Customer Reviews

Cooking on a Stick: Campfire Recipes for Kids

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This is a fun book for kids, and has a lot of common sense easy recipes they can follow. It starts off by teaching the basics of building a campfire, especially the safety involved, and putting out the fire. It has sections on cooking on a grill, cooking in a pouch, and on a stick. If you havne't doen these it is hard to describe, since they do not mean an animal on a spit here. This is good for cub scouts or other youth groups to teach basic cooking skills to kids in the woods.

The book COOKING ON A STICK is an intriguing title and may hint at being a simple book - but it's not. The recipes call for a can of non-stick cooking spray along with perishable foods such as hotdogs, fruit, eggs, etc. The recipe ideas are only suitable if one is camping next to a grocery store! There is even a recipe which suggests you let your child make a necklace out of dried fruit and cereal and that the child wear it around their neck for snack food. If you're trying to attract a bear this might be a great idea. I would not recommend this book for anything but the backyard camper. It is also not written at a level that your kids can read the recipes themselves, although the pictures suggest it is a children's book.

COOKING ON A STICK (and in a pouch and on a grill) is a great little cookbook for kids.The pictures are bright and colorful, safety issues are clearly dealt with, and the recipes are fun and tasty. Who can resist Moose Lips

This book is well written and beautifully illustrated.

It expands the basic recipe file of backpacking campers to include many delicious meals.

This is a great resource for those who are just beginning their camping experiences, especially scout leaders who need to teach their young scouts how to cook over an open flame.

I got this book at the library, but then came now online to purchase it. The ideas presented were fun and easy. I hadn't used tin foil on the campfire before, and the author gave some good ideas for that as well as items to be cooked on a stick. For example, I loved the idea about melting chocolate and bananas in the banana peel wrapped in tin foil. One reviewer commented about the use of perishables in the recipes. That wasn't a concern for us because of the refrigerator in our trailer. I suppose one could put the food items in an ice chest as long as one could drive to his/her campsite.

I highly recommend this book. It's fun and easy food for families while camping.

A good beginner book to give basic recipes and ideas for cooking on the campfire. The book does what I imagine it set out to do, giving starting point for people doing outdoor cooking with younger children such as parents, scout leaders, or teachers.

Very little book with very little information. Good book to help build excitement for a young child (6?) who is going camping for the first time. Otherwise, pass on this one. Book needs more recipes or pictures or games or something.

This is a cute book filled with great ideas. This book is for those camping in a city campground though, and not for backpacking in the woods. It's also not a very good choice for the picky eater.

This book gave me a lot of good ideas when I took my daycare kids camping this summer. They liked most of the recipes, but we tailored some of them to their liking. It was a great book.

This was a great buy for my 9 y/o! She loved it and we enjoyed all the goodies she made for us!