[Sca-cooks] Lowest Cost for a reasonably festive feast & a camping event meal ?

[aldyth at aol.com]

In case anyone was thinking that food stamps is a viable alternative to buying feast food, it isn't legal.? And you cannot reimburse someone who did buy something for feast with food stamps.? How about posting the items that you can actually buy with food stamps so we know what consumables we are looking at.

Aldyth

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Gordon <gordonse at one.net>
To: 'Cooks within the SCA' <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:38 am
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Lowest Cost for a reasonably festive feast & a camping event meal ?



1) Under good feast cooking conditions (good kitchen, plenty of time to shop
food sales, plenty of help from other cooks, etc), what's the lowest cost
you could do a reasonably festive feast for?  And just to make this clear, I
am not asking that groups take on the most extreme possible frugality as the
new norm for feast costs :-).  But what I am interested in is if you
challenged yourself to combine your iron siege chef skills with your
frugality skills, what would you do to wow your feasters?


2) And here's an even more challenging cooking question for using your
frugality skills and your camp cooking skills.  
Your barony/household is camping together at a week long event. Your
barony/household has excellent equipment for cooking at camping events
(portable wood fired oven, grills, supports for cooking over the fire,
plenty of firewood and other cooking fuel, modern camp stoves, coolers, all
sorts of pots and utensils, feast gear, cleaning supplies, and cooks with
all sorts of period cooking skills. Barony members grow all the main herbs
and spices which can be grown in your area or on windowsills.  The
barony/household members will eat a good variety of period foods, though a
few are pretty insistent that coffee and tea need to be available no less
than once a day in addition to any food.

Although their event fees were paid long in advance, a number of companies
have laid off people in your area and 15 of the 30 people camping with your
group are laid off and on foodstamps. The average person on food stamps
receives $3 a day for food. To make things fair the whole group has decided
to eat at the food stamp cost level.  So you have $21 a person to feed each
person for a week.  For the whole group you have $630.  Half of this can be
spent anywhere in any way (wholesale markets, farmer's market, farmstand,
etc.)  The other $315 must be spent under foodstamp constraints with the
cardholder present and at grocery stores or markets that have the electronic
foodstamp processing equipment.  The foodstamp users have been working with
you to get supplies when they are on sale in advance of the event.  Others
will use their portion of the foodstamps at stores near the event to get
additional supplies or those that only last 3 days in a cooler and so might
be bought on days 4-6 of the event.

What are some of the meals you would make for and with your friends this
week?

Sharon
gordonse at one.net




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