Photoessay #2416 - Taking meals

It's customary in our culture to take meals to families in crisis.  Often people just don't know what to do.  Cooking is easy.  Relatively easy if you can operationally do it and can afford the cost of extra ingredients.

I'm trying to coordinate meals to a family in our parent group who has suffered a tragedy (they lost their teenage son.)  Another family in this same position had invested all power of meal planning to a neighbor who kept the master schedule.  I'm not really able to do this but I can keep in touch and find out what other meals are coming and scheduling around it.

Tonight at parent group, I will talk about how we, as a group, can help support the family and each other.  Most people know, but some don't.  It could be rocky.  People are concerned about talking openly and upsetting other families in crisis.

I'll pass around my master calendar (paper).  I'm going to try to use an online service to do this but not emphasize that tonight.

I took a picture of the calendar but it's already been revised.  The other picture is of the meal I brought last night.  Using dispoable materials.  I send a big pan of spaghetti, covered with foil at the bottom of the box.  Naomi made some muffins which I covered and put on top of the spaghetti.  Some grapes and carrots.

Naomi came home and said "what happened to my muffins?"  I said, "I gave them away.  I thought you didn't like them anyway."  She was ok with it.