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How interesting, garanch!
Are you a full-time chuckwagon cook or is it seasonal work? Is this for cowboys -or- for outdoorsmen on for a pack trips to hunt or fish -or- for city slicker tourists?
My son-in-law is from an old ranching family in Idaho (five generations) so he grew up with campsite meals, especially in the summer when they have their cattle on the high grazing land from late May to mid-September. By the time he was a teen, much of the cooking fell to him because he enjoyed doing it.
Later, he worked for many years as a hunting guide for wealthy people who flew into Idaho, Montana and/or Wyoming for one- or two-week long hunts in the fall, and for fishermen in the spring and summer. He was not only their guide, he was their cook, nanny, nurse, teacher, counselor, and policeman, too, plus he tended the riding and the pack horses (no chuck wagon). In fact, he was the only staff with generally three to eight outdoorsmen.
Though he doesn't do that work any more, he still helps his dad and brothers move the cattle from winter to summer pastures and then back again, he's still the cook when he and his pals go deer and elk hunting for 10 days every autumn, he takes care of all the food when he accompanies my daughter to horse shows all over the West (they sleep in their horse trailer's living quarters and he fixes all their meals right there on the horse show grounds), and he does about 85% of all the cooking at home.
He's a master with those stackable cast iron cooking pots and a campfire. I've seen him make soup in one, a main course meat dish (like pot roast or lamb or stuffed peppers) in another, and dessert (like a cobbler) in the third one, stack them up, fire them up, and have dinner ready in a couple of hours. And yummy good stuff, too!
Sorry, I don't have recipes to share with you, but have you done a google search for
chuckwagon +recipe*
I found quite a few websites that seem to offer recipes. Maybe there's something there you can use.
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