Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: cooking roster

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

Back when we used to rotate community dinner among our houses we did a 
monthly sign up sheet, which was posted at our meetings and people 
selected the days of the month they would host dinner.  We had 3 slots 
for each dinner which were cook, who bought the food, and prepared it, 
set up who gathered the tables and chairs and set them up, and clean up 
who put the tables and chairs away and helped clean up from cooking.  
As I recall if you participated you were expected to cook once and 
either setup or clean up twice a month.

We ended up only rotating among 4 of the houses, which were large 
enough to hold us all and so if it were my turn to cook I would either 
make arrangements with the house where dinner was to cook in their 
kitchen (this seldom happened) or I made food at my house and brought 
it to the house where we were eating.

Currently we are using the basement of a house as our common eating 
place while our commonhouse is under construction.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood.