Full meal over a campfire with no cookware? Absolutely.

Yes. You can cook a full meal using nothing but fire and a few natural tricks. The key is to stop thinking like a kitchen and start thinking like a scout.

Stick a piece of meat or fish on a green branch and hold it over the coals—not the flames, that just burns the outside. Turn it occasionally. Same goes for veggies like peppers, onions, mushrooms, or even pineapple. Skewer them and roast.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, or whole onions go straight into the hot coals. Wrap them in damp leaves if you want, but they cook fine bare if you rotate them occasionally. An hour in embers turns them soft and sweet. Same for corn in the husk—just bury it in coals for 15 minutes.

For something like a stew or broth, you can heat a flat rock by the fire and drop it into a hollowed-out log or a large leaf-lined hole in the ground. Not exactly soup, but you can boil water this way (