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Meals on camping trips are prepared by each Patrol. A few weeks before every camping trip, the Patrols are given instructions and time at Troop Meetings or Patrol Meetings for planning. They plan their menu, figure out what they need, check their Patrol boxes to see what they have, and create a detailed shopping list.
If you are selected to buy the food, you should have the list that your Patrol prepared. You should need to buy only what’s on the list. You, and anyone helping you, should be aware of the following general rules:
- Check the trip itinerary if you are expected to bring a sack lunch or dinner, or money, for meals during or immediately after traveling.
- All meals should be cooked, with the exception of breakfast on the morning of departure. (Lunch is optional).
- The menu should be well balanced among the four food groups of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs; milk and milk products; fruits and vegetables; bread and grain products.
- Determine if any of your Patrol members has food allergies or special requirements that you need to take into consideration.
- “A Scout Is Thrifty.†Watch your budget. Get food for the meals first. Buy snacks only if you have money left over. Use things up. For example, one box of Bisquick can make pancakes at breakfast and biscuits at dinner. Left over potatoes from dinner can be hashed browns in the morning.
- Check your Patrol box for staples like SOS pads, dish soap, paper products, and stove fuel.
See Also
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"Who hath smelt woodsmoke at twilight?
Who hath heard the birch log burning?
Who is quick to read the noises of the night?
Let him follow with the others.
For the young men's feet are turning,
To the camps of proved desire and known delight."
Rudyard Kipling
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