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Team Pantries in a Twist




Team members

❅ Brittany McCann
❅ Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*
❅ Robin (Saturndoo)
❅ Stephanie
❅ Mrs Soule
❅ Deanna

Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Status Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Apparently I wasn't supposed to create the team thread yet and posted to make sure, so hopefully that's not an issue. Was following directions from a post above me. It's my first time playing this challenge so hopefully I didn't mess it up

reminder for myself and others

TUTORIAL VIDEO ON SPREADSHEET
https://www.loom.com/share/071d1cdb91...

Challenge Dates
There will be 3 rounds which are one calendar month each.
Starting 1 September 2022, 9pm UTC and finishing 30 November 2020, 9pm UTC.

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The number of spell-it-out letters you can use per book is limited by the length of the book.
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up to 2 scavenger words / spell-it out letters per book >50 pages and <=160 pages
up to 4 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >161 and <=300 pages
up to 8 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >301 pages and <=500 pages
up to 12 scavenger words / spell-it-out letters per book >501 pages

Q: What is the min/max referring to? I can't figure it out at all and it's preventing me from understanding the rest of the game.

Let's use Fresh Sandwich as an example.

This has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10. This refers to either scavenger hunt words, or spell-it-out letters.

So, someone on your team has read a 342 page book, from which you can use 8 scavenger words. You found in your book-
bread, salami, mustard, and lettuce. You have just met the minimum number of words that could make up a sandwich. You can choose to add tomato, cheese, mayo and pickles if you find those (or any sandwich related words) in your 342 page book. And, if someone else on your team has an ingredient available that you can use in your sandwich, you can use more than one book to make up any meal, in this case, up to 10 ingredients.

The min/max works for spell-it-out as well. You can use the title, author, series, or character names to spell out WRAP or RUEBEN, or whatever is the type of sandwich with 4 to 10 letters, one book or more to make up the letters.
Again, with a 342 page book as an example, you can use 8 letters from that book. (hide spoiler)]

POINTS
10 points per book read
2 points per scavenger word / spell-it-out letter used per book (maximum numbers shown below)

Points are also given per meal eaten:
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Sandwich			60
Fish and Chips			45
Fish and Chips with Vinegar	55
Coffee				20
Tea				30
Salad				50
Pasta				40
Quiche				45
Curry				60
Alcoholic drink			20
Dessert				20
Non-Alcoholic Drink		20	
Monthly Special			80

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FRESH MEALS - (must be used within the month - page count of 50 pages or more. No restriction on using children's, graphic novels, etc.)

(view spoiler)[◈ sandwiches items which would be suitable on a sandwich (for example: bread, butter, lettuce, tomato, ham, chicken, salami, cheese, carrot, cucumber, salt, pepper, beetroot or beets, gherkins or pickles, peanut butter, jam or jelly, vegemite, mustard, honey, pastrami, devon, egg, bacon)
Sandwiches have a minimum of 7 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ fish and chips (fish, or any types of fish, potato, salt, lemon) Note for scavenger hunt only: Must contain all these items (4), add vinegar for bonus points.
Fish and chips have a minimum of 4 and maximum of 5 items.
◈ coffee (coffee or anything coffee related, e.g. latte) ; milk, sugar, cream, water) Can be items to make a coffee, the word coffee, or just a coffee word (e.g. "cappuccino").
Coffee has a minimum of 1 and maximum of 6 items.
◈ tea(tea, milk, sugar, water, cream) Note for scavenger hunt only: Must contain at least tea and water. Other items are optional.
Tea has a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 items.
◈ salad (e.g. salad, lettuce, cucumber, any cheese, tomato, olives, carrot, cucumber, beans, peas, nuts, pear)
Salads have a minimum of 5 and maximum of 15 items. (hide spoiler)]

FROZEN MEALS Can be used in the following month. Page count of 160+. No graphic novels, cookbooks, poetry or childrens books unless audio version is more than 5 hours or wordcount can be verified with arbookfind as more than 40,000 words

(view spoiler)[◈ pasta (e.g. pasta types, cheese, cream, salt, pepper, chicken, chilli, basil, tomato, garlic)
Pasta have a minimum of 7 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ quiche (e.g. eggs, bacon, leeks, ham, spinach, salt, pepper, pastry)
Quiche have a minimum of 6 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ curries (e.g. beef, lamb, chicken, lentils, potato, sweet potato, carrot, beans, curry powder or paste, turmeric, chilli, cloves, coriander, cumin, ginger, garlic)
Curries have a minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 items. (hide spoiler)]

DESSERTS, DRINKS, COCKTAILS ; can be shelved/frozen and used at any point through the challenge. 500+pages. No children's, poetry, graphic novels, plays, cookbooks.

(view spoiler)[◈ Champagne, wine, liqueur, beer (generic term or a specific brand/type)
◈ Chocolate, fruit, marshmallow, ice cream, custard or any dessert (generic term or a specific type, e.g. “tart”)
◈ Water, Juice, soda, soft drinks (generic term or a specific type, for e.g. Lemonade)
Desserts, drinks and cocktails have a minimum of 1 and maximum of 5 items.
Monthly Special . For Month 1, this is a fresh item which much be used in the month created.
◈ Fijian Chicken Curry (chicken, spice(s) (generic term or a specific type), tomato, coconut milk, chutney, roti, chilli, rice. Must contain chicken, spice(s) and rice. This dish has a minimum of 6 and maximum of 8 items. (hide spoiler)]

CUSTOMERS

🔴 Children ; only eat fish and chips (no vinegar), sandwiches, quiche, juice and water.
🔴 Teenagers ; eat all frozen meals, soda/soft drinks and desserts.
🔴 Adults ; eat everything. May even give you a tip (which allows you to preserve fresh food for next month)
🔴 Pensioners only eat Sandwich, Fish and Chips (with vinegar), Tea and Coffee and pasta (and in month 1 the special)

Customers are randomised at the end of the month to eat the team meals. (This will impact your points as meals eaten will depend on your customers. Waste can also be expensive for restaurants!)


BOOKS OF THE MONTH
For every team member that participates in a Book of the Month (BOM) (by joining the discussion and/or writing discussion questions) they will be able to swap out two assigned customers for others of their choice.

Limited to two customers for each team member per BOM. (i.e. you can't get the customer bonus for writing DQs AND participating. But if you join 2 BOMs in one month, you can get 4 bonuses).

This bonus will be available for BOMs that start after the challenge begins.

Watching the video now as it's my first time playing

Looks like it autopopulates a lot which is great as it will tell us automatically what stuff can be used for

I posted some reminders in posts here because I like to keep reminders to myself in one area so hopefully this doesnt bug anyone

I love Spell it outs and scavenger hunts themes, so I'm definitely excited to try this one out.

Hi Brittany and Erin!!!!

Brittany when Erin asked me about joining you two I didn't know at the time that it was YOU from FLOAB. I got super excited when I figured it out that it was YOU!!!! LOL I told Erin, HEY I'm in some her challenges over there----->

But it's nice to get to spend some time with both of you here. Erin already knows, I get a little stuipd silly sometimes, so just overlook me : )

Thanks Erin for setting this all up. NOPE not bugging me. It helps me too when I need to know something...keeps me from spending hours trying to figure out where I saw it LOL Being old, my memory plays lots of nasty tricks on me sometimes : /

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Thanks Erin for setting this all up. NOPE not bugging me. It helps me too when I need to know something...keeps me from spending hours trying to figure out where I saw it LOL Being old, my memory plays lots of nasty tricks on me sometimes : /
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No problem!! And you both probably know by now I LOVE Spreadsheet challenges and planning.

I just put together something that is easier for me to understand and track for these meals in a tab on our office spreadsheet here- "Meal Info" - I tried to organize it for us to make clear

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I'm already going to be thinking of coffees and fun ideas for these on my personal spreadsheet where I usually track challenges because I'm a dork that way :)

Checking in!

Mrs.soule wrote: "Checking in!"

Hi Mrs.!!! Good to see you here : ) I'm pretty excited about doing this challenge with all of you.

I do tend to read a lot and I'm usually the one that let's everyone choose what they want to do and I fill in the slack. I don't work so spend a lot of my time here on GR and reading. So I told Erin, y'all will probably just have to pull me by the ear and let me know what I need to be reading and I will LOL I have absolutely no problems with that : )

Hi everyone and Hi Robin! Happy to do a challenge with you. So happy to hear that you are enjoying the challenges in our group!

Brittany wrote: "Hi everyone and Hi Robin! Happy to do a challenge with you. So happy to hear that you are enjoying the challenges in our group!"

I am enjoying the challenges in FLOAB!!! I'm a challenge junkie and get all caught up in them and get behind posting LOL I said I wasn't going to join a bunch of them this year, but guess what? Here I am : )

I'm happy you liked the group name. I started typing some out and got stuck on Pantries in a Twist lol After that I couldn't think of anymore : /

Checking in.

Hi Deanna!

Hello everyone!

Hi Deanna and Stephanie!!!

Hi Stephanie

Ok my lil Bookie Monsters🥰 we are exactly one week away!!

Are you getting your (b)reads ready?

I don't usually plan out too much unless it is a specific list task

Brittany wrote: "I don't usually plan out too much unless it is a specific list task"

I'm not much of a planner either. The only challenge that I do plan for is the Seasonal Reading Challenge--it's task specific so it does take a hot minute to find books for it.

I planned a lot last week but this week have been busy and hardly able to get on GR much. I did watch some of the introductory video also

Yay, thanks to Karen we now have all members updated on our team spreadsheet :)

So ready to get started!

Stephanie wrote: "So ready to get started!"

LOL I was excited to start this one but I think I've waited so long my excitement got some GONE!! Once we get started and interact more it will be better : )

I just volunteered for DQs on both BOTMs so maybe we can get some extra points

So, we start tomorrow.

I have books in progress for another challenge but know this one is started after challenge starts. Thankfully have a four day weekend coming up :)

I will skip Kristin Hannah's books as I don't like that author, but will definitely try to nab The Paris Apartment

I have both books in my posession : ) I love Kristin Hannah so I will definitely read The Four Winds. The Paris Apartment is a maybe.

My library hold of The Island just came in so that may be the first book I'll start for this one tomorrow or Saturday

Who has played this before? I haven't but am slowly catching on
I am a bit confused on Scavenger hunt from the example spreadsheet. You can mark an ingredient fully complete by finding it in a book, but if you use spell it out you have to use multiple books to spell out the word? I'd be surprised if people stuck mainly to spell it outs in that case.

The Four winds is my favorite Kristin Hannah book. I read it about 18 months ago. And I have had the Paris apartment on my tbr

For ease of tracking on spreadsheet...it appears that if it's a scavenger word we only have to put the Ch# where word is found for audio/ebook editions. Putting page# or loc could get hectic if book contains lots of scavenger items.

I've read some thoughts from returning players that are saying that it's easier, less complicated to work on building your own meals and then contribute to helping others complete their meals. EX: your book has "vinegar listed 10 times. team mate needs vinegar to finish fish and chips. Use your book to help team mate finish their meal of fish and chips.

Start Time Timer
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

That makes sense easier to focus on own meals and projects and then leftovers to help others. I know books work for multiple categories and the front spreadsheet fully tracks it under Books on how many times it has left to be used (as long as the title you put on the spreadsheet matches the way the title is written on the Books Read tab)

I know I'm definitely going to do a salad and coffee soon

Should we color code ours on the food type on our spreadsheet to show who has put what planned in? Such as I could color mine light orange highlight, someone can do half blue, or is that making it more confusing instead of more helpful?

That way if we are working on the same things we dont accidentally get confused on which salad is whose, etc

Something like this - where I'm light orange and Robin is light blue, etc.

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "For ease of tracking on spreadsheet...it appears that if it's a scavenger word we only have to put the Ch# where word is found for audio/ebook editions. Putting page# or loc could get hectic if boo..."

Thanks for doing the countdown :)

I still have some books to finish next few days for another challenge that won't count for this one, but have some ones I want to begin for this one today also.

I have to work for 6 hours and 45 minutes today, then I'm off for 4 days starting tomorrow -- woohoo! I need the break BADLY.

Even though we can't read or mark books finished yet, I'm pretty sure we can start putting planned meals on the tab ' Kitchen Meals Created Round 1 ' - to show which words or letters we are going to put books into later.

I have a copy of this spreadsheet so have been doing some behind the scenes planning on a private spreadsheet when the challenge was first announced, but hadn't had time the past few weeks to revisit it

Brittany wrote: "The Four winds is my favorite Kristin Hannah book. I read it about 18 months ago. And I have had the Paris apartment on my tbr"

I didn't like her book, The Nightingale, but maybe I'd like The Four Winds better. If I have time and a way to get it from library, may give it a shot

The Nightingale was good but the ending kind of defeated the entire book. I wish I could cut off the ending. The Four Winds is definitely better. And the Great Alone. Those are my two favorites of hers so far.

I have issues regularly accessing Google Docs/Sheets. So I am really good at reading book and getting them to fit where we need unless it is obscure.

What do we need. I just finished a book. i can post with potential things it fits for

I don't think the challenge has started yet, so any books finished now won't count. We have a few hours left as it goes by the time zone with the countdown that Robin posted above.

If you need help navigating or adding a book to the spreadsheet later, let me know!

Ok sounds good

We are capped for 80 for the first round. If we start nearing 80 later we can start moving small page count books in a reserve tab if you would like. Right now I think we are fine reading shorter books if they were planned. I have one that is page 105 that I wanted to read today that came out of a series I enjoy --- but almost all my books otherwise will be over 200 pages.

It's very rare that I read a book under 250 pgs

I believe for this first round we can read for any customer that fits what we finish? I know for other rounds (months) they may assign us specific customers/meals to aim for.

I am barely understanding any of this. I'm going to try entering my first book once we can start and see how it goes from there, because I am so lost, lol.