some cheddar cheese and keep on heat until melted.

Warm tortillas, then wrap the eggs and potatoes up, top with salsa and eat up.

Food from the land

If you are the fishing type, then catch your limit and put it to good use any time of the day.

Campfire trout

With a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, trout is a great protein for any meal, and its flavor is perfect alongside any grilled or roasted vegetables.

Ingredients: Fresh, cleaned trout Olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Fresh lemon wedge

Fresh trout cooked over the fire will put any other fish cooking method to shame. Once you’ve cleaned your catch, drizzle oil over the scales, place in parchment paper, then tin foil and sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper. Wrap the fish and cook over coals for 7-10 minutes, or until the fish is cooked through.

The parchment paper keeps the fish moist, and the fire flavors the fish perfectly.

A recipe on Allrecipes recommends adding a bell pepper to the mix, if you’re feeling adventurous.

Squeeze a lemon over the meat before eating.

Trout and eggs

Ingredients: Campfire trout Eggs, prepared as you prefer

Follow instructions above for campfire trout.

Serve up alongside eggs and, if you have it, some leftover Dutch oven potatoes.

Tin foil dinners

These are a tried-and-true meal that someone is bound to recommend or ask for on a camping trip. Get creative with vegetables and meat options, add some spice and sauce and serve up this one-dish meal. The best part? Everyone can make their own to suit their tastes.

Ingredients: Meat of your choice Minced garlic Chopped onions Seasoning of your choice (Mixed burger seasoning, seasoning salt, blackened seasoning, etc.) Salt and pepper Sliced or shredded carrots (can use prepackaged) Sliced or shredded potatoes (can use frozen potatoes) Chopped vegetables of choice (cauliflower, zucchini, summer squash, etc.) Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, A1 or other preferred sauce

Season meat generously. Place meat atop sheet of parchment paper and surround with vegetables. Sprinkle entire meal with salt and pepper or seasoning. Fold over parchment paper and wrap packet in tin foil.

Cook over coals until meat is cooked through and vegetables are soft.

Top with sauce and eat from foil.

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