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Okay, I'm still pretty confused about this challenge. Sorry! 🙈So, I've been reading Pumpkin Spiced Omega which has quite a lot of dishes/drinks/ingredients for the brevity of the book (only 134 pages). However, we can only use 2 items of it and only for Fresh meals. Should I really put every possibility on our sheet, or just a few ones I think we are most likely to use?
And can we use "complete" meals/drinks (like Pumpkin Spice Latte or Honey Glazed Ham) or would we need to split it up to 4 individual ingredients (in that case pumpkin spice, latte, honey, ham)?
Oh, and there's no need to write down items like spirits or sweets from books under 500 pages, since it wouldn't count anyway, right?
Caipi wrote: "Okay, I'm still pretty confused about this challenge. Sorry! 🙈So, I've been reading Pumpkin Spiced Omega which has quite a lot of dishes/drinks/ingredients for the brevity of the b..."
I have all these questions as well.
I put in everything for Galaxies and Oceans so that we'd know what was there and presumably someone could read it for an ingredient or item, or read it next month.
I haven't been logging drinks.
I need to update the sheet...
Dont bother logging drinks or desserts for anything under 500 pgs ..although we do need water for making tea ..so id be tempted to use the books under 160 pgs for coffee/ tea/ water ( for tea )Pumpkin spiced latte can work coffee ( 1 item)
Honey glazed ham would just work for ham ( sandwi h/quiche
I am good with putting the books on the main sheets but am also so confused about the making of the meal, I will try to figure it out this weekend though so you're not on your own Janine!I finished my omega book for SH and the MC owns a restaurant so commercial kitchen for that and LOTS of food items for this one. I highlighted them all because before I was just searching after the fact and that seemed harder. I'll try to add it today, but might not get to it until tomorrow.
Also I know at least Trio is an audiobook listener, is chapter okay for the sheet or do I also have to get the ebook and search it out for the tracking, you think?
I found a lot of items like chicken, blueberry, water, tea, eggs and so on ... but had no choice till now to add it to the SS.I will take a closer look on the weekend.
Maybe we should add items and try to create every weekend meals.
Then we can use leftovers for the next week .
This way, we could combine more and still font have so much that its overwhelming
I finish work today for 12 days holiday and going up to cottage tonight so should have plenty of spare time .If we can all add our books with good items onto SS onto the main Books read pg .( my current book has hardley anything so far except sausage / coffee
I will take a look and see what meals we can make start..my only problem is i dont really know how many of each we are going to need ..is 20 x coffee enough 🤷♀️🤷♀️😄😄
Ill see what i can do and then perhaps kirsten can write the descript down ..she made a good job of our shop description 😁
Amanda as far as im aware pg #/ chapter/ location are all good for where item is
I just started Ghosts and OMG, the second page is full of different fruits, pickles, ham, meat and so on
If we need honey, just read one with a lot of it ... not much more in there though Does the term vegetable count? Because that's something I read much more often than different kinds of it
Glad to write descriptions. Am still feeling pretty sick with the Covid. Mostly napping.
Ive had to ask mod to sort out SS out again as worked for a while but then not ..wondering if its me 😄Amanda
Has the mummy christo got any more water and coffee in it, we can use multiple times
Team..i have just spent 2 hours putting my books on main SS and trying to make meals, its very time consuming as i have to make sure i mark which item i have used ( so dont do again) so there is 🔸️ & ✅️ everywhere
i really dont think we are going to get to the stage where we are moving items around to make more interseting meals etc , so once they are finished a meal thats it i think ...Soooo
Does this sound reasonable
We all put our own books on the main Books read SS , quite easy , dont need links but my titles needed underlining 🤷♀️
Then I will go on the Kitchen meals created page and just allocate so many meals and we can then add our items that fit
If you look at SS now you can see that we need a few items to complete a / curry/ salad/fish chips .
What do you all think , i think claudia & caipi not too sure on SS so we can work together to cover you
I know it doesnt help that im on my phone but i didnt realise how much work it would be
Claudia wrote: "If we need honey, just read one with a lot of it ... not much more in there though Does the term vegetable count? Because that's something I read much more often than different kinds of it"
I think we can use the word veg but it will only count as.the 1.item
I’m just gonna throw this out there. This challenge is way more listing and finding and way less reading and chatting. For me, it’s no fun. I have like 9 books I need to log, and then all the other stuff to do. We could just quit.
ETA: I’m not worried about winning or losing—I can’t imagine I’d ever have the time our energy to try to win this. But are all y’all having fun? I’ll always do my best to pull my weight, but if I were on my own, I’d cut my losses and focus on the fun stuff.
I like the idea of this challenge very much and although we were told it was not for someone who used google sheets , me, in my wisdom thought i would be ok and tbh i can do most of it ( except linking books ) the problem is the time it is takingIve got one SS open on one phone on my lap while i transfer it onto another sheet so i dont have to keep swapping pages but as i have to zoom in a lot , it gets confusing which line im on .
If other are ok adding their own books and putting their items in to meals that i set up in advance then im fine carrying on , but will see what other say .
I also and not reading as many books as normal as a lot of other challenge are giving more points for 300+ pgs so reading mote of them than normal 😀
I can check Mummy Cristo this weekend for more stuff and add I'm going to add all my books to main sheet this weekend.I also don't super love this challenge, and I feel like it's made me a little reading slumpy as I feel a little pressure to make notes while I'm reading. I've never quit a challenge and not sure how I feel about doing it lol but can go either way
I have to agree with Kirsten and Amanda, so far it is disrupting my reading flow to have to constantly mark or note food and drink items. But we are still at the beginning of the challenge and I think with time I will get a better feeling for what ingredients/how many we actually need per book. Not necessary to mark each kind of pastries or mark coffee 8 times in a book, whose page number allows no sweets and only 2 ingredients at all, like I did at first.
From there I would like to try the challenge further.
But if you guys decide to give up now, especially those of you who put in so much more work than I, that's absolutely understandable and really fine by me.
Caipi, i can do it for you I think we just need to slow down and enjoy it a bit more , if we only read 40 boks , we only read 40 books .
I found it easier adding a few books every now and then rather than being faced with loads ( a bit overwhelmed ).
If you do not do links then you need to make sure the book title on main books read is exactly the same spelling/ capitals as that on kitchen meals created ( i dont always use capitals and that was what was causing problems )
Ill add some basic meal plans later and see if it makes it easier
Amanda on our book tracking page is there anyway i can get rid of my books that have a ✅️ next ( other than deleting then all 1 box at a time ) to them as they all been added and thought it would make it easier to see what is added/ not
Should I do it now? I don't want to do it too early lol
Yes, any books with ✅️ next to my name
And can you just automatically do any others that have a ✅️ next to my name please
Thanks Amanda As we seem to be finding lots of items we can stop putting letters for spellout if we want..that will save somentime as well
Added the books I finished to the sheets "Books Read" and "Book Tracking".
Okay. I’m definitely willing to keep going. I just wanted to check in with all y’all. Like Amanda, I don’t really want to be a quitter!I’ve also thought about not putting stuff in the tracking sheet, as that feels really daunting. Instead, I’m going to take a look at meals. I have so.much. food highlighted I want to try a different approach.
That said, I’m going to not be reading or much of anything else for the next week. I’m way behind at work because I lost a week to Covid.
I’ll also pop in for chatting and book sharing. I value the connections we’ve made across challenges.
Kirsten, if you want to make your own full meals thats fine and just slot things into other meals when & if
What job do you do Kirsten , we dont have to check ourselves any more ( unless you nhs ) and encouraged to go to work
On book tracking page if you shuffle along to column AD ive made a list of what meals we got so far so can keep a check
I’m a theatre professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. So it’s pretty easy for me to miss work, but I’ve got a ton to catch up on. And I’m teaching a class for the first time, so every week is new lectures and reading and assignments and grading. Nothing I can’t manage, but I lost a week!I feel pretty good today and think I’m basically better. My daughter and partner had it too. She and about half her swim team got it at a meet, he got it from here, and I got it from him. Been a weird week for sure!
My daughter whos a nurse had it last week and she not been going anywhere apart from work , she worked all the way through it at the hospital and first time shes had it
Janeylou wrote: "My daughter whos a nurse had it last week and she not been going anywhere apart from work , she worked all the way through it at the hospital and first time shes had it"She’s tougher than me!
I couldnt do what she does, shes a mental health nurse and currently works with older adults who have dematia ..she is permanently covered in bruises !!!
I can see you're doing SS kirsten so ill wait till later in case we go over each other 😄😄
Okay. Everything changed for me just now. I totally need to get some actual work done, but when I stopped thinking I had to log everything and just put in my books and some meals, it was actually kind of fun. The computer definitely helps. I read about 2/3s of my books on kindle, and I could just use my GR highlights to figure out what I could use. For those of you who don't have great computer access and do use kindle, I would be happy to take a look at yours and plug in some meals.This is fun! And I've got some great descriptions up my sleeve!
It's still hella time-consuming, though...
Sorry for my late answer. I like the idea of the challenge and will try to log books and meals tonight and tomorrow morning
Hope then everything will be clear and i will be able to create meals
With ebooks i have no troubles logging the position of items but with audiobooks it is very time-consuming
As i am reading a lot I hope that it is no trouble to get enough books with items
Claudia, i find if i update each book at a time.its not too bad and once youve done it a few time you understand what you do / do not need ..i was putting allsorts on my list , but we dont really need pork chops or apple sauce 😄😄
Janeylou wrote: "Claudia, i find if i update each book at a time.its not too bad and once youve done it a few time you understand what you do / do not need ..i was putting allsorts on my list , but we dont really n..."But pork chops with apple sauce sound appealing 😉
I will try tonight ... lets see what kind of dishes I can create ☺️
I found a lot of herbs and fruit ... and hot dogs. Can we use hot dogs as a dish?
Cant really use hot dogs 😪Ive added provision meals on SS so add anything you fancy to those , use the whole meal or just part.of it
Janeylou wrote: "Cant really use hot dogs 😪Ive added provision meals on SS so add anything you fancy to those , use the whole meal or just part.of it"
Sounds good , thanks ☺️
I don't know why, but the hot dogs made me LOL. There's zero reason it should but it did
Janeylou... tonight's the MCR concert in Brooklyn!and hotdogs lol
I'm reading JL Merrow's new book and it has some interesting foods.
Trio wrote: "Janeylou... tonight's the MCR concert in Brooklyn!and hotdogs lol"
I know Trio, i thought that was why you were quiet .
I want all the details tomorrow , and blow Gerard a kiss from me 😄😄
Trio wrote: "I'm reading JL Merrow's new book and it has some interesting foods."I live JL Merrow , but seem to have missed this ..which one is it
Okay I'm actually having fun adding the meals, but how does it calculate how many items you can do? I made a sandwich which has min 7 items, but guess my book is max 4?
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Originally i was thhinking to give 3nweeks before we sorted meals but i thi k we going to get too overwhelmed doing it that way .
Im seeing that the food/ drinks we need are popping up loads in our books so dont see that we need to hold back in posting on main SS .
.is anyone confident adding meals to the SS?
If not can we all add our good books to the official book list as that would save a lot of time and i can sort meals out
If you cant do links like me then make sure title is underlined