Bell peppers.  Mmmmm.

Eat them like an apple, duh, or slice 'em, dice 'em, chop 'em, leave 'em whole . . . but definitely use them in your camp fajitas.

Not much is healthier than chicken fajitas.  Bell peppers contain truck loads of Vitamin C, especially the red and yellow, and plenty of Vitamin B6.  With cubed chicken, or canned chicken meat for ease and cleanliness, you'll add a big dose of protein for recharging after a big day of outdoor adventure.

Turkey sandwich featuring choice peppered turkey, pepperjack cheese, wheat bread, oil and vinegar . . . oh yeah, and fajita vegetables including jalepeno, onion, and bell pepper
This could be a column all of its own.  What do you do with left over food from camping or road trips?  I recall the days before owning a 12 volt refrigerator (um, that would be the Engel) that food gets pretty nasty sitting in a cooler of melted ice that's been riding in the truck bed on dusty roads.  You ever seen cheese that's been soaking in water?  It turns to this disgusting yellow mush blob.

Well, this time I got lucky with a pretty cool assortment of leftovers.

Family meals while camping
Drive-thru cheeseburgers with french fries and milkshakes shouldn't be the norm when you're on a road trip with the kids.  In this article, Brooke shows four easy things to do to make tasty, healthy, and simple meals for the whole family when it comes to camping or picnicking along the way.

Put these tips to use so that you can be guilt free when you finally stop for pizza and beer on the way home form your next family road trip.

Spicy breakfast burritos with chorizo, eggs, bell pepper, onion, jalepeno
What's my favorite way of keeping warm food warm while stumbling around a cold campsite?  Tortillas.  Forget bowls and plates, wrap up that hot goodness in a tortilla and it'll stay warmer longer.  Here's one of our favorite morning dishes with a kick.

There is nothing like a meal at camp that you can eat hot out of a bowl. Nothing.

"Camping?  No way. What if there's no Starbucks nearby?"

Your worries are over. It's simple to make a café mocha on a camp stove even when you're a two-day hike to the nearest smock-clad barrista or on the furthest Baja beach. I'm talking about chocolate, and milk, foam, and yummy cinnamon.  Yes on a camp stove. Hear me out.

First, are you sure you want to support Starbucks rather than your nearest hard-working local coffee shop owner? Second, you can make a yummy café mocha right on your stove top faster than you can get through the drive through on a Sunday morning.

Yummy Rotini pasta with bell peppers and chicken sausage coated in a pesto sauce. Administered with the ever important bottle of Shiraz
This one's so tasty, that I don't mind it one bit that she has to clean an extra pot . . . Oh alright, it's healthy too. But you didn't hear it from me.

If a little siesta or a hot-blooded revolution doesn't fix your wounds, then a potent swill of tequila gets the job done.

This is the goodness.  Just look at it.  Smell it.  Feel the heat. Watch the cheese closely, you'll actually witness it sliding off of itself.