Tin Foil Dinners in the oven

I don't know about all of you..., but I love a good Tin Foil dinner.  So I was excited when my brother and his family figured out about how long to cook them in the oven. But this is an improvise type of recipe.  Sorry if you hate those type of things.

I'm also sorry I don't have pictures of this.  Maybe when I do it next I'll take pictures, but I make these on a day when I don't have much time for prep work for dinner, cause it doesn't take very long on the prep, but cooks for about 1-1.5 hr depending on your size of dinner.

We usually make 3-4 dinners for the 3 of us that eat and have lots of left overs cause we love them so much.

Ingredients (which can be changed to your preference along with amounts)
Hot Dogs,1-2/meal
Hamburger patties,1-2/meal
Potatoes, thinly sliced,1-2 medium/meal
Carrots, thinly sliced, I use baby carrots, 1-2 handfuls/meal
Onions, thinly sliced, 1/4/meal
Can of Cream of chicken soup
Montreal Steak seasoning
Lawry's seasoning salt
Salt and Pepper
Tin foil
Cookie sheet

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place large sheet of Tin foil down, and I cut 2 hot dogs lengthwise and place them on the tinfoil and place my hamburger patty on top. (My dad calls this the burnt sacrifice when you cook them on a real fire...meaning that the hot dogs can get burnt and it saves your hamburger patty:) For my husband I do 2 hamburger patties, cause he doesn't like hot dogs.  I don't mind hot dogs, and I love the flavor they add to the meal.
Then I season the meat with Montreal, Lawry's, salt, and pepper.
I cut all my potatoes, carrots, and onion in my Bosch food processor so they are evenly sliced.  And it's easy that way too.
I then put what amount of vegetables each person likes on the meats.
Distribute a few dollops of cream of chicken soup on top (this creates a gravy of sorts).  I use the entire can for 4 large dinners.
Then take the short ends of the tin foil and match them at center of the meal and then roll several times, then roll each edge of tin foil to close the meal and keep all the juices in!!
Cook for at least 1 hour-1 1/2 hrs depending on the size of the dinner.  The 2 hamburger patty meal take 1 1/2 hrs. Maybe cause they are a little larger.
Sometimes I put my hubby's meal in first and then after 30 minutes I put in mine.
Check to see if the veggies are cooked to desired softness and usually the meat is done by then.

7-Up Chicken-Dutchoven turned oven recipe.

Got this awesome recipe from my Aunt Verla years ago and my Mom figured out how to do it in the oven.  Easily a family favorite, Home style meal.

Makes a lot, so you may want to half it.  Serves 8-10 depending on how much chicken you want.

Basic ingredients: 

1/2-1 pound bacon

little flour

8 chicken breast or 12 thighs

Lawry's seasoning salt

Garlic powder

pepper

Carrots 

potatoes

onions

1 can of 7-UP

Butter/margarine

Fry up bacon.  I cut mine before with my kitchen shears to make it easier. 

Then  place your bacon in the roasting pan.  Save the bacon grease to brown your chicken.

Flour your chicken breast and then pan fry them in the bacon grease.  Add more oil if needed.

Then placed browned chicken breasts  in roasting pan.  Season LIBERALLY with Lawry's seasoning salt, garlic powder, and pepper.  This is where it gets most of the flavor.  I do it over board and then do some more.  You can always add it later in your cooking if it isn't flavorful enough for you.

I just use baby carrots so I don't have to cut them.  (I go for easy) And then I quarter a large onion when I'm making a half batch, but quantities all depend on your own preference of vegetables.

Then I peel the potatoes and throw them through my Bosch food processor french fry cutter (Love my Bosch)  A whole post in itself I'm telling you!!

Add 1 cube of butter/margarine, 1 cup of water, a can of 7-up and into the oven at 350 degrees.  Now depending on the size of your potatoes it can take between almost 1.5-2.5 hours .  With my potatoes cut like this 1.5 hours is usually sufficient.  If you are still in a dutch oven, it cooks over hot coals for about 45 minutes -1 hour. 

NOTE: this is not a meal that freezes well for later,unless you removed some for freezing before all the vegetables are done.  Otherwise you loose all the texture once you freeze it.  I suggest just halving and eating leftovers for a small family.