This looks great, and I'll add another praise: it's not spaghetti. When I was a preteen, one of my sisters ended up in the hospital for 40+ days, so my mom more or less lived there and we relied on a lot of meal train meals...and SO many of the meals were spaghetti. Of course we were grateful but a bit harder to be grateful when you've had spaghetti multiple times a week for weeks! My major resolution from that time in life is NEVER bring spaghetti to a meal train.
I have two meals that I use for meal trains pretty much all the time. Both involve the crockpot, so I start it in the morning, and then it's ready for an afternoon/evening drop off. Then I have a super easy crumble recipe that I always have ingredients for in my pantry. Simple and the same.
"I’ve stopped putting pressure on myself to make something new and shiny for meal trains." Amen. My sister and I were just texting about how it often takes all day to prep a meal to bring to someone. For some reason when I'm cooking for my own family, I can whip it up in a fraction of the time but then I'm breaking a sweat to finish a meal for someone else in time. I don't know why the laws of the universe dictate that it works out like this. Having a tried and true standby makes all the difference.
This looks great, and I'll add another praise: it's not spaghetti. When I was a preteen, one of my sisters ended up in the hospital for 40+ days, so my mom more or less lived there and we relied on a lot of meal train meals...and SO many of the meals were spaghetti. Of course we were grateful but a bit harder to be grateful when you've had spaghetti multiple times a week for weeks! My major resolution from that time in life is NEVER bring spaghetti to a meal train.
I've never seen such a colorful chicken soup but I may need to try.
(Also, you saying "feeder roads" brings me back to those Texas interstates!!!!)
Another “Dietz family” recipe to add to the Baumeister cookbook 😂😂 and yuss Texas and our weird words represent 🙌🙌
I have two meals that I use for meal trains pretty much all the time. Both involve the crockpot, so I start it in the morning, and then it's ready for an afternoon/evening drop off. Then I have a super easy crumble recipe that I always have ingredients for in my pantry. Simple and the same.
"I’ve stopped putting pressure on myself to make something new and shiny for meal trains." Amen. My sister and I were just texting about how it often takes all day to prep a meal to bring to someone. For some reason when I'm cooking for my own family, I can whip it up in a fraction of the time but then I'm breaking a sweat to finish a meal for someone else in time. I don't know why the laws of the universe dictate that it works out like this. Having a tried and true standby makes all the difference.