OK. No wussing about and grumbling about the weather, outdoor food is fun. You don't have to go the whole hog with a Raj tent, but The Cool Camping Cookbook (by Tom Tuke-Hastings, Nadia Shireen, Shellani Gupta and Jonathan Knight, Punk publishing, pounds 12.95) has a foraging section and some really great recipes you can cook on anything from firepits to campfires. It's rucksack-sized, practical and informative. And it had never occurred to me to fry eggs on a barbie on tinfoil squares. Duh!

A little forward planning and you can order your meat from:

Donald Russell, whose traditional barbecue box gives you a total of eight big burgers, 12 sausages, two corn-fed chickens, two pork loin steaks and four minute rump steaks for pounds 49 (01467 629666, donaldrussell.com).

Eversfield Organic for their brilliant Chinese barbecue pork ribs pounds 6.30 a kilo, or their lamb kebabs with rosemary, pounds 10.50 a kilo (0845 603 8004, eversfieldorganic.co.uk).

If you're veering towards a hog roast, Helen Browning's wonderful organic pork costs from pounds 7 a kilo for a side (01793 790460; helenbrowningorganics.co.uk).

For barbecued fish you will have had the good foresight to ring North Uist and order some peat-smoked salmon from the Hebridean Smokehouse (01876 580 209, hebrideansmokehouse.com).

And of course, you'll have ordered your olives from Olives et Al, plus their Spiced Dipping Sauce with lemongrass, harissa and ginger, pounds 4, or their My Pink Mojo zingy Caribbean marinade, pounds 4. They have one Everything But The Barbecue Box of their goodies worth £25 to give away to the first OFM reader who emails them via olivesetal.co.uk/ofm. Anyone who then places an order on this link will receive a 10 per cent discount until 7 September.

But whether it's a picnic, barbecue, foraging or camping, Organic Food Fortnight (starting starts on 1 September with events all over the country) should nudge our consciences to eat al fresco thoughtfully. There are masses of related events throughout the country, such as the Hop Festival at Yalding in Kent on 16 September organised by Garden Organic - the UK's leading organic-growing charity that researches and promotes organic gardening, farming and food. There'll be lots of good food, drink (it is a hop festival) and morris dancing.

Everything pretty much comes under the umbrella of British Food Fortnight which kicks off on 22 September - its aim being to flag up the quality and diversity of our food in this country. Every year more and more organisations, restaurants, pubs and chefs get involved - the launch this year was at Highgrove with the Prince of Wales's seal of approval. Details: britishfoodfortnight.co.uk.

They would be greatly in favour of foraging, particularly as one of their principal aims is to encourage children to recognise the source of the food on their plate. 'Foraging' has taken over from 'organic' as the buzzword de nos jours , and Guy Grieve and Tommi Miers kick off their Channel 4 television series on 3 September travelling the length of Great Britain, relying on their hunting skills for survival and running their car on cooking oil.

A must for foragers is the third Really Wild Festival, held at the football ground in St Davids on 1-2 September with over 60 local exhibitors showing wild and foraged products, countryside courses, a bushcamp, falconry and other traditional skills. This great festival gets bigger and better every year. Tickets are pounds 3; details: reallywildfestival.co.uk.

And if you're tired of cooking baked potatoes in your barbie coals, I strongly recommend you cheat with Tefal's brilliant new ActiFry which will make you a kilo of chips with one tablespoonful of oil. This means a chip only has 3 per cent fat. Yum! It cooks by a combination of hot air and a rotating paddle and makes brilliant crisp chips - I've tried it. Available from Lakeland at pounds 149.99 (015394 88100 lakeland.com), we have two to give away. Send a postcard marked ActiFry to Rebecca Seal, OFM, 119 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 5EJ by 10 September.

The gut-buster brekkie

The great British breakfast camping style.

Serves 2

4 top quality sausages
1 tin bins
2 tomatoes (or 4 cherry tomatoes)
6 rashers bacon 2 tsp oil or butter
2 eggs
bread

Sausages go on first. Beans go on next. Leave cherry tomatoes whole and place on grill. After 10-15 mins nudge sausages aside and add bacon. Make little containers of double thickness foil, drizzle oil and crack eggs into each. Eat the bread during cooking to ward off hunger.

· From the Cool Camping Cookbook, Punk Publishing, £12.95