Food And Supplies Needed for the Linux Anniversary Picnic and Barbecue (Picn*x)
- Note:* This page is regarding the picnic events in general, and are not related to a specific year's event. Keep that in mind!
Food crew
- Setup - buy the food in the morning
- find overnight storage ( refridgerate to allow frozen items to thaw ) as needed for non-perishable food purchases the night before
- Coordinate who is buying what ... and what time it all arrives at the picnic
- Operations - get food as needed at around 12:00 - 1:00am for items in short supply
- Cleanup - disperse leftovers equally
Quantities and mixture of food
- mike and allen has a spreadsheet of items bought in previous picnics
Food Provided by Sponsors
Actual Food Consumption ( Budget ) for 2005 Picnic
Cooking Utensils
- super long spatchula
- super long thongs
- steel wool to clean the grills
- can openers
Budgeting for food
- meats ( hamburger, hotdogs )
- specialty grill ( shrimp, steak, .. )
- hamburger buns, hotdog buns
- potato salad, etc
- chili ( with and without meat )
- drinks ( water, soda, juice is way more expensive )
- condiments ( pickles, mayonaise, mustard, relish, ketchup )
- vegetables ( lettuce, tomato, swiss cheese, american cheese )
- untensils ( plastic fork, plastic knife, plastic spoons )
- large serving plates and serving spoons
- paper goods ( paper plates, paper towels, napkins, aluminum foil, saran wrap )
- trash bags, recycle boxes into temporaty trash cans
Plan the food buying based on rthe RSVP * 10% - 20% more
- if using slashdot, you can expect 33% no shows
- the "number of no shows" will typically cancel the "just show up" without rsvp
Grill
- clean the grills with steel wool and wipe down with wet paper towels
- self starting charcoal
- charcoal lighter fluid might leave "a taste" behind on grilled items
- long utensils for flipping burgers
- non-stick spray for veggie grill
Food Storage
- refridgerator would be ideal ( like picnic-10 )
- 48quart ice chests ( lots of um, more is better ) with signs of whats inside
- store food in shades ( never leave food in direct sunlight )
- large 50gal ( wide-n-shallow ) plastic containers for cold drinks
- large containers for hotdog and hamburger buns ( prevents squishing it )
- aluminum foil, aluminum pans for storage, cooking and left-overs
Too much food or too little food
- make a food run during the peek to get needed supplies
- too much food will be either wasted or "recycled"
Options for Left Over Foods:
- donate unopned canned items to food banks ( 2nd harvest )
- note that food banks does NOT accept used or opened items
- note that food banks does NOT accept perishables ( fruits, vegetables, bread, condiments(mayo, mustard, ketchup, salt, pepper, etc )
- recycle plastic bottles, soda cans
Sharing Leftovers
- dibss... left over portions should be equally circulated to each that wants some instead of the entire case of drinks to one person ( say 6-pack maximum )
- it's obviously harder to divide a gallon of mustard/ketchup, so some items will probably not be "sharable"
See also: The list of [Food] sponsors have offered to donate to the next Picn*x event.
Recent change: Bill Kendrick, 2005.08.05 23:55 -- Added aluminum foil
alvin 2005.08.13 01:55 clean up with missing items and clarify links between the 2 food-related wiki pages
alvin 2005.0815 added actual food items bought.brought
alvin 2005.0817 added details for food from polywell onto new page at [2005Food]
alvin 2005.0822 added non-stick spray fog grill
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