Team The Reader Feeder Diner

[Melissa]

Happy Friday Team!!

[Keely]

I hope you all have a good weekend!

I added some more meals. I just finished Ulysses which completed a few meals and I am going to try and finish Needless Street today.

[Heather]

I am having an evening of reading as I am alone so hopefully, I will finish a book :)

I also added a few new meals with words from the book I started today.

Good luck Keely with your new job :)

[Heather]

I am a bit confused by meal 100 "Old Fshioned Roast Beef Hash with Eggs" listed under curry, I think it is a mistake as it is not a curry.

[Melissa]

If we need another y, I just finished you are a badass which is nonfiction, without much food, so we could use the y.

[Keely]

It's looking like I will finish maybe 4 more books before the end of this round. Maybe one or two more, but I'm not sure how busy I will be this week.
The one's I've started I will be doing scavenger for as I've found a lot of food items in them already. Do you guys think I should read a book that we'll use for a spell it out or just see what happens?

[Melissa]

Keely wrote: "It's looking like I will finish maybe 4 more books before the end of this round. Maybe one or two more, but I'm not sure how busy I will be this week.
The one's I've started I will be doing scaven..."

It looks like we have some letters left for a spell it out - adding more wouldn't hurt.

[Alicia]

Ok, give me all the food words like FISH, that only have 1 vowel. I am struggling

FISH
SPAM
HAM

[Keely]

Okay, I'll try and find a book with lots of characters for more letters.

Alicia, I'll have a think throughout the day, but for now all I can think of is

LAMB
SALT
THYME (got a Y though)

That's all I've got off the top of my head. I'll keep thinking and let you know of anymore I come up with later.

[Keely]

A few more for you

CHIPS
BERRY
BUNS
CLAM
CORN
COD
CRAB
CURRY
DILL
EGG
FLAX
FIG
FLAN
GRAVY
HASH
HERB(S)
JELLY
JAM
MINT
MILK
NUT
PASTRY
PLUM
PORK
RYE
SLAW
SPUDS
SYRUP
SOY
STEW
SHRIMP
TART
WHEY
YAM

Google helped me. I can't take all the credit.

[Alicia]

heehee I just couldn't get out of my own way. weird headache. Thank you

[Melissa]

That’s an awesome list! I was walking with dog and thinking hmmmmm shrimp ummmmm chips….

[Keely]

Chips came to me all of a sudden when I was getting out the bath and it reminded me to have a look haha. I'm sure there are more out there. Specific dishes maybe.

[Heather]

I have two scavenger words "fish" and "duck" (I can use one) I am not sure whether I should start a new meal or not. I am just finishing the mad ship and the name of the rose. So I won't have any more words or letters this round.

[Keely]

I would say start a new fish and chips. I think one of the books I'm reading has enough to almost finish it.
If we end up with half finished stuff, we could probably add them to other meals at the end.

[Heather]

ok will do :)

[Melissa]

I should finish 3 ? books - so I'll have some words left

[Keely]

I used a some of your words for 2 of your books that hadn't had any used, Melissa.

I will definitely finish 2 books. The Night Shift which I have already used all but one word from and The Mermaid's Daughter which I haven't listed yet but from the bit I've listened to already there will be plenty of food for us to use.
I would like to get another done after that and if I have the time, maybe even another too. It really depends on how the rest of my week goes.

[Keely]

We also need 11 more things for the bonus.

The Mermaid's Daughter might have a couple we can use as the main character is a teenager.

[Keely]

I managed to fill in most of the Bonus words now. We only need 3 more now. Some of the ones I have are a bit of a stretch, but it does say be creative.

[Alicia]

√√
It says we are at 20 on the Bonuses

I thought it only tallied the meals that we have typed YES into Shop Front, but guess it doesn't matter (I changed a No to a Yes to see)

[Keely]

It looks like Heather filled in the last 3. I still don't really understand how the bonuses will work at the end of this round, but we have full points for it now and we will find out soon.

[Melissa]

We have until the 31st for this round, or do we need our information in earlier?

[Keely]

I'm under the impression it ends on the 31st, at the same time the challenge started and the last round ended/began.

[Keely]

I just found the countdown timer. It says the round ends 31st October 9pm UTC time

[Heather]

Yes sorry I meant to say I completed the bonuses. I read The Haunting of Hill House the other day, and finished The Mad Ship. I should be finished my other book today or tomorrow :)

[Heather]

End of Round 2 Timer: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Heather]

I thought this might be helpful

[Alicia]

Thank you Heather. I still don't know what UTC is so that works

[Melissa]

Excellent work completing the bonuses this round. I'm picking away at a couple more books - I entered a couple, but I haven't used the food yet. Feel free to take any food you find there for meals. I'll finish one more by tomorrow, and then that might be it before Monday.

[Keely]

I will finish my two remaining listed books today and I'm hoping to squeeze one more in as the round doesn't end until late Monday for me. I should have quite a bit of time before the round ends so I can mess around trying to squeeze in as many meals with what we have left if needed.

[Keely]

I just saw the spreadsheet and wow, you guys have been busy since I last looked!

Just one thing, I noticed meal 148 is missing TEA. The conditions of having a meal of tea is that is must contain Water and Tea.

[Heather]

Yeah sorry, I just forgot to include a line still for it, I have added it now :)

[Alicia]

I won't be home from work before the cut off time tomorrow, so I went ahead and put that I will finish my book tomorrow (which I will). Nothing will have to be changed for them.

[Keely]

Melissa, I used the title letter of Toxic Possitivity and swapped it out with one of my T's used for Ulysses. I'm guessing because you didn't list anything, you didn't find much and I noticed it was a non-fiction book so there would be no character letters to use.
I did the swap as books need at least one letter/word used in order to get the book points. There was an S character I hadn't used so I added an S on one of the meals which means Ulysses is still all used up.

[Melissa]

Keely wrote: "Melissa, I used the title letter of Toxic Possitivity and swapped it out with one of my T's used for Ulysses. I'm guessing because you didn't list anything, you didn't find much and I noticed it wa..."

Yes, that sounds good. No food in that book.

[Melissa]

We've almost read 90 books this round!! :0 That is amazing!

[Melissa]

Any thought on what I should use my food items for for that last book?

[Melissa]

Okay, I added to Heather's sandwich - although it's kinda an interesting sandwich.....
I'm finished with books, so feel free to adjust any of my foods! I've got a couple left there.

[Heather]

I changed out the apple for pepperoni, I hope you don't mind. I also started a tuna and bean salad and used some of your items Melissa, we need two more items for it though. I am not sure I will read more after Bone Witch as I am busy tonight. But I might have some time to read another small book maybe another Sweet Tea Witch book they are a quick read.

[Heather]

I agree with Mellissa that we have done amazing this round with reading :)

[Melissa]

The bacon switch is fine, except I think I filled in an empty quiche ingredient with it! Ah bacon, the universal ingredient.

[Heather]

If you mean the switch I made it was the pepperoni, not the bacon as you are right it is already used in a quiche

[Keely]

I'm just starting a fairly short audiobook. With the speed I listen to some books, I should be done in a couple of hours. I'm hoping there is some food to at least finish that last salad.

[Melissa]

Heather wrote: "If you mean the switch I made it was the pepperoni, not the bacon as you are right it is already used in a quiche"

Oh, yeah, right!!!
Perfect.

[Keely]

Wow, 200 meals. Looks like we won't be having leftovers. I am very proud of what we did manage though. Well done team!

I assigned the meals, but I'm waiting for the question to be answered about what we do with the bonuses. I'm going to have to sleep soon so if the answer doesn't come before I do, feel free to do whatever is required. I'm going to be out most of tomorrow so I won't be around to do anything with the spreadsheet until early evening.

I also made a few meals for round 3. I have a book I started, but put on hold to read the BOMs. I should be able to get more read in November as things have calmed down for me.

[Melissa]

Keely wrote: "Wow, 200 meals. Looks like we won't be having leftovers. I am very proud of what we did manage though. Well done team!

I assigned the meals, but I'm waiting for the question to be answered about w..."

Thanks Keely!!

[Keely]

I sorted out the bonuses. I was woken up by someone being very loud in the house so I figured I would do something productive before I have to go out.

We came close to doubling our points from last round! We are also sitting at 7th out of 14, but some teams won't have finished assigning their meals yet. We won't be winning this game, but I have been enjoying it and as I said before, I am proud of what we have managed.

[Melissa]

I totally agree with you Keely! I feel like we really rallied and read a lot of books this time around. I’ve been having a lot of fun too. I even went out for dinner just to get fish and chips lol! And last week I made a quiche for myself. Thanks for assigning all those meals :-) I’m still not really sure how to do that so I’m glad thankful that you do! I hope you get better sleep tonight. I am psyched for round three!

[Keely]

I'm glad this challenge has inspired you to cook/eat those meals. We've been having fish and chips at least once a week as we have been too busy to cook much, but I am looking forward to doing some cooking and eating some healthier food eventually.

I went into my new workplace today. The idea was that I would get a bit of the online training done, but of course it wasn't working. I did find out when my first start days will be though. Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th. So I've got two days to prepare myself for night shifts... I can tell I am going to be exhausted as I'm still very much on the opposite sleep pattern from what I need. I'll manage though.
It's looking like lots of daytime naps are in my immediate future :p