I lived in a communal house with about 15 other people for about a year, and this is more or less exactly what we did. The process works very well for keeping

I lived in a communal house with about 15 other people for about a year, and this is more or less exactly what we did. The process works very well for keeping multiple people with possibly different eating schedules fed, and minimizes the amount of crap that people shove down their throats - which in the above situation can lead to not having any food :(.