The Babes Ruth: Taking people food {part two}

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

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!)