http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/camping-hacks-that-are-borderline-genius
I'll bet there are several you've never thought of.
For instance, roasting Starbursts.
Sounds crazy, but it’s actually delicious (so they say). Crunchy on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside. Roast it until it’s bubbling.
Awesome find, dude. 
41 things and they missed baby wipes.
A 9V battery and a wad of steel wool make a great firestarter that doesn't need matches.
I pack meals in foil pouches. Toss them in the fire for a while and the pouches make good plates. Canned foods don't need pans, just open them up (leaving the lid attached for a handle) and set them on a stone near the fire. Once they're hot, dig in. Who needs TP when you have trees? leaves are effective wipes. Keep your beverages cold by keeping them in a stream or lake. The lake where I often camp is pretty warm, but 30 feet down its ice cold. Put your beverages in a trash bag, tie it to a rope with an empty milk bottle tied off at 20-30 feet. Need a beer? Pull up the rope. Springtime camping near a stream is a bit easier. Put your beverages in the stream.
I must say.... I gotta try that Starburst thing.
Drat, no access from work because of our cyber nannies. Have to wait until I'm home tonight to learn of what I've been missing.
Never roasted starbursts either.
Dorito's are flamable? 
Grtechguy wrote: Dorito's are flamable?
oh heck yes. Most chips are - just tossed the remainder of a bag (crumbs) on a campfire last week to make it flame up for fun. Oil is fun!
I just made eggs and bacon on the stove, and drank a nice big glass of cold milk out of the fridge. Who's the genius now!? 
Grtechguy wrote: Dorito's are flamable?
But is kindling great for snacking when you don't have any Doritos?
Where are your priorities?
Ever throw Sprees into the fire? 
curtis73 wrote: Keep your beverages cold by keeping them in a stream or lake. The lake where I often camp is pretty warm, but 30 feet down its ice cold. Put your beverages in a trash bag, tie it to a rope with an empty milk bottle tied off at 20-30 feet. Need a beer? Pull up the rope. Springtime camping near a stream is a bit easier. Put your beverages in the stream.
like you said if the water is cold enough, you can do this with food too, like a makeshift refrigerator. at night we filleted some fish, put it in a ziplock bag (and that bag inside another ziplock just in case) stuck it in a nalgene water bottle, filled bottle with water, tied to a rope, I think we also tied a rock to the bottle to help it sink, and threw it out in the lake to sit over night. in the morning we pulled the bottle out of the "fridge" and fried up the fish for breakfast. nice and easy, we had done all the hard work the night before.
curtis73 wrote: I pack meals in foil pouches. Toss them in the fire for a while and the pouches make good plates. Canned foods don't need pans, just open them up (leaving the lid attached for a handle) and set them on a stone near the fire. Once they're hot, dig in. Who needs TP when you have trees? leaves are effective wipes. Keep your beverages cold by keeping them in a stream or lake. The lake where I often camp is pretty warm, but 30 feet down its ice cold. Put your beverages in a trash bag, tie it to a rope with an empty milk bottle tied off at 20-30 feet. Need a beer? Pull up the rope. Springtime camping near a stream is a bit easier. Put your beverages in the stream.
just as long as you know poison ivy when you see it
Got to #3, quit.
any list that puts BS like that in it, cannot be trusted.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/mountaindew.asp
Grtechguy wrote: Dorito's are flamable?
lemme tell you, we (wife once and daughter twice) have almost burned down two houses heating taco shells.
This, or the view from my resort room window.
Hey, there's some pretty cool stuff in there. I love the hammock chair trailer hitch for pure cool factor.
Rather than hauling in cases of beer, buy a bunch of those little 5 liter mini kegs. You won't have to deal with a ton of empty bottles and cans later.
If you're camping with other people, make sure that they bring a bunch of mini kegs for themselves too.
Some ribeyes + 
= game changer out in the woods.
failboat wrote:curtis73 wrote: Keep your beverages cold by keeping them in a stream or lake. The lake where I often camp is pretty warm, but 30 feet down its ice cold. Put your beverages in a trash bag, tie it to a rope with an empty milk bottle tied off at 20-30 feet. Need a beer? Pull up the rope. Springtime camping near a stream is a bit easier. Put your beverages in the stream.like you said if the water is cold enough, you can do this with food too, like a makeshift refrigerator. at night we filleted some fish, put it in a ziplock bag (and that bag inside another ziplock just in case) stuck it in a nalgene water bottle, filled bottle with water, tied to a rope, I think we also tied a rock to the bottle to help it sink, and threw it out in the lake to sit over night. in the morning we pulled the bottle out of the "fridge" and fried up the fish for breakfast. nice and easy, we had done all the hard work the night before.
I don't get how buying a few bags of ice on the way out town is more of a hassle than what you two are suggesting.
A 10ga and 12ga shotgun shell pushed together makes a water proof match case and the ridges are enough to strike on. It slides right into the loops on most backpack straps.
I just went camping for the first time in my life this past weekend. The only thing I would add to the list is to bring a separate cooler for beer, that way the main cooler stays nice and cold without all the extra opening to get da beers.
Also, bacon in the woods is an unusual but awesome experience.
I like tip 11 best.
I like the orange peel cinnamon roll idea.
A fired .22 shell makes a fine leather punch.
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