Meeting (generally the Monday before)
- Scouts plan menus
- No individual drinks (size, trash); powders best.
Jugs/cartons milk/juice OK.
- Friday dinner normally sack dinner
- Scouts plan shopping lists including quantities
- Scouts plan who will shop, who will clean after campout
Monday before campout
- Coolers and dry goods boxes to meeting
- Coolers and dry goods boxes to Scouts who are shopping
- Inspect coolers and dry goods boxes
- Discard obvious junk
- Clean as required
Wednesday or Thursday
- Shop for food
- Keep in mind what is already in the dry goods box
- Sanity-check quantity – not too much, not too
little. (Target $10-15/Scout)
- Don’t buy large amounts of perishables; donate some
ketchup from family supply instead of buying a new
bottle.
- Get ice (yours or from store) for cooler – 7-10lb
- Keep refrigerated stuff in your refrigerator
- Pack non-refrigerated stuff in dry goods box
Friday
- Put stuff in cooler on Friday with ice on top
- Bring to park for trip
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At the park
- Distribute perishables
- Bread, refrigerated stuff
- Not oatmeal, dry cereal, chocolate mix, pancake mix
- Coolers, dry goods boxes, and cookware boxes to
assigned Scouts
At Home
Cooler
- Take stuff out of cooler
- Discard obvious junk
- Keep what you want, discard the rest
- Clean cooler
- Dry cooler
Dry goods
- Inspect, discard obvious junk
- Keep any perishables you want; discard the rest
- Clean as required
Cookware
- Clean
- Report damage
- Check contents against packing list on lid
- Packing list is also the order to pack the cookware
into the box
Following meeting (often the next day!)
- Bring cooler, dry goods box, cookware box to meeting
- Non-perishables in dry goods box are returned to the
troop shed
- Items can come back at a later meeting, but make sure
they get back and make sure somebody knows about
it. Best if they come back that first meeting.
- Give receipts for food bought to the treasurer for
reimbursement. Including a reimbursement form
would be appreciated.
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