Torpedo Families – Because of YOUR Concession Donations, our team earned $734 at the meet Saturday! What an awesome achievement for our team and to think, we have 3 more home meets to go! How exciting!

As we consider Concession Donations for this coming Saturday’s meet, I want to share with you how concessions are working. We need Concession Donation sign-ups to occur early to help the Concession organizers to know what they have to provide.

Please sign up for the Concession Donations that you are bringing so we don’t receive too many.

If you’re willing to prepare, but want assistance with the purchase of ingredients, let us know.

Let’s name our Concessions Stand – Ideas? The Torpedo Factory Snack Bar? Engage our swimmers and let’s come up with a name for our concessions! Then they can make our sign!

Breakfast egg & sausage or egg & bacon muffins are prepared at home, brought to the meet warm and kept warm while at the meet in a turkey roaster. Meat of choice within the muffin is labeled on the outside of the breakfast muffin with a letter S – Sausage, B – Bacon, or H – Ham. This past week we precooked the meat the night before. The morning of the meet mixed several eggs in a bowl and poured in our electric skillet. We cut into 4ths to flip to finish cooking and once done, we cut into smaller squares to place on muffins with meat that had been preheated in the microwave (cooked night before). Wrapped in tinfoil, breakfast muffin sandwiches were labeled and kept warm in the oven until loaded to take to meet. Once at meet, they were placed in turkey roaster where they were kept warm for sale at meet. Important that they are prepared fresh that morning and kept warm when brought to the meet. 

With no grill or grill-master (hint, hint, hint), hamburgers and hotdogs were pre-grilled and brought to the meet warm. They were grilled the day before and refrigerated overnight. The next morning hamburgers were dampened with water, placed on a jelly roll pan, wrapped tightly with tinfoil and placed in the oven at 350 degrees to warm to temperature. For nearly 50 hamburgers, that took a little over 1 hour. The warm hamburgers were then wrapped in tinfoil in small batches and placed in a container and then the container wrapped with a towel to keep warm. Once at meet, hamburgers were placed into turkey roasters where they were kept warm for the meet. Hot dogs were taken out of the fridge and placed directly in a crock pot. No water added though a very little could be. Once they started to warm, they had to be rotated gently to prevent burning. Crock pot cut down to lowest setting so hot dogs could heat through. By the time they arrived to the meet they were warm and by the time we were ready to serve them, they were hot. 

Fresh Fruit Cups - A cup about the size of a Dixie cup filled with cut up fruit is EXTREMELY popular. The fresh fruit in the cup could be watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes, blueberries, and/or strawberries or anything else the maker would desire to include. Wrap the top of the cup with saran wrap. We had a donation of a cubed-up watermelon that went quickly. We could have sold 2 – 3 times the amount than we did. We would appreciate 10-15 cups being pre-filled with fruit to get concessions started with and then we can fill cups from a bowl as needed.

Donated Concessions that are perishable MUST be picked back up by the donor at the finish of the meet. It’s not fair for concessions to work the meet and then have to contend with what to do with unclaimed food. Please return to pick up what you donated should any be left.

Please call or email Denise McConnell with questions regarding Concession Donations (240) 346-1300.