Hey...As I was reading this post, I recognized that this was my troop, and that it was my suggestion that we save the condiment packets.
This issue came from a trip to the drive-through prior to a troop meeting...The local burger joint gave me 14 ketchup packets, none of which I asked for. It was then that I thought about a scout being "thrifty," and not throwing these away.
When I asked the boys to save them, I prefaced it with the "thrifty" clause, and mentioned that they could save them instead of discarding...I would never advocate taking them from a local restaurant.