Planning a camp menu

Hello again. Today's topic is how to plan a camp meal, even when you're on a budget. Several months ago, when I was working towards my first class rank, I had to finish the requirements for planning, and cooking, and all that. I only had twenty dollars to work with, to plan dinner, breakfast, and lunch for four people. While some people would find this difficult, it really isn't.

Now, every camping trip is different. You could have thirty dollars for three people, or fifteen dollars for five people. All you need to remember, is you don't need to buy name brands. Let's say you have fifty dollars, but you need to feed twenty people. It can be done! Just create a cheap menu. You can do quite a dinner with hotdogs, chips, fruit, and soda. If you shop around, you can find twenty packs of hot dogs for three dollars. You buy two packs, and you have a main dish for six dollars. Buns are going at about seventy cents per eight. You buy five packs, and you have an even forty buns for three fifty. Now the chips. If you go to a discount store, you can get super size bags for three dollars. Buy two of those, and you're almost done with dinner. Now, fruit costs different everywhere, but if you buy some bananas, apples, and oranges, you have enough. Now for soda, you can get a three liter bottle of soda for a dollar. Buy four or five of those. Now add it up, and you realize you have dinner for about twenty five dollars. And for twenty people, that's a good deal.

Now on to breakfast. You don't need the whole bacon, eggs, and all that to get a good breakfast. You can start with the leftover fruit from dinner. Next, you have granola bars or cold toaster pastries, English muffins or bagels, and dry cereal. Alright, now for the pricing. Granola bars run at about two dollars for a box of ten. Buy two of those. You can buy English muffins in packs of ten for about two fifty. Get two of those. You can get giant bags of store brand cereal for two dollars, and that's enough to feed twenty. Now, to finish it off, you buy two one gallon cartons of skim milk, at about two fifty each. Add it up, and you have breakfast for twenty for sixteen dollars.

Lunch is no problem. You still have soda and chips from dinner. You add that to sandwiches, and

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