Thread: Teaching Scouts Dutch Oven Cooking

No doubt about priorities changing! Girls are why I never finished my Eagle! How many campouts do you guys do down there per year cubs/boy scouts?

For cub scouts, we did 2-3 per year as a Pack. We did more during Webelos years. We had a den member with a big Christmas tree farm, we went there at least twice a year.

With our Boy Scout Troop, we have a campout planned every month of the year. Usually cancel one or two, so it comes out to around 8-9 troop campout plus week-long summer camp. My son has well over 100 camp nights.

Our troop aims for one every other month in the Summer, and monthly in the Fall/Winter.

Sounds like similar to up here. Though you guys don't have to really have the fun sub zero with snow campouts! My pack does 2 campouts (Spring/Fall) and an overnighter in a cabin in January.

Brings back some great childhood memories. My nephew and I actually won first place at a scout jamboree with a Dutch oven peach cobbler.

Mind sharing the recipe for "research purposes".

Originally Posted by ChileRelleno

Thanks guys.
I'm looking forward to teaching them more.
We've more camps scheduled and I'm already planning the meals.

Dinner
DO Scalloped Potatoes with Ham
Ranch Style Beans
DO Apple Dump Cake

Breakfast
Boil-n-Bag Omelettes
DO Biscuits with gravy or cane syrup

Former ASM here. Those all sound good, but shouldn't the boys be making the menus? That said, the above sounds like great menus for the adults. If they smell good enough, the boys will ask how to make them.

The boil-n-bag omelettes are great. I taught my Webelos how to make them the last campout before they became Boy Scouts. They (and I) learned one great tip to make them work well. Let the omelette pretty much cook before you add cheese. Otherwise, as the cheese melts you can't tell if it's underdone egg or melted cheese.

Originally Posted by CarlF

Thanks, its been a long road,

I think I've learned as much as he has, I served as Den Leader, Webelos Leader, Cubmaster, Merit Badge Counselor and Asst. Scoutmaster!

One bit of advice to anyone in Scouts, get your merit badges done before high school so all he has to do is his Eagle project. ONce they hit high school, priorities change!!

I give the opposite advice. Finish the Eagle Project as soon after you get Life Scout as possible. You can do the Badges in little bits and pieces. You can't do the Eagle Project that way. My oldest had about 5 merit badges to go when he finished his Eagle Project. The Eagle Project is the most daunting task, so when it's done, the Scouts can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But the last sentence is totally true--once they hit high school, priorities change.

Reading the first post, I think he was preparing it as part of teaching on how to cook with a dutch oven.

Our Adult patrol cooking is almost always the envy of the scouts! We cook some good stuff.
We did have one scout that was simply a great cook, when he was grubmaster for his patrol, everyone was visiting their patrol area at dinner time!