Showing posts with label Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camp. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Preparing food for a camp

Those students who accept responsibility for the camp kitchen, to understand the nutritional value of foods and remember two common motto: Save and sanitation. Camp is the best opportunity for the camp students practice and demonstrate their cooking talents. This is a heavy responsibility, quietly but no less interesting. We do not rush out to eat when opened canned food is cooked down. Let the students rotate through the camp, the children develop mental resourcefulness, self-confidence ... Canned food should be used only in the long term camp or unforeseen circumstances, can not buy fresh food. At camp, we should cook the food simple but tasty and nutritious. Do not do the fancy dishes, cotton trimming, pruning flowers ... spiritual home cooking.
Standards of the kitchen: The kitchen responsibility, must meet the following criteria:
1. Know draft menu for teams in three days camp2. Knowing shopping3. Know the choices and food storage4. Manufacturing is the common type of kitchen5. Know the fire and wood preservation6. Knowing water disinfection7. Knowing cooking and some dishes common in the camp8. Knowing sanitary kitchen area

Talk menu:
First we must know: how much money we have, for how many people eat, how many days. Then we projected the need to buy food. If camping for several days but distant markets, two or three days can go one time, the cook must know how to feed longer without processing (eggs, sausage, dried fish, canned ... ), the food could be so long but not processing (poached shrimp, salted evidence, procession fry, scrubbing any cotton ...), things to eat (meat, fish, vegetables ...). Based on that we draft a menu for easy team. If financial widely, we can buy poultry bring, both to be long, just a delicious fresh food, healthy.
Go to the market:
At the camp students who have "honored" to be the wrong parents daily shopping, but understand the price and not confused while shopping. Most of us in the ten new graphics come to market once. So before you go shopping, we must ask those who frequent shopping points us know the price of each type of food, distributed in the market area. Because if you do not know of any sale in any area, then we will go around the bush, just take some time, just tired ... Remember the paper, we also divided into groups: fresh food, dried food or food group processed, group vegetables, spices and grocery group. So we just go around the market that can be purchased in full.
The kitchen also estimated that enough food for the teams. Do not buy too much or too lacking, and do not buy luxury food, high prices (abalone mushroom ...).
Selection and preservation of food:
When the long day camp that is distant markets, we must know how to choose and store some food in a natural environment for both fresh food for days, just to ensure hygiene and health ... Typically, camps for students to practice cooking with fresh food to help them develop innovative minds, resourceful, flexible ... people not to bring canned or processed foods. But if long day camp held (in the remote areas) canned food for the last day of camp is very convenient and hygienic.
Choice of food:
First, we should know how to choose fresh, delicious, it can be preserved.
- Meat: There must be colored red, the meat hunting, thin skin, the meat was moist. If leaning to brown, black or pale purple and smells, do not buy.
- Fish: Bar brought to see if the fish is fresh red roses. If you wear white, bow my head, belly tank, press your finger down that hollow, do not buy.
- Chicken: Choose the silk close to laying hens, small anal, clean, pink; gold pins, breast to. Do not buy those wet anus, elected to the kite inflated, mouth drooling, seek, little reaction when arrested, that's sick chickens.
- Duck: Choose the male duck, beak to, software, memory, round neck skin thickness abdominal skin, hair sufficiently.
- Crab: Turn the horse out, click on either side edge of tomorrow, also of strong, soft as the OP.
- Eggs: When purchasing eggs, do not shake my situation, you may be pests. You only need to raise eggs to light (or lights). If there is no room at the top or the very small fresh eggs if the eggs were large for long. Can be put in water, a sink immediately, said the old eggs.
- Canned: Do not select the box is dented distortion ends swell shut, food will be poisoned. We should also note the date recorded in the box warranty.
Food preservation:
When you need to take food for the next day. The chef must know how to keep and preserve. The food must be placed overnight bag, a rope (a topical insect repellent) hung on a tree to avoid damaging the ants and wild animals (especially the wilderness).


Here are ways to preserve and store food:
Meat:
- Dip in diluted alum water (1 liter 10gr alum with cooled boiled water) immersion of an hour, remove the foam rubbing salt, hung in cool place. When used, rinse again. This holding is 3-4 days.
- Soak in molasses, honey, maybe for 4-5 months long and still fresh.
- Ethnic Profile of meat with salt they retired, the car cool, windy, and a whole week.
Cooked meat: Cut meat into pieces by hand, then bring ram or boiling. Done soak them in fish sauce, soy sauce or salt water, how long is this to 1 to 2 months.
Dried meat: thinly sliced ​​meat bullies, beating up a knife to. Marinate fish sauce (or salt), sugar, galangal root juice - finished drying or drying to spend.
Fresh fish: Be the first to hit it dead right (not to die slowly). Abdominal surgery fish intestines taken out, washed, rubbing salt into the gills and all over the outside with a fish. Phase is finished you get a cup of vinegar tablespoons sugar. Use a damp cloth dipped compound packages of fish. This can be for 3-4 days.
Fish cooked: fish store until the salt permeability. Add in a little black seaweed or jelly. Continue adding stock once again. Pouring out a bowl full of clean, cool. Sprinkle a layer of salt on top, cover. These may be kept for several weeks.

Organise a camp program activities

The camp program activities we have the following activities:
- Analysis of- In accordance with program- Cleaning the camp area- Discipline (strictly allowed)- Kitchen, dining- Camp Fire- Beach Camp- Summary of camp
1. Analysis of: To run a farm, we have the human element as follows:
- Camp Director: Responsible for general legislative and executive camp, have the right to decide all camp activities, monitoring program, all presided over ceremonies.
- Spread Spectrum: Depending on the small scale of farms, we have from one to several Camp Camp assistant deputy chief.
- Deal direct Camp: A charge assigned is responsible for running the day camp. Monitoring and enforcement of all orders of the Camp Director. Have to decide everything (as long as the correct program) during their duty. Hold activities.
Help for the operation of the camp, there is the ban as
+ Training+ It is strictly allowable (discipline)+ Logistics+ Arts ...

2. In accordance with the program:
Camp is attractive and the result is to place according to the program or not. We would rather give up a few items in the program (for lack of time) than to write a program loosely, more space).
Now free (if the students themselves in charge of camp entertainment or activity) is also in the program.

3. Cleaning the camp:
- As soon as the camp area, we have cleaning area (but not infringe upon the natural landscape).
- Camp must be neat, clean, respectively. Now pay attention training landfills, and to dig away the toilet tent, the wind.
- Leftovers and unused food must be covered thoroughly.
- Tents and team angle, angle units to keep neat, clean, not just at the doctor in charge of the camp, but throughout the day.
- In the morning when you wake up, farms must meet the minimum water and facilities for sanitation.
- At night warm enough to have blankets and mosquito nets and insect repellent. Have to change clothes to avoid being dry cough or cold.

4. Discipline: (strictly allowed)
Looking at a farm scene, that are eaten by farm animals and living in a tent, reading stories, spreading nonsense, wandered aimlessly. Furniture, casserole pot, throw dishes lying around ... Now we see that the camp session that did something interesting, rather than organizations, they do not.
Camping program is successful or not is partly due to disciplinary camps. England in charge is responsible discipline prompted, check. Whether self-discipline, but still use strong measures, if illegal camps.
Rest must adhere to, especially now sleep, forcing them into silence sleep (often the children are sleeping in this case) the next day they have new power to operate without compromising health. So for them a certain time to write a letter or a diary.
At night, to cut election night guards to maintain security and discipline of the camp, every 1 or 2 hour shift. The mission of the children born camp guard was silent reminder to bed, check your asleep, rolled out blankets (but no effect on student sleep camp), discovered something strange, must immediately notify the Responsible directly.

5. Visit the camp:
This is the time the Executive Board to each tent camp hygiene inspection, discipline, sort, tidy presentation, decoration, knot ... of each tent.
Every day, you should visit the camp run camps once or twice, in different ways. There goes the distance as that observed, with the sudden passing, usually to a formal warning. When the Executive Board to the official, teams, team leaders must be held to welcome and guide you to visit their camp.
Forms should be rewarded fairly for any one team.

6. Kitchen
7. Campfire

Beach camp
Campers collectors items and general personal belongings neat. When was the last time the command tent. Return intact landscape as we arrived at. Remove all traces of the camp. Fill landfills, pit toilets, tent stakes pulled out, cleaning the area.
How when we leave the camp to leave memories and good impression for the locality. Before leaving, we thank the land owners, local authorities thanks.
REMEMBER: Do not leave nothing but thanks and a good memory.

Summary camp
After going to camp on, no later than one month, we must have a camp meeting summary.
During the review, we draw the advantages and disadvantages, the critic, construction of the organizers, the comments of camp life, so that we gradually more complete in the next camp.

The preparations for a camp

To prepare for a camp, we turn to conduct the following:
1. Choose a location2. Exposure, notification, permission3. Tents embellishment4. Camp Tool5. Programming

1. Choose a location
Person in charge you money to go and survey stations to choose from. Farm land to be broad enough tent. Needs are met and the following factors:
a. Landscape: Depending on the selected object farms to choose an appropriate landscape
b. Drainage: Land covered with grassy camp, dry, clean, gentle, not flooded as heavy rains or hydrocephalus.
c. Water: Must have clean water near the camp to be obtained easily.
d. Trees, Wood: The heat, cooking, crafts camp must use trees, firewood, should be near the campsites can get crops, wood ...
e. Easy to: camping location must be consistent with the possibility of funding transport units. If there should be close to highway traffic in case of students evacuated the camp.
f. Market: A place for resupply of food and supplies for the camp. But not so that we camp near the market. As far as possible but not convenient for travel purchases.
Also, do not camp in crowded places, hospitals, military zones ...

2. Exposure, notification, permission
a. Contact:
- For land owners or local authorities for permission to use camping sites.
- Of your team and the youth organization based in, to invite them living together or by guiding the local customs and practices. Necessary to understand the temples, churches and the hour ceremony, the historical, local attractions ... The address of the doctor or the nearest medical station.
b. Notice, for permission:
To higher levels in the movement and send written notice and applying to each birth parent's farm. Inform students that camp dates, times, places for gathering ... time to camp, the theme or purpose of the camp, the camp fee. List the things you need to bring the true needs of the camp.

3. Tents embellishment
We must review the tents, where decay is to be replaced or patched up. Check if the tent is appropriate for some students do not camp? Without the computer, or borrow more. Check the wires, poles, columns, batons enough?

4. Camp Tool
a. Collective Tools: Assign each student to bring a camp less, who brought items that must be preserved shall keep for the rest of camp. The tools for both teams, including:
+ Tent fabric, wire, poles, truncheons.+ Box or bucket of water.+ Fill a large plate.+ Fix, large spoon, large chopsticks.+ Knives, axes, turtles.+ Small Kurdish or shovel (which are classified as possible).+ First aid kit.+ Locations.+ Hurricane lamps.+ Poncho or nylon lined sheets damp tent.+ Food and spices.+ Cooker, casserole, saucepan, kettle.
b. Personal use: Not familiar camp, many carrying children or useless things sloppy. Prep for the camp must compact and versatile. These are suggested items:
+ Clothes: Depending on the season, pajamas, school uniforms, bathing suits, underwear, raincoats, shoes ...+ Do personal hygiene cream, toothbrushes, soap, mirrors, combs, towels, toilet paper ...+ Utensils: cup, chopsticks, spoons, cups, knives, multi-purpose, water bottles ...+ Items learning: Pen, notebook, horn and strings ...+ Items daily: Flashlight, candles, gas lighters, incense, mosquito or insect repellent ...+ Good blankets, hammocks individuals ...
All neatly arranged in order of backpacks, small objects to the use, much to spend on things. It is important that each farm must have a camp notebook. Can call this diary farm, which notes:
- The time, place and purpose of the camp.
- The experience, the advantages and disadvantages encountered in the camp.
- Describe the scene and operation of the camp (in the form of a memoir)
- Sketch or paste the pictures were taken in that camp.
Listing things to bring in the camp, find out what extra or missing or truncated to the next carry.This is strong evidence to prove their abilities in the charge was approved by Council to upgrade the professional or trade name.


5. Programming
Camp is not the place to play, unwarranted resort, please do that first. Be more active life to farm without the minute empty real estate. To be so, the organization must have a very complete program, with tight time and on the theme or purpose of camping. There must also know the program and then filling the holes (if any) during the day. The right program that is not sustained any item that, although there are interesting items.
The organization must also prepare a contingency plan - for rain or unforeseen circumstances - not to put their hands to sit camp students scapegoat.

Camp and some forms of farm

Camp is a magical world of young love nature and ham activities. There they found themselves close and blend with nature, that his soul more generous and noble.
Camp is also an opportunity for them to escape the noise of the city, the dull monotony of the buildings and walls.
The camp program activities, the children have the opportunity to learn and practice skills in daily life, financially resourceful, promote initiatives to create maximum comfort for camp life. When working together, they will build a camaraderie, of affection, happiness, unity ...
Who has not slept a night under the tent to hear the insects to a concert, not a time to burn skin tanning by the beach, not a bunch of pillows in the middle of the rain forest looking frantically embankments or water shield is poised to spill tent ... I lost it as a beautiful youth.There are many, many forms, depending on camp conditions and needs.
Other forms of camp:
1. Weekend Camp
This is a form of camp for a small group organized by a captain (the consent of charge) within 24 hours.
The camp is small, but also to have a clear program, complete. Must camping out camping. Do not use processed foods that have to cook properly (this was part of the training).
2. Skills Camp
In times of regular activities, we do not have enough time to train and condition a number of special expertise. Skills Camp is held for filling this gap.
Skills Camp is an opportunity for the revision of farms and some skills training requires space and spacious location, the appropriate nature such as finding directions, looking back, wishing fixtures, signs observed stains, craft camps, communications, first aid.
If more units joined the camp students will have the spirit of competition more exciting and the result will be better.
3. Camps bay
Often used in the survey expedition du ... As its name implies, "flying camp" is not fixed as "farm stand" that always follow in the footsteps of mathematics participation. The landscape always changes will cause a lot of fun to camp life. Want to fly camp results, we should remember:
+ Organization on good weather+ Compact equipment+ There is purpose and clear theme
4. Summer Camp
Course will be held on the occasion of the students - students who are on holiday, so the camp can last several days.Summer camp is also an opportunity to summarize, review and practice what they have learned in the past year.
The success of camp was due to the organization, scheduling and maintaining discipline.
5. Jamboree
Many of the same mass movements in many places, many countries (depending on the size of large and small organizations) and gathered on one location to:
+ Meet, was familiar+ Exchange and learning experience+ Report on progress+ Show minded brotherhood
Often, all delegates must demonstrate the ability for all levels of living of their own before the senior officials in charge. Certainly there will be competitions for the general test for each group, each sector ... and will rank on the bottom. The units make it as proof of their progress. Do not lose more than that complacency or despair.
6. Training camp
As its name implies - training camp in charge of gathering together an organization to complete training or leadership. Depending on the level and subject. Camp can last several days. The beach camp after camp (graduation) the way of successful farmers, will be approved for the grant of licenses or certificates.