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How to be a Faithful Friend During the Hardest Seasons of Life
 
How to be a Faithful Friend During the Hardest Seasons of Life     Posted By: Kate Kelty, Author, The Grace To Grieve on Jun 30, 2020
How do you best love and support someone who is grieving or suffering? This is an important question - a question with a complex answer worth its [...]
 
 
Plan a Fun Virtual Dinner Party
 
Plan a Fun Virtual Dinner Party     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jun 23, 2020
COVID-19 does not need to prevent you from having a fun dinner party with friends. I can't believe it took COVID-19 for me to stumble upon [...]
 
 
Summer Slow Cooker Favorites
 
Summer Slow Cooker Favorites     Posted By: Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jun 16, 2020
If you are anything like me, you feel like you have cooked 5,000 meals over the past few months. Stay-at-home orders have meant lots of cooking and [...]
 
 
Giving Food and Giving Grace
 
Giving Food and Giving Grace     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jun 9, 2020
Little by little, states are beginning to relax their COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. I've been thinking a lot about what this will mean for [...]
 
 
Summer Baskets
 
Summer Baskets     Posted By: Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on Jun 2, 2020
Since schools have shut down, kids have been forced to deal with a lot of changes. The school year ended so abruptly. No more socializing with [...]
 
 
Fun Family Recipes to Make Outside
 
Fun Family Recipes to Make Outside     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on May 26, 2020
Every Memorial Day weekend we camp with a long-time group of friends to celebrate summer is almost here! We enjoy sunshine, good friends, shared conversations and [...]
 
 
Update and Checking In
 
Update and Checking In     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on May 19, 2020
How are you holding up these days? At this point, you have either had several weeks of staying at home or continuing to work in a job where you care for others (while trying to protect [...]
 
 
Tips to Take a Meal on Short Notice
 
Tips to Take a Meal on Short Notice     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on May 12, 2020
We know many meal providers plan far in advance and deliver a meal that was thoughtfully prepared. Other times we see those who are amazing at [...]
 
 
Caring for Our Neighbors During COVID-19
 
Caring for Our Neighbors During COVID-19     Posted By: Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on May 5, 2020
Since the coronavirus pandemic started, it has been hard to find many silver linings. But as the weeks pass, one positive trend is emerging: connecting more with [...]
 
 
What to Cook in Quarantine: Our Most Requested Recipes
 
What to Cook in Quarantine: Our Most Requested Recipes     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on Apr 28, 2020
Our family has shared more meals together during this time of social distancing and stay-at-home orders. There's something comforting about the routine of [...]
 
 
Our Engraved Spoons are Now Available
 
Our Engraved Spoons are Now Available     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Apr 21, 2020
You asked and we listened. For a limited time, our YOU ARE LOVED spoons can be [...]
 
 
Family Fun While Staying Home
 
Family Fun While Staying Home     Posted By: Maureen Witmer, Director of Outreach, TakeThemAMeal.com on Apr 14, 2020
February 2020 was as amazing as we imagined it would be. My professor husband was given a unique opportunity to help lead a study abroad semester in Europe and our [...]
 
 
How to Help Quarantined Friends
 
How to Help Quarantined Friends     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Apr 7, 2020
As many of you already know, TakeThemAMeal.com was started years ago to help my dear friend, Rachel. Her husband, Anthony, recently called me with an idea of how to [...]
 
 
Tips to Take A Meal Safely
 
Tips to Take A Meal Safely     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on Mar 31, 2020
Safe food handling is an important consideration in taking a meal to a friend or loved one. While food safety is necessary for all of [...]
 
 
Coordinator Guide: When Plans Change We Can Help
 
Coordinator Guide: When Plans Change We Can Help     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on Mar 24, 2020
We want to support and encourage you during this time when plans might need to be altered. Our team at TakeThemAMeal.com is experiencing the [...]
 
 
Coronavirus & Taking Meals
 
Coronavirus & Taking Meals     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Mar 17, 2020
Many of you have asked how to best take meals to your friends as our nation battles against coronavirus. While I hope I'm incorrect, it seems likely you [...]
 
 
A Complete Meal Idea for a Friend
 
A Complete Meal Idea for a Friend     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Mar 10, 2020
My oldest child is going to turn eighteen later this year and I still remember a few of the meals we received from friends when he was [...]
 
 
Simple Comfort Food Recipes for the Instant Pot
 
Simple Comfort Food Recipes for the Instant Pot     Posted By: Meredith Nicely, on Mar 3, 2020
When the winter months force us to be inside more, it is a great time to break out comfort food recipes. I received my Instant Pot one year ago and [...]
 
 
How To Provide Meaningful Support
 
How To Provide Meaningful Support     Posted By: Lindsey Shantz, Customer Service Specialist on Feb 26, 2020
Many of us feel unsure how to help a friend or loved one through a difficult time. I feel like this from time to time and wish I [...]
 
 
Remember the Anniversary of a Loss
 
Remember the Anniversary of a Loss     Posted By: Adina Bailey, Co-Founder, TakeThemAMeal.com on Feb 18, 2020
This past week was the 20th anniversary of the death of my brother-in-laws mom. Even though she died before my sister met her, my sister makes a [...]
 
 
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