I've never thought of a fire ban before. That's not something I've ever heard of happening here. When you say propane fires, do you mean the bbq can't be used? That could take some creativity...or a lot of sandwiches.

Solar ovens are pretty cool (is that a reverse pun?) and easy to make.  There are lots of different types you can buy or even make yourself. There are even many recipes for pizzas and other great foods...yes, even s'mores!

Remember, it takes about twice as long to cook something in a solar oven as compared to a conventional oven.

well, if you aren't going for more than a few days, you could make meals at home and freeze them, then just thaw them out.  Chicken salad, believe it or not, can be frozen and then thawed.  You could also hard boil some eggs at home and bring them in a cooler to make egg salad sandwiches.  Or, perhaps you could use the time to try that raw food only diet, and eat nothing but raw fruits and vegetables.  Kinda like a detox camp!  Seriously though, my suggestion is a mixture of all of the above!

You don't mention whether you're camping in a tent or a KOA cabin.

If you have one of the cabins, you have a few additional options available to you that you may not have considered.  There's an outlet or two in the cabin, so you could plug in an electric kettle to boil water -- perfect for instant soups, tea and/or coffee, hot cocoa, instant oatmeal and/or grits, etc.  If you have any of those "just add water" dishes, like freeze dried camping food or Lipton rice mixes, you'll have the hot water needed to prepare those as well.

I have been known to bring a small electric rice cooker with me when camping in a cabin.  I've cooked coconut rice pudding in one (use coconut milk instead of water, add sugar to the coconut milk and rice mixture, stir, cook, add fresh or canned or dried fruit when serving), breakfast "fried rice" (measure out usual proportions of rice and water, add soy sauce, white or black pepper, a little sugar, some dehydrated veggies, and garlic powder, let cook until rice cooker switches to "warm".  While rice is still hot, quickly mix in beaten egg and precooked bacon pieces.  When egg is cooked, serve), and even soup or stew.

There's also things like PBJ, lunch meat or tuna sandwiches, hummus and pita chips and/or veggie sticks, taco salad (prepare at home, add taco chips to bowls just before serving -- adding them at the last minute to individual servings keeps them from getting soggy), muffins, bagels, trail mix, etc... you get the idea!

Total fire bans are a bit of a rotter and no way to get around it-so out comes the tinned and preserved foods

- never tried a solar oven but hat is a great idea as there is nothing like hot food!

- next option is to cheat! -a nearby restuarant, if you can find done out in the boonies

You can always use an electric griddle.

Thanks for the advice Brad.  I think that is what a lot of people have started doing.  I can't imagine that an electric griddle would be very expensive either.  Heck, as hot as it is here lately, I can just start cooking eggs on the concrete.  We could sure use some rain.