50 people camp food ideas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been camping with over 50 people many times (huge family, little money), in fact, most summers growing up. You buy more ice as needed from the camp store, and no, we've never had anyone get food poisoning from camping. Nearly anything you'd make at home you can make camping. We'd do ribs, steaks, baked potatoes (rub with olive oil and salt, wrap in heavy duty foil and throw in the fire), grilled veggies, etc. Wouldn't do expensive meat for people who were not family though

So you've never catered for 50 which is the whole problem here.

These 50 people aren't getting ala carte menus. It's camping, not a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

I think scrambled eggs would be relatively easy to do at that scale. Particularly if you can get help with the egg prep part so there's an assembly line of sorts.

[Anonymous]

I’d buy a box of MREs and throw them at people

[Anonymous]

Baked potatoes, just bring toppings — butter, cheese, sour cream, salsa, bacon bits

Canned chili, and toppings, Fritos or nachos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these recipes sound like a good way to give everyone food poisoning from improperly stored raw meats and other foods.

Have you never been camping? There are ways to store, handle and prepare food properly in the outdoors.

True. But the larger the quantity of food you are transporting to the woods, needing to keep cold, cooking, needing to keep hot and storing- the more difficult it becomes to be safe

We’ve done it dozens of times with Scouts and no one has ever gotten sick. Put frozen meat in coolers with ice, and it’s fine for three days. If you have a high end cooler like a Yeti, it’s good for much longer than that.

[Anonymous]

The standard fare for Scouts is spaghetti or chili, to the point that they’re usually kind of sick of it. When my kid had cooking duty, I helped him prep beef stew, with frozen stew meat, with bags of pre chopped potatoes, carrots, onions, and cans of tomatoes, plus a bag of pre-measured spices. Took some advance work, but it was very easy on the day of — sauté meat & onions, then dump in veggies and spices. My husband was worried that the kids wouldn’t like it, but it was a big hit.