Cooking in Your Travel Trailer

Travel trailers provide a convenient way to take your accommodations with you when you travel. They provide you with a sleeping space, bathroom and kitchen, along with storage areas. However, the kitchen on many travel trailers won’t be very spacious and it can be challenging to prepare meals in it when you’re used to the more expansive kitchens of a home or apartment. 

Fortunately, cooking in your travel trailer doesn’t have to be a trial! Horn Rapids RV in Richland, WA, is your Evergreen State travel trailer dealer. We’ve created this quick guide to help you prepare delicious, healthy meals in your travel trailer for your friends and family while you’re camping.

Plan Ahead

Planning your meals in advance will help you to know what dry ingredients and spices to stock in your travel trailer. This step can save you money by preventing you from purchasing more food than you’ll need. You can plan to shop local farmer’s markets for eggs, dairy and produce as you travel or stop at a store to pick up what you need before you head to the campground. Solicit opinions from your family on what meals they’d like to have so that everyone has a say.

Cook in Advance

Gather the family together at home and choose some of your favorite recipes to prepare in batches for the road. You can cook chili, lasagna, casseroles, stew and other favorites at home with all of your ingredients to hand, then seal them up in portion-sized storage containers. Fill up your RV freezer with these items (but save some space for ice cream!) and all you have to do for dinner is heat up the food. This is a real time-saver, especially since you’re accustomed to preparing food in your home kitchen anyway. It also means you won’t have to cook as much on the road, so you can enjoy spending time with your family and friends instead.

Clean As You Go

Because your travel trailer’s kitchen is smaller, you’ll need to be tidier as you’re preparing meals so that you have sufficient workspace. Try to rinse dishes, wipe down counters, compost vegetable cuttings, soak pans and put away ingredients as you’re preparing food. This leaves less clean-up work when you’re through cooking and it creates so much more space! Many restaurants use this technique due to space limitations to ensure efficient food preparation.

Cook Less

This might seem counterintuitive, but the truth is that many meals can be prepared without ever turning on the stove or preheating the oven. Try alternating hot meals with cold meals so that you don’t have to cook three times a day. For breakfast, you can do granola and yogurt parfaits with fresh fruit. Lunch can be a sandwich buffet with pickles and chips. Dinner might be leftover grilled fish or chicken tossed with a green salad.

Use Your Slow Cooker

This device is a boon at home and on the road. Slow cookers or Instant Pots can prepare hot food while you’re busy hiking or swimming. Simply plug them in, fill them up with ingredients, add water, close them and turn on the heat. Your chili, stew or cut of meat will simmer away for hours and become a rich, flavorful dinner with minimal effort on your part.

We hope this guide is helpful to you in your travels. Still trying to find the perfect travel trailer? Browse our website to see the full stock of new and used travel trailers for sale that we have at our Richland, WA, dealership. Horn Rapids RV proudly serves the city of Kennewick, WA.