The minute it starts to warm up, my boys start asking to have fires in the fire pit. Sometimes we have fires just for fun but most of the time we also cook dinner over the fire. Their favorite meal is tin foil dinners!
I grabbed our Electrolight fire starter from HomeRight (they are giving one away today!) and got going on starting the fire!
Sometimes we use hamburger patties, potatoes, and carrots but my favorite kind of tin foil dinner is BBQ chicken. I make tin foil “dishes” and put in a chicken breast covered on BBQ sauce. Then I add red & green peppers, onions, and pineapple. Basically it is how I make my favorite kind of kabobs but they are not on a skewer.
I cover then with another layer of tin foil and they are ready to go!
They cook best when the fire has died down some and there are mainly hot coals. Once they were on the coals, I got some bread dough and wrapped them around the roasting sticks. Thinner is better so they don’t end up doughy in the middle. You also need to have them cook slowly for the same reason.
They take longer to cook than a marshmallow so my youngest got board and I cooked his. They turned out pretty good!
Depending on the thickness of your meat, the tin foil dinners should be ready in 20-30 minutes. I take off the outer layer of foil and eat them right out of the foil “dish”.
Do you cook dinner over the fire? What are your favorite campfire meals? I would love some new ideas of things to try!
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This post was sponsored by HomeRight but all the ideas and opinions are all my own!
I love good old hamburgers and hotdogs!
I like to cook salmon.
We especially love to cook SMORES over the fire. Great family nights we have when we do this.
Burgers and hot dogs for this family. Every time we go camping.
For the adults, Bailey’s dipped marshmallows for the li’l ones regular s’mores. We love to add berries to both for a fresh pop of flavor.
Smores! Love the charred marshmallows!
We love cooking traditional hot dogs and burgers. This would come in handy since we camp a lot.
S’mores all the way. Ooey and gooey and so much fun to make.
I love cooking fish with charred slices of lemon on them. My favorite would have to be mahi mahi.
LOVE cooking over fire/charcoal.
That’s the only grill i have! Brings back childhood memories.
For me, I love to grill up some shrimp and zuchini!
Deeeeeelissshhhhhhh!!?
I love this idea! Just like camping…which we never do, but this is the next best thing! I am inspired to try this on our own little fire.Thanks for the give-away too!
Sausage tastes especially good grilled; a little more exciting than hot dogs. I love seeing the activities you do with your kids. I remember cooking bread on a stick at a Legoland in Denmark when my son was little. It just goes to show that you don’t need to travel a long way to a theme park to have fun. You can have fun in your own backyard with very little money and lots of imagination. Looking forward to seeing what your family does this summer. You always have great adventures and activities with them.
When our children were young and we would go camping! We would cook most of our meat over an open fire, it was delicious! I sometimes really miss those busy, but memorable days!
Burgers and hot dogs and sausages!
I love using my cast iron pudgie pie maker to make everything from dessert to main meals. As a cast iron lover I am always using the fire to cook goodness in my pots too. Indirect heat of course :)
I like to cook hotdogs
I love hot dogs and ooey gooey S’mores and Hot Dogs
We love foil dinner packets at our house too. Also baked sweet potatoes in foil are awesome!!
I like steaks and brussels sprouts on the grill.
My favorite thing to cook over a fire are smores
Grilled steak and roasted marshmallows and squash corn on the cobb
We cook out every day. I do the veggies in the foil sprinkled with spices.
Roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary.. yum!!
I need to up my campfire dinner cooking game. I have boiled an egg in the fire before.
I love ribs but will never say no to a hamburger
My favorite thing to eat this way is hot dogs.
A favorite of mine is corn on the cob, roasted in its husk, wrapped in foil.
I am going to try foil cooking this summer, it looks so easy. Can’t wait.
beef and shrimp i love cooking both together..
I gotta go with smores! Last fire we switched out the marshmallows and used up our Easter Peeps!
We live in coastal Florida and are blessed with an abundance of fresh seafood.
And, we love getting our on and fixing up right there on spot.
Delicious and healthy too.
Just need a iron skillet and the catch.
Fish to lobster. Clams, oysters ..everything
We love to cook hamburger with carrots,onions and mushrooms on the fire…sooo good!
On a campfire? Marshmallows!
On the grill? Shrimp!
A friend taught me about Hobo Pies – two pieces of white bread with apple or cherry pie filling in the middle. You put it in a “hobo pie maker thing” (possible that isn’t what it’s really called, ha) and put it over the fire. So good!
I love to cook apples in foil with butter and cinnamon. I want this fire starting curling iron
Yum! So many great ideas. I love to cook hotdogs and hamburgers! Of course for dessert it’s s’mores!
Potatoes, deep in the coals!
I like cooking chicken over a fire.
We love to grill thick sliced bacon-and shrimp!
We love to make backpackers stew!
i like to cook steak tips.
This is genius! I hate having to light a fire! Last year I used kitchen butane torch but that took forever too and eventually broke. Using my husbands blow torch worked well enough but it’s so bulky and I hated having to light a match to start it up. I love having a fire in the summer and cooking hot dogs over it. We are having a big party for dads birthday this year, DIY foil packs over the fire sounds like a fun option!
we love cooking steaks
We have bon fires all the time during the summer and into fall, I love the of tin foil meals! I love the fire starter!
My family loves tin foil dinners! Yum!
I love chicken or beef kabobs on the grill.
I love cooking roasted pineapple…yum and more yum.
OMGosh – I never knew such a thing existed! The ElectroLight Fire Starter looks great! My husband usually starts our fires with lighter fluid, terrifies me. He loves cooking on the grill, we don’t usually cook on our campfires. Just a couple tweaks to our dinner plans and we could easily do this, very exciting! With summer coming, I will have awesome opportunities to pump up our meal plans. THANK YOU!!
Favorite thing to cook is hamburgers
Nothing like a grilled steak.
Hot dogs :)
Catfish !!!
Corn on the cob !!! Side Dish !!!
i love steak ca bobs
hot dogs!
We love to cook smores as a family on the firepit.
I like cooking burgers and hotdogs sometimes chicken.
Salmon on a wood fire grill.
I love grilling burgers.
We love cooking hot dogs over the fire along with something my boys learned in Boy Scouts which we call “Hobo” dinners where we put a hamburger Patty along with sliced carrots, potatoes, corn, etc. In tin foil to cook. They are delicious!
Steak I love steak on the grill
We love doing Surf and Turf items on our grill.
Hamburgers and Hot dogs yum ?
Hotdogs are my favorite.
green beans, tomatoes, onions and garlic