Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Also, I read Recipe for a Perfect Wife and it has some pretty strong food ingredients in it. I've read a lot of books that aren't listed because we did so well filling all the spots but I did notice that we had one spot still open. Did we have a plan to fill it already or should I put the Recipe book in that spot?

That was my spot but i didnt find anything useful in the book so go ahead and use it :)

To cross out...highlight the text...then go to the tool bar at the top...there is a 'S' with a line through it...click on that.

Thanks I'll add that book and words and work on this. I'll be up awhile bc my Braves are just now starting.

I fixed the two doubles that I found. I didn't even add all the words in that book because there are so many but I was able to make a good curry and fix those doubles.

Tammie wrote: "Once this round ends tomorrow afternoon, we'll have 2 days to wait on customers. Does anyone want to be involved with this step? We should probably have just one or 2 people do it...at least for th..."

I can help with waiting on customers. Only thing is I won't be available until after 12 tomorrow. After that I'm free until Monday afternoon. I just am not entirely sure of what to do for this part tho

Shannon wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Once this round ends tomorrow afternoon, we'll have 2 days to wait on customers. Does anyone want to be involved with this step? We should probably have just one or 2 people do it......"

Me neither...what we know...

We have 2 days

Fresh should probably be used first because they expire

Adults give tips based on names of meals...tips earn us preservatives to help us 'save' expiring meals for the next round.

We want to be careful not to leave anything expiring if we can to avoid being penalized.

We'll want to monitor Q&A and maybe a few other threads for hints on how we can do better.

Perhaps we can dialogue a bit on strategy before we start...I don't know if they arrive all at once or if we need to monitor for good service...I really have no idea. Anything you can find will be helpful.

Shannon why don't you take the lead...if no one else want to step up to back you up, I'll gladly do it. I work all day/night tomorrow but will have a few breaks to check in here and there. Sunday is better for me. If we can do everything on Sunday, I'll be around all morning for sure...not sure yet about the rest of the day. I'm a realtor, so work time depends on clients.

Thanks to whoever drafted our restaurant description...If anyone has time, please take a look and see if this can also be improved. We are rated by the restaurant critic on this...see post 216 - >
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Anna/Ann

Please number your meals to coordinate with the shop front...
I'll check again in a few but confused as to numbers not lining up with what's on the ss????

Tab: Kitchen Meals column J = Tab: Shop Front column A

Oops! I don't think I knew about that line. I think someone must have gone back and did it for me before. I just fixed mine.

bamaace83 wrote: "Oops! I don't think I knew about that line. I think someone must have gone back and did it for me before. I just fixed mine."

No problem...right next to that column we've been marking one of the slots with a 'yes' if the meal is finished. The sample work sheet did it that way. I think we need the 'yes' for it to move over to the the SHOP FRONT totals area. Looks like it was just you...so we're caught up.

I'm going to continue finish with naming a bunch of meals that still aren't and then work on getting some of Jenny's books used. If we don't get every single thing used, it will probably be fine...but every book has to be used for at least one ingredient for us to get the book points.

Note: after tonight I won't have any time to work on this before the deadline tomorrow afternoon...if anyone see any errors, please do fix.
If you have time to make anything better, please feel free. Thanks...we should process this round and I.D. what we can do better next time...I'm totally open for whatever you all think.

I still see some blanks on my spreadsheet for meal numbers but maybe I just need to exit out and go back in and they will appear. I can work on some of Jenny's books too if you want to work on the names.

bamaace83 wrote: "I still see some blanks on my spreadsheet for meal numbers but maybe I just need to exit out and go back in and they will appear. I can work on some of Jenny's books too if you want to work on the ..."

What you all are doing is good...yes, just refresh and things will fall in to place if multiple people are working. I'm just naming meals and adding an ingredient now and then to make it better. We're almost done I think...just a few books that have no inclusion at all.

We tap out at 148 meals and should try for the DDC category if at all possible.

Not sure...Maybe one more fish n chip with no vinegar

I used up all the lines and I don't know how to make more on the Shop Front page. I've used ingredients in all of Jenny's books and made meals, drinks, and desserts. There are still ingredients out there that we can use to beef up things if we need to. My Braves need to get it together because I don't want to play tomorrow night but it's not looking promising.

Ohhhh, I didn't know we tap out at 148. That makes sense why I ran out of lines.

bamaace83 wrote: "Ohhhh, I didn't know we tap out at 148. That makes sense why I ran out of lines."

I just noticed it.
There's a bunch of meals that aren't yet numbered...could you just double check the whole list that everything has a meal number?

Might need to delete some of the one ingredient items to make room for those unnumber recipes. Baby Ruth could go and maybe add that to a cake or icecream??

here are a few corrections needed - you can delete yellow highlight when fixed

fish n chips at line 439 needs salt added

lines 484-487 ...vicki's sandwich needs justification.

439 - 458 there are 3 meals that need to be numbered...need to delete 1 item meals ...in higher numbers.

I have no idea where that curry goes! I thought it was 115 but then realized we already have a 115. I don't know where that sandwhich goes either and I think we are missing salt in a fish and chips.

I'm going to stop working on meal naming for now while you both finish up as I'm likely getting in your way. Will check in early and do what I can...but unfortunately this is likely all the time I have for this round.

As time allows tweak our meal names and if our team's restaurant description can improve, that would be another area to check.

Thanks much ALL!!

I think it may just be me? I'm not sure if Vicki is actually here. I'll fix these things that I can fix. Vicki has to add some ingredients from a couple books too but she's 3 hours behind my time zone so she's going to be up for awhile.

Thanks for helping me tonight! I wouldn't even know how to fix most of this.

Okay, I fixed those meals and made some room for a couple more meals to make sure all the books get used. I'll be on tomorrow morning to go ahead and see if I can help use any random ingredients to beef up a few things.

Awesome
I think we are in pretty good shape. I’m so grateful that everyone is willing to assist. I think building meals as we go can work...making them stringer from the start and not being afraid to use each other’s ingredients will make us more efficient next go.

Btw...restaurant description is on the summary page of our SS

Thanks for all your work, Tammie! I know the next go-round I'll completely better understand what to do! I am not very original with names for a menu but I'm trying.

I still have a lot of ingredients I could add to other things, but I'm not sure at this point if I should or just leave my books alone now.

Tammie wrote: "Btw...restaurant description is on the summary page of our SS"

Cool, thanks.

Tammie, I added a lot of names/descriptions and bolded the names. If they had ingredients there I left them and (if I remembered) put them in parenthesis. I don't know that they're good or exactly what we need but I tried to help out so I hope I didn't mess it up!

Alright, do we need to tweak this spreadsheet anymore? I think we have 4 hours until the orders start if I have the times right.

It's looking pretty good...summary of our types of meals per category

Children 51
Adult 134
Pensioners 58
Teens 74

Our frozen and bev ratio is pretty high compared to fresh...more points with fresh so we may score lower if we have tons of customers...I just don't know what to expect.

If we did anything, it would be to change meals to fresh and I think honestly, we've spent enough time :)

I made sure we had meal numbers for everything and tweaked so everything had a catchy name.

Should be good Anna :)

Thanks so much for helping keep me for sure in line and helping me understand this spreadsheet. Yay, for being ready to go. At least after this round, we will have a better idea of how to fluff things up and what to make. I know that I have planned 300-600 page books mostly so we can maximize ingredients. I really liked the The Wall of Winnipeg and Me so I'm hoping to read another one of hers this week or next week.

Tammie wrote: "It's looking pretty good...summary of our types of meals per category

Children 51
Adult 134
Pensioners 58
Teens 74

Our frozen and bev ratio is pretty high compared to fresh...more points with fre..."

Thanks for all your hard work on this!!!!

Quick question. When can we start counting books for part 2? I have 2 tiny books that I’m knocking out today for something else that I have no intention of using here because they are serious little books but I got a 500 plus page one I’m starting tomorrow. I read pretty fast in the weekends with no distractions so I just want to make sure that I can count it.

bamaace83 wrote: "Quick question. When can we start counting books for part 2? I have 2 tiny books that I’m knocking out today for something else that I have no intention of using here because they are serious littl..."

Anna...now that the challenge has started, the rule is the dates are strictly 'finish dates'. You can start recording your books now on the SS...just don't finish before tomorrow. I assume we are tracking the same ingredients as the STOREFRONT has the same meals on it.

Tammie, it would be a lot easier if we had an idea of how many fresh and frozen meals. I think you did an outstanding job and if we get lower points, we'll know for next time unless it's switched up.

I think Anna and I pitched in to help last night and we all made a great team, but you've done SO much for us! Thanks...one round of meals down. Now let's read to impress and improve our meals for round 2!

Vicki wrote: "Tammie, it would be a lot easier if we had an idea of how many fresh and frozen meals. I think you did an outstanding job and if we get lower points, we'll know for next time unless it's switched u..."

I tweaked a few more...thanks Vicki...you are right...it takes all of us. Thanks to you and Anna for burning the midnight oil :) ...and whoever else was out there :)
Nice work everyone...we'll see how we do with the masses...

Read on!

I'm out until later tonight...will check in to see what's going on then.

So for round two... do we know what the best strategy is? books with over 500 pages?

I don't think we have a clear strategy just yet because we were waiting to see what these customers wanted. Apparently customers have arrived but I have no idea where to find them or even how to start that part, hopefully Shannon is hiding so she can come out and guide us on that part.

I might be wrong but im pretty sure I got it right

So in the excel sheet on the Shop Front page theres a list of all the customers we have (160 total :O ) and we just have to go through and try to make sure we give the most items to people who can eat the items which are listed on the same page as well.

Also we should probably prioritize the adults since they can tip

I gave out all the meals. We can adjust if we want but I focused on giving the adults the alcoholic beverages first (since they were the only ones that could drink them). And then went to the next category that included adults and teenagers. And so on.

We sold out of all our menu items so thats good but we did leave 12 people hungry. So next round I think we just need to focus on making more menu items. The diversity of the menu was very good tho I think.. I didn't struggle to find food for any person

A couple take-aways..it's going to totally be strategy because we could only make 148 meals and we have 160 customers. So with that, should we keep 12-15 meals for next time knowing that the numbers may be more than the meals we've created. I totally agree on the adults first and then the rest. Maybe give the adults the ones with the cool names so we can get more tips. This is interesting and I'm not spreadsheet savy so I'm just sitting over here and can be a sounding board if I need to.

Sounds good to me. I tried to make more meals last night and that's when I realized we were capped at 148 when I went to ask Tammie to add me some more lines. I think we did a very good job diversifying this time.

Ya im slightly confused as to how they capped us at 148 but we had 160 customers... idk doesnt exactly make sense to me lol

I think that's where those frozen meals come in at or at least that's what I'm thinking. So we have some meals in our freezer to feed the extra customers next time? I honestly have no clue that's just my best idea.

Ohhh that makes sense!!

Hi and thanks Shannon!
Wow...I'm sorry we ran out of meals...we could have made more! Super bummer...well we know for next round I guess.

I wouldn't hold anything back...I think we want to satisfy as many customers as possible. We'll know better to make as many meals as we can for the next round.

I haven't looked yet...for sure we don't want to dissatisfy the adults...sounds like that's where you started...so likely good to go forward from my POV. Should probably have made more fresh meals...those have more points. I don't know what to say...we started out with only 80 slots...I thought we were probably over doing it. We'll see how we stack up and just improve for next round.

It looked like a lot of people ran out of food tho so i think we will be alright

I think a reading strategy is to continue to read what we love; but if you have a choice and you love the longer books, those definitely give us more ingredients, more options.

For this next round we read 90 books vs 80. The final is 100. So we're going to need to pace ourselves to get it all done. I did read at least 6 books that didn't make it to the sheet...I know Jenny had a few as well. Jenny is out...haven't heard, but hopefully she returns soon...she's had bouts of needing to step away so hopefully she's good to go real soon....if not, we'll request a back up.

Hopefully everyone understands process...if not, please do ask.
Thanks so much!

I read a lot that wasn't added. I ran out of spaces and didn't know I could keep adding. Also, can we make more than 148 meals or are we set on that. I know as a team we can totally read 100 books. Jenny has posted in at least a week going on 2 weeks. I'm hoping she come backs soon but we may have to pick up for her until then. She does step away sometimes. I have 2 500 page books on the table for this week and a few 300 page books. I read my shorter ones today/tonight/morning just to get them out of the way.