Here’s Your No Cooking No Refrigeration Camping With Kids Meal & Grocery List

Jessica Delfino
4 min readJun 4, 2020

You know, so you won’t have to go to restaurants or stores or grocery shopping while camping during a hairy international Covid-19 recovery period

photo credit: Lucija Roz / Unsplash

To celebrate my birthday in June, I will forego the Zoom party and instead retreat to one of the most quiet, most people free places I know in the world. There, I will hide and decompress for a few days, meditate on and contemplate the state of the planet, and think about what I can do to be a force of good and change in the midst of all the chaos. Sounds nice enough, no? Oh, I’ll also be digging quartz crystals and making videos about it to share with you.

However, like any birthday party, its got its pros and cons.

My family and I will have to drive a few hours to get there, and one of us is a toddler. I hate long car rides almost as much as he does.

The other big issue is meals. We will have no refrigeration at our rustic campsite (though we will have an electrical outlet), and though we will bring a camp stove, at the end of the long days digging for crystals in the sun, the last thing anyone wants to do is crank up a hot stove and make a meal, no matter how rudimentary. Build a fire and veg out under the stars? Sure. Cook a meal and then have to schlep all the cookware to the sink and…

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Jessica Delfino
Jessica Delfino

Written by Jessica Delfino

I write about life with 1 husband, 2 kids, 1 cat, sometimes funny. Instagram.com/JessicaDelfino Bylines: TheNew Yorker, The NY Times, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s.

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