Chili for twenty...

This weekend is our annual Labor Day weekend church camp out. About 75 people from our church will head up to Memorial Campground starting today, tomorrow, or Friday and staying until Monday. Our plan is to go drop our trailer off today, then go back up on Friday and return home on Monday morning.

We usually go in on meals with my friend, L, and her family. This year our other friend, L, is coming from Oregon (she moved last year) to join us. So we'll be the L L & L gang! Each person will make one dinner and one breakfast for about 20 people. I am planning on making chili cheese dogs for Saturday's dinner and breakfast burritos for Sunday breakfast...

So this morning I picked up 8 pounds of hamburger in order to make the chili ahead of time. Since I don't have time to cook the hamburger today, I put it all in my big crock pot and will let it cook on low all day. If this works it will be a great time saver... Otherwise I'll be back at the store, and will be cooking hamburger tonight! I'll freeze the cooked hamburger and take it up to the camp out where I'll use this to finish it... Add some hot dogs, buns, shredded cheese (buy it already shredded in bulk!), diced onions (prep at home and pack in a Ziploc container), and a Costco veggie platter.. And we'll be all set to go! (Well, plus the packing of drinks, snack foods, and clothes etc...)

For Sunday's breakfast I'm doing camping breakfast burritos. We'll make scrambled eggs,bacon, and some hash browns. Then we put those out with warm tortillas, re-fried beans, salsa, and sour cream. Everyone builds their own burrito with whatever ingredients they want... Yum!

Last year I got smart and cracked the eggs into a nalgene water bottle at home, then packed it in the ice chest. To make the scrambled eggs, you just shake the bottle and pour however much you need into the pan. It worked great- especially if you end up making the eggs in batches...

So anyway- that's what's on for this weekend. I need to run over to our storage unit now and pick up our camping trailer. I'm sure I'll have some sort of story to tell about that process later!