How To Prepare Campout Meals - How To Get Cooking Merit Badge

Hey guys, Mac Guzman here. This video is Part 2 of How To Get the Cooking Merit Badge. This Merit Badges is one of the more complex ones because of the amount of planning and work. This video covers what you should consider when cooking. It's essential to know these concepts when you cook on a camp out because it displays planning and preparation being put into action. How to do meal planning for boy scouts. Why is time management important in cooking? How to manage your time in boy scouts.
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The Cooking merit Badge is one of the most difficult and important merit badges because it requires a lot of planning and knowledge beforehand. Completing it trains a scout to know the safety, health, and nutrition, and cooking basics for boy scouts. However, there are many requirements, so it might take long to complete (most likely a month or two depending on how much you can complete on campouts)
I hope this video has been helpful towards earning the Cooking Merit Badge.
Requirements from the video:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The meals prepared for Cooking merit badge requirements 4, 5, and 6 will count only toward fulfilling those requirements and will not count toward rank advancement or other merit badges. Meals prepared for rank advancement or other merit badges may not count toward the Cooking merit badge. You must not repeat any menus for meals actually prepared or cooked in requirements 4, 5, and 6.
4. Cooking at home. Using the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model, plan menus for 3 full days of meals (three breakfasts, three lunches, and three dinners) plus one dessert. Your menus should include enough to feed yourself and at least one adult, keeping in mind any special needs (such as food allergies) and how you kept your foods safe and free from cross-contamination. List the equipment and utensils needed to prepare and serve these meals. Then do the following:
There is not enough space in the description so I will put the link where you can view the FULL requirement 4. I wish list requirement 5, which is the harder requirement.
LINK: boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/...
5. Camp cooking. Do the following:
(a) Using the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model, plan five meals for your patrol. Your menus should include enough food for each person, keeping in mind any special needs (such as food allergies) and how you keep your foods safe and free from cross-contamination. Must include at least one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner, AND at least one snack OR one dessert. List equipment and utensils needed to prepare and serve these meals.
(b) Create a shopping list showing the amount of food needed to prepare and serve each meal, and the cost for each meal.
(c) Share and discuss your meal plan and shopping list with your counselor.
(d) In the outdoors, using your menu plans for this requirement, cook two of the five meals you planned using either a lightweight stove or a low-impact fire. Use a different cooking method from requirement 3 for each meal. You must also cook a third meal using either a Dutch oven OR a foil pack OR kabobs. Serve all of these meals to your patrol or a group of youth.**
(e) In the outdoors, prepare a dessert OR a snack and serve it to your patrol or a group of youth.**
There is not enough space for f, g, and h. You will find those in the same link: boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/...
Yours in Scouting -Mac Guzman
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[@xfilex3291]

I am nervous about having to cook on a trail, any other tips

[@chrisrekstad3882]

@@xfilex3291 It's pretty easy. You just need to get like tiny frozen pizzas and make them on a tiny pan over a JetBoil.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

xfile x, ask your parents if you can practice cooking in the backyard. If you have a gas grill great. If you have a fire pit even better.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

@ARC Trooper7610, yes, there are many different ways to cook on a trail.

[@xfilex3291]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman that is a good idea thank you

[@bookworm4life836]

Wow, you did a great job editing this video. It has the same format as your other videos but the B Roll is so much better. 👍👍👍

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks. I used footage from three different occasions. Makes sense since it takes a while to earn.

[@antiigravity]

Nice

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks 👍

[@chrisrekstad3882]

I need to get working on this merit badge!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes, start now and work on it. It’s my longest MB to earn so far. Good luck.👍

[@chrisrekstad3882]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman Yea, i started some of the home cooking portion. Also, I am currently a Troop Guide and Den Chief. My troop has open positions for Instructor and Outdoor Ethics Guide. I am considering signing up for one of them. Should I?

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

&ARC Trooper7610 how are you doing on Cooking MB? What did you think about the Troop Guide position? In my troop the TG teaches a 30-45 min session before each meeting for the new scouts. We call it the First Year Experience (FYE). I was an Instructor before with your experience as TG that would be easy for you. Keep me updated.👍

[@chrisrekstad3882]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman So I completed it and I was going to get it signed off at my last troop meeting but I was sick. Next week is the Court of Honor and I really wanted to get my last to Eagle Required(Personal Management and Cooking) in for the CoH but I have to wait until the next one. Since I was already a Den Chief when I asked to be Troop Guide, my scoutmaster said that I should only focus on one so I decided to stay as a den chief for the rest of the year.

[@MariaGuzman]

Wonderful video bro. I remember eating that food. Now I am hungry :(

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes and you gave us a good review too 😀

[@PoeTheSquash]

Cool @macguzman.You are doing a greatjob with these Scouting videos. This is a hard Merit Badge!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks bro

[@Kids-Cook]

Nice, thanks for posting a useful video for people who are not scouts.😆

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Kids Cook thanks. I am glad you liked it

[@respto446]

I was wondering if you could do more non required or elective merit badges. I think it would be really cool and fun

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Sure. I just finished Railroading. Do you have any specific in mind?

[@drifty5190]

Currently, I’m working for this merit badge. I got my home cooking requirement done. Now, I need to be head cook on a camp out and I need to do my trail and backpacking requirement.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Congrats. Keep working on it. This is a long badge and can be difficult unless you plan it out with your campouts.

[@malagu4ever856]

so many parts to this MB, it must be one of the hardest ones

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes, Cooking and Camping are the most difficult

[@spicytaco3209]

Yeah I hate this one

[@DonMiguelYT]

Are you on track for Eagle Scout in 2 years?

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes I am. I will have a Status update the end if Dec 😆

[@Kinetic_Toast]

You are such an EPIC Scouter :P How long did this MB take you to earn?

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

I started in Feb and finished in Aug, so just over 6 months

[@jrsun]

Does anyone know if the cooking merit badge requirements were updated? Personally, I found for requirement 4, it seems that you need to "plan menus for three full days of meals (three breakfasts, three lunches, and three dinners) plus one dessert" which is triple what the video said.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Req 4 says plan for “three full days of meals… plus one dessert.” 4c says to “prepare and serve… one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner, and one desert from the meals you planned.” Here is the source: ‬www.scouting.org/merit-badges/cooking/

[@jrsun]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman OMG I planned for 3 days and then cooked 3 days worth. Shoot. Well, I cooked 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 2 dinners. Thanks for letting me know.

[@BlueWhaleLord]

When are you getting Life Scout? You should have enough MBs by now🤪

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

I will earn Life Scout Jan 13th😎

[@spicytaco3209]

This merit badge is really annoying lol

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

It takes a while to complete. Keep working on it. You do much of it at home. The rest must be do e while on a campout and/or hikes.

[@padmasreeabbireddi6370]

Noone: Absolutely Noone: Mac Guzman: Not to brag or anything but i ate 5 whole hamburgers

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Haha. If you had multiple food allergies you might understand.

[@arnavchatrathi8928]

Nice

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks it is a three part series.