Camping food has to be one of my favorite parts of the whole camping experience. These foil packet meals make cooking outdoors super easy!! TO help you plan your next camping trip menu, we’re sharing nearly 30 foil packet meal recipes!
Easy Camp Meals
There is nothing quite like cooking over an open fire. Camp food has that unique flavor that just tastes AMAZING after an active day outdoors. We love great food, but we don’t want to spend our entire trip preping or cooking over a hot fire. So that where the aluminum foil and foil packet meals (also called hobo meals) come in. They make it possible to have easy camp meals that our family WANTS to eat!
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“Aluminium foil is to camp cooking as duct tape is to quick home fixes.”
Grill Foil Packets Meals
Other than no cook camping foods and freeze-dried food that you add hot water to rehydrate, camp cooking doesn’t get easier than throwing all your ingredients into a foil pouch and cooking over the fire or on a grill.
Why do we love cooking in foil packets while cooking?
- No special cooking equipment is needed – a camping grate comes in handy, but you can use a bbq grill, lay the foil packets over medium-low coals, or atop a hot rock to cook.
- It’s perfect for beginners
- Easy to prep
- Can be made/assembled ahead at home and frozen
- Grill foil packets at home on the barbecue or while tailgating
- Clean up is as simple as throwing out the foil
- Everyone can customize their ingredients
- Food never falls through the grill into the fire
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Currently, planning our next camping trip or just grilling on the backyard grill? Try a few of these easy and delicious camping foil packet meals.
25+ Foil Packet Recipes To Make on Your Next Camping Trip
There is no special equipment needed to make these foil packet recipes and meal ideas. They can be cooked on a BBQ grill, over a campfire with a grate, or off to the side with charcoal.
Easy Camping Breakfast Burritos
Campfire Style Breakfast Burritos are easy enough to make on-site or can be made ahead and reheated over the campfire or skillet. They combine eggs, chorizo sausage, and potato for a filling breakfast.
Sausage & Egg Breakfast Quesadillas
Combining breakfast sausage, eggs, and copious amounts of cheese for a winning breakfast. This camping quesadilla is assembled and heated directly over coals or an open fire. It's ready in minutes!
Walking Taco (In a Bag)
The ultimate portable snack, appetizer, or easy meal perfect to feed a crowd. No exactly a meal cooked in foil, but the foil lined bags are a handy bowl and carrying vessel to grab and go.
Make Ahead Breakfast Tacos
Foil meal packet recipes are versatile and easy to customize. These tacos are a great example of this. Create your favorite combos!
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Easy Andouille Sausage and Vegetables
Spicy Cajun sausage, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, onions, and peppers combine into a tasty combination. Recipe variations included to make as a sheet pan.
Grilled Salmon and Asparagus
Grilled Salmon and asparagus make a complete meal. The thing I love about this and other hobo meals is that everything cooks together and is ready at the same time. This recipe uses garlic and lemon, but offers recipe variations for different versions.
Shrimp Foil Packets With Zucchini
This keto friendly shrimp and vegetable dinner illustrates that whatever you can cook at home can also be enjoyed while camping. This recipe is low carb and gluten free.
Grilled Shrimp
Throw another shrimp on the barbie and enjoy less clean up! Grilling with tinfoil pouch recipes is easy and you're going to love this grilled shrip with garlic, lemon, and chive
Campfire Baked Trout In Foil
Cook a whole bone-in trout on your next camping/fishing trip. This recipe includes leek, zucchini, bell pepper, fresh herbs, and balsamic vinegar for a winning meal.
Greek Inspired - Ground Beef and Cauliflower Foil Packets (Keto-friendly)
Foil packets are the easiest way to cook beef. I share this keto-friendly hobo meal that swapped out cauliflower for potatoes and adds in Greek flavors
Campfire Meatloaf Stuffed Vegetables
Meatloaf stuffed peppers - Yum! I see many recipes for meatloaf stuffed in onions, but my kids aren't fans. They will eat these every time.
Smoked Sausage Apple and Sweet Potato
Great combination for the grill! Using pre-smoked sausage means you just have to cook long enough for the sweet potato to be done. You'll have dinner ready in less than 30 minutes, including prep.
Grilled Sausage and Vegetables
This is a delicious take on sausage and peppers cooked in a foil packet. Hobo meals like this make easy camping recipes for family camping trips. Everyone can customize exactly how much they want of meats and vegetables and then cook it all together.
Amazing Foil Packets With Steak And Potatoes
A classic hobo meal of steak tips and potatoes with asparagus. The recipe pre-marinates the steak so it comes out perfect every time.
Santa Fe Chicken Packets
Perfect for summer camping - These are chicken breasts topped with zesty black beans, corn and tomatoes.
Spicy Ranch Chicken Foil Packets
Ranch lovers will rejoice with this chicken dinner recipe. Includes suggestions on recipe variations and easy to cook vegetables.
Italian Chicken
Italian seasoning, sun dried tomatoes, and onions all cooked inside a foil packet. It's a winning combination ready in about 30 minutes.
Campfire Potato Foil Packs
Topped with loads of cheesy and bacon, these roasted potatoes are an easy side dish to serve for dinner.
Foil-Packet Grilled Vegetables
Garlic and herb grilled squash is simple and ideal for the campfire. It cooks quickly and pairs well with chicken, sausage, burgers, steaks, and fish.
Grilled Peppers and Potatoes
Campers love all the cheesy goodness in this grilled side dish recipe. Adding cheese to these peppers and potatoes makes them a real crowd pleaser.
Campfire Chocolate Cake in an Orange
These are cakes baked inside an orange hulled out. The recipe is my microwave mug cake and it's super simple to make at home or while camping.
Campfire Banana Boat S'mores
Want to switch up your camping desserts, make a campfire banana boat. It's a delicious twist on a s'more with roasted banana, chocolate, and chocolate.
Easy Campfire Eclairs
Roasting sticks and foil make these campfire eclairs possible. Take a look at how easy these are to create with crescent roll dough.
Grilled Caramel Apple Crunch
It's not a campout without dessert. We all love s'mores but this apple crunch is fantatstic
Campfire Popcorn – 3 Ways
Popcorn is just as easy to make while camping as it is at home. Here are 3 ways you can make it.
Orange Blueberry Muffins
Pour batter into hollowed out oranges and bake. It's that easy to make these muffins while camping.
Campfire Apple Crisp {Vegan, Gluten Free}
Simply delicious and gluten-free too. Serve this up as a side, dessert, or breakfast. Pack away some ice cream in a Hydro-flask or bring along a camp-ready ice cream ball and serve a scoop of vanilla ice cream atop this yumminess.
S’mores Campfire Cones
S'mores with less of the mess when made with ice cream cones. Also good with strawberries and bananas too
S'More Without the Stick
There are times when we forget the roasting sticks or just want smores without all the mess. This recipe shows you have to make s'mores foil packets with an extra sprinkle of candy
Roasted Fruit over Angel Food Cake
Imagine enjoying an elevated strawberry shortcake while camping. This dessert recipe fire roasts strawberries and nectarines in a sugar syrup that's poured over angel food cake. Enjoy!
We’re actually going camping in June. Hard to believe but true. I’ll be sure to add some of these ideas to my list – epically that shrimp. I might just cook it at home before then, even. š
These are such great camping food ideas! I like to eat well and I always prep meals ahead of time to throw over the camp fire. I’ll have to bring some breakfast burritos next time.
Some lovely sounding recipes and I love that they are all so easy! Thanks for sharing.
I’m all about these foil packet meals! They’re a game-changer for camping. Like the article says, no special gear is required, and clean-up is a breeze. I once made a foil packet chicken with veggies on a camping trip. It was so simple yet tasted amazing after a long day of hiking. Can’t wait to try more of these recipes. What’s your favorite ingredient to throw in a foil packet for camping?
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