Going camping, need some ideas for easy campfire meals

[Leadeye]

Dinty's in the camp fire with a hole in the top of the can was a common evening meal. Lonehoosiers meals look fabulous.

 

[lonehoosier]

Dinty's in the camp fire with a hole in the top of the can was a common evening meal. Lonehoosiers meals look fabulous.

Here's some deep dish pizza, smoke sausage potatos and onion along with cornbread.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Send the kids out into the woods with knives and BB guns.
What they kill, they eat.

We have pocket knives and i brought a slingshot and XD9. We should be GtG

 

[actaeon277]

Old Boy Scout trick right there! ^^^^

yup.


And I also know what happens when you don't do that.

 

[actaeon277]

If you are new to Dutch Ovens, read a book, or look them up.

I walked up on people before that had their Dutch oven in the fire, and another group that that covered the oven with coals. It doesn't take that much.

 

[Alamo]

Oh man, this thread brought back some good memories of Boy Scout camping, complete with peach cobbler made in a Dutch Oven and smearing the outside of pots with liquid soap to make cleaning the black off easier. Of course, if you can arrange for a sheepherder stove, then the soap ain't necessary.

Good times.

 

[lonehoosier]

If you are new to Dutch Ovens, read a book, or look them up.

I walked up on people before that had their Dutch oven in the fire, and another group that that covered the oven with coals. It doesn't take that much.

I have cooked many of meals use campfire coals instead of charcoal. It takes a hole lot of campfire coals to cook a pot roast for 45 to 60 minutes. Also there are a lot of homemade biscuits recipes that you need the oven to 500 degrees, so your only option is direct heat.

 

[actaeon277]

I have cooked many of meals use campfire coals instead of charcoal. It takes a hole lot of campfire coals to cook a pot roast for 45 to 60 minutes. Also there are a lot of homemade biscuits recipes that you need the oven to 500 degrees, so your only option is direct heat.

The people I saw were noobs. And when we pulled the cover off their oven, the food was burnt to a crisp.

 

[lonehoosier]

The people I saw were noobs. And when we pulled the cover off their oven, the food was burnt to a crisp.

That's called cajun cooking

 

[hoosierdoc]

$3 flint and steel are not worth it. Should have spent $15

 

[obijohn]

A well seasoned dutch oven or two should be high on everyone's list.

 

[actaeon277]

$3 flint and steel are not worth it. Should have spent $15

use magnesium. Works better.

 

[CindyE]

The people I saw were noobs. And when we pulled the cover off their oven, the food was burnt to a crisp.

i made that mistake with my campfire popcorn popper, pretty much trashed the whole thing.

 

[CindyE]

21 Easy Dutch Oven Camping Recipes - Campfire Cooking with a Cast Iron Dutch Oven

 

[DoggyDaddy]

yup.


And I also know what happens when you don't do that.

Make the tenderfoots (tenderfeet?) scrub them? That is, right after you give them a dull hatchet and have them cut down some ironwood trees...

 

[actaeon277]

Make the tenderfoots (tenderfeet?) scrub them? That is, right after you give them a dull hatchet and have them cut down some ironwood trees...

Our rule was, if the cook didn't use the soap on the outside, then the cook had to clean.

 

[Cameramonkey]

This mostly goes against anything I believe about food and nutrition nowadays, but i once let my daughter, as a teen, talk me into buying Spaghetti-Os to cook over a fire, and on the stove in a houseboat on Dale Hollow. We did doctor it up with cheese. I may have actually enjoyed it, don't tell...

I use canned pastas like that as a base. Yes, adding proper seasonings and cheese can actually make them palatable.

I keep them in my drawer at work so I'm not spending $7-8/day for a hot lunch.

 

[4651feeder]

I like to stop at GFS on our way out of town when camping and pick up a precooked Prime Rib, then when we get to our destination pan fry it for lunch, convection/microwave (you did say class C right?) it for dinner and serve it straight from the fridge for breakfast. An avg Prime Rib will supply us all weekend, unless another campsite gets winds of what we're serving........

Surprised no one has suggested lathering baked potatoes in bacon grease before wrapping them in foil and tossing in the coals.

 

[snapping turtle]

Hamburger helpers. Cheeeeessssseeeee mac.

The staple of my youth family camping trips. Normally there were about twenty people.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Did pizzas tonight on a baking stone. Mmmm. Tomorrow are Hobo meals with smoked sausage. I forgot rice and popcorn though