Colorado Springs Cohousing: Community Meals

Community Meals

Casa Verde residents (both owners and renters) have the option of participating in our meal plan, perhaps our strongest community-building activity. We have community meals twice a week. One meal is always on Sunday, alternating between brunch and dinner. The other meal is a dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night. These dinners rotate each week ... one week it's on Tuesday, the next week on Wednesday, etc.

Residents sign up for a meal rotation that lasts approximately 3 to 4 months, depending on the number of participants. During that time, each adult participant takes one shift as head cook, one shift as assistant cook, and three cleaning crew shifts. The head cook plans the menu, purchases the ingredients and cooks the meal with help from the assistant cook. Attendance at the meals is typically somewhere between 30 and 50 diners, and participants are asked to cross their names off the list if they will not be attending. We have items such as spices and oil available in our community pantry.

Our menus are varied and delicious, and our cooks attempt to address various dietary requirements so that residents who are vegetarians or who avoid wheat, for example, can still participate. Mealtime at Casa Verde is a great chance to catch up with friends and relax without having to prepare a meal at home.

For those who do not wish to participate in the meal plan, we also hold traditional potlucks on holidays such as Memorial Day, Forth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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