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Menu Tips and Grocery Shopping
Tips for Planning a Popular Menu
- Keep the meals simple. Usually, the simpler the better. Kids just like it that way.
- Add variety. Give the meals colour, shapes and flavours. Be creative meal-to-meal. Vary the ways you prepare the same food. Try ethnic dishes.
- Try to serve Beavers the meals you know they like. Of course, this'll vary from camp-to-camp, and year-to-year.
- Include foods you don't like. You might not like peas, but many children do. (And the other way around.)
How to Make a Grocery List
- Look over the menu and make a list of all recipe ingredients you'll need. Check with your Quartermaster for staple items (spices, flour, etc.), and add to the list any item which you need.
- Calculate the amount of meat, fish, poultry or alternatives you need for each day. Take in account the number of Beaver (and parents) you'll serve and their age. The following example shows how to calculate the amount to buy.
Example: Ground Beef for 24 Beavers
Plan on serving about 2 ounces (60 grams), cooked per child. For 24 children, you would serve 48 ounces of cooked ground beef.
Because of cooking losses, you would have to buy more than 48 ounces of raw ground beef. The following chart tells you how much to buy for the number of Beavers you serve. A pound of raw ground beef is enough to serve 6 Beavers. So, to serve 24 Beavers, you must buy four pounds (or 1.8 kilograms) of ground beef.
Buying Guide
| Meat/Alternative |
Size of Serving |
Number of Servings for Amount Bought |
| Ground beef |
2 ounces
(60 grams) |
6 servings per pound
(454 grams) |
| Stew beef |
2 ounces |
6 servings per pound |
| Roasts (boneless) |
2 ounces |
6 servings per pound |
| Fresh ham (boneless) |
2 ounces |
5 servings per pound |
| Wieners |
2 per |
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| Sausage |
2 per |
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| Poultry (bone in) |
2 ounces
1 chicken drumstick
1 chicken thigh |
3 servings per pound
3-4 servings per pound
3-4 servings per pound |
Fish
- frzn cakes/sticks
- frozen breaded
- canned tuna/salmon |
2 per
2 ounces
2 ounces |
5 servings per pound
3 servings per 7 ounce can
6 servings per 15 ounce can
25 servings per 60 ounce can
(1.7 kilogram) |
Cheese
- Cheddar
- Cheddar grated
- cottage cheese
- sticks |
2 ounces
1/2 cup grated
1/2 cup
1 to 2 each |
8 servings per pound
4 cups grated per pound
4 servings per 500 gram ctn |
| Peanut butter |
2 tablespoons |
14 servings per pound |
Other Useful Information
Buying Guide
| Food |
Size of Serving |
Number of Servings for Amount Bought |
| Vegetables |
| Frozen |
1/3 cup (75 ml.) |
32 per 5 lb. (2 1/2 KG) package |
| Canned |
1/3 cup (75 ml.) |
45 per 100 Oz. tin |
Fresh
- cabbage
- carrots or turnips
- potatoes
- spinach
- squash
- lettuce |
1/3 cup cooked
1/3 cup raw
1/3 cup cooked
1/3 cup shredded
1/3 cup cooked
1/3 cup cooked
1/3 cup raw, pieces
1/3 cooked
1/3 cup, chopped |
10 per pound
12 per pound
8 per pound
12 per pound
6 per pound
6 per pound
10 per pound
6 per pound
20 per medium head |
| Fruit |
| Canned |
1/3 cup (75 ml.) |
45 per 100 Oz. tin
10 per 28 Oz. tin |
Fresh
- apples
- bananas
- berries
- cantaloupe
- oranges
- peaches
- pears
- plums |
1 small (1/2 medium)
1/2 medium
1/3 cup
1/8 melon (large)
1 small
1 small
1 small
1 medium |
6 per pound
3 per pound
10 per quart
8 per large melon
12 per dozen
8 per pound
5 per pound
10 per pound |
| Milk and Milk Products |
| Fluid Milk |
4 ounces (125 ml.) |
32 per 4 litre pack |
| Breads and Cereals |
| Bread - slice |
1 slice (1 ounce) |
20 per loaf |
| Rice |
1/2 cup cooked |
16 per pound of uncooked rice |
Pasta
- macaroni
- noodles
- spaghetti |
1/3 cup, cooked |
18 per pound of dry pasta |
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Last updated: December 11, 1998
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