Helping campers since 2011

Foil Dinners
with Chicken and Vegetables

Foil dinners are an important camping tradition. They are fun to make and fun to eat.

I love that all of the prep work can be done at home. At camp all you have to do is build the fire, let it burn down to coals, place your premade dinners in the coals, and wait! Soon you'll have a delicious supper that the whole family will love.

Foil dinners with chicken and vegetables are especially tasty.

5 piece kitchen gadget

All 5 pieces in this great kitchen set stack together in any order - a great space saving kitchen gadget for your camping trip!

Foil Dinners

Here's how to make enough for four people.

Cooking time will vary depending on lots of factors: the temperature of your coals, the thickness of your vegetable slices, the temperature of the chicken when it comes out of the cooler, the thickness of your brand of foil.... so I can't give you an exact cooking time.

At home

What to do

Thinly slice 1 lb/500 g chicken breast.

Put it in a shallow pan and cover it with your favorite marinade. (Bottled Italian salad dressing is easy and tasty.)

Refrigerate overnight.

In the morning, slice 4 smallish onions.

Chop 4 peppers and 4 carrots.

Place a piece of foil on your work surface and place on it a layer of onion slices (use 1/4 of your onion).

Top the onions with 1/4 of the chicken, 1/4 of the carrots and 1/4 of the peppers.

Take the ends of the foil and draw them upwards.

Fold the ends over several times.

Fold the foil to make a secure packet.

Seal the ends securely.

Wrap in a second layer of foil.

Label the top of the packet. (Put the onion side on the bottom.)

Repeat to make 3 more packets.

Put the packets in a plastic bag. (This is so that any leaking juices won't touch your other food.)

Put a cold pack or some ice inside the plastic bag. (The plastic bag may insulate the packets from the cold air in the cooler. You want to be certain that the chicken stays cold.)