Organizing Meals for Others

A great way to love on people is with food. :)  Plain and simple.  And a great way to love a mom is to provide a home cooked meal to her home for her and her family.  Before, it could be quite a task to organize a week’s worth of meals for someone who just had a baby…someone who had surgery…someone who had a loved one pass away.

Here is a tool that I found and just used for the first time in the past two weeks.  It is called takethemameal.com.  Take them a meal…if you were confused.

It is a free website that does all the work for you!  You simply put in your information as the coordinator.  Enter the information of the person that will be receiving the meals.  This will include names, address to deliver to, preferences in food or allergies to be aware of, etc., phone number or e-mail.  Then you will enter the days and dates that you need meals for that person.

After that information has been entered, you e-mail or Facebook message the link to others.  In this case, it would be the ladies of my church.  They will simply click on the link and choose the date that best works for them.  They will enter their name, e-mail address and what they will be making – lasagna, for instance.

At any time, you are able to look up the schedule and see how many spots need to be filled and who is bringing what.  Once the schedule is full, the worry is over!  The website will send e-mail reminders to all the ladies who volunteered.  It will also send the coordinator an e-mail letting them know who is taking a meal for that day.

This website also eliminates the person receiving duplicate meals in the same week.   As much as a person may love lasagna, three meals of lasagna can be too much of a good thing.

Great tools are very useful in our busy lives.  

Take Them A Meal.Com is a wonderful tool to streamline your busy life while helping others in the ministry!