Cohousing-L Mailing List: kitchen storage

[Judy (BAXTER%EPIHUB]

        MoCoCo is tackling again the disposition of our pre-existing common 
spaces,
and wondering about trade offs relating to storage space in the kitchen, i.e.
common freezer space, refrigerator space, shelf space (as for canned goods, dry
foods, grains, beans, etc).  At present, we have been buying quite a bit in
bulk, and when the need arises, we can cook for 20 or so without shopping,
which to me is great.  Plus savings on bulk purchases.  Currently the freezer
is used for organic beef, turkey, chicken, and vegies and tortillas.  Not a lot
of freezer space.

But space is tight, so some ideas about how it works with more folks would be
very helpful.  We now cook for anywhere from 10  to 18 most nights, sometimes
as high as 20.  We plan to eventually be 23 households, probably 35 or so
adults plus a bunch of kids (so far, 9, with only 16 households ).  If we
follow David's (i thin) advice, we need to plan for nearly full house a good
part of the time. 

I've been searching the archives a little, and tho I found some comments on
this, they don't exactly address my question, which is what is the minimum
storage space you would need for our size crowd, and pros and cons of having
more?