Foil dinners are a long time favorite over the fire.  They are easy to make, easy to cook, and you can eat them right in the foil, so there isn't much to clean up.

My standard dinner includes hamburger, potatoes, carrots, onions, and rice.  You probably have a standard foil dinner as well.  Here are 12 things you can do to change your foil dinner:

1. Try different meats in your foil dinner, such has steak, chicken, sausage, kielbasa, pork chops, fish.
2. Marinate the meat before adding to your foil dinners.
3. Try different vegetables, like corn, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cabbage leaves, sweet potatoes
4. Try some fruit.  Pineapple slices with chicken can be very tasty.  Slice apples can add a wonderful flavor to pork.  Lemon slices with fish
5. Try different spices.  Consider onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasonings, curry, chili powder, Mrs. Dash, seasoned salt, seasoned pepper, salsa, garlic cloves, dry onion soup mix, bay leaves.  There are a bunch of different types of seasonings available at your local grocery store.
6. Liquid seasons can help also.  You might like Worcestershire sauce, Heinz 57, barbecue sauce, ketchup, teriyaki, soy sauce, or Tabasco sauce.
7. What about dressings?  Try Italian dressing for a spiced up flavor.  Crush up some bouillion cubes and sprinkle on your foil dinner before cooking.
8. Different soups can had a great taste.  Adding a dry onion soup mix is great.  Or try a few tablespoons of cream of mushroom or cream of chicken.
9. Make a stir fry with some chicken, snow peas and other vegetables, stir fry sauce, and rice.  Seal the whole foil dinner up except one end.  Poor some water into that end so that the rice gets steamed.  If you get the right amount of water for the rice, this works great.  Make sure to have your foil dinner sealed up tight, so that water doesn't leak out.  If it's going to be a while before you cook, you can try ice cubes instead of adding water.
10. Make foil dinner fajitas with marinated chicken or beef strips, onions, peppers.  Serve on tortillas with cheese.
11. Hash browns, scrambled egg (uncooked), and sausage patty can make a great breakfast meal.
12. How about the packets of seasonings that you can get for different kinds of sauces and gravies?  Try Au Jus, gravy mixes, buffalo wings seasonig mix, pot roast seasoning, meat loaf seasonings, etc.  Check out the seasoning packets at your grocery store.

Foil dinners are great way to cook when you are camping.  Kids will have fun make their own creations and you can make them ahead of time, and put them in the fire when you get to your campsite.  Try some of these suggestions to spice up your foil dinners!

Enjoy,