Best meals for new Mum!

Oh yeh! My BIL and sil bought us a bunch of groceries a few days after ds2 was born, milk, juice, bread, fruit, snacks, basic staples and stuff. It was very unexpected and very appreciated!

This is true about fresh food. My go-to gift for interstate people has become a home delivered box of organic fruit and nibbles (nuts, chocolate etc) as soon as possible. I called an organic place in the city where my sister lived as soon as she called me after the birth of her baby and they delivered it within the next couple of hours... the first thing she ate post-birth ended up being one of my delivered organic bananas :heartbeat:

This is a fantastic list! Thanks everyone!!

Just wanted to add that I really appreciated when people bought something for the kids especially, like cut up fruit and vege sticks and cooked sausages or sausage rolls or mini quiche etc. So that they could eat something healthy easily for lunch. I'm alright with me eating weetbix for lunch, but I'd feel guilty that the kids weren't getting enough veg.

My sil made a bunch of frozen pasta meals in individual serve containers. Loaded with veges and meat they were great lunches. But my favorite things were some vacuum sealed slowcooker meals. She put them together so all I had to do was defrost them and pour into the slow cooker for the day.

That's a fabulous idea peace, what kind of slow cooker meals were they?

If you google there's a blog with an awesome chick who makes freezer packs for her slow cooker

Off to google, the idea of frozen slow cooker packs has me excited!!

My favourite ones were chicken cacciatore with potatoes and carrots and teriyaki chicken which I just boiled up some rice with. It was really thoughtful of her.

potatoes always go wierd when i have frozen them in casseroles. i always leave them out now.

I found having individual serves of cooked rice and pasta handy too, to go with the main course dishes. They seem to freeze and reheat well.