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- Jason W., Patrol Leader, Life, Aug. 2015
Food Patrol
The signup scouts would form at least one food patrol. Patrol leaders, usually the most senior scouts among of the signup scouts, would be assigned to each food patrol. Patrol leaders will work with the purchasers, most likely the First Class candidates who need to fulfill the food / cooking requirements (First Class requirements 4a~4e), to supervise the menu planning, food buying, cooking duties, and reviews.
Menu Planning
The purchasers need to figure out:
How many meals (breakfast + lunch + dinner). For longer or shorter trips, adjust accordingly.
The patrol must have a confirmed head count. Make sure you know how many people are in your patrol meal plan.
Vegetarian recipes -- Since not many people are familiar on how to cook them, vegetarians can prepare food for themselves or just buy canned food for convenience (coordinate)
Food Buying
Before the food buying:
Check food inventory.
Patrol leaders help the purchasers/the First Class Candidates to convert the menu into food material purchasing list.
Prepare and bring the coolers to the stores for frozen foods.
When buying food:
Buy the food the Wednesday or Thursday before the camping trip. We always leave on Friday, so buy food one or two days prior. If you plan for fresh food, they will not keep more than 5 days.
Patrol leaders and purchasers should guide the helping scouts to apply the Service Size concept for buying the food. Each food buying scout should know how to read the Service Size of food package, the quantity of the food we need.
Prepare Mr. A's Dutch Oven meal ( 2 boxes eggs + green pepper + tomato + cheese …)
Try to avoid Fresh Chicken when planning menus. It tends to spoil rapidly and can cause significant health issues, such as food poisoning, substitute canned chicken for soups and stews and fried chicken or fried chicken tenders for other dishes.
Finally, don’t over buy! This is probably the most common problem I observe; buy an additional different complementary item rather than just more of the same thing (for example, a box of Nutra-Grain Bars for spare.
Serving size example
This Trader Joe's Organic Whole Wheat Spaghetti package net weights 16oz (454g). Its serving size is 2 oz (56g or 1/8 package). Each package serves 8 persons.
Patrol leaders led the food buying.
Food packing and uploading.
Campout cooking duties.
Dutch Oven
Food Uploading
Bring the food to the rally point the day of the campout. Be sure that it is properly iced and have sufficient ice to replace the ice in your cooler during the weekend. Have the food separated into groups.
a. Cold in coolers – These must go in the Troop Trailer at night
b. Dry Goods -- These must go in the Troop Trailer at night
c. Bread and cookies --These must go in the Troop Trailer at night
d. Snacks -- These must go in the Troop Trailer at night
e. Canned Goods – These can stay in the patrol Pantry at night
f. Paper Goods -- These can stay in the patrol Pantry at night
Onsite Food Management
Purchasers is responsible of food inventory during the campout.
Review
Before breaking the camp, patrol leaders and purchasers should go through the left over and update the food inventory.
Purchasers should review the food inventory and analysis the food costs of the campout.
Pizza Ordering
In the case that having Pizza for dinner is required, Following are some useful data for reference:
A large size (Costco) pizza is usually cut into 12 slices.
A scout or an adult leader would have 3 slices in average.
Cheese pizza is acceptable for vegetarians.
Please don't over buy the pizza since the leftover pizza would lower the food consumption of the following meals.
Fill out below items when you purchasing the food (check any items you need and make some adjust for your patrol):
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