Denville, NJ
FOOD BUYER MANUAL
Job Description for Food
Supervisor
1.
Prepare
the menu for the campout and turn into patrol leader or senior patrol leader on
assigned date(usually two weeks before campout). Keep in mind that you will have a limited amount of money to
spend.
Breakfast
should include:
Eggs
and bread, muffin or biscuit; or French Toast or Pancakes
a
fruit
Bacon
or Sausage
Juice
Hot
Cocoa
Lunch
should include:
Sandwich,
sloppy joe on rolls, or hot dogs
Fruit
Cut
vegetables
Chips
or Snack(Optional)
Drinks
Dinner
should include:
Meat
Starch-Potatoes,
rice or noodles
Vegetable
Salad
Biscuit,
roll or bread(optional)
Fruit
or desert
Drinks
You may want to
include extra snacks if your budget allows.
Sample Menus: B-Rocky Road(egg in hole
in bread) or omelet and toast, oranges,
juice, Cocoa.
L-English
muffin pizzas, apples, juice
D-Foil
chicken(chicken, potatoes, and carrots),
salad s’mores, juice
Snack-Donuts
B-Pancakes,
bacon, oranges, juice, cocoa
L-Sloppy
joes on hamburger rolls, chips, carrots and celery, canned fruit, juice
D-Swiss
steak, biscuits, potatoes and onions, salad, banana boats, juice
Snack-apples
Suggested Entrees: chili, taco filling,
chicken stew, beef stew, swiss steak, sweet and sour
meatballs,
sausage spaghetti, meatballs and spaghetti, foil chopped meat, foiled
chicken,
barbecued chicken.
2.
Prepare
a list of all ingredients that you will need to buy to cook the menu you
planned for the number of scouts going on the overnight. When figuring out the meat plan on 3-4
servings to a pound. Check with the patrol leader or senior patrol leader about
items that are leftover from previous campouts and basic items that will be
need to be replaced(paper towels, paper plates, foil, etc.)
3.
After
you have a list of all the items you need to purchase, set up a shopping list
by grouping similar foods together.
Turn list into patrol leader or senior patrol leader on assigned
date(usually one week before campout).
Make sure you stay within your budget.
Try to keep similar items together since they will be found in the same
aisle in the market.
4.
Shop
for the campout and keep track of the cost as you go to make sure you stay
within your budget. If you go over your
budget, put back some unnecessary items such as snacks and deserts or cut back
on quantities. Put all refrigerator
items together so that you can put them in the refrigerator until the campout
and in the cooler when you get there.
You may want to pack the other food by meals so it will be easier to
distribute when cooking. Keep your
receipts and change and give it to the patrol leader or senior patrol leader to
save for the next campout. Figure out
the cost of the food per boy for your skill award.
5.
Bring
all food to the campout.
6.
Supervise
the distribution of all food. This
means at meals and snacks. Remember
what you bought must last the entire trip.
Don’t give out what is not on the menu for that meal or for a
snack. Keep track of what everyone gets
so that all the boys get equal amount.
7.
Inventory
leftovers and basic supplies with your patrol leader or senior patrol leader
and give
the list to him for the next campout.
8. NO DUPLICATION of MENU ITEMS ALLOWED FOR
THE SCOUT YEAR!