Frozen Meal ?

jcornelius07

I do not have multiples, but I have a friend who is having her twin girls today! What are some meals or helpful things that family and friends brought to you, once you got home? TIA

omalley

I would have loved it if we received an egg/sausage casserole.  We never had any real "breakfast" options (not that we knew what time of day it was ;-)

I received lasagna, baked ziti, and my favorite was a big pot of meatballs.  They could be eaten a few different ways.  Also, make sure you tape the heating/cooking instructions if it is something for her freezer or to be cooked later.

That is sweet of you to do this for your friend!

2shihtzus

Any kind of food was so helpful, I know we appreciated everything!  One thing that was a little different was that we had one person who brought us breakfast/lunch type food.  This was great because a lot of people brought us dinner type stuff so we had that but we were really bad about eating breakfast and/or lunch when our babies came home.  Having that stuff in the house made it easier and kind of reminded us to make time to eat breakfast etc..

As far as dinners, I would say anything not italian.  I think it's common to do something like lasagna, stuffed shells so it might be nice to do something else that freezes well too (maybe Mexican, etc).  But seriously, I am sure she will appreciate any meals that you bring, I would not have turned away anything!!

For non-food, if she will let you, offer to watch the babies for an hour or two (you might have to bring someone else with you) and let her take a nap!!  That is a priceless gift!

amanda31H

I agree that any kind of food is helpful.  My friends set up a Care Calendar for me (you can google it, it's online) and they had meals for us Mon-Fri for 6 weeks! It was really great and a HUGE help.

I didn't end up with a lot of the same (except meatloaf...we had that three times I think), because on the Care Calendar you write what meal you are making...everyone could see what everyone else was doing, so most people tried to add variety.  If you could do something like that for your friend, I highly recommend it.

One thing I liked was chicken salad that was brought over for lunches and fresh cut-up fruit.  It was nice to have a quick lunch solution, plus we were trying to eat healthy and the fruit was really helpful.

fallbride110406

My step-MIL did a lot of food for us (she doubled what she made for them for dinners) and had my FIL bring over 6 or so single serving containers so that we didn't have to heat up everything at once.  We did shifts in the beginning so being able to pop in a single serving of something was great for us.  We ended up with scalloped potatoes with ham, pasta with sausage and tomato, bean casserole and a few other things.  Because she just doubled their meals, we got a TON of variety which was great.

We also got a ton of restaurant gift cards for places close to our house so that we could run out and get carry out (we still get these a year later from family actually lol).  My FIL was great about coming over and giving me breaks when my husband went OOT for work too.  He literally showed up at 9am and told me to go upstairs, put the pillow over my head and sleep as long as I wanted when they were about 8 weeks old.  He completely took care of them for 8 hours while I slept and then made sure I had plenty of food in the fridge and washed bottles for me before he left.  

All of that was incredibly helpful for us.  It's all such a blur in the beginning and just about surviving that anything small to make the surviving easier is wonderful.

jennie13

one of my favorite things was when my sister brought me a big storage bin filled with ready to eat snacks.   Granola bars, Luna bars, peanut butter crackers, cookies, puddings, instant oatmeal, trail mix, etc.   I lived off that bin for a while. 

mrs.cam

I had some friends bring over a fresh Italian meal with an extra pan of lasagna to freeze, that was really nice!