Cook Talk

Youth Retreat
bonnie
11/02/07
We have just been asked to provide morning snacks for a youth conference for about 600 people. Breakfast will be served to each of them before they get there. We will serve this snack about 1 hour later. These will be mostly kids 14-18, some adult sponsors.

The plan is:

Muffins 400
Cookies 1200

8 oz cups of
orange juice - 20 gal
apple juice - 20 gal
and water

Last year we were told a lot of the kids drank water.

We are asking for volunteers to do the baking so we should have a variety of different types of muffins and cookies.

Please answer quickly as our committee just met and we need to have this pulled off in two weeks.

Your thoughts Please.

ellen
11/03/07
The greatest difficulty with the morning snack, is whether they REALLY ate breakfast. If not, a pure carb snack leads to fidgetting and inattention.

If you are sure they really ate breakfast, this is probably in the ball park as a snack. The main cautions:
Increase muffins to 1 per expected person, especially if they are regualr cupcake size and not larger.

Sliced quick breads are a very popular alternative, but so are bagels as long as you allow one per person and have cream cheese and jam- 1/2 pound cream cheese and 3/4 cup jam for each dozen bagels. Slice bagels before serving.

Make sure the cookies are large or else allow 3 per person. Teens can eat an infiite number of cookies, and seem to like to try one of every kind. Avoid storebought oreos, etc- very popular, but too much sugar load.

A big basket of the individually wrapped string cheese packets will disappear. So will several dozen Hard boiled eggs, especially if salt packets are available. 20 to 40 pounds of small apples or Clementines would also be a great choice.

If the budget is not too tight, get 100 cartons of 2% milk and chocolate milk as one of the drinks. Don't forget at least 1 60 cup pot of coffee with cream and sugar for the grownups and sponsors.

bonnie
11/03/07
Thanks so much Ellen, We will be meeting again to finalize all of the food. Thanks!
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