12 Campfire Meals Your Kids Will Enjoy

Well, It’s camping season, are you ready for a fun filled weekend in the great outdoors? Hopefully you have have gone through all the steps of packing all your necessities. My biggest problem has been coming up with food to eat. Especially food that my children will eat. So here are 12 campfire meals you and your kids will enjoy.

These recipes are all simple and easy to make. You children can help prepare and enjoy as well. Who said you have to do all the work? 😉 Let jump right in.

French Bread Pizzas

This recipe is so simple and you can everyone make their own! You just need French bread, the toppings everyone likes and aluminum foil.

Directions

• Slice the French bread in half lengthwise.
• Spread your favorite pizza sauce on both halves.
• Sprinkle mozzarella cheese and add your favorite toppings.
• Place on a sheet on foil and tuck it around the sides.
• Cook over indirect heat until cheese is melted

That’s it! You can have your very own pizza within minutes!

Breakfast Packs

I found this recipe on www.thereciperebel.com and my family loves it. We use almost the same recipe, my husband adds mushrooms to him and my daughter takes out the peppers, but I love it just the way it is.

Ingredients

• bag of Little potatoes
• medium onion
• red bell pepper
• canola oil
• salt
• dried parsley
• black pepper
• breakfast sausages (uncooked)
• eggs
• salt and pepper

Directions

• Cut potatoes into quarters
• Chop the onion and pepper into bite size pieces.
• In a bowl combine the potatoes, onion, peppers, oil, salt, parsley and pepper.
• Lay out four sheets of aluminum foil (we use heavy duty foil) and spray each with non stick spray.
• Divide vegetable mixture between the four foil sheets and add two sausages to each.
• Seal packs and place on direct heat. Cook for 15-18 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.
• When vegetables are tender, open packs and crack an egg into the center of each. Loosely tent the foil over the egg.
• Cook for 3-5 minutes, or until desired doneness is reached.

You can add other vegetables and sausage you would like or make it a vegetarian meal and leave the sausage out. My sister has hers with just vegetables or vegan sausage.

S’mores

This classic camping tradition is a hit with almost everyone. I personally don’t like marshmallows, so I just eat the graham cracker and chocolate. Now you can keep with tradition and just use Hershey’s chocolate bars, Marshmallows, and Graham Crackers. Or you can spice it up a bit and substitute the chocolate for so many others such as Reese’s peanut butter cups, Almond Joy, or Cookies and Cream Bars. You can also add things like coconut and Caramel to make Samoa Smores.

You can change the Graham Crackers as well to something else like Oreos, chocolate chip cookies, fudge strip cookies or chocolate graham crackers. Fruit can also be added as well, Apple slices with caramel, Strawberry slices, or sweet Jams. The combinations are endless.

Directions

• Toast Marshmallow over fire to desired doneness.
• Scrap Marshmallow onto cracker or cookie
• Place on fixings such as chocolate or fruit
• and end with another cracker or cookie on top

These are a big hit whether camping or just sitting around the fire in your own back yard.

Quesadillas

My family loves making their own Quesadillas. All you need are some tortillas, shredded cheese and aluminum foil. You can add some chicken or steak if you would like, but I would cook it ahead of time so all you have to do is sprinkle everything in the tortilla. These are so quick and are perfect for those fun days when you get camp to your camp site late from canoeing, fishing or hiking.

Ingredients

• Flour Tortillas
• Shredded Blended Cheeses
• Cooked Chicken or Steak

Directions

• Place chicken or steak on half the tortilla cheese over the chicken, or just cheese if you prefer.
• Fold the tortilla to cover ingredients. Wrap the quesadilla leaving the ends open.
• Place the foiled quesadilla on a grate directly over the campfire. Keep over fire till cheese is melted and tortilla is crispy.
• Remove from the grate and cut into pieces. Also, you won’t need to waste plate, you can just use the aluminum foil!

Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

Every kid loves a grilled cheese sandwich, but what makes it better is to add some ham to it. It’s so simple. Just ham, cheese, a bun or bread and Aluminum foil.

Ingredients

• ham slices
• Hawaiian rolls or bread
• slices Swiss or provolone cheese or a cheese of your choosing

Glaze (Optional)

• butter melted
• Dijon mustard or honey mustard
• dried onion
• brown sugar

Directions

• Prepare foil sheets to fit two sandwiches, covering all.
• Build your sandwiches by adding ham and cheese.
• Place 2 sandwiches onto each piece of foil.

Glaze (Optional)

• Whisk together the butter, mustard, onion and brown sugar. Pour evenly over the sandwiches.
• Fold the sides of each packet up and seal closed.
• Place on warm coals, turn frequent, and cook 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted and bread is lightly toasted.

Hot dogs

Here is another traditional meal. Hotdogs are every kids favorite, probably because they can hold the dogs on a stick over the fire themselves, with supervision of course. The best thing is that you can make your hotdog how you like it. Just want ketchup and mustard, go for it. Want a good old fashion Chicago Dog, or a chilly cheese dog, Save me on please! There are so many options and you can please almost everyone!

Ingredients

• Hot Dogs
• Buns
• Hot dog skewers
• Your choice of toppings

Directions

• Place your hot dogs on your Skewers and hold over the fire until they are done to your liking.
• Place in hot dog bun
• Top with your favorite fixings

Grilled Asparagus

How can you have a meal without a vegetable. We use our homegrown asparagus for our camping trips when we have them. They are so delicious.

Ingredients

• Asparagus
• Garlic Butter (GFS)
• Salt
• Aluminum Foil

Directions

• Cut the asparagus into bite size pieces and place in aluminum foil.
• Sprinkle with salt
• Drizzle with garlic butter
• Mix up so the asparagus becomes coated
• wrap up till closed and place on coals until tender.

Grilled Kabobs

Kabobs are another very simple meal that everyone can help with this one too. You can make it fun by creating an assembly line and pass your kabob from one person to another until they are full. You can use different meats and vegetables on your kabobs. Chicken and beef, pepper, onions, and mushrooms. Anything that will stay on the skewer. We like to get our meat from Rob’s Meat Chop & Deli. They have so many varieties of Meat chunks for your kabobs; Teriyaki Chicken or beef, Italian flavors, BBQ Flavors and they are all so good.

Ingredients

• Skewers
• Meat Chunks of your choice
• Vegetables of your choice
• Grate

Directions

• Place Meat and Vegetables on skewers in whatever order you would like.
• Place finished skewers on grate over fire for about 7-10 minutes turning frequently.
• Lastly, Take your kabobs off when the meat is cooked through and vegetables are tender.

Baked Apples

My dad used to make these on camping trips all the time. This sweet buttery tangy goodness is the perfect desert for your campfire dinner.

Ingredients

• Apples
• Melted Butter
• Cinnamon
• Brown Sugar
• Aluminum foil

Directions

• Cut your apple into 4-6 wedges cutting out the core
• Using a rubber band to hold them together
• Mix the melted butter, cinnamon and brown sugar
• Holding the apples together over a sheet of aluminum foil, Drizzle butter mixture into the apple, making sure to coat the sides.
• Wrap your apple in Aluminum foil
• Finally, Place your apple in fire for 10-15 minutes or until soft.

Fry Bread

My sisters and I love fry bread. We usually eat them with buffalo burgers, which are fantastic! You can use them for sandwiches, burgers or open faced tacos.

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ¾ cups milk
• Extra water to make it come together
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Frying Pan

Directions

• Combine the flour, salt and baking powder in resealable bag.
• Add the milk to the dried goods mixture bag.
• Knead with your hands (we do this on the outside of the bag – it’s less messy).
• Add a little water to make sure it all comes together. Don’t over knead. 
• Let the mixture rest for 30-45 minutes. 
• After the dough has set, heat oil in a large frying pan over the fire.
• Scoop out an orange sized piece of dough. Add a little extra flour if it is too sticky.
• Press the dough flat to form a circle, stretching it a little as you go.
• Add the dough circle to the frying pan and fry on one side until golden brown. Flip the bread to the other side, frying another 30 seconds or so.
• Place fry bread onto a paper towel lined plate. Cook remaining dough in same fashion.

Omelet in a Bag

The kids will love making their own omelets in the morning. Just give them a plastic zip lock bag, a couple eggs, peppers, onions, ham, bacon or any other fixings for their omelet.

Ingredients

1. eggs
2. Diced Peppers
3. Diced Onions
4. Crumpled Bacon (Precooked)
5. Diced Ham (Precooked)
6. Shredded Cheese
7. Seasonings
8. Any other ingredients you like in your omelets
9. Pot with water

Directions

• Boil a large stock pot of water.
• Mix the eggs in quart size Zip Lock heavy duty (freezer type) bag and smoosh it quite a bit to mix the eggs up.
• Add in your choice of cheese, pre-cooked meat, vegetables and seasonings to the bag. Seal the top, removing as much air as possible, and mix everything by squishing the bag.
• Place each bag, with the zipper side up, into the boiling water, and keep an eye on them. Reposition the bag if they sit too long against the side of the pot. They usually cook in about 10 minutes to be done, but depending on how many you are cooking and the size of the pot, it may take a little longer or shorter. Just watch them is all you need to do.
• Enjoy!

Cheesy Potatoes

Potatoes are one of our favorite side dishes in our family. The warm delicious cheesiness is such a delight and we are glad we get to bring it with on our camping trips.

Ingredients

• mini Yukon Gold potatoes, quartered
• extra-virgin olive oil
• garlic powder
• dried oregano
• Kosher salt
• pepper
• shredded mozzarella
• grated Parmesan
• Chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
• Crushed red pepper flakes, for garnish

Directions

1. Cut 4 large pieces of foil about 10″ long.
2. In a large bowl, toss quartered potatoes with olive oil, garlic powder, oregano, salt and pepper.
3. Divide potatoes between foil pieces, then fold the foil packets to completely cover the potatoes and seal them closed.
4. Place foil packets on the grill and cook until just cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Unwrap the foil packets and sprinkle mozzarella and Parmesan on top of the potatoes. Fold foil back over the potatoes and cook until cheese is melty, about 3 to 5 minutes.
6. Top with parsley and serve warm.

These are some of our favorite recipes to bring with us camping. I hope you try some and let me know how you liked them. Check out some of our food and drink pairing that might go good with your next camping trip as well.