Food

So several people have e-mailed me and suggested a pot luck. It looks like that's the number one idea for an ecoficient way to eat. Well I thought I would share with you all a cool way to cut down on stress, time and dollars. I guess you can call it the new "pot luck". Have you heard of co-op cooking?

There's two ways you can do this. For both styles you need a group of people. For idea #1 let's say there are 5 different families. Each family takes one night out of the week to cook and on that night the other four families pick up dinner from that families house. Basically it's homemade take out. For idea #2 those five families would get together on one day of the week, maybe Saturday, and each family/person would be responsible for cooking one main dish. When all the food is done, it's divided into refrigerator or freezer safe containers and everyone takes their portions for the week. In both examples what your left with is a work week worth of food in only one days work. If you want to read more about it here's a helpful website http://oamc.factspot.com/

My initial idea was to have each of you bring something to the celebration that could be traded with other people, sort of a third variation of co-op cooking. I thought, well that will take care of the party favors but that could also turn into a logistical nightmare so I'm scraping that plan. I do however find this to be a great idea so if you're so inclined find a few people to try it out with and see what you think. Idea #1 might be best with people who live close to you.

So what do we do about food? My thoughts are...let's eat out. Is anyone up for trying something new? I'll pick a place Mateo likes where people can order if they want or just come and hang out. Let's make it for March 8th. That means we have exactly one month from now. Have you ever had vegan food? Remember though, you can't spend anymore money than you normally would for that day. Check back in a day or so for more birthday challenge details. We still need to talk about GIFTS!!!