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We are an outdoor family and some camping tricks we have used

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Some of you may not know this but my husband and I met in the outdoor club in college. Since our family has grown (we now have 2 boys who are 9 and 6 years old) it has been challenging to continue our backpacking and canoeing trips to say the least so in the past couple years we have been family camping with our car. This past weekend we went camping at Stony Brook State Park in Central New York State. my husband and son to the left of the falls Daddy carrying Andrew back to the trail Here are some little camping tricks we have learned over the years that work well: 1) prep food at home and freeze it if you can  I made these breakfast burritos from Ninth and Bird's Blog and froze them at the campsite you can set them out so they thaw and then put them on the fire so they get indirect heat (NOT directly over the flames or coals) FYI: I made extras for mornings at home and froze those also. To heat them up in the microwave put them on 50% power for...