Boy Scout Dinners

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Boy Scout Dinners are a family favorite around here. You may already be familiar with them but know them by a different name. Boy Scout Dinners are prepared in individual foil packets and then baked in the oven, so if you are familiar with that concept, your family may already be loving these.

What I love about these is that like having a pizza bar, baked potato and salad bar, or even omelets, they are made to order for each individual person. The beauty of that is – you guessed it – no complaining about what they don’t like about the meal.Try as hard as we may to enforce the “no complaining about your food” rule at meals, there are often complaints that offhandedly slip through. The kids just love them period.

This is how we do it.

You will need:

• hamburger patty, I use about one quarter pound patties for each person
• potatoes, peeled and sliced
• carrots, peeled and sliced
• celery, sliced
• onions, chopped
• salt
• pepper
• butter
• aluminum foil – 1 foot per person eating

First, gather a cookie sheet or tray, and start off my ripping off your foil that is about one foot long – you need to have enough to fold and seal each packet well. I plan on two packets per tray. In the center of your foil, put the hamburger patty. Next, pile the other ingredients in according to each person’s order. I like the flavor of the onions and then the potatoes on the hamburger patty, but that’s just me, of course. The leftovers are just as tasty as when they are fresh out of the oven, so I generally err on the side of larger portions.

With the foil packet filled, I add about 1 Tablespoon of butter and about 2 Tablespoons of water. The butter is just for flavor, and the water is to help the vegetables steam.

Next fold up your packet well, making sure that everything is sealed up to avoid it from getting dried out.

Bake the trays, 2 packets per tray, in a 375 degree oven. Mine are consistent at 45 minutes for baking time. Start checking every ten minutes or so at the 30 minute mark just to be sure. CAUTION: the escaping steam will be HOT!

The fun of Boy Scout Dinners is eating them right out of the foil!