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Sympathy Meals
By: DaDancingPsych Date: July 18, 2021, 4:19 pm
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Direct To The Question: What sort of things do you do for
grieving families (or maybe new parents, those suffering from
illness, or other such situation) when it comes to meals?
Unnecessary Background As To How I Came Up With This Question: I
was listening to the comedy station on SiriusXM and this one
comedian do her stand-up. I wish I had caught her name (I am
hoping to hear her again sometime), because she was hilarious!
She told the story of sending her husband to the store to buy
the ingredients for her pound cakes. I won't ruin it for you,
because the way she tells it is so funny! Anyways, she makes
these pound cakes, freezes them, and then pulls them out when
someone has a death in the family. I need a go to thing like
that for these situations and I'm curious if my fellow
Brimstoners have any ideas!
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: STiG Date: July 18, 2021, 4:29 pm
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Something that can be frozen is always good so they can pull it
out when they need it. At least in the case of meals for
grieving families. An illness might be a bit different, as
there might be a rotation set up for who is bringing what each
day. Even so, I'd take something for which the leftovers can be
easily frozen in single portions.
Lasagna is a good one. Home made soup or chili or stew,
complete with a loaf of bread or a batch of biscuits.
I almost always have various loaf cakes in the freezer - banana,
pumpkin, zucchini. So I can quick take those to someone or
slice them up and display them on a platter. And if I have
time, I'll make a batch of cookies.
Home made biscuits with some cut up cheese was always my Mom's
goto, and I've done it, too. They're easy to grab and munch on
when you don't really feel like eating but should eat something.
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: karen Date: July 18, 2021, 4:51 pm
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I think the comedian with the pound cake story is Jeanne
Robertson is is a motivational speaker and humorist. She has
stuff on YouTube.
Karen
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: Gardensgrey Date: July 18, 2021, 4:58 pm
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You beat me to it!
Here’s the link:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YFRUSTiFUs
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: DaDancingPsych Date: July 18, 2021, 5:13 pm
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[quote author=karen link=topic=2114.msg68340#msg68340
date=1626645074]
I think the comedian with the pound cake story is Jeanne
Robertson is is a motivational speaker and humorist. She has
stuff on YouTube.
Karen
[/quote]
Thank you so much! I figured if I didn't get meal ideas that I
might get her name!
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: lowspark Date: July 19, 2021, 11:11 am
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When my mother died, my then MIL brought over some homemade
strudel that she had in her freezer which I served to people who
came over during the mourning period. A friend of mine was
astounded that MIL could whip out those labor-intensive strudels
at a moment's notice. She specifically said something like,
"Does she make strudel and store it in the freezer just in case
somebody dies!?" LOL
In fact, she just liked to make a bunch of it at once and then
pull it out as needed, but when you mentioned keeping pound
cakes, or other, in the freezer for this, it brought back that
memory.
I don't really have any suggestions for you on this except to
say that I'd do something savory and smallish. Events like this
tend to produce a ton of sweets for the recipient, and most
people just don't need that much dessert. Something like a roast
beef or roast chicken is small enough not to take a bunch of
space in your freezer but is still substantial and easy to
supplement with a fresh salad or the like.
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: Soop Date: July 19, 2021, 11:32 am
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I have had to arrange food to be sent to Jewish families when
co-workers have had deaths in the family. I am not Jewish, so
called a local Jewish grocery and asked what could be sent. For
one, we ended up sending platters of nuts and dried fruit, as
they would be having a lot of visitor in during shiva (7 days?).
In all cases, they were appreciative of helping feed the guests.
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: Jem Date: July 19, 2021, 11:48 am
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I think different people will want different foods, so I would
consider what I know of the people I am providing food to.
Funny story: I was widowed at age 37 and I was in shock for
several days/weeks. At one point maybe 10 days after my husband
died, a group of friends came over to spend some time with my 2
year old daughter and me. Someone brought one of those large
cookies shaped like a flip flop that said "Happy Summer!" or
something like that. I laughed out loud for the first time since
the death! I still laugh every time I think about that!
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: DaDancingPsych Date: July 19, 2021, 1:05 pm
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[quote author=Jem link=topic=2114.msg68370#msg68370
date=1626713331]
Funny story: I was widowed at age 37 and I was in shock for
several days/weeks. At one point maybe 10 days after my husband
died, a group of friends came over to spend some time with my 2
year old daughter and me. Someone brought one of those large
cookies shaped like a flip flop that said "Happy Summer!" or
something like that. I laughed out loud for the first time since
the death! I still laugh every time I think about that!
[/quote]
Flip flop cookies for the win! That really is a great story. I
guess we never know what will really help us out the most.
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Re: Sympathy Meals
By: Hmmm Date: July 19, 2021, 1:21 pm
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I agree that I'd customize based on who I was taking it to. But
my go to's are things I can vacuum seal and freeze flat so that
if they don't eat it immediately, it is easy for them to store.
My go tos are:
Red Beans with Andouille sausage and then I add a box of boil in
bag rice.
Chicken & Sausage Gumbo with the same rice
Chopped BBQ brisket and take some buns
Another friend always keeps a couple of homemade quiches in the
freezer. It's great for any meal.
My aunt always had homemade zucchini bread loaves available in
the freezer.
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