News From The Point

We have an increasing number of campers and staff who follow a healthy vegetarian diet.  Often, they come to camp for the first time wondering if we can fill the bill for them.  We always have delicious choices for all our girls.  Salads galore, eggplant dishes and grilled vegetables with virgin olive oil or fresh hummus.  Great vegetarian dishes sometime just need that extra flavor and complexity that marinated or grilled vegetables deliver. We want the dishes to be interesting and exciting to eat.  Our vegetarians seem to love all the choices.

The ice cream served on our dining is primarily Colombo Non-Fat frozen yogurt. It has zero fat but still has sugar. We think it is healthier than traditional ice cream and just as delicious. We know that the campers agree. Traditional ice cream is far less frequent, but we do serve it occasionally and you may see it on our menu as an evening snack with a choice for fresh fruit or part of a special celebration.  We serve plain Greek yogurt at breakfast and fruit flavored yogurt at lunch.  We know the girls enjoy the fruit flavors the most but they have higher sugar.  We like to see them enjoy the Greek as the “Healthy Choice” option.

Our fitness program team teaches our campers about what we call the “Healthy Choice” as part of our “Stay Fit for Life” program.  We teach our girls about portion control, and we often point out the items on our buffet that provide the most nutrition.  We teach them how to make the “Healthy Choice”.

At Point O’Pines we have all round dining room tables.  Of course, we want our girls to have equal access to our family style food platters on the tables, but more importantly we do not want anyone to be left out of the meal time conversation.  We like having no ends so everyone is in the “middle.”

Our nutritious camp menus are posted daily so that we can share with you the menu available to your daughter. The menu covers our main courses served family style to each table.  This being said we have options for the more discerning eaters. At every meal we have a buffet we call the “Salad Bar.”  Some campers choose most of their meal here, and many of our older girls regularly create their own favorites such as a chicken Caesar salad.  We always have grilled chicken breast, tuna and chicken salad, a wide variety of fresh vegetables, including both local and organic produce from our own farm. 

At the salad bar, there are also entree options, high protein dishes for vegetarians and enticing ready-made salads prepared by our chefs.  We also pride ourselves on gluten-free options, dairy free options and other choices prepared by a chef dedicated to special diets.  Our pasta  is very inviting with both whole grain and semolina pasta, all imported from Italy. Some enjoy our grilled fresh garden vegetables with a little drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, or served on a fresh baguette with hummus.  That’s what we call delicious and healthy.

Each camper participates in a Point O’Pines program called “Stay Fit for Life.”  The program is adapted to each age level and teaches things from the development of good exercise habits to making the Healthy Choice at meals.  Portion control and exposure to delicious veggies and salads is an important part of this program.  It incorporates so many parts of camp into a cross departmental plan.  Exercise, sports, our now famous 5K run and farm to table experiences are all coupled together.  Campers hopefully take away from camp experience that lasts a life time and will contribute to a positive interaction with their environment.