Cooking
There won't be any grills where we are going. That means cooking over an open fire or bringing a stove. Dinner, breakfast, snacks, and maybe lunch or dinner if you stay through Saturday.
You can bring takeout for dinner, cereal bars, and trail mix. Drink water and cook nothing.
Any pot or pan out of your kitchen can be used to cook over an open fire if you take off any plastic handles. Cast iron is great.
You don't need cast iron or fancy camp ware, almost any pot is fine to use on a camp stove. As long as you can balance it on top of it they will work. BE careful of melting plastic handles if your flame is high. IF you are buying a stove. You don't need a huge stove, you only cook on one or two burners at a time. A single burner or canister stove is more than many people need. A tin can with a splash of alcohol has been all the stove many people hiking the length of the Rockies used.
Walmart has cook kits ranging from boy scout mess kits for five dollars to complete pot, pan, and cutlery kits for two to four people for ~$20. You can also bring dishes and cutlery from home. I like a real plate vs paper or eating out of a mountain house bag. Disposable plates and cutlery are wonderful if you don't want to wash. Pack them out, don't throw plastic in the fire, please.
What you decide to cook will influence what you need to bring. Hot dogs for dinner and oatmeal for breakfast doesn't need much to make. You can bring sandwiches for lunch on Sat and snacks of granola bars and fruit. Head out and have lunch in town or at home.
IF you want to cook though...
Making Ramen or chili takes a single pot. You can even boil water in camp mugs and dump it into a bowl for Ramen. Eggs keep fine over night without a fridge, if you kept them out of the sun bringing them out. Scrambled eggs with sausage is easy at camp in a skillet even over coals. Premade dehydrated camp food is in the camping section of Walmart and bass pro. I would rather make Ramen with sliced veggies and an egg than eat mountain house. You can toast sliced spam on a stick to make hot spam sandwiches. Or you can make anything you cook on a stove top and eat it. Just bring the dishes. Baking is trickier, give it a miss. Do some hotdogs and marsh mallows for no clean up junk food. Here are some recipes.
I like to boil lentils with tomatoes, peppers and onions, add some curry powder, canned meat, and it's a meal. Oatmeal with a pack of trail mix added is a great breakfast. Call it cooking, its barely more than boiling water. It is easy fresh food that tastes better, and is cheap and small compared to packaged meals. For lunches something even easier. Bean burritos; peanut butter burritos; hot sauce, banana and Frito burritos; are all bikepacking and hiking favorites for no cook meals.
Pour over coffee is easy, scatter the grounds, carry out your filter. Instant takes only hot water.
Just remember to pack your trash back out with you.
Building a safe firepit can be important for cooking and comfort.
The steps for a grassy field are.
Choose a clear area downwind of tents and out from under branches. Remove loose vegetation and debris.
Cut a cirlce of grass 1-2' across with your shovel and set it to the side intact and upside down.
Dig a hole 8-12 inches deep. Stack dirt close by on top of sod circle.
Build a small fire that does not completely fill the bowl.
When done pour water into your ashes and stir them.
Refill hole with the dirt you excavated. Cover with grass circle.