Meals
Many of the greatest biblical events took place at meals. Meal rituals are important and may take years to evolve.
Menu Options
Breakfast
- Banana bread
- Breakfast Burritos
- French Toast Casserole
- Hard boiled eggs
- Pancakes
- Pumpkin bread
- Oatmeal
- Rice Pudding
- Sausage
- Yogurt
Lunch/Dinner
- Baked Ham
- Creamy Baked Chicken
- Chicken Patties
- Lasagna
- Manwich Casserole
- Pasta with topping options
- Potato Soup
- Pulled Pork
- Sandwiches
- Sausages
- Stromboli
- Tacos
- Tuna Melts
- Tuna Casserole
- Ziti
Sides
- Cornbread
- French Fries
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Potatoes
- Rice
- Salad
- Zucchini Bites
Snacks/Desserts
- Apple Crisp
- Brownies
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Zucchini Cake (dairy free)
- Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
- Hummus
- Ice cream
- Kremowki
- S'mores
Menu 2014
| — | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | cereal
bagels |
pancakes | breakfast burritos | pancakes | french toast
casserole |
cereal
bagels | |
| Lunch | sandwiches | tacos | chicken patties
french fries |
sandwiches | potato soup | ||
| Dinner | hamburgers
and hotdogs |
Creamy Baked
Chicken |
subs | pulled pork | lasagna | tuna melts | |
| Dessert | s'mores | cake | brownies
ice cream |
kremowki | apple crisp | cookies |
Menu 2015
This menu is a blend of the girls' and boys' menus. (There were very few variations between the two. The boys had a chicken and rice stir-fry instead of garlic parmesan chicken. The girls didn't have french toast casserole or kremowki. The girls had macaroni and cheese with the ham instead of potatoes. The boys had Klondike bars and ice cream sandwiches instead of ice cream sundaes.) It's probably our most successful menu so far.
| — | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | cereal, oatmeal
yogurt |
pancakes | breakfast burritos | pancakes | french toast
casserole |
cereal
| |
| Lunch | Creamy Baked
Chicken |
baked ham
potatoes |
burritos
corn on the cob |
leftovers
sandwiches |
tuna melts | ||
| Dinner | hamburgers
and hotdogs |
pasta and sausage | subs | chicken patties
french fries |
garlic parmesan chicken
rice |
pasta bar | |
| Dessert | s'mores | brownies | ice cream | cookies | kremowki | ice cream
sandwiches |
Notes on the Menu
In 2015, we cut bagels and english muffins from the menu because toasting slowed down the breakfast line too much. We added more hearty options like hard boiled eggs and oatmeal, which were more popular with the girls than the boys. We also added baked ham to the menu, which provided us with enough leftovers to scramble ham bits with eggs for breakfast. We used leftover tortilla shells from the taco/burrito meal to make breakfast burritos with the eggs and ham.
- N.B. Soft tortilla shells are more versatile than hard taco shells! The hard shells usually go to waste, but leftover soft tortilla shells can be used for breakfast burritos and sandwiches, or even baked and eaten with cream cheese dip.
At least one meal — typically Thursday lunch — is reserved for leftovers. Since we never know how much food we'll have left over, we usually have some lunchmeat and bread on hand.
Snacks: The girls like hummus more than boys. The boys eat more snacks in the afternoon than in the morning.
Desserts: The girls have come to expect ice cream sundaes after the Tuesday beach outing. (The boys do not have this tradition.) Since we never know how long Wednesday night Adoration is going to last, we prepare a dessert that is easy to clean up, like brownies or cookies. Same for Thursday. We never know how long the Variety Show will last, so we prepare something easy to clean up. We have s'mores at one or two of the campfires — either Sunday, Monday, or Friday. (S'mores are more popular with the girls.)
Entertainment
2009
iWitness
2012
- Resurrection Stories
2013
- Open questions
2014
- Biblical Charades
- Getting-to-Know-You Rotation (Julia's "speed-dating")
- Geography Competition (Europe)
- Mad Libs
- Pictionary (with whiteboards)
- Sing-Off
- Interview Questions
- Bible Challenge
- Acts 12:24
- Hebrews 4:12
- 1 John 2:14
- John 7: 31-32
- Bible story pictionary relay
Old Testament
- Abraham and Isaac
- The Burning Bush
- David and Goliath
- Adam and Eve
- Noah and the Ark
- Elijah’s chariot of fire
- Daniel and the Lions
- Jonah and the Whale
- The Towel of Babel
- Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
New Testament
- The Birth of Jesus
- Jesus and Zaccheus
- The Parable of the Sower
- Pentecost
- The Prodigal Son
- The Resurrection
- The Good Samaritan
- Jesus Feeds 5000 People
- Jesus and Lazarus
- Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter
2015
- Lunch Challenges
- Geography Competition (South America)
- New Testament List
- Bible Challenge (One person from each group came forward. A verse was shouted out. Whoever found it and read it aloud first won a candy prize. Another person from each groups came forward, another verse was shouted out, etc. Sometimes, in order to make the game more quick-paced and competitive, the verse was shouted out before the competitors came forward.)
- The Ultimate Bird List (One group managed to name 98 kinds of birds.)
Dishes
The virtues of a pig bucket. In 2015, we had no pig bucket.
At the boys' Sro-event 2015, we used paper plates for lunch and dinner, and the boys washed the dishes — cups, utensils, and pots — in the Great Kitchen.
- Advantages: Pots and platters got washed. Dishwashing was more easily monitored. Dishes could be rinsed before washing and dirty water could be replaced with clean water.
- Disadvantages: More trash, a wet kitchen floor, one dishwashing bucket instead of two. Dirty water was dumped in the sinks instead of outside.
Reminders: Put cloth napkins in the laundry basket. Hang wet dish towels on the laundry rack.
Meal Theology and Philosophy
- Abraham and Sarah
- Exodus 24
- Mary and Martha
- Emmaus
- Hospitality
- Togetherness
- Bread machine to Mars