Starting up a mid-morning break thing here...was just curious if any of you had any good soup ideas, something you make and/or that your crew enjoys. Thanks!
pizza and wings go like hot cakes, I think anything they can pick up is a big hit. Soups are good too the last crew i had they liked french onion and chowda as they say.
Thye last thing you need to do is feed your crew more and create the expectation that they are entitled to a coffee break "meal" on a regular basis. Sure I will have my guys throw some things together for coffee break at times but you should stick with the basics. Bagels, fruit, yogurt...ECT. With new weigh-ins starting this week I would watch what and how much I put out. No longer are these the days of personal responsibility when it come to what people shove in their pieholes and how it effects them. It is slowly becoming the fault of galleys for offering up too many items. Even if there is the healthier alternative. If they are hungry at 10am coffee break maybe they should have been in for breakfast.
K...so I guess I need to specify whats going on here...
This is a command "encouraged" 10 am soup break. OinC wants soup at 10 am, OinC gets soup at 10 am. If the enlisted ADULTS go on the fat boy program (or girl), not my issue. I didn't hold them down and pour it down their throats. I want to see someone come at me and blame me for them being overweight. I'll graciously tell them that maybe that 3rd helping of mashed taters was a no-no and where they can shove it next time. I'm so tired of FS's being the scapegoat for that kinda stuff. It's horse-sh*t. Now, don't get me wrong...I fully understand that nutrition is our deal...but thats a diff story. I can make a very very healthy chunky turkey noodle soup with tons of veggies, etc....but if Joe Coastie decides to power down 3 bowls of it, I'm not his daddy. I'm not gonna tell him what he can and can't eat. Joe's a grown @ss man (or woman) who was old enough to sign on the dotted line and old enough to collect a paycheck, then he's (or she) old enough to be responible for their own portion control. We trust these guys with guns and boardings and what not but somehow they can't make reasonable decisions when it comes to their diet?
Don't get me wrong, I understand FS's are always gonna be the go-to a-hole for BM's and MK's being fat, doesn't make it right though. Just like recently I had a member come to be about his (or her) sodium levels being to high. Something tells me the one meal you eat of mine a day has little to nothing to do with that. Maybe the pizza and wings your sluggin down at 10 pm has a little more to say about it then your weekday lunches. Or maybe all those frozen dinners and weekend fast food trips play a small part.
K...I'm done. No disrespect intended there Chief, it's just a sensitive subject for me. (this and SWE/Advancement) They can come at us with all this personal responsibility stuff but we can throw it back at them? Come on...not in my world.
And thanks FS4life...although bar food wasnt quite what I had in mind at 10 am. This is pretty much stricktly a soup deal...maybe muffins too. Thanks for your input either way.
I agree with BlowinSnow, and snack breaks tend to cause a lot of drama with the galley (crew wanting more snack, healthier snack, etc...). But, since the thread is about recommendations, I've noticed the crew loves getting Chili or Chowder with a bread bowl. Granted, every crew is different (this crew loves shepards pie, but it was banned at my last unit), so I'd recommend asking a couple members from your crew every week. Some have great family recipes that you would never know about if you didn't ask.
-soft pretzels(used to make toppings or dippy sauces to go with it) -Krispy Kreme's (or other local donut shop) - full cold cut bar w/ asst cheeses and all the fixins (money on the 210' was great) -Kitchen soup (clean out the leftovers and make it a soup) -an extra rack of cookies -baked potato bar (for the times when the case of taters are at the breaking point) -english muffin pizzas -mini-calzones
Do you usually make a soup? If so, just double up a batch. I used to do unusual or fun soups (BLT soup, creamy curried chicken, pizza soup, etc). I'd take a basic soup, add a few extras, change the name and the crew would get a kick out of it.
I loved setting out coffee break at several of my units. The crew would be excited to see what was coming out, it generated enthusiasm for lunch (especialy when it was samples of the meal to come) and it gave hard working crewmembers a few minutes to enjoy what I prepared for them.
There are cooks and there are cooks; 13 years of sea time and thank God I never sailed with a bad one. Visited ships with a bad cook or two and it was noticeable throughout the ship. Variants of thread response is interesting. The two folks I never messed with are those who fed me, and paid me…
I agree. I was in a bad place when I threw that post out there. Be the best you can be. YOu are there for your crew and providing these things can only help you grow both personally and professionally.
I remeber way back when when a wise Master Chief told me that our main purpose was to add lbs to crew members. Ahh those were the days.
I guees i will throught my cover into the ring on this one. at my last unit a 210 my chief also told use coffee break is just that coffee, have the soup of the day out, but if putting anything else out will cut into the days meal that don't do it. now I am at an 87 an IDFSO. my XPO wants me to put out coffee break items every day, he feels the crew needs a realy good coffee break. now here is my feeling, I love doing stuff for coffee break "when I have the time" on our workout days I don't make breakfast, so I put out cookies, muffies, or coffee cake for our 10:00 break. on days I do shopping or make breakfast I will put something out if I have time, but most of the time the crew will grap from our ship's fat locker "and yes I have freash fruit and healty snack onboard I push on them" so here is my question of understanding on the coffee break thing, and I will put out there this is my first IDFSO Billit so I am still learning alot of stuff, but going by the FSM we "the CGDF" are not required to put out a coffee break, that is it not part of the SIK rations, or if you are at a all cash galley the member must pay for the coffee break. Now I know you can artiulate stuff, but sometime it seem that people just want free food or feel it is there right, instead of feeling greatfull that there FS goes the extra mile for the crew. I know that is what our rate has to deal with.
Originally posted by drslouha: There are cooks and there are cooks; 13 years of sea time and thank God I never sailed with a bad one. Visited ships with a bad cook or two and it was noticeable throughout the ship. Variants of thread response is interesting. The two folks I never messed with are those who fed me, and paid me…
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Hey Guns..since we nearly spent all of our last years at sea together. thanks sc
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