camping stove, outdoor campingWhen my best friend and her husband suggested in March that we do some outdoor camping this year during the summer, I have to admit that I was the last person to get excited about it. I'm a city girl, and my idea of roughing it is a four-star hotel, but since they were all so enthusiastic about it, I thought it could possibly be fun. The guys started scouting places to do some outdoor camping and my best friend and I started making a list of things we needed to buy for the trip. Since my husband and I had never been camping, I was curious about what we would eat. My best friend assured me that we would get a camping stove or two and that we could use it to cook anything we wanted. I found that hard to believe, but I knew I didn't want to go hungry or be stuck eating berries from the woods, so I wanted to make sure I had a camping stove to make us something for dinner while we were out in the wilderness.

I came across 10,000 BTU Matchless Single Burner Stove with Carry Bag that we found at Bridges Outdoor World whose online store can be found by visiting http://bridgesoutdoorworld.com and thought that one camping stove would not be enough, so when I placed my order, I ordered three. I knew our meals may be a little more primitive than what I was used to at home, but I did want to make sure that we not only had a back up camping stove in case one didn't work, but also so that we could cook several things at once.

When I showed my best friend what I ordered she said I'd made a great choice. When I told her I'd ordered three, she laughed. I told her that I was going to get some fresh vegetables and other things to cook on the camping stove and she said that they usually don't eat vegetables unless it's potatoes or something out of a can. She said that while camping, that simplicity is the best thing so that no one is standing over the camping stove for hours.

Our first trip was this past weekend and I have to say that they were all impressed with my cooking skills for it being my first try at cooking on a camping stove. I'm afraid without it; we would have gone hungry, although they assure me that isn't the case. I did have a good time, and I'm actually looking forward to our next trip.