Comments on: Hobo Packets ~This Week’s Quick and Easy Meal!~

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:08:43 +0000

This was awesome. I made it over the weekend and it was a big hit here in my home and think we will have it at least once a week! SOOO easy to prepare. Next time I think I will add mushrooms too.
We didn’t have the sauce but it was great!
Thanks for these great recipes you are sharing with us!!!

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:46:09 +0000

These are delicious!! Everyone in my family LOVES hobo packets. I normally make mine just as you do except I add a sprinkle of grated cheese to the top. Also sometimes I’ll add a can of green beans. Very kid friendly and so simple to throw together. I also like to do a chicken teriyaki version where I use chicken breasts, teriyaki sauce red potatoes, a can of diced pineapple and sweet bell peepers.

At first I had trouble with the hamburger being overdone and the veggies not quite cooked. I put the veggies in the bottom of the packet and the burger on top. Problem solved!

Thanks for the great recipe!:)

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:29:30 +0000

I had to explain what these were to my Brit hubby. I’m making them today and using Cubed Steak as the meat. Something you might want to try is….put the veggies on the bottom and the meat on top instead of the other way round- that way the flavor of the meat is dripped onto and infused into the veggies . The meat takes less time to cook than the veggies do so that’s good too. Potatoes & Carrots take about 45 mins to an hour to cook thru- meat only a half hour- and with the longer cooking veggies on bottom it only takes about 45 mins instead of a whole hour.
With the chicken hobo pckets I like to put Lemon Pepper and a pat of butter on to season.

I LOVE your site!!!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:29:20 +0000

I love these as well. We also use smoked sausage or italian sausage with variations on veggies. Thanks again for all your wonderful info!

By: Zero

Zero — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:25:38 +0000

I absolutely love these! We’ve always called them Hobo Dinners, and I’ve never seen anyone else make them in decades. I was introduced to them as a child on a camping trip. Same basic idea, but prepared in the coals of a camp fire. Brilliant!

By: JSNorris

JSNorris — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:20:00 +0000

This dish looks awesome!! It looks like just the thing I could make for two people. I’m always on the lookout for dishes that I can adapt to my husband and me. There are just the two of us now, with our kids grown and gone out of the house…so, it can be kinda tough to prepare easy and delicious meals for us…without any wasting of food!! Thanks for all of your fantastic recipes…many times, as I read them, my mouth literally begins to water…and lots of times, I’m reminded of the amazing meals my Mom and my Grandmother cooked…it brings back such sweet memories of these two truly, awesome Southern cooks!

Love your site…keep up the great work.

By: lindabelle

lindabelle — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:38:00 +0000

We love this meal. My kids don’t like carrots but they like squash so it’s an easy recipe to modify to satisfy anyone’s taste. I simply leave the carrots out of theirs and add a few slices of yellow squash.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:09:00 +0000

Made this lat night for dinner. LOVED it. The carrots were still a little hard after an hour so I had to cook them another 15 minutes. Will make again. Kids loved it.

By: erisraven

erisraven — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Heya, Christy -
Wow, you cook great, and you used to SCA too? What events did you do? It’s been years since I’ve been, but I still miss it…
Love your blog, and I’m gonna try these too.
If you look on Reynolds Wrap, the individual sheets packages have a lot of these style recipes on them.
I like mine with whole mushrooms in!

By: Shreela

Shreela — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:50:00 +0000

I was in Girl Scouts, and even went to a few Girl Scout camps during summer. But I didn't learn about these until hubby explained what his sister learned to make at home ec when she was a young teen. My Girl Scout pack had two girls competing with each other for badges, and we had sleep overs with pajama fashion show contests. So maybe you didn't miss much, because my memories of Girl Scouts is kind of lame.

Dale's Seasonings looks slightly familiar, but I can't remember why. I only use salt and pepper (a lot of that) on our packets.

Thanks to the first anonymous commenter about how to cook these in fire; I figured there had to be a way to make these in the fireplace, but was scared of making a smokey, burnt mess.