I have experienced the feeling of having abundance as a result of living with a group of people.  With five other adults sharing food you end up needing to have larger amounts of the food on hand than an individual would.  On the top shelf of our refrigerator door are three pounds of  butter.  That’s twelve sticks. That just seems like such an abundant amount.

 The butter cover is narrow but tall so we cut the butter sticks in half and stand them on end.  We use two sticks because with so many people it goes fast.  As an architect, I love this.  I can cut the sticks at angles and arrange them as little building models.  All with something I need to put out anyway.

There is a salad dressing that several of us like.  I was going to make a salad and didn’t see any of the dressing in the fridge so looked in the cabinet and there were four bottles of it.  l could really appreciate the advantages of sharing food.  

Abundance can come from sharing in other ways.  I lived in a college co-op when the Watergate Hearings were going on.  A large group of students would be watching it in the TV room and joking about it.  It was a great way to experience the shared feelings it brought up. 

The casual food sharing probably works best with groups of around six.  Hopefully the possibility of easily working in larger groups to get food in bulk will motivate people to try it.  I really see the providing of a safe and assured food supply as something an organized group of people can do.  Once you get it going, the sky’s the limit!