Paula is a Venturer Leader with the 1st Armadale
Venturer Unit , she has been a Venturer herself and for the past three years a Trainer of new Leaders here in WA . During this time she has developed an extensive range of Bush Cooking ideas which we intend to share with you here

This page is full of great ideas, hints, and tips of what to do with food whether it be for a standing camp like Bush Bash or for a moving camp like a hike. Try out these ideas and see if you can do it better or have a great variation of the idea. 

Glad Snap lock bags
These come in 3 sizes and are great for a variety of cooking ideas;
1.    Cook your sausages at home before the camp and place 3 or 4 in a small snap lock bag and freeze.  Take this pack away with you and just put complete bag in a pot of boiling water to heat up. This saves on messy fry pans and you don't even need to take the fry pan!!!!

2.    You can do the same with your vegies, but just add some water to the bag before placing it into the pot.

3.     Instant Deb can also be done the same way, or heating up your custard !!

you could use creek or dam water in the pot to save your precious hiking water and the other advantage with this idea is that the boiling water left in the pot is now sterilised for drinking and you have a clean pot. You could place all your dinner to cook in the one pot, sausages, vegies and custard and not have them mixed in all together.

Muffins
2 litres ice cream   ( any flavour, not confection )
4 cups self raising flour

• Have the ice cream soften to the consistency of runny cream.
  
• In a large bowl put in the ingredients and thoroughly mix in.
  
• Spray muffin trays with Pure & Simple then spoon in the muffin mix.
  
• Cook in oven for around 20 minutes on 180 degrees C
  
• This will make around 18 large muffins