Oh god, i can already hear the laughter. But all the same, here goes....Hot dogs and all the nedded fixins. Easy, and cheap.

I am always a food on a stick type person. I take the above mentioned meat and bagels mostly. The bagels get sliced and impelled on a stick as well. Nothing quite like fire toasted bagel.

I have an over the fire grill and I usually take 4 or 5 pork tenderloins that I ahve in a large heavy duty zipper bag with fresh herbs, spices and garlic and I make a bed of coals and cook those up for the first breakfast of a trip. I usually go with a few other fellows but i make so much because everyone downwind will walk up and ask what I'm cooking. I usually serve it with eggs, dutch oven biscuits and my campfire potatoes( the recipe for which I have posted on here before).

I usually bring all kinds of elaborate foods and cook up what ever I'm in the mood for.

However, I went camping with a friend once and he enlightened me to a different way to approach camping food. He arrived with his food already prepared and planned out for him and his daughter. Each meal looked really good - granted it wasn't hot off the fire - but it sure was easy. He didn't have to wash so many dishes and everything. I've never tried this, but it did make me stop and think about other alternatives, especially when camping with kids.

I still like to cook up things like french toast on my caste iron skillet, with country fried potatoes. Or pancakes are good too. An omelette is good. The kids like Smores of course. Anything with chocolate...although I can do without the black marshmallows which they seem to love. My kids love hot dogs, so we often have that for lunch or dinner. Hot dogs over a fire are about the only way I will eat hot dogs actually.

The potato rapped in foil mentioned above, reminded me of boy scouts when I was a kid. We would chop up potatoes, other vegi's and some ground beef. Mix them up with salt and pepper and wrap it in foil. Then we would place it in the coals. A little while later, we had a wonderful meal.

Oh, yeah... well, that's a good idea...

My favorite is to take some marinated tri-tip, seal in foil with some veggies like carrots, onions and potatoes, and bury in the coals of the campfire for 40 minutes or so... careful getting it out and opening it.... but YUM!

And for dessert... listen up because it doesn't get much better than this:
Banana Boats! Oh, yeah...

Take a banana, don't peel it, but cut a wedge out of it from the top to the bottom (it's easiest to manage the rest if you cut on the "Inside," rather than along the outer bend of the banana. Stuff the wedge with chocolate pieces and marshmallows -- I alternate, using a bit of a chocolate bar, then about a third of a marshmallow, then a bit of chocolate, bit of marshmallow and so forth, until the wedge is full (you can experiment with what suits you best). Then, wrap the whole thing in foil and throw it in the fire. Be patient... you want it to cook long enough so that everything melts together (yes, the banana will get soft and the chocolate and marshmallow will melt into it) -- at LEAST 5 minutes in a hot-spot... longer if you can hold out... up to 10 or 12 minutes, ideally, I'd say... poke it and if if feel squishy, it's done.

It is the BEST thing you will EVER eat. S'mores have nothing on Banana Boats... trust me on this!

Oh... careful -- it will be hot -- put it on plate or hold it in a towel -- eat with a spoon.

Mmmmm... I want one right now...

Chicken
Foil stew – a bunch of small cut up stuff warped in foil & cooked over the pit.
Smores – um
Thin slices of steak

Can never truley b a bon fire without the marshmallows!!!!