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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I hate meal trains. They get organized for situations that don't merit it, and people often participate simply out of obligation rather than because it's really necessary.

When I had a baby, a friend offered to organize a meal train and I said no because I really did not want a bunch of acquaintances making dinner for us. We didn't need that. But it's funny because I actually would have appreciated if some of our close friends had dropped of food. Not even meals, even just like "here are some grocery store cookies, hope y'all are okay." It was weird that for my friend it was all or nothing -- either we needed a two week meal train organized so that 10 families, half of whom we don't even know well, could organize and prepare all our meals. OR we were fine and needed nothing. But the truth was in between. A little something would have been nice, we didn't need a whole production.

I think that's usually the case.[/quote]

Well put. OP's new mother probably didn't need so much food made for her, and also felt obligated to give a meal of her own to someone else. Ridiculous vicious circle. Literally, make-work![/quote]

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