Howdy,

When you have company over to the house for dinner, even if you have children, there are attempts at cleaning up and a clean kitchen is always nice. But when you go camping everything is in a mess and your company (other campers) can see how you live. No one ever says anything like: "look at that messy table over there, honey. I'd hate to go over there and borrow something."

Well if you car & tent camp I think I found an answer to always having a clean field kitchen. I found them at Wal-mart for under $20 for both, in the storage section. Wal-mart has two & three drawer systems to fit any space.



What you do is measure the space available in your vehicle(our's is a lift back tail-gate on a Jeep Grand Cherokee) and will hold two, three drawer units and our ice chest in the rear, perfect. We started it along time ago when our five children were growing up. When we could afford buying extra salt & pepper shakers we stored them away in our field kitchen. Soon we had a kitchen packed that we didn't have to unpack every time we came back from the boonies, savy. Anyway it works for us still.

C & C welcomed any time. Thank you for looking and allowing me to spend a moment with you. What works for you?

PS: Plenty other campers routinely come over to borrow something and ask what a clean campsite we have.

I like those. How well do they keep water out.? I use several regular storage containers one with kitchen stuff one for food one for misc camp stuff one for air matresses and a large one for sleepeing bags. All but food stay loaded on my 4x8 "camp trailer". Ready to go at anytime!

I used one of these on my cross-country trip in the fall, loved it and plan to get a couple more for future trips. At the campground in Canyon de Chelly, stray dogs got in to much of my stuff left out overnight, but not this. I also find that packing clothes (which I always bring too many of) in a large storage tub, and keeping a small bag as a shower bag (just like when I was a truck driver) works better than suitcases or duffle bags. Jeans and shorts, stand them on end, make separate piles of different types of shirts makes things easier to find.