Right now I have three good friends who all had babies in the last week, and three who will be having babies within the few next weeks. When I was a new mama I really appreciated the meals my friends made for us, and I love being able to serve my friends in the same way. Also because I had a total of 6 meals to make I spent Sunday afternoon streamlining the process.
Here are my “Top Tips for Making Meals for Mamas”.
- If more than 1 person is going to be bringing a meal use a free online organizer/calendar/sigup like FoodTidings.com or TakeThemAMeal.com
- Find out if they have any allergies or food preferences
- Bring the food in containers that don’t have to be returned. The last thing you want to do is add stress about having to return pans.
- Send plates, napkins, and utensils with the meal.
- Make a meal that they can either throw in the oven or in the freezer, that way they have the meal when they are ready for it.
- Send sides and dessert with the meal.
- Attach the recipe so that they know what they’re eating and they can make it again if they like it!
- Don’t experiment on them with a “new recipe”, make something tried and true that everyone loves.
- Make a double batch and serve it to your family for dinner (You’re a busy mama too!) Or make a triple/quadruple and toss them in the freezer for your soon to pop pregnant friends.
I made one of our favorite meals of Poppyseed Chicken.
I delivered it with the Ritz crumble and rice in seperate bags.
I also sent it with a plate of blueberry muffins and Special K Bars. I forgot to drain the blueberries so the muffins got died pretty blue, whoops!
I found these printable recipe cards online and typed up the recipes to give with the meals.
Then I assembled it all and tied it up with some twine. I figured as long as I was making 6 of them I’d make it pretty right? And of course I made one for us to eat for dinner. This is also an awesome freezer meal.
So it does’t look that appealing over rice, but it sure tastes good!
Super wish I was about to pop pregnant, because that looks nummy!!! 😉 Great tips and advice!
I wish I could make that….but my hubby insists that he CAN NOT eat poppyseeds. LOL!!!
Nice job on this! Would love to “pin” it, but not seeing the P.
Thank you so much for pointing that out… you just inspired me to add the “Pin it” button to all my images when you hover over an image. Now it should be “pinnable”. Thanks!