About a month ago I got a call from one of the leaders at church asking me if I would be the cook for a youth activity / camp out they were having. I was told it was going to be a group of about 160 people and I would need to provide heavy snacks for Friday night and breakfast and lunch on Saturday. In my crazy and somewhat nonfunctional brain - I said.. "Sure! I'd be Happy To!" What was I thinking??? As the time grew closer and I started really adding up all the amounts of food I would need to buy and cook, I found myself thinking that I was about the craziest mother of five kids, who holds three callings at church, and has a husband who serves in the bishopric, ding-dong, brainless person who can't say NO to anything Idiot! I am not sure why I was the one selected to be given this assignment, but I was in NO way able to back out at that point.
SO.....Here's what you end up buying and cooking for 160 people...
Friday we had nachos, popcorn, apples and Carmel dip, and candy
6 cases of tortilla chips
4 - gallon size cans of nacho cheese
2 - bushels of apples
7 - batches of homemade Carmel!!! (Yes - I was stupid for making this! But it was YUMMY)
32 - bags of microwave popcorn. Do you have any idea what you microwave looks like after you pop this much popcorn??? Grease City!!!
3 - Economy size bags of Halloween Candy
Saturday morning we had breakfast burritos, fruit and granola bars...
20 lbs. Jimmy Dean sausage - takes forever to cook.
225 Flour tortillas
360 eggs - Oh my! The shells... we cracked them all ahead of time to get them in the fridge!
15 pounds of shredded cheese
2 gallons of salsa
6 gallons of fruit
2 cases of granola bars
200 packets of hot chocolate
15 gallons of Orange Juice
Saturday at lunch we had taco salad, rice, beans and cookies - can you see the Mexican theme going on??? It sure made things easier to use the leftovers for the next meal!
42 pounds of taco meat - It took Mark and I 4 hours to cook all the meat... we've got huge biceps on our right arms now!
2 cases of tortilla chips
15 pounds of shredded cheese
25 heads of lettuce
2 buckets of sour cream
2 gallons of salsa
10 gallons of rice
15 gallons of refried beans
350 cookies
Thanks to a generous member of the church, he had a restaurant he supplies make the rice and beans... they came in 5 gallon buckets... We barely put a dent in them. We were giving away rice and beans to anyone we could think of!
I am SOOO thankful to the many people who helped in the kitchen this weekend. This was supposed to be a camp out on the stake farm with no running water or kitchen. Thanks to the rain, I was BLESSED to have everything moved to the church where we had a full kitchen and all the comforts of home! HOORAY! I am certainly not ready for this again anytime soon... but at least WE SURVIVED!!!
And then on Sunday I took a LONG nap!!!
5 comments:
I don't know how you did it. That is absolutely scary and amazing at the same time.
You are definitely the craziest and most unselfish person I know. What an undertaking!!!! Bless you!!! Love you!!! A. Sandy
You did a wonderful job!!! You're Awesome! Sorry if it was stressfull for you, but we really enjoyed everything that you made!
Pollie : )
OK, daughter,let's get that
loose screw fixed! Truly am proud
of you two! Oh, I was thinking
about having a party and thought
maybe you would like to do all the
cooking! Just kidding! Love you
Mom
Argh! That makes me tired. It reminds me of the days when I was Stake Relief Society President (or Stake Lunchlady as Dave called me)in the College Stake. At least it makes cooking for your family no big deal!
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