ISO grocery suggestions for family with medical crisis

You could make a lasagna or chicken spaghetti with a salad and bread. That way they could freeze the leftovers. Prayers for a quick recovery for her child.

ETA:  Or how about cheese, crackers, summer sausage.  Chicken salad with croissants.

I have done this several times for friends. Things I do - a big pasta salad, a meat/cheese tray with rolls, a pot of soup that can easily be heated up in portions, muffins, sweet rolls, granola, and yogurt. I make sure there is juice, milk and if they are soda drinkers, their favorite sodas. Another thing is a gas card and gift certificates to various fast food places. Paper products so they don't have a sink full of dishes to deal with after a long day at the hospital.

I had a dear friend's husband in the hospital for a very long time. She would come home late at night and be totally exhausted. It was easy for me to make a plate of dinner and run it over to her house for her to heat up. I would set a place mat out and set a place setting with a note. I would turn down her bed. Sometimes leaving a "thinking of you" card, or a small bouquet of flowers, a book, a package of thank you cards, etc.

Anything along those lines are appreciated. You are so thoughtful!

In addition to the crock pot meals, snack packs of nuts, granola bars, peanut butter crackers would be great. Bottled water to take to the hospital too. Those vending machines are so expensive!

easy breakfast items - bagels/cream cheese, muffins, breakfast bars

easy lunch items - bread/rolls, sandwich fixings, salad (potato or coleslaw or pasta), fruit, cookies/brownies

the crockpot is awesome for a hot cooked meal if you know someone will be there to eat it when it's ready. Deli fried or rotissiere chicken can be eaten hot or cold.

paper products - plastic forks/knives//spoons, paper plates, napkins, kleenex, toilet tissue. If anyone is likely to be of an age to still get AF (esp. if your friend is past that), a sampling of supplies for the bathroom is nice

So thoughtful of you. If you make a list of what you bring a list plus where it's located (freezer, pantry, refrig) is helpful to already stressed out brains. Kind of like a menu. One thing I bring to hospital is a box of good tissues (kleenex brand with lotion). The institutional ones are so abrasive.

Another vote for a pasta salad--easy to serve up whenever you're hungry and no prep. Perhaps some bottled water they can grab on their way out the door. And in the paper products category, how about some of those to-go coffee cups with lids (but still disposable) so they can take a cup of coffee on their way back to the hospital?

If you can, try putting things in single servings by using muffin tins to freeze in. Then she can use somethings for herself. If she has 1,2,10 people there, she can add more servings.