This activity helps groups start to think about the impact of our food choices, learn about making menus for camps and discuss the recent motion to make camps net zero by 2030 and how this relates to food
What you need
- Pens
- Paper
- Monopoly money or coins (or even Post-it notes)
- Print the ingredients, price lists
What to do
Start by talking to the group about food on camps and how we work with a limited budget.
Different foods costing different amounts, protein and imported foods are more
expensive but we need them for a nutritious tasty meal.
Split into small groups and use the ingredients price list to plan out a menu for a day at camp. Give the group a budget of 30 money per day to spend. Let them create fun meals and see if there’s any money left for pudding.
Get the groups to present their menus explaining their choices and what they might’ve sacrificed.
Introduce the idea of carbon cost, before giving them the carbon table, get them to guess how much it might cost. Send them back into groups and calculate the carbon cost.
Then do a second day but ask them to think about the carbon cost this time, still within this 30 money budget. Get them to present the second day, ask them what changed when they were making it: what did they struggle with, what surprised them?
Reflection: Mention at last year’s AG, Woodcraft decided to work towards net zero
camps and what we think about meeting this target, how can we make choices with our diet to reach that?
For Venturers we suggest you add the Table of Minimum Requirements per Day. You could reduce food budgets as you go, slightly adjust the money/carbon cost of ingredients based on changes in supply. Feel free to adjust this workshop based on what you think your kids can handle, it can be a simple thought exercise or a complicated puzzle
This activity is from our Camp 100 Activity Pack. Find the full activity pack to help you prepare for Camp 100 here.