As promised, the food.
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Apologies for the lack of a summer camp blog. The site had no mobile signal and there were no hotspots locally. Â Hopefully you kept an eye on our Storify page that we’ve just updated again. Instagram pics uploaded occasionally when the wind changed and our phones got a bit of connection, here it is if you missed it (photos and videos to follow during the week):
Jack sorted out the leaders
The scouts cooked their own.
With toast!
Yumsk
Mouth watering…
That is muck, not a black eye
fried bread
Teamwork
Special guest
Here’s a quick video and we agree with every word of it!
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I popped into the hut and found a kitchen turning out quality Chinese food and all running on child labour. Very happy child labour!
Well done to all of them.
So look… if you ever doubt the ability of your kids to cook… you should check out what they can create when the odds are against them. We really stacked the deck against them with courgettes, cabbage, cucumber, instant mash, tinned beans and pulses and more  but still six patrols made six edible meals.
When they have proper ingredients they really fly.
Congrats to the Kingfishers who (amazingly to those of us who were supervising the cooking) made the tastiest meal for the judges.
a rather blurry pic of Frank and his winning patrol
Jack and John, our Judges.
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With some basic ingredients
Chicken, peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, bacon and some other cupboard staples
Plus the options of pasta, rice, potato or noodles the patrols had to conjure up some imaginative tasty food. Where i still have it, i have transcribed their menus.
Nick and Rob were the judges tonight.
The Kestrels were the winners and will be invited to represent us at the district cooking competition:
Loic the winning PL with his Patrol.
The winning dish… Chicken wrapped in bacon with sauteed mushrooms and sweet peppers with mashed potatoes and vine-ripened tomatoes.
Kestrels
MENU:3
IMAGINATION:8
TASTE:8
DISPLAY:9
PRICE I WOULD PAY:7
TOTAL: 35/50
2nd place: The Hawks PL Josh with his spiced chicken and rice.
Hawks
MENU:4
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:8
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:5
TOTAL: 31/50
Joint 3rd place: Sophie the Eagles PL with her Pacman pasta (you can’t see but the potato is pacman and ghosts with carrot dots around the side)
This was:
- Pacman Potatoes with carrot coins
- Ghastly Ghosts and Brilliant Bacon
- Pasta a la Cavalli (special of the day)
*All food cannot be refunded and no harsh comments can be made about this food under the laws of congress and domino’s pizz.
Eagles
MENU:8
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:4
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 28/50
Joint 3rd, Tom the Falcons PL with his pan served peppered chicken and rice.
Falcons
MENU:5
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:6
DISPLAY:8
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 28/50
Not their PL but here’s James from the kingfisherswith their rescued spiced chicken pasta with potato salad.
Lesson learned: you cannot keep a plastic bowl of noodles warm by putting it on a gas hob!
Kingfishers
MENU:2
IMAGINATION:6
TASTE:7
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 24/50
In 5th Place, George, the swift’s PL with chicken noodles. He only had 3 people in his patrol and one of them was fresh up from cubs so he did very well to produce a perfectly edible meal.
Swifts
MENU:3
IMAGINATION:4
TASTE:7
DISPLAY:1
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 17/50
Here’s the photos from the night, see the full size pics for download in our main gallery.
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Last Wednesday, the explorers made their own pizza dough and toppings and they all made something edible! Check out the photos below for a really successful evening, they even got their dough to rise.
Maybe they just need a few more washing up lessons but this was a great night for the leaders and explorers.
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