Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common house meal prices

[Catya Belfer (catya]

We didn't do any broad research, just talked it through with our cooks.  We
found that it was occasionally the case that the veg meal had the expensive
ingredients, but it was much more often that the meat was the expensive
option / addition.

     - cat

Catya Belfer
My sites:   www.catya.org & CuriosityktCat.etsy.com
Cohousing:  www.cohousing.org & www.mosaic-commons.org

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:53 AM, KAREN A CARLSON via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> I’m interested in Catya’s report that veg eaters pay less. It’s my
> impression that protein selections that are non meat are as expensive or
> more, e.g., locally made walnut burgers.   (I realize that we aren’t
> exploiting the protein in some grains, etc). Any research you can point to?
>
> Karen Carlson
> Arboretum Cohousing
> Madison Wi
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 2, 2018, at 9:35 AM, Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > We just bumped from $4 for dinners to $4/veg, $5/meat.  We'll see if that
> > turns out as well as we hope!
> >
> >     - cat
> >
> > Catya Belfer
> > My sites:   www.catya.org & CuriosityktCat.etsy.com
> > Cohousing:  www.cohousing.org & www.mosaic-commons.org
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Sheila Hoffman <
> sheila [at] hoffmangraphics.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Grace mentioned our unique meal program. If you're interested in a more
> >> detailed account, I wrote a blog post about it sometime back. Here's a
> >> link:
> >> http://cohousing.org/node/5397  Let me know if you have questions. For
> you
> >> in a forming group the key is to decide how important having a vibrant
> meal
> >> program is in your group's values. We feel it's critical and therefore
> set
> >> an expectation that everyone would participate (we're also very small
> with
> >> only 9 households). Since we believe meals are the glue we started with
> 3
> >> meals a week. It's much easier to decide to drop a meal than to ever add
> >> one
> >> later.
> >>
> >> Sheila
> >> https://www.capitolhillurbancohousing.org
> >> http://cohousing.org/2019
> >>
> >>
> >>
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