Meal Train

skio

A funny BLT comment made me think of this. Who has heard of mealtrain.com?

A mom friend of mine recently contacted me to talk about setting up a Meal Train for our family for when baby comes. Basically, people 'sign up' to bring you meals and goodies in the weeks following a birth [can also be used for death, moves, other big events that keep a family too busy to cook]. I was so surprised and so humbled.

There are NINE pregnant women in my mommy group right now, and everyone's doing it for each other, apparently. It's not something I would ever feel comfortable setting up for myself, obviously, but I think it's a super sweet gesture from my well meaning mom friends who know the deal, and I'm excited to help out the other new families.

Cool beans, right?

BLT20051

I think that's the one DQ had posted about. I think it'd be great if one of my friends wanted to head one up for me but I'm not going to ask people to bring me specific meals.

Ilovebeingamom

I love bringing family meals and it's nice to know when other people are bringing meals so you can coordinate! With DS 1 we got lots of meals. It was amazing!

skio

Baconlettucetomato:

I think that's the one DQ had posted about. I think it'd be great if one of my friends wanted to head one up for me but I'm not going to ask people to bring me specific meals.

Aha, I didn't know this was actually a piece of DQ's, uh, colorful history, shall I say?

My friend asked me about preferences and I promptly said none. There's no way I'm going to dictate anything about it. If we had food allergies or something, I'd share, but we don't, so. Key word, humbled. :]

BLT20051

skio:

Baconlettucetomato:

I think that's the one DQ had posted about. I think it'd be great if one of my friends wanted to head one up for me but I'm not going to ask people to bring me specific meals.

Aha, I didn't know this was actually a piece of DQ's, uh, colorful history, shall I say? My friend asked me about preferences and I promptly said none. There's no way I'm going to dictate anything about it. If we had food allergies or something, I'd share, but we don't, so. Key word, humbled. :]

 

Lol. Yeah. That's where the comment came from. 

It's awesome she wants to set that up for you! 

melissa0726

I just heard of this last month, and it's awesome!  Apparently my MOMS Club group does this for every expecting mama.  I am relatively new to the group, and had never heard of it before.  I was so excited and grateful when the club president explained how it works.  I love how these women pull together to help each other out, and I'm glad I joined such a great group!

ChristyD6

That's great if all your mom friends can do that for each other! My mom will bring down from freezer meals when she comes which I'm so thankful for!

AbbeyGirlBride

I was looking into this several months ago when I wanted to set up something for my friend, but she declined.  

MealBaby.com was super cute, but I didn't like how they try to guilt out-of-towners into sending take-out gift cards.  I thought that was overkill. 

The people at my church are very food-centric, so I've asked a friend to coordinate that on TakeThemAMeal.com.  I like that site better because you can say how often you need something (for us, maybe 2-3 times a week would be nice, but certainly not every day!)

Mom is flying in next week for the baby shower, and I'm definitely going to ask that we spend a little time cooking together and stocking the freezer.  I'd love to have some of her casseroles around! 

hannahg

My moms group uses this and it is awesome. So nice to have fresh homemade meals from friends and I always enjoy making for others too.

jlml2008

One of my mommy friends texted me last week about setting one up and I am so appreciative. I have loved taking meals to other mom friends that have had babies and it will be so nice to have meals that first week or two! 

diana.filipi

I run a 100+ member playgroup in my city and we do meal trains for new mamas.  I actually use the site mealtrain.com to do it.  Works great.  When I had DS I actually had a meal delivered by friends every other week day for like 3 weeks because there was more than 1 train set up for me.  It was a little ridiculous but wonderful also.  I usually set them up for M/W/F for 2 weeks unless the mama wants different days or whatever.