Hobo Tin Foil Dinners – Easy Camping Meals and Recipes Ideas

Hobo Tin-Foil Camping Meals

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All-time Favorite Camping Food – Hobo Tin-Foil Meals

These easy camping meal ideas are true to the spirit of good ol’ campfire cooking, but without all the muss and fuss of a lot of work. Everyone wants to enjoy good camp food, but why should you get stuck doing all the cooking?

Kids love these because they get to feel like big kids – making their own food. And camp cooks love them because they are a lot less work than traditional camping meals.

The concept:
An assortment of foods are wrapped in foil and cooked in campfire coals – or on a grate over the coals – or even over charcoal briquettes in a grill. One good feature of these meals is the camp cook can get by with just prepping and laying out the camp food for the meals – then each camper creates, wraps, and cooks their own meal.

Hobo Tin-Foil Camping Meals

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The plus:
With just a little adult help, you can let the kids create their own foil packs. And – they are cooked in an open campfire. Just like all good camping meals should be.

How it’s done:
The original foil meal, was a Boy Scout creation that was just; some hamburger, diced potatoes, corn, peas, and carrots, and a little salt & pepper, wrapped into a pack using a double layer of heavy-duty tin-foil.

Note: See a demonstration and video of one Boy Scout method from: Phoenix Boy Scout Troop 109.

Cooking Tips

• Generally these meals don’t use specific recipes; you just decide what you want to include – and toss in.
• Be generous with the seasonings.
• Seal foil packs with foil folds – not just “crunched” closed.
• Save the frustration of split packs – use heavy-duty foil
• Set foil packs in mature coals – not flaming coals.

Ingredients: – per meal

• 1/3 to 1/2 lb hamburger
• use 85/15 hamburger, (you want the fat juices)
• crumbled works best – but lumps can also be used
• 4 – 5 whole cabbage leaves
• 1 cup diced “HashBrown potatoes, (like Orieda Frozen Hash Browns)
• Frozen hashbrowns do not have to be kept in your camp cooler
• 1/2 cup each; frozen corn and peas
• 1 whole carrot – sliced approx. 1/4″ thick
• Montreal Steak seasoning, Salt & pepper – generous, but to taste
• 1 tbsp. butter or margarine

Note: Other vegetables can be added, (or substituted), ie. onions, sweet peppers, or green beans. Fresh is best, but frozen works fine. Tip: 1 tbsp. of Worcestershire sauce really boosts the meat flavor.

Start with a double layer of cabbage leaves, (as shown in video), then the frozen and fresh veggies, followed with the hamburger, followed with the Montreal Steak Seasoning, salt & pepper, (seasoned to taste), and butter. Then complete the package by topping with more cabbage leaves, (as seen in video)

Place completed foil pack on mature coals, (not in or over open flames, or still-flaming coals – the food will burn), for 25-30 minutes.

Tip: A good pair of campfire gloves is almost a must-have for campfire and tin-foil cooking.
Here is a guide to some good choices for campfire cooking gloves.

A campfire cooking grill is one of the handiest, (and least expensive), pieces of camping gear you can have. And it doesn’t have to be a 30-pound cast iron monster either.

A folding grill grate like the pictured Coleman model works great, isn’t too heavy, and takes up very little space. Even when your camp site fire-ring has a grill you will still find yourself using this one too!
Campfire Cooking Grills

Check out these samples of camping cookware and camping tools available on Amazon. Once you have one of these camp tools you will wonder how you ever did without it. Especially when you see how inexpensive they are when you buy them online.

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