meal train
Communal feeding schedule
A meal train is a coordinated effort where friends, family, or community members take turns providing meals to someone going through a difficult time—new parents, someone recovering from surgery, a family experiencing loss.
Participants sign up for specific days, typically through an online scheduler, to deliver home-cooked or purchased food: We set up a meal train for the Johnsons after the baby arrived.
- casseroleSlow-cooked oven dish
- casserole dishDeep oven-safe cooking container
- potluckCommunal meal, shared contributions
- communityCollective of connected people
- supportTo uphold or sustain
grief · neighbors · signup · delivery · homemade · freezer · lasagna · comfort food · helping · church · good neighbor · illness · newborn · new baby · coordination · comfort · sign up sheet · nourishment
- community activitiespotluck, community garden, neighborhood watch, barn raising, community cleanup
- community supportmutual aid, food bank, volunteering, caregiving, donations
- childcaredaycare, after-school programs, babysitter, nanny, babysitting
- feastsbanquet, wedding feast, thanksgiving feast, thanksgiving dinner, Easter feast
- mourning customsfuneral, funeral service, wake, visitation, burial
- kindnesseskindness, kindnesses, good deeds, generosity, helpfulness
meal trainsocial isolation
Lack of human contact
abandonment · neglect · going it alone · loneliness · invisibility
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