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Best camping cooking equipment to set up a portable outdoor kitchen

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Spending time outdoors is what we look forward to most over the summer.

The lighter mornings and longer evenings makes the days stretch out to feel as though we’re getting the most of our time off. The best way to soak up all that much-needed vitamin D without a plane ticket is by packing up and vamoosing out of the maze-like capital - be it for a weekend or a longer spell. For those who want to do it cheaply, you can’t beat a laidback camping trip to help you reconnect to nature.

Londoners are lucky enough to have the whole south-east and coast to search for a campsite, while those willing to go the literal extra mile can find campsites in Somerset and Devon after a few short hours on the right train. For your efforts you’ll be rewarded with wide open spaces, clean air, country pubs and - fingers crossed - cloudless blue skies. If ever there was a low-cost antidote to city living, a camping break is it.

As well as all the essentials - a , and - you’ll want to take some creature comfort with you too. Some pans to fry up breakfast, a push-down for wake-up coffee or a for grilled morsels before twilight.

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