Van Life Meals From Season Three 2021
Are you struggling with what types of meals you can prepare while on the road? To help you come up with ideas, we put together a list of the different types of food we prepared during Season Three in 2021. Hopefully they will inspire you.
We usually only cook dinner. Breakfast is usually something cold, like yogurt and/or cereal, or something simple like instant oatmeal. Lunches are also usually cold, such as cold cut sandwiches or chips and salsa. Occasionally, we’ll cook something like pancakes or French toast, but it will be for dinner instead of breakfast. All of our food was prepared using our electric tea kettle (paid link), our single burner butane stove (paid link), and our Instant Pot (paid link). On occasion, we also used an Omnia Oven (paid link) on top of our butane stove.
Here’s the list, in no particular order:
Cold cut sandwich with lettuce and tomato
Grilled cheese sandwich with homemade tomato soup
Yogurt with granola and fresh blueberries
Lettuce salad with hard boiled egg and tomatoes, topped with homemade Thai peanut dressing, along with an apple on the side
Cucumbers and flour tortillas dipped in homemade hummus
Greek quinoa (we leave out the olives)
Chicken taco with cheese and salsa
Pasta with bacon and tomato sauce
Tortilla chips and salsa
Peanut butter and honey sandwich (brings back childhood memories for Left Buddy)
Tortilla pizza with Pepperoni, green peppers and onion (uses a flour tortilla as the crust)
Reuben sandwich
Bratwurst sandwich with sauerkraut and a side of cantelope melon
Granola bars and apples for food on the hiking trail
Baked sweet potatoes with butter and brown sugar
Gazpacho soup (refreshing on a hot day)
Pulled pork sandwich
Pulled pork quesadilla with homemade pico de gallo
French toast with fresh berries and honey
Roasted beet salad with homemade cilantro lime dressing
Pasta with lemon cream sauce
Buttermilk pancakes with butter and fresh blueberries
Rice and black beans with tomatoes, green peppers and onions
Fried cabbage with tomatoes and sweet potatoes
Fresh sliced peaches
BLT’s and corn on the cob (steamed in the Instant Pot)
Buttered pasta with broccoli and crushed red pepper
Gyros
Homemade applesauce with cinnamon (great way to use apples that are getting old)
Cucumber salad with mayonnaise
Sloppy Joes
Baked potato topped with broccoli and homemade cheese sauce
Apples and peanut butter
Chicken peanut curry with red bell peppers
Crackers topped with cheese from local Vermont dairy
Blueberry pancakes topped with Vermont maple syrup (needed to make use of those souvenirs)
Attempted nachos in the Omnia Oven (had hard time getting the cheese to melt)
Second attempt of nachos, melting cheese in pot on stove (cheese was cold by the time we ate it)
Pan fried kielbasa with garlic green beans and mashed potatoes
Egg scramble with bacon and summer squash
Homemade cream of broccoli soup with cayenne pepper
French toast with blueberries and Vermont maple syrup
Potato pancake with applesauce
Fried eggs, bacon and toast
Apple brownies baked in the Omnia Oven on top of the butane stove
Crackers and peanut butter
Celery soup (substituting feta for stilton cheese) with garlic toast
Pan fried pork loin and zucchini with mashed potatoes
Chicken, cheese, and salsa on top of tortilla chips
Southwestern chicken soup with avocado (using canned chicken instead of turkey)
Chicken salad sandwich made with grapes and celery
Egg scramble with bacon and zucchini
Pan fried hamburger
Pasta with Italian sausage and green peppers
Apple baked in the dying campfire, topped with butter and brown sugar (didn’t want to waste those beautiful red hot coals)
Fried egg sandwich with bacon, lettuce, and tomato
Cold cut wrap
Chicken quesadilla with homemade tomatillo salsa
Cooking on the road does not have to be boring, nor does it have to be time-consuming or expensive. Typing up the list of things we ate last summer is making me hungry! We hope it helped you think of new things you can eat while traveling.
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