FoodAndCookingCoordination07

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Mmmmmm food, the best part of camping together is eating together (awwww). But it takes some work and co-ordination. This is one area we could use some help!

Contents 1 delivery people 2 Shared Menu Notes 3 Menus 3.1 Friday Dinner 3.2 Saturday Breakfast 3.3 Saturday Lunch 3.4 Saturday Dinner 3.5 Sunday Breakfast 3.6 Sunday Lunch 3.7 Sunday Dinner 3.8 Saturday Breakfast 3.9 Snacks and Drinks 4 Cooking Equipment 5 Combined Ingredients Shopping List 6 Other Food and Cooking Notes and Discussion

delivery people

• http://www.organic-gmfree.co.uk - who we used last time, they were good but they're in surrey
• http://www.realfood-direct.com/ - a more local one, but we don't know what they're like
• Beans and Things 01273 477 774 - small, local delivery company

Shared Menu Notes

• Menus should plan for 60 people (I think? 50 plus the few extra there might be... -Heather)
• This is a useful guide to quantities: http://www.lcv.org.uk/howto/catering.html
• No meat is provided in the shared menu. Please bring your own for the BBQ on Sunday night (see below) and if you want to cook your own to supplement (though cooking space is limited and shared food is priority!).
• Assume that there is no refrigeration available. Even if there is a fridge, it will not cope with food for all of us
• Bring your own plates, cup and cutlery

Menus

If you have a culinary bent, pick a meal, volunteer as Head Chef and set a delicious menu! Add the individual ingredients needed below your menu, with quantities...

Friday Dinner

This will likely be a smaller dinner than Saturday, as not everyone will be there. Quantities on the cautious side!

• Head Chef volunteer?: steve a
• Sous Chef volunteers?: alex m
• Menu?: curry, unless someone has a better idea
  • dhal, rice and a vegetable curry; and possibly bhagia, and I fancy having a go at flat breads, how hard can it be to not make bread rise?
  • FridayNightDinnerReservations <- if you want dinner, add your name here
• Ingredients needed?:

1.bhaghia and chapatis

• veg oil
• chapati flour
• 4 ripe plantain
• bag of chickpea flour
• salt
• a goodly amount of onions
• 1kg carrots
• green chilies
• cumin[will put on the herb run]
• 1kg raisins[excess for sunday salad]
• 3 bunches fresh coriander
• mint[as above]

[I can get the flours and plantain if necessary]

2. curry

• 2kg red lentils
• curry paste[mild/korma] 1 jar
  • 2 kg rice
  • some seasonal vegetables [or is this too vague]

Saturday Breakfast

• Bring and cook/assemble your own please!
  • We can provide soya milk ?
    • 250ml per person ?

Saturday Lunch

• Sandwiches and leftovers - no chefs
• Ingredients needed? (Any reasonable suggestions welcome!)
  • Bread (10 loaves)
  • Cheese (quantity 100g per person)
  • Maybe Houmous as vegan sandwich option - w carrot or salad?
  • Tomatoes (15 medium sized)
  • Cucumbers (5)
  • Mayonnaise or pickle or something...

Saturday Dinner

This will likely be the main meal of the weekend, with the most people, so should be a big one.

Two more volunteers would be good in addition to the two already here. No experience necessary!

• Head Chef volunteer: Tall Paul
• Sous Chef volunteers!?: Evan, Julie, Sarah
• Menu: All dishes feed 60 Evan: Can do a good lentil/feta/mint salad that is very filling, if we can keep enough feta around for a night
  • Could we also have a vegan version without feta?
• Ingredients needed?
  1. Lentil/feta salad (feeds 60 as very filling side dish):
     • 10 cup lentils
     • about 20 cloves garlic
     • some bay leaves
     • 2 kg feta
     • 30 red pepper
     • 30 bunch mint[is this loads of mint or the meagre supermarket size]
     • cumin
     • 30 small red onion
     • 1.33L balsamic vinegar
     • 1.33L tbsp olive oil
  2. Carrot and Orange Salad
     • 5kg of Carrots
     • 1L of Orange Juice
     • 1/2 L of Olive Oil
     • (orange flower or rosewater if available)(I have these and will bring them -- tallpaul)
     • 4 bunches of Coriander
     • Ginger
     • Cinnamon
  3. Couscous
     • 3 - 3 1/2 couscous
     • 1/2 kg Raisins or sultanas
     • 5 bunches fresh parsley
     • 10 lemons (juice of)
  4. Sauce
     • 2 catering size tins of tomatoes (2 X 2 1/2 Kg)
     • 3kg ish Aubergines and/or courgettes
     • 1kg onions
     • 2 -3 bulbs garlic
     • Cumin

Sunday Breakfast

• Bring and cook/assemble your own please!

Sunday Lunch

• Sandwiches and leftovers - no chefs
• Ingredients needed?

Sunday Dinner

We'd like to have a BBQ with shared salads, condiments, sides, etc, but a (mostly) BYOMeat/veg main policy. People will likely be trickling out at this point, so again, quantities on the cautious side...

• Head Chef volunteer?
• Sous Chef volunteers!? Annie, CarlC
• Menu?
  • A few veggie burgers just in case
• Ingredients needed?
  • Veggie burgers (20-30) - make sure to get the vegan kind, not Quorn
• Making veggie burgers is straight forward!!

if we are making burger and not getting the ready made sort

• • 500g oats
  • large tin each of redkidney, butter, borlotti beans
  • 3 green peppers
  • olive oil
  • garlic
  • 2 eggs [unless a vegan knows how to bind this without egg]
  • 2 onions
  • potatoes to roast in the fire

Saturday Breakfast

• Bring and cook/assemble your own please!

Snacks and Drinks

Non-alcoholic drinks, that is - but do bring a bottle of wine to share at dinner if you like

• Ingredients needed?:
  • A spot of juice for the weekend? If we can find inexpensive stuff that isn't completely artificial.
• tea!
• soya milk
• cow milk

Cooking Equipment

We have to bring our own cooking equipment - pots, pans, knives, everything! Please list what equipment is needed to cook the menus above, especially if you are a Head Chef. If you have something you can bring please add your name, and whether or not you can travel with it yourself. Again, bring your own plates, cup and cutlery or you'll be eating with your fingers! :)

• BBQ grills for camp fire
• 10 litre and 5 litre cook pots (Robert_A can provide, transport may be needed)
• 3 off 6 litre and 1 off 10 litre pans (Alex Z. bringing by car)
• katf bringing large jam pan, 4 large bowls and one huge serving dish (for dry foods), dualit 6 slice toaster, tea and coffee pots, 2 cheese graters, large colander, kettle
• Saturday: 2 plastic containers for salad, I pan for sauce I for boiling water/couscous (will be bringing large metal bowl for couscous salad. Cheese graters or better still food processor with grater.

Combined Ingredients Shopping List

The final order list from Ocado (Waitrose):

(thats unit quantity, number delivered/number ordered, price)

Alpro Soya Alternative to Milk 1l 30/30 32.70

Bart Spices Ground Cinnamon 35g 2/2 2.38

Biona Organic Butter Beans in Water 400g 2/2 1.78

Carbonell Spanish Olive Oil 3l 1/1 14.49

Carex Family Size Handwash 500ml 1/1 2.39*

Clipper Organic Tea Bags 80 3/3 4.87

Cotswold Legbar Free Range Eggs 6 1/1 1.55

Crosse & Blackwell Original Branston Pickle 720g 10/10 14.50

Divine Milk Chocolate 100g 5/5 5.95*

Doves Farm Organic Wholemeal Bread 800g 7/7 9.03

Ecover Washing Up Liquid With Lemon And Aloe Vera 1l 2/2 3.58

Heinz Organic Tomato Ketchup 580g 5/5 9.45

Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise 600g 8/8 15.12

Maldon Sea Salt 250g 2/2 4.18

Moo Organic Semi Skimmed Milk 1l 15/15 11.35

Princess Marshmallows 200g 15/15 15.75*

Simonini Organic Balsamic Vinegar 250ml 8/8 22.32

T & G Wooden Skewers 25cm 50 3/3 3.75*

Tate & Lyle Organic Granulated Sugar 500g 5/5 4.75

The Village Bakery Organic Borodinsky Rye Bread 400g 5/5 7.45

Vogel's Brown Bread Soya & Linseed 800g 4/4 4.36

WTR Cooks' Ingredients Dijon Mustard 200g 5/5 5.45

Waitrose Apple & Walnut Chutney 350g 1/1 1.19

Waitrose Aubergines 5/5 4.95

Waitrose Baking Potatoes 750g 15/15 14.85

Waitrose Bay Leaves 10g 2/2 1.78

Waitrose Borlotti Beans 410g 2/2 1.06

Waitrose Corn Flakes 750g 3/3 3.63

Waitrose Couscous 1kg 4/4 6.52

Waitrose Organic Brown Rolls 4 10/10 10.50

Waitrose Organic Garlic 80g 8/8 7.12

Waitrose Organic Green Lentils 500g 4/4 4.36

Waitrose Organic Italian Tomatoes 400g 15/15 9.75

Waitrose Organic Jumbo Oats 1kg 1/1 1.52

Waitrose Organic Mint 20g 15/15 14.85

Waitrose Organic Muesli 1kg 5/5 14.45

Waitrose Organic Peppermint Tea Bags 20 2/2 1.98

Waitrose Organic Raisins 375g 5/5 8.45

Waitrose Organic Red Kidney Beans 410g 2/2 1.64

Waitrose Organic White Long Tin 800g 7/7 8.05

Waitrose Organic Whole Cumin 45g 2/2 3.10

Waitrose Organic Whole Grain Brown Rice 500g 4/4 3.96

Waitrose Parsley 20g 5/5 3.45

Waitrose Pure Apple Juice 4x1l 2/2 5.58

Waitrose Pure Orange Juice 4x1l 2/2 5.18

Waitrose Scottish Heather Honey 340g 2/2 7.98

Waitrose Select Organic Ginger Powder 32g 2/2 2.78

Waitrose Spicy Onion Chutney 320g 1/1 1.79

Waitrose Strawberry Jam 454g 3/3 2.07

Waitrose Sunflower Seeds 125g 10/10 6.90

Waitrose Vegetable Oil 2l 1/1 1.15

Zanae Vine Leaves Stuffed with Rice 280g 5/5 7.45

Anchor Extra Mature Free Range Cheddar 400g 7/7 20.93

Arla Apetina Feta Block 200g 15/15 18.75

Cypressa Halloumi Full Fat Soft Cheese 250g 6/6 12.90

Waitrose Coriander 20g 4/4 3.16

Waitrose Dutch Edam Quarters - Mild .42kg 1/1 1.27

Waitrose Dutch Edam Quarters - Mild .42kg 1/1 1.39

Waitrose Dutch Edam Quarters - Mild .42kg 1/1 1.30

Waitrose Dutch Edam Quarters - Mild .42kg 1/1 1.38

Waitrose Dutch Edam Quarters - Mild .42kg 1/1 1.50

Waitrose English Organic Capri Tomatoes 225g

Save 50p, Was £1.99 20/20 29.80

Waitrose Fresh Sweetcorn in Husk 4 15/15 29.85

Waitrose Green Peppers 2 2/2 2.58

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 1.73

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 2.11

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 1.89

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 2.03

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 2.12

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 1.65

Waitrose Medium Red Leicester .325kg 1/1 1.84

Waitrose Organic Carrots 750g 5/5 5.95

Waitrose Organic Courgettes 500g 3/3 5.67

Waitrose Organic Houmous 200g 25/25 27.25

Waitrose Organic Lemons 3 4/4 4.76

Waitrose Organic Lettuce Gourmet 15/15 11.10

Waitrose Organic Red Onions 500g 6/6 4.74

Waitrose Organic Ridge Cucumber 5/5 5.20

Waitrose Red Peppers 2 17/17 21.93

Yeo Valley Organic Slightly Salted Butter 250g 6/6 6.00

Blue Keld/Polarcube Spring Water Premium Ice Cubes 2kg 2/2 1.98

Total Cost Of Goods 597.95

Delivery Corporate 5.00* Voucher -30.00*

Total price £572.95

Other Food and Cooking Notes and Discussion

Allergies? Carnivore? Need to talk about it? Do it here!

• • Breakfast( & Lunches)** Might it be better to bulk buy bread, spreads and muesli/cereals for this, rather than have lots of people bringing small amounts of food. It wouldn't be a big job for someone to volunteer to slice bread and put stuff out and might save a lot of mess.

See also Food Hygiene