When I started camping with my kids I bought a 6" and an 8" (that's 1-qt to the brim and 2-qt ttb). That was good for a main dish and a side (veggie or desert), with no left-overs. I hate having left-overs to deal with when camping. However, Dutch oven recipes seem to be mostly written for 10" or 12" ovens (4-qt and 6-qt) and feed an army. That's great for the pot-luck at a gathering, but too much for a couple or a single mom of young kids.
Here's a thead on the subject of cooking for two:
http://camp-cook.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... sc&start=0Also, I suggest practicing at home, before you leave on a camping trip. But if you cook for two at home, you should already have a feel for the amounts you both eat. But do think about how much you put in the fridge as left-overs every night. Do you want to do that camping? Think one-pot-meals, small casseroles, even recipes for the 2-qt slow cookers (there are cooking-for-two slow-cooker cook books on Amazon).
Biscuits-in-a-can cook nicely (small can). Either grease the bottom and sides of the DO well, or line with a cooking parchment paper liner (form over a container that is very close to but smaller than the interior of your DO, then trim the top edges so they don't stick out and catch fire). Cinnamon rolls really need the parchment liner, they stick! Bread stick dough and pizza dough also come in those cans, if you want to try yeast bread. Don't feel you have to use all of the can contents, experiment to see how much fits and how much you will eat. (Left-over bread is nearly always good with breakfast the next morning, though.) Again, I have always used the parchment liners with bread, but others cook it straight in the greased DO. Grease the inside of the lid, too, as sometimes your bread will bump the ceiling as it cooks. And don't feel it has to be convenience foods. I cook most things from scratch, including camp biscuits and no-knead oat bread.
Dump cake? Use a single-serve can of mixed fruit or the fruit of your choice and half of the packaged cake mix. Cut the other ingredients in half. Oh, and I can't say this enough, parchment paper liners for sticky stuff!
There's no using a liner for this one, though. We love, love, love making a quick sticky sauce in the small DO (1 C sugar over coals until it melts and just starts to color, a splash of boiling water to make a syrup about ¼-½ inch deep, then drop biscuits into the syrup to just cover the bottom of the DO, cover and set over coals, coals on top, cook until biscuits are golden. Share this one with coffee and friends.
Hope that helps.
Catherine
p.s. My kids are 13 now, DS eats about 3000 calories a day, DD is not far behind, so I now have the 10' DO too.
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"Oh, let's just stay here and sing camp songs for a while." 1966, My mom in Isle Royale, MN, in a women's bath house with a momma bear and two cubs outside the door, and three tired kids trapped inside
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I made BBQ ribs in it yesterday and they were yummy! 
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