Would you participate in a meal train if...
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Anonymous
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I would not participate. She sounds rude and entitled. If I needed a meal train I would be appreciative whether home cooked or fro
A restaurant. People may not have the mental energy or skills to prepare a home cooked meal so it’s downright rude for her to be so specific in what she wants. |
Anonymous
| I find it odd she will not eat food from a restaurant but will eat it prepared in people's homes. I would 'make' something that invovled almost no cooking so there can be no issues. A bagged salad, vegetarian lasagne, frozen rolls, tub of ice cream. |
Anonymous
| Hell to the no. |
Anonymous
You said she got food poisoning from your cooking. In any case, I stick by my firm NO! |
Anonymous
| The thought of people dropping off food at my house overwhelms and kind of nauseates me. How many varieties of baked ziti can you eat? |
Anonymous
The meal trains I've seen tell you to fill out what you're bringing so presumably the person gets some variety. I've actually never received baked ziti or lasagna after a death or whatever, and I've been through a lot of deaths in the family and received a lot of food. But we aren't Italian-American. |
Anonymous
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When they go low, you go high.
Send food from Harry & David or Zingermans or Honey Baked Ham. |
Anonymous
| Something very simple, like a plain lasagna or spaghetti. (No seafood, nothing fancy.) The person sounds like a pill, because it's probably safer to get take out than home cooked food, so I would feel sorry for her. |
Anonymous
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Why do you feel obligated to even participate? Your sister got a random link?
Whatever. Just delete and ignore. Pretend you never saw the email if asked. |
Anonymous
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Just to clarify, she claimed TO WHOM that the seafood at your house made her ill? It sounds like she thinks she got sick from bad seafood at your house through no fault of yours, right? And you take offense even though she doesn’t think you did anything wrong? Did she tell you that she got sick in an offensive way or tell a whole group of friends you share in common that you have a filthy home and therefore it’s no surprise that she got food poisoning at your home? I’m guessing no. I’m guessing she thinks food poisoning is just one of those things that happens sometimes and it unfortunately happened at your home. Which is also why she would eat your cooking again — she doesn’t think you did anything wrong.
I don’t know why you keep talking about her not going to the doctor. That’s a complete non-issue. The fact that a nurse said it doesn’t make it more of an issue. You don’t go to the doctor for a week of diarrhea. |
Anonymous
| Did this person experience a death in her family or a serious illness, OP? If so, it’s probably time to get over the fact that she once said (to sometime? Not clear who) that she ate bad seafood at your house. If this is a meal train because her husband died, yes participate. Get over the seafood incident. If this is a meal train because she’s moving into a new house, then don’t participate. She can order a pizza. |
Anonymous
She said no takeout. |
Anonymous
That would make me pretty pissed, too, to be honest, and probably for a pretty long time. OP, don’t participate. Don’t do groceries, obviously don’t do restaurant food or gift cards! |
Anonymous
+2 This was also my thought. I can't think of anyone I've been asked to do a second meal train for. Did she have babies close together? |
Anonymous
It's the first meal train. The shrimp "incident" was at a party |