Best Meal to Bring New Mom

[Anonymous]

I'm going to start off with saying I'm grateful for ANY meal and ANY help.

That said, i have a 2 week old and a toddler and I REALLY appreciate full meals that require no assembly. We've received a pasta dish and a big salad, and a chicken and veggie tikka masala and rice, from a meal train. Both are basically nutritionally complete meals that require no effort on my part except microwaving leftovers (extra grateful for the big batches). I guess I do appreciate the classic "potluck" style meals more than snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snacks! Cheese sticks, cookie packets, trail mix. Lasagna if a meal because you can just pop it in the over and done.

No offense but if someone brought me fajitas I would never speak to them again.

So weird. I can get cheese sticks and trail mixed delivered to my doorstep. I would love for someone to bring me fajitas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fruit tray or a veggie tray and a gift card to a restaurant that delivers.

No new mom want a potluck.

I do! I can order my own food easily. What is harder is to make some regular food. I would love someone to make me lasagna or roast a chicken or send some chicken soup.

[Anonymous]

See what others are bringing, so you can add some variety.

My go-to is quiche, baguette, fruit salad, and homemade cookies or brownies. I usually do two full-sized quiches, so there will be leftovers.

I never felt like I needed only things that could be eaten with one hand, but fajitas probably would have required too much assembly, much as I love fajitas. If you wanted to do Mexican, there are some great enchilada-style casseroles that I would have happily gobbled up as a new mom!

[Anonymous]

I remember my sister brought me bagels and good coffee and some cream cheeses. It was refreshing because I was kind of lasagna and chickened out. And who doesn't Loe straight up carbs when you are nursing 24/7!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:See what others are bringing, so you can add some variety.

My go-to is quiche, baguette, fruit salad, and homemade cookies or brownies. I usually do two full-sized quiches, so there will be leftovers.

I never felt like I needed only things that could be eaten with one hand, but fajitas probably would have required too much assembly, much as I love fajitas. If you wanted to do Mexican, there are some great enchilada-style casseroles that I would have happily gobbled up as a new mom!

Your go-to is perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things that can be eaten with one hand are great. Muffins, cut up fruit, mini quiches, drumsticks, cut up vegetables. I had a summer baby, so I loved gazpacho and smoothies that a neighbor brought over. Nowadays, I'd love a homemade soup or stew.

Drumsticks? Yeah, she's going to have a baby on one boob and be gnawing a turkey drum in the other hand. Ugh, stop with the "new nursing moms can only eat one handed food" thing.

[Anonymous]

I was grateful for everything we got, but the meal we still talk about was my friend who brought a tamale pie (like this: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/tamale-pie-3262773) that just had to be reheated, a bag of chips and some guacamole & pico de gallo, and a nice green salad.

We ate a lot of lasagna (gratefully!) but something about the fact she included an appetizer and salad really struck us as amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Snacks! Cheese sticks, cookie packets, trail mix. Lasagna if a meal because you can just pop it in the over and done.

No offense but if someone brought me fajitas I would never speak to them again.

So weird. I can get cheese sticks and trail mixed delivered to my doorstep. I would love for someone to bring me fajitas.

Someone is bringing you more work. Assembly and cleaning work. I appreciate the gesture but bring something I can microwave or stick in the oven and then eat. I don't need a project.

[Anonymous]

lasagna bolognese that can simply be heated up

when I had my DS, I was really craving a high quality cheese burger, fries, and milkshake. If someone had stopped by my favorite burger place (stand in line, take out type spot) and brought that for DH and me, I would have been so happy. No cooking necessary.

See above- high quality Indian take out, Thai food (pad Thai)-it was so hard to get out of the house.

[Anonymous]

NOT PASTA

[Anonymous]

A bag of granola bars? Anyone can do that.

Salad, soup, chicken, lots of veggies. Something that takes TIME to prep because I don’t have the time!

[Anonymous]

Beef stew

[Anonymous]

I loved getting lasagna!

[Anonymous]

I got a ton of great food when I had my second. My favorite was a big tray of pulled pork with buns for sandwiches. It reheated really well in the microwave and I honestly just love pulled pork! Someone else gave me homemade pasta sauce which was great because it had a lot of meat and veggies and was very filling. She gave me some pasta too, but the sauce was enough for multiple meals so we were able to use it with our own pasta as well.