What food do you send for condolences?
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Anonymous
Its fresh fruit. From the website: Edible Arrangements® products are made from fresh fruit with no added preservatives. (Our toppings may contain some preservatives). Please enjoy immediately, or refrigerate within 4 hours to ensure quality. Fruit Arrangements are typically made with a combination of strawberries, apples, melons, pineapples, bananas, oranges and other seasonal fruit. If you have allergies to any fruits, we recommend that you review the ingredients posted on our product pages. |
Anonymous
| A compete meal. Chicken, potatoes, rolls, vegetables oe whatever your people eat |
Anonymous
They’re also gross. |
Anonymous
+1. Waxy chocolate and subpar fruit. |
Anonymous
| Chick-fil-A tray. As someone else mentioned, it’s hard to eat those first few days and having something you can take a bite of here & there is helpful. It’s nice to have on hand if you end up with extra family at the house. It’s good hot or cold. Kids can make a meal of it. I also send individual snacks & juice boxes if there are kids. Stuff that people can grab without thinking. |
Anonymous
| Do you know them well enough to know any food allergies / diet restrictions etc? We have a house full of celiacs and when my MIL died we got the bagels, pasta dishes, desserts etc. All full of gluten which would make me and my kids very sick. What didn’t go to friends was thrown out. |
Anonymous
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Mac and cheese with bacon - if it is a household with kids
Home made tomato soup with a side of cream and deep fried croutons made of fresh white bread. Chilli and cornbread Banana nut bread, almond cookies and mango icecream for desserts Mushroom ravioli in alfredo sauce Chicken curry, dal, rice Spicy idli Japchae Chicken gnocchi soup Cornish hen with lemon risotto |
Anonymous
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I’m the recipient in this situation now (loved one is not deceased, but terminal, and we’re getting a fair amount of deliveries already) so I can speak from my experience :
•gift cards to DoorDash/UberEats/etc OR a local restaurant group that offers takeout not just dine-in •food that can be frozen if you know their tastes/that they have freezer capacity •gift card to a housecleaning service. My house has gone to absolute sh*t, because I am always at my loved one’s, the hospital, appointments. But, like others have said, I know people will come by after (not so much now, because COVID is still a major concern with anyone immunocompromised/terminal) and I’m well aware that my house is not ready for company. Having someone else clean it while I was at hospital/appointments would be much appreciated. |
Anonymous
| Tbh. We appreciated the bottle of whisky. |
Anonymous
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I know this is controversial on DCUM, but my family (new baby, not grieving) really prefers homemade food over gift cards for takeout or packaged things sent to us.
A wonderful friend sent us a dozen cupcakes from local bakery, which was so nice, but we needed dinner more than dessert! |
Anonymous
| Another vote for Spoonful of Comfort. I like that their soups can be eaten right away or frozen. |
Anonymous
I get it. You need to know the family well for this though. |
Anonymous
+1 A friend gave me a bottle of very nice champagne when my mother died. Because I like champagne. It was not a celebration by any stretch of the imagination, so the gift really upset me. |
Anonymous
We get one every year at Thanksgiving. It is devoured in 15 minutes. I guess we like subpar fruit (no chocolate for us). |
Anonymous
| A healthy soup (barley veggies, chicken noodles, beef veggie, etc.), sandwich fixings (deli tray), a special cake, baked pasta dish, most things easily frozen. Don’t send in a dish that needs to be returned. |