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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know anyone who has ever done a meal train. Is this a midwestern thing?[/quote]

I have only ever been asked to participate in the in DC, and I'm from the midwest. Only once has it seemed merited -- friends with a newborn and a preschooler, and one had to have major surgery at Johns Hopkins. There was a meal train and also a childcare rotation, and we all pitched in. They also had family helping as well as some paid help, but it was a heavy lift.

The other times have not really made any sense. Once I was asked to contribute to a meal train for a coworker with a new baby and I was going to sign up, but then the instructions where literally "One parent is a vegetarian, one loves meat, please provide a meal that is half vegetarian and half meat-focused." Best of luck with that, I'm not a restaurant, here's a gift card for Uber Eats.

Another time it was actually for my closest friends, one of whom was in the hospital with a head injury. The meal train was organized by another friend and while I'm sure they meant well, I also knew it was not actually welcome. These friends are picky eaters and have ZERO interest in random casseroles. Also, their DC was actually staying with us at the time so that the spouse who was not injured could be at the hospital as much as possible, which was something the doctors suggested would be helpful for recovery. So people were sending casseroles to an empty house to go uneaten by my friend who was mostly just eating at the hospital or grabbing take out on the way home. She gave us a couple of the casseroles but the kids had zero interest and DH and I wound up just eating them for lunch over a few days. Probably not what the people had in mind.

I think people just feel this need to do something and this sounds old fashioned and helpful, but the PP is right -- most of the time a gift card for a delivery service (or nothing at all!) is probably a better bet.[/quote]

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