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Congrats on your first camp!

We tend to be little and often fairweather campers, rather than committing in advance, and I'd say that you don't need ECU for a couple of nights at a time.With 2 adults and 5 kids between us we don't have lots of room for luxury extras, so although I do buy far more than I need for camping (it's an addiction donchaknow!) for two nights, even with the whole family, we have a single ring handbag stove, a little barbecue, a kettle, a frying pan, a couple of fold out picnic tables and a simple kitchen kit of sharp knife, fish slice, tongs, kitchen roll and ziploc bags. Unless you're wild camping you can pick up food daily so a cool box is enough.  My advice would be to keep it simple to start and once you've been out and about a bit more then decide what you need to spend money on to enhance your camping the way you want to do it.

Enjoy! :-D