Cohousing-L Mailing List: Meals sign up (Was Meals and Dietary Preferences)

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

Liz wrote: <Another idea that never occurred to us which is ingenious- assume
everyone is signed up unless people mark themselves as not attending on the
sign-up sheet. Much better meal attendance, and you don't have to remember to
sign up. >

I don't think that would work for us.  We have a lot of sporadic meal attenders
- and  they often forget to come when they *have* signed up, so I doubt they
would remember to mark themselves out .

Our policy is to encourage people to sign up, even if they are not sure they
will come.  We prefer to have leftovers rather than a lot of last minute (I
didn't sign up, do you have enough?) folks- though we still get those.  

I can't see it ever being exact - most meals are somewhat flexible - it's the
'I bought enough organic corn for  xx people plus a few extras, now there are 6 
more people wanting to come, ' situation that most of us cooks hate.

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Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
A studio-size and a 1-BR size coop apt are for sale, a 3 BR townhous is
currently  rented, maybe for sale.
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-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
 Voice Mail for Monterey Cohousing - 952-930-7554
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