Prepare A Meal on Campout

Arrow of Light – 5th Grade

Personal Fitness

Required

Requirement 1

Prepare A Meal on Campout

Snapshot of Activity

Cub Scouts prepare a pizza on a campout.

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Supply List

Cutting boards
2 Chef knives, 6” blades are recommended
Pizza Cutter
Bowls for holding pizza ingredients
Fork for mixing
Plates one for each Cub Scout
Napkins
Cooking stations with access to stoves or grills
Food handling gloves, one two for each Cub Scout
Hand sanitizer
8 lb. bag of charcoal, 29 pieces of charcoal per pizza
Charcoal chimney
Lighter
12” Dutch oven
Parchment paper or other liner
Scissors
Large serving bowl for salad
Small salad bowls – one for each Cub Scout
Forks – one for each Cub Scout

Pizza ingredients for a serving of 10:

Cooking oil spray
1 roll of refrigerated pizza dough
½ jar pizza sauce
Desired pizza toppings
4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Salad ingredients for a serving of 10:

1 head of iceberg lettuce
4 Roma tomatoes
1 cucumber
16 oz of Italian salad dressing

Directions

This requirement does not have to be completed on a campout. The requirement is to prepare a meal that would work well on a campout.

Before the meeting:

Become familiar with the food groups using USDA My Plate.
Learn how to make Dutch oven pizza for cooking on a campout by watching the Scout Life video, “How to Make a Dutch-Oven Pizza”.
Coordinate with your pack leadership that your den will be cooking dinner during the campout for this Adventure to allow for proper planning.
Identify a local grocery store for the den to meet at and shop for the ingredients. Confirm the date, time, and location of the visit to the grocery store.
Inform Cub Scouts, parents, and legal guardians of the date, time, and location of the visit to the grocery store and the details of the campout. Request that parents and legal guardians participate in the visit to the grocery store to provide additional supervision.
Check with each parent or legal guardian for Cub Scouts to check for food allergies or dietary restrictions and make any necessary adjustments.
Secure funding for food shopping with your pack leadership.
Gather needed supplies.

During the meeting:

Gather the Cub Scouts and review with them the steps to making the Dutch oven pizza and salad. Give each Cub Scout a specific responsibility for preparing the meal. One team could make the pizza and another team make the salad.
Prepare the oven by cutting three strips of parchment paper approximately 18 inches long and 5 inches wide. Fold in half length-wise, crisscross strips in the bottom of the oven and drape the ends of the strips over the edge. This might require others to help you hold the strips in place. Spray the parchment and the bottom of the oven with cooking oil spray.
On a clean surface, press dough into a shape that will fit snugly (without touching the edges) in your 12” Dutch oven.
Place the circle of dough in the bottom of your oven. Poke the surface of the dough with a fork to prevent bubbles from forming.
Bake the dough for 5-8 minutes using 10 coals beneath your oven and 19 coals on top, arranged in a double ring on the lid.
Remove the lid and oven from the charcoal. Add pizza sauce, your desired toppings and cheese. Replace the lid on the Dutch oven and place over the ring of charcoal to bake for 15-20 minutes or until dough is golden brown and cheese is bubbly and turning brown.
Remove oven from charcoal. Use teamwork and the parchment strips to lift the hot pizza out of the oven.
To make the salad, Cub Scouts cut the iceberg lettuce into fork-sized pieces and placed it in the salad bowl. Have them slice the cucumber and dice the tomatoes and add to the salad. Leave the salad dressing on the side for people to add as they would like.