I'm on level 49.  I bought at least 2 of the fungus soup back when we had in game food sales.  Might have accidentaly used some crystals, can't remember.

In my iPad game I've bought one fungus soup.  I'm not sorry I did, it made such a difference when I was doing the Yura quests.  Hardly had to use any food at all, thanks to the extra 100 added to my max energy.  But I don't think I'll buy any more.  Instead I'll save up for the elixir.

In my iPad game, I just triggered the Leodici crash quests.  I finished the first 7, I need to play Central Station at lot to get whatever gear is found there.

In my PC game, I got another 30 crystals.  I've been following the line of the new quests from the recent update, trying to find relic pieces and found enough to earn an achievement that paid out 20 crystals.

I was also playing the gifts for the mayor quests.  Wanted to slap Greg when he showed up wanting to give teh mayor a gift.  If it wasn't for all his hard work, the mayor wouldn't have had the money to beautify the village and nobody would be giving any gifts in gratitide.  But after helping Greg, I had to talk to the mayor who acknowledged that I had to help everybody find their gifts and he gave me 10 crystals.

I wanted to trigger the quest.  It seemed like a good way for B & G to start the new year.

It starts after you build Cloudspire Meadow and play the first two mini games.  And the timer counts down even if you don't open the quest right away.  At least, that's what happens on the iPad game.  You get an icon on the lower right next to your squabbit telling you that the timed quests have begun and if you click on it, you can see how many quests you have to do to get the achievement rewards.

I just used my Shrine tis afternoon to get items from the high priced HOS.  I needed those molecular lens to finish off the 3rd mini of a quest.  I actually was able to do this one without using a crystal to skip it.  Now the only thing I';ve got left in the Gizmotek quests is to feed the dark chest to get the lights (or whatever) for the Dark Valley.  I am soooo glad that stew can be purchased for bolgins and the energy was raised.  I'm just shy of 200 crystals.  My energy tank is 1750.  I can't decide if I want to save up my crystals to reduce the refill rate on the energy.  600 is an awfully lot of crystals.

I got at least one lens and once or twice as many as 5.  I really don;t like those untangle the string puzzles though.