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Campground Cooking Kit

The Campground or car camping cooking kit fits in a small Action Packer. It is a complete and comprehensive kit, separate from the Backcountry Kit.

Small Coleman LED lantern: Uses rechargeable batteries. the light is bright enough without being offending. It would be nice to have brightness control.
Headlamps: We also have spare headlamps that we use around camp for cooking and the tent.
Jet-Boil Stove with the Personal Cooking and Group Cooking Pots: The stove is powerful yet a fuel miser. It is also heavy, that is why it will spend most of the time in the Campground Kit.
Zip Stove: A wood burning stove that is fun to use. We plan on cooking over the fire to make sandwiches with pie pans.

Skewers: Ah, the classic for roasting veggie dogs or marshmallows.
Pie Pans: An easy way to make grilled sandwiches over the Zip Stove.
Utensils: An array of can openers, knives, forks, spoons, ice picks, spreaders, spatulas, etc.
Coffee Cup: We will use our traveling cup.
Bowls: Guyot Designs Squishy Bowls are our favorite. They are fun to eat out of and easy to clean.
Cutting Board: A large plastic cutting board to give us a sandwich making platform.
Water Carriers: Plastic, collapsible water containers to store extra water for camp.
Cooler: We have a Yeti cooler. It is solid and keeps the food and drinks cold for a few days.

Small Coleman LED lantern: We did not bring it.
Headlamps: The headlamps were used every night.
Jet-Boil Stove with the Personal Cooking and Group Cooking Pots: Used both in camp and backcountry. We wished that we would have brought other pots and pans for car camping.
Zip Stove: We did not use it often, but we did make some good grill cheese sandwiches with it.

Skewers: Did not bring
Pie Pans: Used for cooking over fires and the stove.
Utensils: Oddly enough we broke two knifes spreading peanut butter. I spread a lot of peanut butter!s
Coffee Cup: No issues.
Bowls: Used the pot or the Origami Bowls instead of the squishy bowls.
Cutting Board: Used almost daily.
Water Carriers: Ours began leaking so we purchased two Platypus collapsible bottles to use instead. That gave us a total of 4 - 2 liter Platypus containers, plus smaller ones we carried with us in our packs. I don't know how they make the plapus, but I have never had one leak!
Cooler: We did not bring the Yeti. One of our biggest mistakes. Instead we brought a small cooler that was hardly ever cool!