Campfire meals for kids ~ Ideas please :)
I am trying to come up with about 8 different meals that can be cooked over a camp fire that kids would like. So far I have.... Hotdogs Hamburgers Kabobs Foil packet meals Any other ideas...
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Rather than using the hot dog stick (fork type) for a hot dog, you can also use them for link sausages, summer sausage, pork chops (you have to hook the pork chop several times like a sewing needle through the meet .... but it works), same with steaks (beef), and even chicken legs-wings-thighs can be poked with a hot-dog fork and cooked over a fire. Then you can get a popcorn popper for fires also. If you use a wire basket (for fires), you can cook hamburgers, although the handles can get hot. You can also foil wrap potatoes (whole) and toss them in the fire and bake them, or put them on top of a grill over the fire, or use that wire basket. Then there's an unlimited items of food that can be cooked in a foil wrap. Add lots and lots of butter and keep turning it over and over ... works wonderful for sliced potatoes, carrots, any other vegetable you slice, boil, or steam! Then, with that same hot dog fork, you can teach them to toast bread (poke the bread so it's flat and won't fall off). Don't forget about corn on the cob. Leave ALL the husks on the corn, soak the corn in a bucket of water a couple hours before cooking, then simply put the corn (with the husks) over the fire. The edges will turn brown and even burn some, but inside the husks ... oh hum! You can also husk the corn and wrap the cob in aluminum, but it's just not the same, the corn has a tendency to burn.
Anything that can be fixed over a stove can be fixed over a fire, and can easily be fixed using a hotdog fork. That's still my most favorite way to fix food when camping.
Important note: Remember, anything other than a hot dog takes time to cook completely. So you'll have to really teach the kids patients and that it takes TIME when they are holding those forks! Chicken and pork is not something that can be heated in 30 seconds when its raw.
Anything that can be fixed over a stove can be fixed over a fire, and can easily be fixed using a hotdog fork. That's still my most favorite way to fix food when camping.
Important note: Remember, anything other than a hot dog takes time to cook completely. So you'll have to really teach the kids patients and that it takes TIME when they are holding those forks! Chicken and pork is not something that can be heated in 30 seconds when its raw.
