Camping Meals

Breakfast would be chocolate pancakes. Just dump a cocoa packet into one of those shake-and-pour bisquick containers. Bacon and eggs are good, too, as are breakfast burritos. Don't forget the Jiffy Pop!

There are other options beyond bacon?

I keep breakfast easy - Clif bar, cereal, that kind of thing. Scrambled eggs/bacon would also be easy.
Lunches I like sandwiches and pasta salad, you can make all of that ahead. Trail mix, string cheese, jerky, dates for snacks.

You're probably asking more about dinners though.
Spaghetti and meat sauce is pretty easy to make. You can even pre-make most of it if you don't want to mess with boiling water. Just heat up the sauce and toss with your pre-made noodles. Obviously burgers/brauts. Grilled chicken/steaks - pack it in a marinade zip lock. Veggie kabobs. Chili. Smores.
 

OK, cool.

A couple of things I've learned about car camping and kids: prep work makes the whole trip and the quality of food much better, and, FWIW, if you can get the kids  involved in making the food (or gathering ingrediants), they usually like the food. 

If memory serves, you're a pizza and beer guy, right?  Campfire pizza is awesome, and you can get the kids involved (let them make their own).  Here's a how-to vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wpmRfnimo 

You can make the dough ahead of time and store it in a tupperware or even a ziplock bag.

One of the things our camp kids love is to make foil packs to cook on a campfire--you can precut potatoes, carrots, parsnip, fennel, and brats or chorizo (adults) and some fresh herbs (rosemary and thyme are good ones and their abundant right now) and  S&P, a little xvoo or butter, then let them choose what they want in their foil pack.  Again, the control aspect and the "I made dinner!" component is pretty powerful with kids. Older kids (your son is eight, right?), can even be included in some cutting prep if they're anxious to practice some knife skills.  This is a great meal for adults too.

Campfire chilli or a good beef stew like beef bourguignon (gotta love any recipe that calls for a bottle of red wine and a lb of bacon), can be made ahead of time and cooked the first night while you're getting set up and exploring and don't want to do anything super time intensive.

Taking some quickbreads (pumpkin or banana bread) and some bar kinda things (date bars, lemon bars, something like that) is a nice thing to have on hand for desert.  Kids love smores.  We tried to resist smores at camp for a long time, but kids just freakin love them. 

A dutch oven is a great cooking tool to have, though I am a pretty strong woman and I think they're really heavy.  There are some really good recipes online for things to cook in a dutch oven http://www.dutchovendude.com/dutch-oven-recipes.asp, though many of them use processed things (like yellow cake mix) I try to steer clear of.

Something like this apple cobbler tends to go over really well, if you want to cook a dessert.

http://www.cooks.com/recipe/li1kh090/apple-cobbler.html

Fajitas, any pasta dish (scampi is pretty great, and is easy if you pre-cook the shrimp), nachos all seem to be big hits too.

It's so much easier when you don't have to pack it all in--sounds awesome:)

You're a sick, sick individual.

I discovered a perfect camping meal last camping trip and it only required a kettle. I cooked over the fire. Here's my macaroni and cheese in a kettle.

Fill kettle that has a strainer over the spout with water.

Boil water over fire.

Add macaroni. Continue to boil.

Drain by pouring. Water will come out by not macaroni. Genius, I think!

Add cheese, tuna and rest of the stuff in the kettle.

Don't forget sadistic....  

pasta and hobo dinners are almost always on the menu as well as hot dogs cooked on a stick over the fire for "tradition".  S'mores as well cuz that's just what you do on camping trips.  I will do eggs and bacon that first day as well.

Since you are car camping, weight is not a total issue, but space might be.  I tend to portion out just enough ingredients and condiments to get by and not bring the entire gallon of milk or entire ketchup bottle.

Also pack your cooler in the order you eat it (last goes in first).  So you work your way down and don't have to dig around and keep it open for long periods of time.

I may do a lot of the precooking at home.  Like brown the hamburger at home and pack it cooked then just add it to the sauce and heat.

I also like opening up dried soups (like Nile) and putting them in a zip lock then adding hot water for a quick meal.

Man, now I'm thinking about how good food is on a camping trip.  All your senses seem to heighten in the fresh air for some reason.

Well, sadistic may cancel out the sick, or enhance it...

I haven't had an MRE in >20 years, and if I never have another one, that would be cool.  I'm sure some are "fine," but the idea of it is just too much--mass produced food that is packaged to last for years?  *shudder*