How to mail food?

[Anonymous]

My dad had a heart attack last week and open heart surgery shortly thereafter. I spent the last week with the family, but didn't have time to finish everything I'd planned on doing before I had to come back home. I want to prepare a month's (maybe more?) worth of meals for the parents (my mom is pretty useless). I'm thinking crock-pot freezer meals. I've been gathering heart healthy recipes which can be frozen then just stick them in the crockpot, and I'm happy to prepare them all up, but am not sure how to deliver them, since they live 8 hours away and I can't make another trip for a few weeks. Anyone have experience mailing frozen food with dry ice? What service do you use, how do you prepare the package, etc? Any advice? thanks so much for any info you can offer!!

[Anonymous]

I have never done this, but places like Omaha steaks use dry ice.

[Anonymous]

What about contacting a company like Let's Dish or similar in their area?

http://www.letsdish.com/how/

If you placed the order, your mom could just pick it up and pop it in the oven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about contacting a company like Let's Dish or similar in their area?

http://www.letsdish.com/how/

If you placed the order, your mom could just pick it up and pop it in the oven.

I checked into this, but they live in the sticks. Over an hour outside of Cincinnati...towards no where.

[Anonymous]

http://compass.ups.com/AskTheExpert/?id=6442451032

Some tips for shipping food via UPS.

[Anonymous]

I have gotten Gtown cupcakes shipped. They freeze them, ship them double boxed in freezer packs of some sort (maybe it's dry ice) and send them overnight. The shipping is insanely expensive though - as much as the cupcakes. I would look into places that will ship or deliver instead.

[Anonymous]

You should not ship crock-potted meals to them. You should just pick a weekend to go back there, and spent a couple of days cooking and freezing for them and then come back home.