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Gourmet Club Food Checklist submitted by trudy222

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Sources for Gourmet Club Help submitted by trudy222 and athenianreader

1. The guild database Gourmet Food List 2. The gourmet food list at: www.neoitems.net - Also their new items listing to check the rarity of new food items 3. The #1 Gourmet Club pet: http://petpages.neopets.com/~Bimbo111

Gourmet Club Tips submitted by katiekittykatt

These are just tips I picked up when I did Gourmet Club with SnarlyKatt. Trudy222 (with Kai222) and IceHatchet (with LoganberryJelly) are also doing Gourmet Club, so they may also have advice for you. I decided to aim for a place on the top 200 list and obtain Gourmet Club membership. Once that was achieved, I stopped doing it. It took around 5-6 months to obtain (from Oct 2002 to May 2003 roughly) and Snarly ate 228 items. This is a moving target and will always increase, unless Neopets wipe the board for any reason. When I started it would have taken 174 items to get onto the top 200, so if you want to do it, the sooner you start, the better. I found that there are enough of the 'cheaper' gourmet food items to get Snarly onto the list without having to try to obtain the rarer and mostly unbuyable items. It still costs a lot of nps, but that is spread over the time it takes to achieve, rather than one huge outlay. When you get onto the top 200 list, you pet will get this membership trophy on their lookup ~ If you get to between places 8-17 on the list, your pet will get a bronze trophy ~ Silver is given for places 4-8 ~ The ultimate is gold for places 1- 3 ~ That takes A LOT of doing! (Go Kai!!!! *g*) Before you start with Gourmet Club, pick a pet which has the shortest name. Your pet will refuse to eat any food which has the same amount of characters in its name as the food item (including spaces, dashes, numbers etc.). This applies to any pets including pets that are meant to be able to eat anything, such as skeiths. Bloating or staving your pet wont make much, if any difference to the amount of food your pet can eat. From 'dying' to 'bloated' takes a maximum of 8 steps, sometimes less. Personally when I did Gourmet Club, I kept Snarly at bloated and was always able to feed her at least once per day, sometimes more. Making use of the Healing Springs can help, if you are lucky. When your pet is fed by the faerie, it can eat again in 3 hours, so if you feed a gourmet item and then go to the Springs, you may fall lucky and have your pet fed by her, which will reduce the time until your pet will eat another gourmet item. Timing in this is important ~ there's no point going to the springs with your gourmet pet, if you know the pet is nearly ready to eat again. Feeding your pet Gourmet Food at the Golden Dubloon does not count towards the amount of qualifying food your pet has eaten, but it will increase the bloated level of the pet, so it will be longer before you can feed the pet again. You may sometimes be lucky enough to take food away as left overs, which you can then either sell, or feed to your Gourmet pet. (I tried this with another pet on a couple of occasions and was never successful and it works out very expensive). Most foods have a weight of 1lb. Some have a higher weight and these take longer to digest. The higher the rarity index, the longer a food takes to digest. Don't buy newly released items straight away. Items around rarity 90 in particular will usually drop to a more reasonable price fairly quickly. It is worth keeping an eye on the shop wizard for bargains though.