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Post by shevy on Jun 29, 2014 22:16:52 GMT
DH and I leave early Thursday morning and will be gone until Sunday night. Our friend usually comes and stays at our home with our dog instead of kenneling him. Last fall she had a stroke and she's still recovering. She cannot drive and can't do much cooking. DH takes her grocery shopping every week and she buys things like frozen chicken breasts and frozen veggies and then microwaves it all.
She's can't eat spicy food or salt and needs to avoid excess fat. She can bake something that's already prepared, but doesn't like to cook on top of the stove. She's asked that in lieu of paying her, we leave her some of our cooking because she enjoys the things we make. But this means that everything would need to be made by Wednesday morning so that I can pack and pick her up in the afternoon to bring her here.
I am going to buy fruit and cut it up into separate containers for each day. I'm going to get some lettuce and fresh veggies and cut those up for green salads with balsamic dressing. I'm going to hard boil some eggs and get some cheese and cube that.
but I'm stuck for warm proteins that I can make and leave in the fridge or freeze in single serving portions for her to just heat up.
Our only options for ordering food here are pizza and Jimmy Johns, neither of which she can have. Her son is 18 and is going to pick her up for the 4th of July for dinner, so that she isn't stuck in the house the whole time. |
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Post by cropaholicnora on Jun 29, 2014 22:22:40 GMT
What about marinating chicken tenderloins or breasts in something (lemon & herb or italian dressing) and precooking them for her to reheat? You could also do something like pasta salad filled with her favorite veggies and diced chicken. You could do casseroles and divide them into single servings for her.
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Post by readsomething on Jun 29, 2014 22:27:29 GMT
BAke or grill some chicken breasts and get a jar of pesto sauce. You could also boil a pound of pasta and portion it out. She could have different sauces you'd bought. Or the pesto. Pesto' noodles and some chicken is a go-to summer meal for us.
You could buy a rotisserie chicken, too, and she could have that. Use the breast meat for a few meals, eat the chicken legs with a salad.
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luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Jun 29, 2014 22:27:35 GMT
Meatloaf freezes well. You could even make it in muffin tins so she could portion it out. Also, maybe bake up some potatoes or make boxed mashed potatoes and she can heat those up.
Breakfast burritos heat well after freezing. Maybe some scrambled eggs with ham or egg beaters with sausage? Maybe make some muffins or banana bread?
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Post by shevy on Jun 29, 2014 23:23:20 GMT
Rotisserie chicken is awesome idea. I'll o some meatloaf and make some pasta for a cold salad and for sauce too.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Jun 29, 2014 23:39:30 GMT
I would make like reg servings and portion them out. Leave one in the fridge for use those days you are gone, and then freeze like 3-4 servings so she can use them later.
mini meatloves
lasagna
soups
sloppy joes
spaghetti and noodles
roasted chicken
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Post by mama2three on Jun 30, 2014 0:08:40 GMT
My aunt regularly makes her version of "TV dinners" by making up individual plates of meals that can easily be microwaved. You could do something like that so the plates could be frozen and then popped into the microwave.
My aunt uses the sturdy Chinette paper plates to hold sliced meats (turkey, chicken, ham, beef), veggies, potatoes, etc and slips the plate w/meal into a big Ziploc bag (gallon?) and puts a whole stack of them in the freezer. She roasts a turkey or cooks a ham or roast each weekend and then has a selection of meals for the rest of the month. You could do this with any entree that can be frozen and reheated.
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Post by quiltz on Jun 30, 2014 16:26:43 GMT
Maybe leave a giftcard to a restaurant that delivers.
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