Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Meals program

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Marcia, how.big is your community and what's the usual range of number of
diners?
      Muriel
      Shadowlake Village

On Sunday, June 14, 2026, Marcia Zuckerman via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> Bay State Cohousing moved in 3.5 years ago, and started our meals program
> with a meal scheduled every eight days.  Head cooks, assistant cooks, and
> cleaners all signed up on the Gather program.  At the beginning, every meal
> was offered; there were many people eager to be cooks.  Now only about half
> the scheduled meal dates actually get filled with a team.  Sometimes we use
> those times for potlucks, sometimes nothing happens.
>
> We’re considering a plan to create standing meals teams with everyone in
> the community who wants to participate.  A team would be assigned to each
> date.  The teams would be big enough so that there would be people to lead,
> assist, and clean.
>
> I’d like to hear from people who run meals this way, or perhaps have other
> ways to get people to cook.  Many of us would like to eat together weekly
> and are sad that it’s not happening.  As a stopgap, we’ve decided that
> unfilled meal dates will be Bring Your Own Dinner for anyone who wants to
> eat together.
>
> A few specific questions:  how big are the teams? what about people who
> want to eat occasionally; is there some way they can participate? do you
> have a set of recipes that are easy to make for large groups?
>
> Thank you,
> Marcia Zuckerman
> Bay State Cohousing
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