Hi Everyone , I Got Some Messages Requesting My Meal Plan for a Mystery

Hi everyone , I got some messages requesting my meal plan for a mystery

meal. Well here it is . I did this for Cadettes and am planning a mom &

daughter event for my service unit.

MYSTERY MEAL GUIDELINE

This is what I used for my mystery meal:

Dinner Rules

You will be served 3 courses containing several items. Each course must be

finished before the next is served. To order place #1 by your 1st course

items (choose__)indicate how many items .we used 5. Place #2 by second

course items(choose__). Place #3 by third course items.(choose__).

All utensils and food will be removed after each course. Don’t worry about

etiquette –it’s impossible.

Our theme was Movie Titles the kids would enjoy- we picked a total of 15

items

They order by the movie title and don’t know what they get until the course

is served.

Even though everyone eats the same food the combinations are hilarious!!!

Knife – sword in the stone

Fork – little mermaid or inspector gadget

Spoon – mary poppins

Chopsticks – mulan

Napkin – the mummy

Salad – secret garden

Chocolate bars – willy wonka

Jello(green of course) – flubber

Water – waterboy

Chocolate covered raisins – antz

Apple – snow white

Ham – babe

Ice Cream – Snow Day

Chicken nuggets – Chicken run

Brownies – troop Beverly hills

Bagel bites – mystic pizza

animal crackers - dr. dolittle

French fries – home fries

Bon Appetit!!

Marie

Here are the ones I used for my Son's detective party:

Dinner:

Loaf TwigBread Stick

BubblySoda Pop

Tiny Stickstoothpick

Flatly FragilePlate

Spinning MoneyPizza

Horse BeddingStraw

Mirror, Mirror on the wallGlass

How Now Brown CowChocolate Milk

To Fold or NotNapkin

Breakfast:

PitchFork

ScoopSpoon

Tiny StickToothpick

Flatly FragilePlate

Cow JuiceMilk

Stripped SizzlerBacon

Mirror, Mirror on the WallGlass

Cupped HandsBowl

Squeezed PulpOrange Juice

Mixed-up ChickenScrambled Eggs

Chicken FeedCereal

These are other ones that I have picked up from the list...

bird nests - spaghetti

boulders - meatballs

Lava - sauce

Seaweed - salad

Bricks - croutons

Polar ice caps - ice cream

spear - knife

dinglehopper - fork

round reflector - spoon

Fish eyes...tapioca

grubs...rice

Iowa cardboard...cornbread

Lava flow...chili

pond water...apple juice

sticky paper...cheese quesadillas

Fire...salsa

Bear grease...butter

dried leaves...rice krispy treats

Mud...choc. pudding

yellowed teeth...corn

bricks or bark chips...croutons

celery...gator bones

seaweed...salad

kool-aid...bug juice

bird nest...spaghetti

bird seed...gorp or granola

Boulders...baked potatoes

scared cat...chicken

skinny leprechauns...green beans

sea cucmber or alligator egg...whole pickle

Last straw or Rat's tail...toothpick

Mt. St. Helen's ash...pepper

beach sand...salt

tree branch or harpoon or eagle claw...fork

slop bucket or griphook, or shovel...spoon

mold...green jello

beach blanket or spider web...napkin

sponge...bread

innertube...bagel

quicksand...applesauce

This Website also has a lot....

HYPERLINK HYPERLINK

Kimberly Thomas aka "Wing-Weaver"

Kimberly's Crafts 'n More

Crafts With a Purpose

Rudolph, Ohio

Here are some things I have saved off of this list. Perhaps one of them is

what you are looking for. Also the web site previously referred to,

is awesome and

probably can answer all of your questions and some you didn't know you had.

My co-service unit manager and myself have done mystery dinners at spring and

fall encampments. We had a ball, but some newer adults didn't enjoy it as

much as the girls and we did. The girls win out every time!

Debbie

C/S Troop 968

Bellevue, WA

Totem Council

How about the "all-American" for hot dogs; "American pie" for pizza; "stars"

could be little fudge pieces dropped through the open star tip of a cake

decorator; "stripes" of course, french fries with ketchup; "American as

apple pie" could be an ice cream cone ("sparklers" for sprinkles on top);

"the eagle has landed" for chicken nuggets; "that old red white and blue"

for frosted rice krispies treats; "I love a parade" for a parade of

different colored jelly beans or M & M's; "Old glory" for choc chip cookies.

Just some off the cuff ideas, I know you can use these to think of better.

Lisa

Carolina Lowcountry

Hi,

I had one person ask for the menu and the Halloween

code. Here u go:)

Camp menu for Halloween weekend (from Gwen Chapman,

Girl Guider of Ontario, Canada).

Friday night snack: ghoul guts on stepping stones,

ghost poop and swamp mud

sat. breakfast: skin flaps, crunchy bones, dragons

teeth, moon beam juice and ghost drool

sat snack: pumpkin smiles, frankie bolts, tombstones

and swamp water

sat. lunch: intestines, ghoul gruel, worm slime,

spider puss and devils drink

diner: witches hair, graveyard dirt, blood of bats,

crusty frog guts and mole mounds

snack: pumpkin guts on moon discs, garbage and

witches brew

Sunday breakfast:

ring of ogre, spreadable skeleton bones, snake skin

and scarios, ghastly guzzlings

lunch Sunday:

slice of toad and snake skinwitches, skeleton juice,

ghost rings and monster mash

Here is the translation:

Friday snack< mini pizza, popcorn and hot chocolate

sat brkfst: pancakes, bacon, cereal OJ and milk

sat. snack: orange slices, juice, pretzels, cookies

sat. lunch: grape Jell-O w/gummy worms, hot dogs and

macaroni

sat. dinner: spaghetti, meat sauce, salad, cupcakes

snack: peanut butter/Ritz crackers and kool aid

Sunday breakfast: bagels, cream cheese, cheerios, fruit

loops and pop tarts

Sunday lunch: ham/cheese sandwich trail mix and juice

or kool aid.

Gwen did this camp for her girl guides in 2000 and we

are finally going to have the ability to use her

wonderful ideas. Please give credit to Gwen for this

menu and her unit 7th Guides of Brantford Ontario, Canada.

YIGGGS, Mary Ann Loftis

Junior/Cadette Troop 1901 Advisor

SU 072 Registrar

Girl Scouts of Cumberland Valley (TN)

this link will give you all 4 different mystery dinners by clicking the highlighted title.... or you can insert number after the word mystery in url above 1, 2, 3 , or 4 then continue with .html

We've wanted to do these but weren't certain how to really host... understand So. Calif has done this with great success. If anyone knows the Council, Service Unit who has done these please email off list so we can research futher and get back to list.

I'm looking for the nuts and bolts, tips, and what were the age group invited. Did u do for girls or adult leaders? Where did you host, and what you did besides eating, fee ect... Number of guest and servers... Still can't understand how to host and make it funny evening... would love the opportunity to find the planning details,hints, tips.

Thanks a bunch, Cricket

Cricket and anyone else interested:

Last year, I and my two co-leaders did this for our girls. We did it solely as a "fun" day/meeting to break up some really heavy planning meetings. I have Juniors, and am fortunate enough to have a kitchen at our church meeting place.

We decided to go with all pre-prepared foods (nothing that needed heating), and stayed away from "allergy" type of foods (like peanut butter). I used the suggested link as a guide and made my own list of foods.

It was very strange because the girls all complained that:

(a) why did everyone have to finish before the next course could be served?

(b) why do we have to eat (try) everything if we already know we don't like it?

(c) what's taking so long? (see explanation below)

But at the next meeting, it was all they could talk about. They said they had a great time and thought it was terrific (I thought they hated it!).

My only suggestion is this...Make sure you have enough people to both fill the plates and serve the girls. There were four of us and we couldn't keep up. It took our entire meeting time (1-1/2 hr) from start to finish, including the girls picking out what they wanted in what order, and clean-up.

Since the files are apparently full, if anyone would like a copy of my mystery dinner information, please email me off list at and indicate whether you want it in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect, and I'm happy to send it along.

Lorraine Baughman

Junior Troop 233

SU 650 - Lake Erie Council

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Autumn Leaves (salad)

Beach Sand (salt)

Bugs snack (carrots)

Chest Protector (napkin)

Chip off the Old Block (toothpick)

Crunchy Morsel (crackers)

Degreaser (napkin)

Devils Horns (fork)

Eves Temptation (apple)

Exotic Blubber (jello)

Farmers Alarm (chicken)

Haymaker (fork)

Im in love (spoon)

Innertube (bagel)

Jack (knife)

Jacobs Well (water)

Leaders Favorite (mint)

Little Vine Clingers (pickles)

Liquid Gold (orange juice)

Muddy Canoe (peanut butter filled celery)

Ski Slope (ice cream)

Snow on the Mountain (mashed potatoes)

The Twist (pretzel)

Volcanic Ash (pepper)

Weasels Fate (pop)

DINNER RULES

1. You will be served 5 courses containing 5 items in the order selected by you.
2. We insist each course be finished before the next is served.
3. Place five #1s by the items you wish for your first course, five #2s by the items you wish for your second course, etc.
4. No number may be eliminated or used more than once.
5. All utensils, food and plates/bowls will be removed after each course.
6. DO NOT DISCUSS WHAT YOU HAVE ORDERED WITH ANYONE!!!!
7. Dont worry about etiquette - its impossible - have a wonderful time.....

MENU

_____Autumn Leaves_____Beach Sand

_____Bugs Snack_____Chest Protector

_____Chip Off the Old Block_____Crunchy Morsel

_____ Degreaser_____Devils Horns

_____Eves Temptation_____Exotic Blubber

_____Farmers Alarm_____Haymaker

_____Im In Love_____Innertube

_____Jacobs Well_____Jack

_____Leaders Favorite_____Little Vine Clingers

_____Liquid Gold_____Muddy Canoe

_____Ski Slope_____Snow on the Mountain

_____The Twist_____Volcanic Ash

_____Weasels Fate

Name:______

asks:

> < My troop is hosting a "Mystery Madness" event for Junior Girls scouts and

> would like to incorporate a "mystery meal" into the event.

> We would like to know exactly how this works. We given a menu with

> alternate names and have the girls pick 7 items. Then what? are the items

> bought out one at a time in the order they were ordered? Are they bought

> out all at once. What happens if a girl orders a drink but not a cup or

> food, but not a plate or bowl?>

The way we have done Mystery Meals in the past is:

We serve three courses, one at a time. We serve 12 to 24 different menu

items and everyone eventually gets all the items. The samples below only show

3 menu item to safe space. So for a 12 item Mystery Meal, 4 food items would

be served at a time.

We have never made the cup, bowl or plate a menu item. However, we do make

the napkin, knife fork and spoon menu items. We have also made straws and

tooth picks menu items for our larger (18 plus item) dinners.

At the beginning of the program, participants receive a written menu with

"coded, themed menu items."

Each person decides which items they want for their first course, second

course and third course by either placing an x in the column for each course

or by circling the items under each course.

example of placing an X:

coded menu item / 1st course / 2nd course / 3rd course

Woodstock X

Charlie Brown X

Snoopy X

Example of circling the items:

Circle each item only once.

course 1

Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Snoopy

course 2

Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Snoopy

course 3

Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Snoopy

I hope I have cleared up a few details on how we have done Mystery Meals in

the past. Have a great time planning and carrying out your Mystery Meal!

Happy Trails,

Rhonda

San Diego-Imperial Council, CA

Last time we started out with a few basic things we wanted to serve,

re-named them, then added on as we found others. the fun of it is, you

serve it in several courses, and they can't keep an item after that course

is finished. They must eat it as best they can with what they get, so you

want to have a lot of items. We got a lot of ideas from other peopl's

websites and then changed some names to fit our theme better.

Here was our "Survivor" theme menu:

Lava flow = Chili

pond water = apple juice

slop bucket = spoon

seaweed & slime = salad & dressing

spider web = napkin

sticky paper = cheese quesadillas

quicksand = applesauce

ravens claw = fork

Iowa sponge w/ cow grease = cornbread & butter

fire = salsa

alligator egg = pickle

North sea = ice water

Beach blanket = napkin

cheshire cats = melon slices

super glue = peanut butter

Little dipper = spoon

compass needle = knife

dried leaves in mud = krispy treat in choc. pudding

gator bones = celery

fleas = raisins

hen's teeth = corn

mold = green jello

rat's tail = toothpick

grass skirt = fork

griphook = spoon

We made it all up in a menu, showing only the made-up names. So you might

end up with a toothpick, salsa, peanut butter, applesauce and a napkin for

one course! We used utensils more than once, so there was a greater chance

of getting something to eat with at each course. There were 5 courses, and

they could pick 5 items (no duplicating) at each course. They had to order

as a troop, not individually, to make it easier on the servers!

During the meal, we only served small portions of each food. At the end of

the meal, all the foods were laid out buffet-style, so everyone could have

seconds on whatever they wanted.

Be clear with adults on how it will work...some have a really hard time

being flexible and letting the girls make-do with whatever they get...ie:

eating pudding off a butter knife, or whatever the case may be! LOL!! of

course the girls loved it!

Hope this helps!

-Becki

Annette,

Try this link - it's a compilation put together about mystery

dinners. I haven't had the chance to try it yet, but it sounds fun.

Perhaps you could have each girl's family donate one of the items.

Dinners can be very pricey if the troop tries to pay for it all!

Good luck, and have fun!

-Cheryl