Cohousing-L Mailing List: Common Meals for Allergics - Are they a prospective target market?

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

Joanie wrote:
"Is there a cookbook out there for group meals like these? that consider all 
the diets/allergies among folks like us?"

 

My question is: Is there a disproportionately high number of food allergic 
residents in cohousing, i.e., "folks like us"?  And if so, why?

 

I have never run into as high a number of incidents of food allergies among a 
small population as seems to be indicated in cohousing communities.

 

Is this a niche market to whom cohousing has a particular appeal because of the 
sensitivity of communitarians to accommodate fellow residents? 

 

If so, how do we identify food allergics as a market and target them for 
cohousing prospects?


Thanks for writing.
Tom


Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:42:17 -0600
From: "Joanie Connors" <jvcphd [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Questions about Common Meals
To: <Craig [at] Songaia.com>, "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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Is there a cookbook out there for group meals like these? that consider all 
the diets/allergies among folks like us?
 
If not, perhaps a committee could pull enough together to make a book. It 
should be publishable and could raise some $$$ for Coho US. 

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