Avondale Cabin

Troop 31

Menu

Friday Cracker Barrel

Serve @ 8:00

• Build your own nachos
• Aluminum trays of meat 10lb of ground beef cooked at home
• 6 large bags tortilla chips
• Cheese x2
• Sour cream x2
• Guacamole x3
• Salsa x2
• Hot peppers x2
• Hot sauce
• Hot cheese sauce:
• 4 lbs Velveeta cheese
• Rotel diced tomatoes with green chilies -mild. Four cans

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2023: 55 people

2020: 55 people:

10lbs meat is about right but used 6 bags of chips

2019: 45 people

About 7lbs of meat, and used 3 bags of chips, used only one salsa

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Left over chips can be used at the movie on Saturday night

Line plates w/tin foil, cheese is not easy to clean

Saturday Breakfast- Prep at 6:00

Serve at 7:30

• Fruit salad in 3 large ziplock bags
• French toast casserole x 8 pans. Dust w/powdered sugar & drizzle with syrup. Each casserole serves 8 people
• OJ x 4 half gallons
• Milk x 2 gallons
• Precooked bacon x 6
• Log Cabin syrup- 1 Bottle

2023: 60 people-8 pans of casserole

2020: 55 people

Used 6.5 pans of casserole and 5 packs of bacon

2019: 45 people

Used 6 pans of casserole and 6 packs of bacon

Left over bacon can be used on sandwiches at lunch

Skip milk, almost no one drinks milk

Saturday Lunch- Prep 11:30

Serve at 12:00

• Build your own sandwich
• Buns and rolls (about 1.5 per person?)
• Black Forest ham x 2 Costco packages
• Turkey x 2
• Roast beef x 3
• Cheese x 3 (mix of cheddar and swiss)
• Lettuce
• Tomatoes
• Mustard
• Mayonnaise
• Onions
• Chicken noodle soup or chili
• Vegetable soup or vegetarian chili
• Lemonade x 2
• Fruit juice x 1

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2023: 60 people, same as 2020

2020: 55 People

70 buns was about right (can use burger buns) and the above listed�amount of meat was good

Brought Chili instead of soup in 2020 and 3 cans of vegetarian chili which worked really good as soup never seemed popular with boys

Can have left over fruit salad

Saturday Afternoon Snack

Serve @ 2:00

• Large bag of oranges cut up
• Left over chips and salsa
• Left over guacamole
• Veggie tray- 1 large
• Oyster crackers 1 or 2 bags (boys eat that)

Skip the celery and carrots, the boys don’t

eat them. Consider alternatives possibly cheese sticks

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Mainly oranges and oyster crackers then left over chips and anything else (even bacon)

Saturday Dinner

*Start food prep at 5:00

*Dinner served at 6:00

• 100 Chicken pieces from Walmart (ask for everything but not wings). Order ahead for 5:15 pickup
• Mac and cheese x 8 (start early, oven doesn’t work well)
• Salad
• Lemonade x 2
• Bag of croutons
• Couple of different salad dressings (one each)

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In 2023-100 piece chicken & 8 Mac & Cheese was good

In 2020 with 55 people we needed 8 Mac & Cheese

In 2019 with 45 people only needed 5 Mac & cheese

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100 Chicken pieces is correct. If fewer people are present then�its OK to have wings

Saturday Cracker Barrel

Serve during the movie

• Mr. Dulik’s desert
• Popcorn (x 4-6 large bags) and left over chips with the movie

Sunday Breakfast

• Grab’n Go
• Bananas x 20-30
• Mini doughnuts x 2 boxes
• Mini muffins x 64
• Mini strudels x 32

• Alternatively, we can have 1 large muffin and one small muffin/pastry per person (plus some extras)
• In this case cut muffins into half

Other Items

• Toilet paper
• Paper towels
• Trash bags
• Hand soap for bathrooms and kitchen
• Hand sanitizer to dispense to boys before each meal
• Dishwashing detergent
• Dishwashing sponges

• Lot of drying towels
• Lot of serving spoons and bowls

French Toast Casserole (per pan)

• 1 loaf cinnamon bread
• 8 large eggs
• 3 cups whole milk
• 1 cup half & half
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Powdered sugar (dust)
• Syrup (drizzle)

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• Grease 9x13” baking dish
• Cut cinnamon bread into 1” chunks. Place in the baking dish, making two layers
• Whisk together eggs, milk, half & half, cinnamon and vanilla. Pour over bread, pressing to coat the bread well. Cover with a foil and refrigerate overnight
• Next day, preheat oven to 350F
• Bake for 45-70 min depending on how many pans are baked together
• Cover with powdered sugar and syrup