Comments on: An easy meal for camping

By: Jacoby

Jacoby — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:56:23 +0000

I love reading these arclties because they’re short but informative.

By: Yabbles

Yabbles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:48:08 +0000

I love to cook!it’s really good idea!thenk’s!!

By: chucytbear

chucytbear — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:38:43 +0000

ive heard you can roast food in a can on hot coals

By: A Chaplain Aid 1st class

A Chaplain Aid 1st class — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:39:34 +0000

That’s a classic. So good. You can dice the patty for easier eating with a fork/spoon. Every other year at summer camp.

By: scoutmom61

scoutmom61 — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:59:18 +0000

Thank all of you for your helpful and informative tips. Never assume that everyone knows this. Every year we all have new scouts and their families join our packs and troops. This type of information helps us all and gets us to thinking and reinventing.

By: Scout for Life

Scout for Life — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:51:13 +0000

Ya know my uncle Art used to make this, except with he used ground beef to make meatballs and then cooked it

By: runescape rulz

runescape rulz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:36:42 +0000

my friend did this 3 months ago at dinner. He could’nt see it WASN”T cooked until my scout master came around. i, cooked spam. it was perfect ( i fried it).

By: Max

Max — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:52:14 +0000

its called a hobo meal,we usually make them at camp

By: hungry bear

hungry bear — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:45:13 +0000

If you like these for dinner then you may want to add a little something for after dinner. Wrap several apple slices, a few rasins, a dash of cinnimon and a touch of butter in foil and cook 20 minutes and you will have the best dessert you have ever had camping.

By: eagle

eagle — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:32 +0000

good ol’ reliable foil meal. It’s been to long since I’ve had one of those

By: Scout

Scout — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:55:58 +0000

I will try that. :-]

By: hhkk

hhkk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:20:29 +0000

what is wrong with hotdogs

By: J-Mc

J-Mc — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:07:22 +0000

My family made brown bears: find a long stick and cover one end in foil. Take regular biscuit dough roll in your hands (snake like) twist over foil. Roast it like a marshmellow. When golden brown, roll in butter, then in cinnimon and sugar. These are great!!!

By: OLHMS

OLHMS — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:39:32 +0000

In michigan we cooked hamburgers and hot-dogs on the fire

By: Momotaro

Momotaro — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:53:04 +0000

The naysayers, please keep discouraging remarks silent. With all the sites a forum troll could thrive, I don’t think a place for promoting scouting is an appropriate one. Any good tip about eating in the woods is never common knowledge for everybody.

To easyfee, yeah, we called ours hobo dinners as well. Our biggest thing was two dutch ovens will with stew meat, corn, peas, green beans, carrots and potatoes along with tomato sauce, water and elbow macaroni. Slow cooked in a pit with coals on the top and bottom. Our third dutch oven would be for fry bread at lunch and then a giant peach cobbler for dinner’s dessert.

And to Sarah, cooking in foil is always a handy bit of info to know. Don’t let the negative feedback get you down.

By: your face

your face — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:50:46 +0000

that was in cubscout handbook … real smooth

By: lobstahboy

lobstahboy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:06:50 +0000

i wonder if it would cook lobstah or clams!

thats how we kickit in maine

By: Abey2410

Abey2410 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:50:21 +0000

Thank you captain obvious.

By: Tomare!

Tomare! — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:02:24 +0000

Here in MD, if we weren’t famous for crabs, it should be meat.

T. 672 calls the meal in foil, Silver Turtles (due to the shape and color of the foil)

We use Meatballs, chicken, hotsauce, and pasta sauce

By: j-man

j-man — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:16:52 +0000

ahhh, dutch oven. two words SUPER HARD

By: good boy

good boy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:53:50 +0000

we like to put smoked sausages and green peppers and onions in our packets yum yum yum

By: crazy camper

crazy camper — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:57:33 +0000

If you put a cabbage leaf on one side. Add your meat, potatoes, and other ingrediants on top, Then top with another cabbage leaf, and close up the foil, it prevents the rest of the food from burning if it’s on a hot coal too long. The cabbage flavor doesn’t seem to seep into the food either.

By: easy feed

easy feed — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:22:24 +0000

our den calls them Hobo Dinners. it is good, one boy made his with tatortots and corn. we use tongs to pinch the corner of the pouch and pull it from the coals. it is a good idea to bring extra tin foil just in case you open a pouch that is not cooked all the way through and you need to put it back into the fire. we write our names on them with a marker so we know which one is ours. they need to cook 10-15 min each side depending on how hot your coals are

By: moutianman

moutianman — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:13:55 +0000

The way we do it here in IL is we put a venison sasuage with mashed taters n’ gravy and a side of cornbread

By: Old Scout

Old Scout — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:23:34 +0000

when my dad first made these for a bunch of scouts about 40 years ago we called them Hobo Dinners

By: some-soccer-player

some-soccer-player — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:31:14 +0000

That is a really good recipe. However, if you were a reader who didn’t find it tasty, I can offer a few suggestions:

-First of all, beef isn’t the only kind of meet you can use. You can also enjoy chicken, pork, and grilled vegetables using the same cooking method.

-Potatoes are really easy and fun to make this way. Don’t include butter in the packet though, or you’ll end up with a complete mess.

-If you aren’t going to do this with adult help, you need to cook these between the coals. This way, it is a much safer way to enjoy a delicious meal. Even using this method, you need to remember to be very careful getting it out of the fire.

-And last but not least, a lot of people complain that this recipe doesn’t work for a reason- they forget to flip over the packet. If you don’t, there is a 50% chance that you might be in for a slightly underdone meal.

By: Boardnbike96

Boardnbike96 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:23:03 +0000

At camouts MA style we do it with potatoe a slab of porkchop w/ salt on it before cooked

and a nice warm cup-o-coacoa

that’s how we kickit MA style

By: jeebs

jeebs — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:37:44 +0000

this sounds like a foil pack. you just cook a hamburger with toppings(not condements), cut up potatoes, and other things, in foil. then you put in a bit of water, make 100% sure the foil is closed up, put it on a fire, watch it swell up, and remember to flip it over once so the whole thing cooks well

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:25:08 +0000

even easier just use a tattie (potatoe) We do it all the time put it in he embers then take it out later and you have a baked potatoe

By: jflow

jflow — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:20:43 +0000

we have also do this in the coals. we used patties, sliced potatoes, onions, a small ear of corn sometimes, and sprinkle it with a little chilie power, good eating even the kids eat this.

By: Bolt Sniper

Bolt Sniper — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:58:04 +0000

yos it is called a foil packet we make them all the time over here in PA

By: CHINESEDUDE

CHINESEDUDE — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:16:18 +0000

WHY DO YOU CALL IT AN EASY MEAL FOR CAMPING

By: starscout0803

starscout0803 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:53:21 +0000

I have had these on several occasions, and they are delectable, but I have a few suggestions. I personally like having the beef patty with green peppers, onions, potatoes and carrots. They go good with a slice of bread. Also, instead of putting the foil packs (as I call them) into a camp fire, try putting them into a bed of hot coals. They’re easier and safer to removie than an open fire.

By: RUNESCAPER

RUNESCAPER — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:31:41 +0000

Sounds like lunch! =P

By: wonan indan

wonan indan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:40:14 +0000

When you do this it should have a good seal and a way to check is the

tin foil should blow up with air.

By: Alicia B., Owasso , Ok

Alicia B., Owasso , Ok — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:35:43 +0000

That sounds really good. We have also done this by using hamburger, frozen crinkle fries, carrots, and for the adults, diced onions and green peppers were added. Everyone loved it!