Counts the meals you will actually cook from your arrival and departure, then sizes food, water, ice and fuel around your gear.

Every quantity shows its basis. Round up on water and fuel, down on fresh food — that is what gets thrown away.

Camp food & supply planner

Most shopping lists overbuy, because people multiply days by three meals. A Friday-night-to-Sunday-morning weekend is six or seven real meals, not nine — six if you roll in for dinner, seven if you get there by lunch. You eat before you leave and you drive home hungry. This counts the meals you will actually cook, then sizes food, water, ice and fuel around the gear you are genuinely bringing.

The trip

Adults

Children

Nights

Arriving

Leaving

Appetites

Weather

What you can cook on

Gas stovePropane two-burner or backpacking Fire pit / ringWood fire, grate or grill Smokeless fire pitSolo-stove type. Burns hot and fast Dutch ovenNeeds coals or a fire Induction cooktopNeeds a power station MicrowaveNeeds serious power Charcoal grillBriquettes or lump Cooler with icePassive. Ice is a consumable 12V fridge / plug-in coolerCompressor. No ice, but draws power

Camp food & supply list

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Meals to cover

Food to buy

Water, ice & fuel

Shows you the printable version first, so you can check it before saving. Only the results are included — not the filters.

Where these numbers come from

Meals are counted from your arrival and departure, not nights × 3. That is the single biggest source of overbuying.
Water: 1 gallon per person per day is the long-standing guidance for drinking plus cooking, and it goes up in heat. It does not include washing up or dogs. If the campground has a spigot you obviously need far less — check the campsite finder, which shows which ones have water.
Food weight is roughly 1.5–2 lb per adult per day for car camping, where you are not counting ounces the way a backpacker does. Children are counted at about 60%.
Propane: a 1 lb canister runs a typical 10,000 BTU burner for roughly 1.5–2 hours on high, so about five or six cooked meals. A 20 lb tank is roughly twenty times that.
Firewood: a standard bundle burns about 1–2 hours. An evening fire wants two or three. Smokeless pits burn noticeably faster because they are designed to.
Fridge volume: about 2.5 qt per person per day of chilled food, packed, before drinks. Usable capacity is always under the number on the box. Protein past roughly the second dinner wants to start frozen rather than fresh, which is what the freezer figure is sizing.
Ice: a cooler in warm weather goes through roughly 10 lb every two days, more if it is opened often or sits in the sun.

These are planning figures, not promises — appetites, altitude, wind and how long you leave a burner running all move them. Round up on water and fuel and down on fresh food, which is the stuff that gets thrown away.