Many scout camps (such as Massaweepie and Portaferry) feed their scouts by cooking meals for them inside a large, community dining hall. Sabattis is different. Scouts instead feed themselves, preparing, cooking, and cleaning up their own meals. Sabattis' excellent in-camp commissary makes the meal program flow smoothly. Roughly fifteen minutes before every meal, a van full of food is driven from the commissary to the "grub pickup point" near the trading post. Runners are sent from each troop to take the food components for that meal back to their campsite.

After patrols cook each meal (with the aid of a handy cookbook provided by the camp), they must clean up, wash their pots, pans, and mess kits, and take the buckets used to bring the food to their site back to the grub pickup area. The process changes slightly when Troop 400 goes out on its two-day trek. In this case, we are given special trail- food meals, which are usually dehydrated and cooked differently. Aside from regular meals, scouts will have access to snack food at Sabattis' trading post. Charleston Chews, Airheads, and tons of other candy selections keep our scouts satisfied between meals.