Which is more efficient - bringing paper plates and making more stinky trash, or bringing regular camp plates and using more water to wash them? And the question of paper plates leads me to a question for which I haven't been able to find an exact answer in my BM website search...is there somewhere where we can burn our stinky paper plates? I read something about Burn Barrels being located here and there, but are those for general BM population use? Do you have "sign up" to use them? How does that work? Just trying to have a clue before I get there...
Also, my sister wants to bring a lot of oranges...and lemons. Citrus fruits in general. She thinks these will be easy to preserve throughout the week and won't get all rotten like melons do. Can anyone impart some sage wisdom about bringing citrus fruits? (I can see us fighting over who gets to take the stinky pile of orange peels home in a hot truck...)
I'm getting so fucking excited I can't think of anything else...
Questions about trash and fresh fruit
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We are bringing paper plates this year; last year we had a case of food poisoning which may have been due to less experienced campmates wiping the camp plates clean rather than washing them. Dishes = grey water if you want to be safe. It just sucked that we couldn't trust the girls to boil water and wash the dishes. We won't burn the paper plates, we haul the trash out double bagged in the trailer, but that's just us.
No words of wisdom from me on fresh fruit, never took it out with us, too messy, too much MOOP, too tiresome to deal with. I do take some juice and a modest amount of dried fruit for variety, but I never have liked fresh fruit. I'm weird, yeah. You could dry the peels if you hang them in a mesh sack secured at camp, less stinky on the ride back.
No words of wisdom from me on fresh fruit, never took it out with us, too messy, too much MOOP, too tiresome to deal with. I do take some juice and a modest amount of dried fruit for variety, but I never have liked fresh fruit. I'm weird, yeah. You could dry the peels if you hang them in a mesh sack secured at camp, less stinky on the ride back.
Fruit - buy it before its ripe. Keep it in the bottom of the cooler and it should last several days. You might want to try freezing it, but your mileage may vary.
And paper plates are the only way to go. We've used plastic in the past, but its much easier to toss the paper plates in a burn barrel. They aren't that smelly and its a lot less stuff you have to pack back out.
And paper plates are the only way to go. We've used plastic in the past, but its much easier to toss the paper plates in a burn barrel. They aren't that smelly and its a lot less stuff you have to pack back out.
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