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The no-dishes dinner Scout troops and summer camps have run on for generations.
Breakfast
Eggs, griddles, and the jar tricks that make morning easy.
The best camp breakfast isn't fancy — it's eggs, potatoes, and whatever meat and veg you've got, all scrambled together…
Campfire french toast is the breakfast that uses up the bread and makes camp feel like a treat. Two things make it…
This is the breakfast that makes a lazy camp morning possible: you do all the work at home, wrap a big batch in foil,…
Easy Meals
A step up from PB&J, still zero stress.
A hot dog is already the easiest camp dinner there is. Spiral a slice of bacon around it and you have turned it into…
Bannock is the bread to know if you camp. Four ingredients you already have, no yeast, no rising, no fuss — just a soft…
If you camp with a griddle, this is the dinner that sells you on it. A hot flat-top, day-old rice, cooked chicken, a…
This is the first thing we cook on every trip — before the tent, before anything. My son and I started making it back…
Just like campfire corn, a baked potato is about the easiest thing you can make in the coals — and it works for regular…
This is the easiest side at camp and one of the best things to come off a fire. Leave the husk on, soak the whole ear…
A melty grilled cheese by the fire is a real meal and a real memory, and it's almost impossible to mess up. Skillet,…
Tortilla, cheese, fire — that's the floor, and everything past it is a bonus. Quesadillas are the easy meal that feels…
Most people think of biscuits and gravy as breakfast. At camp, we make it for dinner — and we make it in one pot. You…
Tacos might be the best easy dinner at camp: one skillet of seasoned meat, a spread of toppings, and everyone builds…
Chili's natural partner, and almost too easy to make at camp: one bowl, a hot cast-iron pan, and about twenty-five…
If you only learn one camp dinner, make it this one. A walking taco is taco night with the plate removed: you spoon…
Snacks
What to throw in the bin — and the few worth making over the fire.
A 7-layer dip is the ultimate bring-it-in-the-cooler camp snack — there''s no cooking, you build it the night before,…
These are the camp snack that disappears before dinner. Halved jalapeños, a creamy cheese filling, a wrap of bacon, and…
Sweet, salty, sticky, and gone in about four minutes. Bacon-wrapped smokies are the camp snack you make a double batch…
Trail mix — or gorp, as hikers have always called it — is the perfect camp snack: no cooler, no cooking, and it travels…
Of all the things you can make at a campsite, a skillet of warm cheese dip might be the highest reward for the least…
Popcorn over a fire is a little bit of camp magic — the kids will stand there watching the bag puff up like it's a…
If there''s one salsa worth making from scratch at camp, it''s this one — because the campfire does the hard part for…
Foil Packets
Seal it, toss it on the coals, eat straight out of the wrapper.
Chicken, onions, peppers, and rice in a packet. If it's your first trip, cook the chicken before you go — then this is…
This is the granddad of every other packet on this site. Paper-wrapped chicken — the little foil envelopes off the old…
This is the one most people start with, and for good reason — ground beef, frozen veggies, and potatoes, sealed up and…
This is the packet the kids ask for by name. Sweet pineapple, a little BBQ or teriyaki, chicken and peppers — all…
The fastest packet of the bunch — shrimp cook in minutes, so this is the one for a night you rolled in late and…
One-Pot Meals
Dutch oven dinners — and the cast-iron rules that actually matter.
This is old camp cooking at its best. Bean hole beans go back to loggers and woodsmen who buried a cast-iron pot of…
This is the classic — tender chunks of beef, carrots, and potatoes in a rich, savory broth, all from one pot. A Dutch…
Chili is the perfect camp dinner: one pot, feeds a crowd, gets better the longer it sits, and reheats like a dream.…
This is the bring-or-buy camp dinner that tastes like you tried hard. Nearly every part is a shortcut — cooked chicken,…
This is the ultimate bring-or-buy camp dinner. Nearly every part comes pre-made — a tub of mashed potatoes, a bag of…
Stuffed peppers travel well to camp because the filling is the work and you can do all of it at home. At the site you…
This is cowboy cooking at its simplest: brown some beef, dump in beans, potatoes, corn, and tomatoes, and let one pot…
Dinner
The payoff meal — fire, one pan, almost nothing to wash.
Desserts
The kid-magic payoff — and the part they'll remember.
Warm cinnamon apples under a buttery, crunchy oat topping — all the apple-pie feeling with none of the pie. Make it in…
Cored apples stuffed with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon, wrapped in foil and tucked in the coals until they're soft…
A banana, some chocolate chips, a few marshmallows, and a square of foil — that's the whole thing, and it might be the…
You already know s'mores. Everybody does — that's the point of them. There's no secret recipe here, just the two small…
Two cans of refrigerated cinnamon rolls, a foil-lined Dutch oven, and twenty minutes of coals — that's it. The whole…
Sticky, pull-apart cinnamon-sugar bread from a can of biscuits — the kids can build the whole thing, and everybody eats…
The easiest camp dessert there is, and the one that makes you look like a hero: canned peaches, a box of cake mix, and…
