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Boy Scout Camping food summary

I got a lot of helpful responses and a few recipes. Thank you. One person
was lucky enough to have her son at a scout in North Carolina where the Cook
had a wheat allergy and understood how wheat could turn up in odd places.
Another responder had one bad experience, where her son had to prepare all
his own food ahead of everyone else and in doing so had to miss out on some
activities everyday (flag raising, etc). Overall, most people had good
experience with scout camp accomodations. Everyone sent food substitutes
with their child.

One person asked if you could get a discount for sending food, if the camp
can't provide it. This is not a question I asked so I don't have experience
on that to summarize here. I do know that my cousin did get a scout camp in
Illinois to discount her son's week because she sent every bit of food for
the week.

Quite a few scout masters and Eagle scouts forwarded phone numbers in case I
needed more information. Thank you to all the scouts and caring parents with
so many ideas.

Camp:
Get in touch with camp director and explain diet.
Ask for menu and highlight safe, questionable, and no. Ask for refridgerator
space and send meal substitutes in individual containers for each meal. Each
container must be clearly labeled for the particular meal (day/time) and
your child's name. If labeling is not done and there's a health inspection
the food may be thrown away. If you are relying on any of the camp's cooking
make a menu on a spreadsheet including directions for each meal on each day
(ie Monday breakfast XX can have scrambled eggs with his bread. This note on
the spreadsheet can be matched to a package you have labeled Monday
breakfast which has XX's gf bread in it.).  Give copies of spreadsheet to
Scoutmaster, Cook and post on camp refridgerator. Find out options for
reheating food and pack in microwavable plastic if appropriate.

Scout should have nonpersishable snack foods in tightly sealed packaging to
have at campsite. One person suggested not keeping snacks at campsite, but
in camp redgerator, due to wildlife being attracted to it. At some camps,
campers can buy snacks at the camp store, so bringing snacks along ensures
that the scout can have a snack with his fellow scout even when the store
does not have gf options.

If meals are patrol style, get menu and send substitutes to add to make meal
gf with instructions. If the menu calls for oatmeal, scout takes instant
grits he could make himself. If tacos were on the menu for dinner, send
along a pkg of g.f. taco seasoning and a bag of corn chips to use instead of
flour tacos. Instant rice was substituted for pasta, etc.

Overnight camping:
Dinty Moore Beef Stew
Hebrew National franks
rice crackers and peanut butter or cheese
boiled eggs (peeled and put in a bag, so they don't have to be touched to
eat)
fresh fruit
kraft marshmallows
gf snack foods (Lays plain potato chips, corn chips, bean dip, almond joy or
mounds
gf waffles to be toasted over camp fire
scrambed eggs and gf sausage
gf pancakes (prepared gf mix) prepared on the griddle before the rest of the
troop
cold gf cereal
gf bread and sandwiches premade and sent along
stir fry veggies and meat w/o sauce and take out a serving before adding
sauce for troop
Thai Foods dried rice noodle soup
cups of dried soup (fantastic foods, mrs. Leepers)
grits
donuts
hot chocolate


A few recipes
Foil dinner
tightly wrap heavy duty foil around hamburger, cut up potatoes, carrots,
onion and cook directly on hot coals 10-12 min This can also prepared with
chicken and a variety of other things.

In an aluminum pie pan or foil.  You can use corn tortillas, or mixup GF
flour, water, sugar, baking powder, butter and pie filling. (peach, apple
whatever) layer corn tortillas, and filling, sprinkle sugar on each layer of
tortillas. wrap it up and place in coals until done.  This is scouts,
experiment and learn.
 Breakfast is easy.   Be sure he has his own GF skillet for sausage, eggs,
bacon or  an omelet with everybody  This is very hard.
 Boil a pot of water. In a freezer bag, throw in one or two eggs, seal bag
and squish the eggs until scrambled, add a little milk or none if you don't
do dairy. Add bacon pieces, onion, cheese or soy cheese, whatever you like
in an omelet. Seal BAG! drop in very hot water (boiling) until done.
Pack GF luncheon meat. Fruit and veggies.  A gf bar for  a snack.

 If they use a gas grill,  make hotcakes in his skillet.
 1/2 cup of GF flour
 1 egg
 2 teaspoons baking  powder
 3 tablespoons applesauce
 a little milk or water to mix
  a little vanilla to flavor

Baked bean should first be drained so there is not so much juice, add some
molasses, (they put molasses in cheap beans but not enough) some finely cut
up onion and perhaps some diced bacon or ham or cut up sausage. Heat and
eat. Cheap beans then taste great.

Do not forget s'mores.  Either substitute a GF cookie or cracker for the
graham cracker, do without the cracker or cook it in tin foil with a banana.

Happy Camping!
Betty

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