good meals to bring to cancer patient and family

[Anonymous]

Homemade chicken pot pie.

[Anonymous]

I normally think of the family not the person receiving treatment since this is to help them not have to prepare foods for the family If I was bringing for patient I would ask for a list of things that they like and their stomach could handle. There’s a big difference and I think you’re complicating and over analyzing it is a nice gesture and we don’t want to discourage people from giving or telling them exactly what to bring you will lose people and ten lasagnas are better than none.

[Anonymous]

If you know someone well enough to bring them a homemade meal, why not just ask them what they'd like?

I'm pro tuna-noodle (reminds me of my childhood), but wouldn't want a lasagna as my bestie makes baked ziti and there's only so much tomato-sauced pasta I can eat in a week.

These specifics are gonna be highly variable, so if you really want to be of service to this particular family, talk to them. You can give them a list of 5-10 suggestions and then let them cross off what they don't like and write in what they do if you want to take some of the pressure off.

https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/easy-freezer-meals/

[Anonymous]

The best help I had were meals being brought on chemo days. Even if I didn't eat my family could. My favorite meal made was a minestrone with salad and bread.

Recently I had meals brought and they were all gift cards. I much preferred the homemade meals, but since money is tight the cards were also appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Also - the type of cancer matters here - not just the chemo, as far as what the patient should eat. Some need as many calories as possible (that was the case in our household so a PP's suggestion of light, brothy meals would have been terrible for us). Milkshakes, enchiladas, lasagnas etc. were what we needed and appreciated receiving over here.