Hobo Meals

[altozwei]

I just got back from a campout with the Girl Scouts this past weekend. We made the pouches to save money but Reynolds does make the "Hot Bags" if you want to save yourself some time. Here's the recipe we used:

I/4 lb Hamburger (per person) rolled into a ball.
Quartered cloves of garlic.
Thin sliced potatoes
Thin sliced carrots.
Diced Celery.
Thin sliced Onions.
Season Salt.
Cream of Mushroom Soup (canned)

Insert one quartered garlic clove into the meatball.
Place into foil bag then add potatoes, carrots, celery,
and onion. Sprinkle with season salt and add one to two
spoonfuls of the mushroom soup. Seal bag and place upright
directly onto hot coals. These cooked in 25 minutes. By placing
them upright, we didn't have to turn them. We cooked them
 in a fire ring, but the Boy Scouts often did a trench to cook theirs.

[dademt]

Back when our kids were in Indian Guides and Princesses, Girl Scouts, and Cub Scouts, they were:
 
Ground Beef
Sliced Carrot
Siiced Ptoato
Lipton Onion Soup Mix
 
Bob

I know this is cheating a little but leading cub scouts we usually take chicken and cook it up ahead with a little butter and put it in ziplocks to put out so everyone can get their own foil meals made and you don't have to worry about the chicken not being cooked all the way through.  Also we usually precook the potatoes some ( not all the way ).  It then only takes about 1/2 the time to cook everything and your veggies stay crispy if that is what you like.

[grahoi]

One cool note when your camping with a huge group....and making these...bring YELLOW MUSTARD....

Yes, I said mustard...why? the kids can write their name or intials on it and when it bakes in the coals the mustard turns hard and dark, so no matter how much goal or burn on it you can still see their names....A LOT better than SHARPIES!!!

Obviously don't put the foil on the coals mustard side down at first....the mustard needs to bake on, so by the time you flip or move the foil the mustard should be hard and won't smear...


Plus the kids think you are the coolest person in the world when you tell them to write their name in mustard on the foil