Tin Foil Dinners

This is only my third time making tin foil dinners. Apparently they are a very common dinner among many avid campers or hikers. I have also heard these dinners called "Hobos" although I find the term to be somewhat politically incorrect and would support changing the name to "Vagabonds." Although my family camped a lot when I was younger, somehow this tradition never made its way into our campsite. I was excited to find something so easy to cook over a fire (or embers). It definitely beats charred hot dogs. 

The best part about tin foil dinners is that you can use whatever combination of meat and vegetables that you have around your house. This time, our ingredient list was the following:

Potatoes, thinly sliced
Red peppers, chopped
Onions, chopped
Ground beef
Green onions, chopped
Mushrooms, sliced
Cream of mushroom soup
Seasoning salt
Black pepper

We piled the ingredients onto squares of tin foil, folded them up, taking care to add a second layer to avoid charring or spilling, and labeled them with our names (and titles...).

This is my husbands dinner. He chose to add barbecue sauce, which he prefers over pretty much any condiment or sauce, rather than cream of mushroom soup.

When we got to the place where we planned to have dinner, we built a fire and cooked them, hoping that using a grill would keep them from burning too much. That was somewhat of a "tin foil dinner fail" so we subsequently removed them from the heat and waited for the flames to die down. They cook much better over embers or coals.