Making Pizza The Fast and Cheap Way for Cabin Dwellers (Camp Cooking)

People have all sorts of relationships with cooking. Some folks genuinely love it, some avoid it like it’s an optional tax form, and then there are people like me—who enjoy cooking only when the planets align and the mood is right. Most days, I keep it simple. Very simple. “If it requires more than two steps, it’s too fancy” simple.

When you live a camp/outdoor/sailing kind of life, cooking becomes part survival skill, part improvisational comedy. You rarely have everything you need, so meals often become, “What can I make with three vegetables, half a protein bar, and olive oil?” Surprisingly, the answer is usually something.

Cooking should be cheaper, but that depends on whether you actually have the ingredients. If you don’t, suddenly that “budget meal” costs more than a small car (More than my metal car tank thing Riveria). Health-wise, cooking at home is generally better—you know exactly what’s in your food, and you can control calories, protein, and how many vegetables you pretend to enjoy.

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Recently, I made a very simple pizza. Yes, I cheated and bought the dough. Could I have made the dough myself? Sure. Have I made it before? Also yes. Did I want to do that again? Absolutely not. I sliced up a block of cheese, added sauce, threw on some veggies and lean white-meat protein, drizzled a little garlic olive oil (supposed to be good for your joints, or at least that’s what I tell myself), and shoved it in the oven.

Was it the best pizza I’ve ever made? No. Was it edible? Surprisingly, yes. For five minutes of effort and about five dollars’ worth of ingredients, it was basically culinary magic. Or at least edible sorcery. Either way, dinner was served.

With whitemeat chicken 300 ish calories, 30 carbs, 30 protein. 

A Pizza Recipe I found. Look up your own. Pizza Recipe