Cooking hobo packs, suggestions for ingredient variety?

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I work for the Outdoor Adventure program at my university, and this weekend we’re taking a trip for the holiday and for our dinner plans on Sunday we are cooking hobo packs.

If you’re unfamiliar with hobo packs, we basically take foil packets and fill them with a variety of ingredients including ground beef, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, squash, zucchini, spices, and different condiments such as ketchup, barbecue sauce, or mustard, all based on personal preference, i.e. build your own dinner. Then the foil packets go straight on top of a pile of hot charcoals for 15 or so minutes until the meat is cooked through and the more dense vegetables or cooked enough to chew.

Lately we’ve been having the same options to choose from that I listed above in recent trips, and I am looking for some new and different options to add to the mix. Any suggestions on ingredients that would do well with this cooking method? I’ve thought about using mushrooms, adding chopped onion or garlic, bell peppers, or even subbing the broccoli for cauliflower. To me it seems like a mix between steaming and roasting and simmering all at the same time, so I’m not totally sure what will work and what won’t. Any ideas are much appreciated:)

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