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What meal to make to bring to family w/sick child?

If you have a "go to" meal you make to bring to a friend who just had a baby, or someone sick who needs help - what is it? 

One of DSs preschool classmates has an older brother (8) who was just diagnosed with an inoperable, cancerous brain tumor. The mom is going to be spending a lot of time with him as he undergoes 20 weeks of chemo. So the parents in DS's preschool class are organizing a dinner drop-off to try and help the family a little.

I'm glad to be able to help out in a small way for the family. But I'm not a good cook. I need some dinner suggestions. What would you make? As far as I know, there are no dietary restrictions.  

Re: What meal to make to bring to family w/sick child?

  • Casseroles, always. They're super easy to just pop into the oven and the family just has to make a salad or a veggie to go along with it. Baked ziti and lasagna come to mind and are faily simple to throw together.
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  • Lasagna, goulash casserole.
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  • Agreed with the casseroles.  Maybe do a breakfast casserole to change it up and give them a choice.  I have a really easy and good egg casserole recipe if you are interested.  Its a hit at our house!

    And I'm so sorry for that boys family....

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  • I usualy make lasagna, baked ziti, pasta fagoli soup, or pulled BBQ pork or chicken w/ homemade potato salad. And a dessert.
  • I would probably do a gift card for a pizza place, or chinese.  That way they don't have even more food in the freezer, and they can use it whenever they want to.  I'd have wanted pizza at 8 over lasagne LOL

    We had a freezer and neighbor's freezer full of food given to us when my dad died - enough people will do that, so that's why I'm thinking pizza or chinese would be a nice change.

  • Oh, that is AWFUL. Poor family. I'm going to throw in a NO LASAGNE!! vote though. Every single time I've known someone who had a reason to have food brought to them, said person/family ends up SO SICK of lasagne they could puke because it seems everyone sends that. The breakfast casserole is a great idea, or any other, really.
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