RE: vegetarian & vegan, common meals
From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 10:24 CDT
Matthew Woodbury asked:
 Does anyone out there deal with a cohousing group that is part
vegan or even just vegetarian? How does this work with shared meals.


At Sharingwood, so far, we have 2 vegetarians and various other allergy 
sorts of food issues.  We maintain a sheet in the kitchen of food 
preferences/requirements and the cooks work around those, to some 
degree. WIth our average of  4 meals a week a strict vegetarian could 
eat well at 2, ok at 1 and marginally at 1.  Different cooking teams 
place different priority on vegetarian preference so those who don't 
eat chicken when the main dish is chicken  might be out of luck. (rice 
and salad gets pretty boring after awhile).  The hard core dietary 
types, of which there are two, do not participate in our community 
dinners much.

My daughter is very allergic to fish.  When fish is served, she eats at 
home with me ( I seldom participate in community dinner- though not for 
dietary reasons).  One of the gaps in our current system, which was 
just redone, is that meal menus are not posted so you have to sign up a 
week in advance, but you don't know what is for dinner.  We continue to 
evolve our community eating strategies.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood

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