CUB GRUB/Fun Food

Space Dinner
Viking Council

This is a fun treat for den meetings. Sort a bag of M&M's by color into small dishes. Toward the beginning of the meeting, tell a story about your "trip" while the Cubs each prepare their own meal:

Two brown M&M's are the meat.
One yellow M&M's is corn.
One green M&M's is the salad.
One orange M&M's is an orange.
One more brown M&M's is a piece of bread.

Cubs place all their "space food" into a plastic ziploc bag, and put it into their picket for later on the trip.

At snack time, Cubs eat slowly and enjoy their wonderful feast. Put 1/4 cup of water into their bag when it's empty. Cubs have to bite a hole in the corner to drink it.

Need: pudding mix, milk, zip lock bags

Use 1 tablespoon of chocolate (or any flavor) instant pudding in a ziploc bag. Add 1/4 cup of milk. Close the bag. Squish up the pudding and milk mixture. Poke a hole in the bag and suck it out. Eat just like the astronauts with no utensils!!

Apollo Float
Greater St. Louis Area Council

12 oz ginger ale
2x Vanilla ice cream scoops
2 Sugar Cones

Fill 2 glasses with equal amounts of ginger ale. Securely place ice cream on cones. Turn ice cream cones upside down and place one in each glass. Cones will stay afloat as ice cream melts. Drink with straws.

Twinkie Space Shuttle
Trapper Trails Council

Twinkies
Fruit leather
Gumdrops
Toothpicks

Stand Twinkies on end. Cut fruit leather into a triangle shape and cut slits on either side toward the bottom of the Twinkies long enough to put the triangles in. Attach gumdrops to the top of the Twinkies with a toothpick.

Rocket Cookies
Trapper Trails Council

1 package Pillsbury plus funfetti cake mix
1/3 cup oil
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs
36 chocolate kisses or hugs

Heat over to 375 degrees. Combine cake mix, oil, eggs, and flour, stir until moistened. Stir in candy that comes with cake mix if separate. Roll into 1-inch balls, put on cookie sheet. Cook 6-8 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven put kisses in the middle of the cookies push down. Let cool at least 10 minutes.

UFO's
Greater St. Louis Area Council

1 cake donut
1 pineapple ring
1 jumbo marshmallow
1 maraschino cherry

Place pineapple ring on foil and place donut on top of pineapple ring. Stuff center of donut with marshmallow and cherry. Wrap in foil. Cook on coals for 5 minutes.

Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 cup coarsely shredded unpeeled zucchini
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup butterscotch pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl beat butter until soft, add sugar, and beat until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, beat well. In a medium bowl stir together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. With mixer on low speed, gradually add four mixture to butter mixture, beat until well mixed. With a wooden spoon, stir in oats, zucchini, walnuts or pecans, chocolate and butterscotch pieces. Drop by rounded teaspoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool sheets and then cookies on a cooling rack. Makes 4 dozen

Rocket Fuel
(definitely a Leader-Only drink)

Hot water, instant coffee, instant hot chocolate mix

Boil water. Add instant coffee to water, stir. Add one pack instant hot chocolate mix, stir. Add milk or sugar if needed for taste.

Note: At a recent camporee, I made this up during our crackerbarrel. Under NO circumstances drink this late evening. I was up until 3 a.m., thanks to the extra boost I got from all the caffeine in this Rocket Fuel.

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