Girl's Camp:
FRENCH TOAST STICKS!! On Friday morning we were heading out for the first activity of that day - river rafting - at 7:30 am so we needed a fast, yet filling, breakfast. Here is what we did: 1. Heat a griddle that takes up 1/2 of a camp chef and 2 dutch ovens. 2. Dump sausages in the largest dutch oven first thing, because they take the longest to cook. Keep them cooking by stirring them. 3. Lay one layer of french toast sticks out on the griddle. Let them crisp and warm, turn them over, put them in the 2nd warmed up dutch oven to stay warm if needed. Add some juice and some fruit to the menu (we did a #10 can of mandarin oranges) - Easy Easy Easy! We had to wipe down the dutch ovens and griddle - and it really was only 1 dutch oven - and wash 1 set of tongs, a can opener, and 1 spatula and we were gone for the day!
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I was thinking about how to keep our food drier in the coolers, because I really don't like soggy food in coolers. So I wondered what it would be like to make my own freezer packs. It worked SOOOO good! Almost no water in the coolers AND the ice lasted Weds - Sat. The advantages of block ice without taking up the space that block ice does.
This is what I did: 1. Purchased good gallon freezer storage bags. The kind with the zipper was easiest to work with. 2. Doubled up two bags. 3. Filled up the inside bag 70 - 75% full of water. This is the equivalent of 7 lbs. 4. Zipped up both bags - getting excess air out of the bags. 5. Lay them flat in a freezer to freeze. It takes over 24 hours to freeze. 6. When we packed up coolers - large but not the over large kind of coolers - I put one on each end and one in the middle. That coupled with freezing everything else that we could freeze made it so that the ice packs lasted from 9:00 am Wednesday morning - Saturday. (With the 3 packs in each cooler it was the equivalent of 21 lbs of ice.) Two other things: 1. We were lucky enough that the cooler for the last day was a super good arctic type cooler so I know that helped, but the other coolers did SUPER well too. 2. I also packed "by the day." So 1 cooler was only for 1 day. That way we weren't getting in and out of all of the coolers all of the time. I've always hated keeping eggs and egg cartons dry and intact when camping. I also hate cracking eggs early in the morning when it's cold up in the mountains. This year I found the BEST egg hack using several ideas on the internet. This is what I did:
1. Washed and dried a pretzel/peanut butter nugget plastic container. 2. The day before we left for camp - cracked and lightly whipped 70 eggs and put them in the plastic container. (The container held all 70, but I did whip them in a blender about 20 at a time.) 3. Put the container in the freezer the day before. (It did freeze overnight, even though it was afternoon when we put them in the freezer.) 4. When we needed the eggs Thursday morning we simply cut the container off using a knife and dumped it frozen in the dutch oven. The block of eggs melts and starts cooking amazingly fast. 5. The bonus is that we had another frozen "block" in our cooler to help keep everything cold. |
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