To be honest I tend to use the provided picnic table for most things requiring a lot of space. When I'm set up for the season, which to me doesn't feel like camping, I do have a table which has a small rack with plates, cups, silverware, utensils, paper towels, cutting board, etc. Under the table I keep all of my cast iron cookware. It makes it easy to get whatever we need to set a table and eat. Then I have a rack type thing for the stove which has room for spices and potholders. I have a large rubbermaid container for nonperishable foods. Sorry, no photos right now.

We have a 30' class A RV. With your space constrictions (we used to tent camp with everything in totes and coolers), I would say 1 skillet, 1 sauce pan, and a dutch oven with a lid. Lids for them all if possible. 1 flipper, 1 spatula/scraper, 1 slotted spoon, 1 solid bowl spoon. Collapsable bowls and collander. Pot holders/mits. Matches. Salt, pepper, paprika, italian seasoning, chili powder, what ever seasonings you would usually use at home. Tones makes tiny containers with a large selection of spices/seasonings for around $1, that are about the size of Annie's film cans. Portable gas grill. Dish soap, dish towels, paper towels. A friend gave me the idea of using a paper towel holder bungie corded to the awning post to have them handy outside when cooking/eating. Table ware can be stored in small plastic totes. Dish pan. That tiny sink will be a pain in the you know what to do dishes in, so take a dish pan and do them outside when possible. As to packaged food. Check the book sites for a book called Make-A-Mix. There is a volume two, I think. I have the first one. That is my where my sloppy joe recipe came from. Tastes pretty much like manwich. I leave out the green peppers and garlic, but I don't like green peppers and am allergic to the garlic. Still really good. I thing Grainlady mentioned the make a mix books in another thread. Many good recipes for mixes in there. You can use very small plastic zip bags that I find in the jewelry dept of the craft stores to store the seasoning mixes like the sloppy joe mixes in, writing the date made and any needed instructions in marker on the bag. Store a bunch of the small bags in a larger one. Tea bags, coffee, hot chocolate mixes (can find one in the make a mix book, but I have a better one. If you want it, I'll look it up and post it). A camp coffee pot works for boiling water for tea, hot chocolate, coffee, and heating water for dishes. The camp percolater, figure out how many cups it makes, add the amt of coffee you like for that amount of water, and after it starts to perk, time it for 8 minutes. If you want it stronger, go 9, no more than 10 minutes or it gets bitter. And it takes up less space than a counter top coffee maker. We use more paper plates and plastic silver ware than use regular, but your choice. Cereal bowls. Sugar, flour, cornmeal, all in small amts, in airtight containers. If it's airtight, you can leave it there all season, same with the spices. I don't even take the jars of flour and stuff like that out in the winter. Instant rice. dcarch, we have the E2000 generator, and it weighs lots more than the one you have listed. It is very quiet, tho. It would store great on the grate in the hitch, too! So would a portable gas grill. If you want the hot chocolate recipe, and don't get a reply here in this post, email me thru my page, incase I forget to check the thread! I'm getting forgetful! Tami

marti8a - That doll does look properly horrified, doesn't she? It's a working garage space, not a house tour. jessicaml - The worst that can happen is I say "Ewwww" and repaint. I'll tone down the labels, to make them look like they've been there for decades, getting scrubbed and polished. There's a laser printer transfer technique that makes things look aged. Florantha - Putting "the right side of tasteful" and "1880s New Mexican mining town" in the same sentence doesn't happen very often. :) The design goal for this place is "Taos Hippy Colony/ Vintage New Mexico / Boho Ethnic Moroccan". That multi-pattern random tiling is traditional. It's called "azulejos del cementerio" (cemetery tiles) because they came out of "the cemetery" what in English is "the boneyard", the pile of leftover bits of materials from other projects. After the main rooms were done with patterened field tiles and borders, the servants quarters and kitchen were done patchwork with the leftover tiles. Faux tile colors are still TBD, and will probably be softer, more like faded denim, coral, and manganese purple than what I showed. Probably with some solid colors. I need to toss a bunch of paint chips onto the countertops and see what looks good. Again, the worst that can happen is I grab the roller and paint over it. The countertops are already there, and will stay for budget reasons. They aren't as intense as seeing the sample on the screen makes it appear. It's a good match for the local mountain's rocks as seen from town ... all muddled peach and mauves. It is not an eat-in kitchen. Right now the dining area has pinkish-beige plush carpeting, pale milk chocolate woodwork, ivory curtains, and cream walls ... a bland collection of clashing beige undertones.

Textiles. It's like eating potato chips! This will be the next one I buy. I want this one really badly but it's one of the harder to find therefor more expensive. I'd like to have this one, too but it's in that hard to find category. And I'm on the lookout for a crochet cloth for my 42 inch table. Haunting eBay but have to pay for the critter food and various things old pets need before I buy any more stuff for me. If any of you know of off the beaten path web sites for the old table cloths, please let me know. I'm finding more and more sites, usually from vintage web sites but there are only so many hours in a day and I'm 64 already! The real ones are usually too pricey for me but the reproductions are OK. I'm not that much of a stickler for genuine stuff. I've had people tell me they just hauled a bunch of stuff to Goodwill. They wish they would have know someone wanted it. Groan.