It was a Girl Guide camp, sad to say. I was supposed to be running another activity at said camp, not in the kitchen at all. I made up the special diets menu (as to which ingredients had to be used and who could eat what) but they mixed everything together, with no consideration that some participants couldn't eat some of those special diet menu items. (i.e. the GF pretzels contained sesame, and were in the bag for the participant with life-threatening sesame allergy; we had other pretzels containing wheat but no sesame). They didn't believe me when I said they could have killed a child, and refused to learn how to read labels or make accommodations. At that point, I desperately wanted to go home (I was furious) but knew I had to step up as cook to keep others safe. I don't want to think about what would have happened if I wasn't there to step in.
For someone who is very involved in Guiding, I now need to take a break from it. And to think one of these apathetic cooks, the one who was most vocal about her unwillingness to accommodate special diets, has a job working with special needs children. I'm appalled.