Taking people food {part two}

As promised in my post on ideas for taking people dinner, here are some of my favorite recipes to take people (and to eat myself)! 

I can't stress enough how nice it is to include side dishes and alternatives to the standard dinner meal. Everyone loves a casserole and will be eternally grateful, don't get me wrong. But if you're lucky enough to receive multiple dinners and/or not in a position to shop, non- dinner food becomes scarce. As mentioned in part one, opt for alternatives like grocery runs or breakfast foods. 

• Main dishes
• Potato soup
• Chili and cornbread waffles
• Make cornbread batter and instead of baking it, put it in a waffle maker for a couple of minutes. Eat your chili on top! Take a couple warm and a couple in freezer bags for breakfast. 
• Pasta salad 
• Add bell peppers to this recipe and you're set
• Meatballs and potatoes
• Pizza
• Try barbecue chicken pizza (sweet baby rays bbq sauce, onions, chicken and cheese)
• Enchiladas
• Chicken salad
• Couscous salad (I'm obsessed) and sausage
• Sides
• Sweet potato fries 
• Chop and deliver in a bag with instructions to add oil, salt, pepper and bake at 450 for 15-20 minutes
• Chopped bell peppers 
• These can be eaten fresh alongside dinner or frozen and used in another main dish (mandarin chicken from trader joes, anyone?)
• Bag with smoothie ingredients
• Collect all the ingredients needed to make a serving or two of a fruit smoothie in a bag. I like to use frozen mango chunks, a scoop or two of yogurt, orange juice and spinach. They can add ice, blend and enjoy. Easy!
• Granola bars
• Here's my recipe. Wouldn't it be great to have a stock of bars for snacks, breakfast, kids, etc?
• Banana muffins
• Another great item they can eat for dessert or snacks or breakfast. Selfishly I also like that you can easily split the recipe and keep some for yourself! (One of the worst things about baking a cake for someone is never knowing how it tastes!)
• Desserts
• Fudge
• Oatmeal chunk bars. My mouth waters. 
• Fruit, granola and yogurt
• Snickerdoodles