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

[Johnna Holloway]

Scenario One may not be all that cheap because one runs into
certain health/safety food regulations these days for feasts.
In many cases for instance the cheapest meat would be donated venison
for all, but in many states that might be illegal to serve that at a feast.
(Meat must come from a USDA sources.) One cannot pre-cook or freeze
foods at home unless one has an approved kitchen at hand and approved 
freezers.
Likewise many kitchens and counties require that all food be prepared on 
site.
No make ahead stocks or brought in dishes allowed. Baking may be done 
off premises
in certain instances, but that's about all that is allowed.

So maybe to make this challenge even more realistic, one ought to check 
with one's local county
and read the laws and guidelines governing feasts. Tailor your frugal 
feast then with those regulations
in mind. Oh and make it medieval too while you are at it.

Johnnae

Sharon Gordon wrote:
> 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?
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