aside from the standard burgers and dogs we make campfire stews....take a good sized piece of foil, put chunks of meat (beef, chicken, shrimp), cut up veggies (carrots, potatoes, small chunks of corn on the cob etc), any spices you want, seal up the foil and toss them all over the fire. Easy to do, and everyone gets what they want. I also love fresh fish over an open fire. And bacon and eggs for breakfast. But burgers over asn open fire are still the best i think...mmm mmm good
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Peanut butter smores! but i dont think that will sustain you the whole trip.
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Well, I just finished the How to make SMores page today- which should cover the chocolate and marshmallows part!

The simplest "hobo dinner" (food cooked in a pouch) I know consists of layering potatoes, onions, kielbasa, and butter in foil and cooking about 45 minutes until the potatoes are tender. IT works well for camping, as the kielbasa is a cooked meat, so you don't need to deal with all the raw meat precautions which are tough to do without hot running water. If you parboil the potatoes at home first, the meal will be ready in about 15 minutes. Not healthy -but good.

Our family favorite breakfast treat is doughboys. Take a dowel about 3/4 in diameter., and wrap a raw Pillsbury crescent roll around the end. Hold it over the fire to cook- patience is important here. Dip the cooked dough in melted butter, then cinnamon sugar.

Enjoy!
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It's all about the pie irons!
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Pie Iron dinners are the absolute best. We tend to prefer...

Pie Iron pizzas:
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2 slices of bread
Butter
Pizza Sauce
Mozzarella Cheese
Add'l Toppings (I like pepperoni and green peppers)

Now just butter each slice of bread on one side (like you're making a grilled cheese), and place the slices, buttered side down on each side of the pie iron. Stack your sauce, toppings, and cheese on one side. Extra cheese means extra gooey! Cook over fire until cheese is melted.

Pie Iron S'Mores
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CRUST OPTIONS:
Bread, Muffin Mix, or Cookie Dough

FILLING OPTIONS:
Chocolate bar, marshmallows, creamy peanut butter

Now just take your "crust" ingredient, place on either side of pie iron plate. Make sure that if you use cookie dough, that you make it thick enough to hold filling.

If you're using muffin mix, toast that over the fire to get it cooked a bit before adding filling. Now add filling and cook until marshmallow is gooey (and make sure the cookie dough gets done). Voila! A rich and decadent dessert!

Man, the cookie dough with peanut butter is the best! Yummmm. Just takes a while to cook, so have patience.

I HEART PIE IRONS! If you don't have any yet, visit your local outdoor/camping/nature store. They don't cost too much, and are worth the cost!
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Delicious camping experience!

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My favorite meal is always formed in a way that there will be less waste and is yummy. I find that the just add water and boil Lipton sides are a blast to make and usually make you feel great after a day on the outdoors.

But to form a meal with bonus points in mind Id have to go with this scenario.
Haul out a sweet potato, cut it up and place in tin foil. Place foil wrapped potato on hot coals, that you have made previously from your great campfire. No camp fire, boil the potato until tender. Now when cooked add marshmallows to the potato and wrap up again (making sure the potato is surrounding the marshmallow) and set aside in a warm spot to melt.
Make the Lipton sides (or like) and eat up with your potato. Yummm.
OR check this out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WfSMe5LXic&feature=fvw
Desert.. peanut butter on grahams with melted chocolate. Your going to need something to drink. Anything would work but I would make up some hot chocolate. OR check this out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHDknT79XQ
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i have always like 3 things, and since 2 of them were already listed (the foil pack and the mountain pie) i guess i'll list the 3rd one: tarzan steak.

there's really not much to it (though some people won't try) you just take your steak and bury it in the coal of the fire (not in the flames). after a few minutes, or until cooked to how you like it, pull out of the coals, brush off and enjoy.

on the other hand, there's nothing like a good MRE.
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Not going to get any bonus points for usage of chocolate, peanut butter, or marshmallows, but my favorite camping food is homemade burgers, slow-cooked over the fire.

I have my own secret recipe for making burgers, but they're even better when cooked over the fire. I make up a batch and then freeze them before I go camping so they don't go bad after a day or two in the cooler. Then I place however many burgers I want to cook in a campfire griller. Then I place the griller over a low burning fire and let the heat do the work. It usually takes over an hour, but it is so worth it. The slow-cooking seals in all the juices and allows the burgers to soak up all that smoky goodness.

Now I want to go camping!
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How about a grill over the fire with the following (I did this once)...pork chops, chicken breasts, a pot with baked beans and hot dogs, purchased potato salad and beer (not on the fire of course).

Then, for desert, SMORES. Take 2 graham crackers, cook a marshmallow until it's nice and gooey, break off 2 pieces of any milk chocolate bar and stuff both in between 2 graham crackers. The Marshmallow makes the chocolate melt.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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Been there, done that!

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A camping trip is not complete without the traditional "Hobo Stew."

Usually towards the end of your camping stay you invite your camping neighbors over for a hobo stew. Everyone brings one item to add to the stew, which is cooked in a lard can over an open fire. It only takes an hour or so to cook everthing!

Items that people can bring are:

Potatoes
Carrots
Corn(canned and on the cob)
Cabbage
Sausage(polish, Kielbasa, Smoke-y-links)
Green Beans
Corned Beef
Onions
and any other item you think that may be good boiled!

Put all of the ingredients in the lard can, add water to cover and place over fire and cook until all ingredients are done!

YUMMMY!
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Personal Experience

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that's hard, but we love cheeseburgers when camping - they are always so much better at camp, tasty, and meaty. We wrap corn on the cob and potatoes in foil and place near the fire until cooked, and end with schmores. Nothing is a better or more filling camping dinner. Although chicken legs run a close 2nd.
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I am a Grannie so I am always thinking of things kids would like to do. I have not tried these recipes, I will leave that to the campers. But they sounds like they would be delicious! Everything tastes better outdoors.

Bacon and Eggs in a Paper Bag

Serves 16.

1 pound bacon
16 lunch size paper bags
32 large whole eggs
16 long handled cooking forks

Cut each slice of bacon in half. Open lunch bag and line bottom with 2 half-slices of bacon. Wash hands after handling raw bacon. Close the bag by folding the top down 1 1/2 inches. Make a second fold about the same size. Pierce the bag (through the fold) in the center with the cooking fork or a stick. Hold the bag (by the cooking fork or stick) over a bed of hot coals. The bag should be about 1 inch above the coals. Cook for 3-5 minutes until bag starts to get soaked with bacon grease. Remove bag from heat, let cool for 1 minute.

Break open 2 eggs and drop them into the bag on top of the bacon. Stir eggs, refold bag and pierce in center with cooking fork. Hold the bag about 1 inch above coals for about 15 minutes or until eggs are firm and bacon is cooked. Eat bacon and eggs right from the bag.

Biscuit On A Stick

* Stick or Dowel Rod
* Approx 3/4" in Dia.
* Canned Biscuits
* Squeeze Butter
* Honey

How to Prepare:
Wrap 1 Biscuit around the end of the stick so that none of the stick is showing. Roast over the fire until it is golden brown. The biscuit will pull right off of the stick.

Put your butter and honey down into the hole that the stick left. (You can also use canned pie filling for an optional taste.)
Source(s):
http://camprecipes.com/recipe-Biscuit-On-A-Stick-103
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/camp/bacon-eggs-paper-bag.html

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Hobos in foil:

Wrap seasoned sliced potatoes, carrots, ground beef patty (or another meat of your choice such as smoked sausage or steak), onion slices, mushrooms, etc..... in foil and place in the fire until done. You may also add butter for a richer flavor. So delish!!!!!
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I love to make Hobos

Place your hamburger patties on foil, use canned mixed vegtables and sprinkle on top (the more the better), put a spoon of butter on the vegies, salt and pepper, then take the foil and make a hersheys kiss type formation closing it tight at the top... place on an open grill over the campfire.
A very delicious and easy camping meal :)
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Breakfast and S'mores are the best. Bacon, eggs and pancakes in the morning and s'mores at night. Try this for s'mores, it is simpler. Put your toasted marshmallow between 2 chocolate chip cookies.

Also, almost anything cooked in a dutch oven is great. I really like pineapple upside-down cake.
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A 6 pack of beer, a can of chef boyardee and for dessert, my kind of smores

Instead of graham cracker, use salted tops crackers
instead of plain chocolate, use caramilk chocolate
and do not forget the marshmellows..

Seriously, this blend is to die for, don't knock it till you try it

Camping is sopposed to be about relaxing in nature and finding simplicity, doing with what you have.. Why bring all those gadgets? Totally not in the spirit.
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Cutting a banana in half, breaking a bar of hershey's in chunks and placing them in the middle, then covering with marshmallows. Wrap in tinfoil and place on hot coals..., when the chocolate melts, it's done.

We call them banana boats!

Hobo dinners are also very cool. Potatoes, onions, carrots, beef, etc., cut into chunks, wrap in tin foil, place on coals. Cook until potatoes are soft and meat is cooked. Season (we use allspice).

Good luck.
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Hot Chocolate with Cheese

Take bitter chocolate (the non sweetened type that comes in bars) put it on a brass bowl with the amount of milk you desire and place it over the camp fire. When you see it boiling take the brass bowl out, place it in the floor and grab it with both your feet (remember you are not in your kitchen, you are in the wilderness) take a big wooden scout and stir it up until it gets foamy.

The chocolate bars are then dissolved in to the milk. The mix gets a rich dark chocolate color similar to that of hot cocoa mix. Add some sugar to taste. When ready, fill the cups and add chunks of white cheese, mozzarella or similar type.

When you drink half the cup, the cheese chunks at the bottom (melted by the extreme hot chocolate) will start to appear. You can pick them up with your spoon and eat them while at the same time you finish the remaining half hot chocolate.

It’s delicious!

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Luker Bitter Chocolate, 8.75-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 24) you can buy in www.amazon.com

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sausages wrapped in toast cooked over a fire with a desert of roasted marchmallows covered in meleted chocolate!!
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While camping, I like to keep the cooking as simple as possible. So, my favorite things to make are those that can be roasted over a fire. I don't love hot dogs, but they're great while camping. Just stick a hot dog on a stick (or a rake, whatever!), hold it over an open flame until it's as black as you want it, and viola! Instant dinner.

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I love roasting anything over a fire. I guess I have a bit of pyromania. S'mores are a camping staple, of course. And I love catching fish and then grilling it over a fire later that evening. It makes me feel so primitive!

Something else yummy: Keep a banana in its peel, but cut a slit in it. Then stuff chocolate, peanut butter, marshmallows, candy, or whatever else you want in it. Wrap it it in foil, and then hold it over the fire for a bit. Open it up, and eat it with a spoon using the peel as your bowl. It's so good!

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