60+ Meal Ideas to Take to Someone [With Links]

If you need meal ideas to take to someone, this list of 60+ great meals will help you bring the perfect meal.

I posted this reel of preparing a meal for someone, and was overwhelmed with ideas from readers. Taking a meal to someone is a practical way to show you care. Common reasons to deliver meals include after someone has a baby or has surgery or is going through a hard time (sickness, loss of a loved one, divorce). When you deliver a meal to someone, go above and beyond to be thoughtful. Bring extras and really think about meeting every need. I hope this list is helpful.

Meal ideas to bring someone

1. Lasagna or lasagna roll-ups
2. One pot sausage pasta from two peas and their pod
3. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and veggies
4. Eggplant Parmesan
5. Pulled pork + buns and mac and cheese
6. Chicken spaghetti 
7. Stuffed shells, salad and garlic bread
8. Manicotti
9. Pioneer Woman’s baked ziti
10. Pioneer Woman drippy beef sandwiches
11. Mel’s Kitchen’s Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken 
12. Tatortot casserole
    
13. Tacos + fixings
14. Chicken enchiladas from Shauna Niequist’s Bread and Wine
15. Baked ravioli
16. Six Sisters’ Honey Sesame Crockpot Chicken
17. Poppyseed chicken
18. Fajitas
19. Cooking for a Crowd’s Chicken Pot Pie
20. Baked penne with Italian sausage
21. Magnolia farms chicken and wild rice soup
22. Sandwich fixings, including yummy bread, deli meat, cheese and lettuce
23. Chicken divan
24. Shepherd’s Pie
25. Quinoa salad
26. Instant Pot BBQ chicken
27. Beef Bourguignon
28. Chicken Tetrazzini
29. Stuffed chicken breasts
30. Chicken broccoli
31. Butternut squash baked ziti
32. Cheddar chicken pot pie 
33. Skinnytaste Balsamic chicken and veggies with rice
34. Pioneer Woman’s meatballs
35. Half Baked Harvests’s browned garlic butter creamed corn cheese ravioli

Soup and stew ideas

1. Taco soup and cornbread muffins
2. Gumbo
3. Roasted vegetable chicken soup by Danielle Walker
4. Chicken noodle soup
5. Chicken corn chowder soup
6. Olive Garden copycat Zuppa Toscana 
7. Beef or turkey chili with shredded cheese and nachos
8. Jambalaya
9. Beef stew
10. Chicken and wild rice soup
11. Lentil soup
12. Chorizo corn soup
13. Tomato soup + grilled cheese

Dessert ideas

1. Cookie dough
2. Chocolate chip cookies
3. Chocolate brownies
4. Chocolate caramel brownies
5. Lactation cookies for a new mom
6. Ice cream + sundae toppings
7. Pumpkin chocolate chip bars
8. Root beer and vanilla ice cream
9. Banana bread
10. Pumpkin banana bread
11. Chocolate covered strawberries
12. Cupcakes
13. Lemon drizzle cake
14. Chocolate

A few other suggestions

• Include breakfast too, like muffins, breakfast burritos, baked oatmeal, egg muffins, waffles or quiche
• Bring fresh fruit or veggies
• Add a favorite drink and/or chocolate milk for the kids

 

For more, read this post of tips for preparing a meal for someone.