Frequently Asked Questions

Who would I create a meal schedule for?

You can create a meal schedule for anyone in need. For example: for someone who just had a baby, recovering from surgery or injury, grieving the passing of a loved one, confined to bed rest, and almost anything else, receiving dinners from loved ones can be very comforting and helpful.

I’d like to create a meal schedule for someone, now what?

1. The first thing you need to do is create an account for yourself. Click on “register” on our home page, then you fill out the necessary information to make an account. (If you already have an account with us, you can click on “log in” on our home page- and it will ask for your email and password.
2. Once you’re signed in, you are ready to create a meal schedule. Click on “Create A Schedule” tab on the top of the page. You then go through and fill in all of the blanks to create the schedule. Once you’ve filled in all the info, click at the bottom where it says “save this schedule”. Be sure to only click that button once, and it may take a minute to save.
3. You will then be taken to the meal schedule you’ve just created! The next step is to invite people to cook. Click on the link on the right side of the page that says, “Invite People to Cook” (it has a red heart next to it)
4. You will then be taken to a page that will help you send out an invitation to people to invite them to bring meals. You then type in the emails of the people you’d like to invite to bring meals for this schedule in the box provided for you. Be sure not to use any spaces in between the email addresses, just a comma.
5. Under the box that you’ve typed in people’s email addresses, there is another box entitled “type your invitation message”. This is where you can type what you want to let the people you’ve invited that they’re invited to bring meals for this schedule. Be sure to let them know who it’s for, why, and that you appreciate their help! If you don’t want to type in your own message, there is one already there as a default message that you can use as well.
6. Once you’ve typed out your invitation message, you’re ready to send out your invitations! Simply click the box below entitled “Send the Invite”. Be sure to only click this button one time, and it may take a minute to send.

Congratulations! You’ve just created a meal schedule for a loved one, and they’re going to get to enjoy the benefits of having meals brought to them during this time of recovery and healing. And pat yourself on the back because you’ve helped them out in a tremendous way by helping to put this all together. Great job!

Once I create a meal schedule for someone, who do I invite to bring meals for them?

You can invite anyone you think would be interested in bringing meals to them. Your best bet is going to be the family and friends of that person. You may have to call and get email addresses for them. An easy way we’ve found is to ask the person you’re creating a meal schedule for who they think would like to bring meals to them- and they usually have people in mind. Then they can get you their email addresses, so you can invite them to bring meals.

How do I change something on a meal schedule that I’ve already created?

Click on “view your meal schedules”, click on the schedule that you’d like to edit, click on “edit this schedule” on the top right of the page (with a pencil next to it). Then you can make any changes you need to make.

I’ve already sent out the invitation for people to bring meals for a schedule I made, and I thought of more people to invite. Now what?

Not a problem. Click on “view your meal schedules”, click on the schedule you’d like to invite more people to, then click on the top right where it says “invite people to cook” (with a red heart next to it, and you can invite more people.

I just received an invitation from my friend to bring a meal for someone I know. How do I sign up to do that?

First, you click on the link in your email that you received, and it will bring you to the meal schedule that has been created for your friend. Decide which day (or days) you’d like to bring them a meal, and click next to the day where it says “sign up for this date”. If you haven’t already created an account for yourself, it will take you to do that before anything else. Then you can enter what food you will be bringing, and click the little green check mark to the right of it once you’ve entered it. Then you’re officially on the schedule to bring your loved one a meal.

I’ve already signed up to bring a meal to someone, and I need to change the day that I bring it. How do I do that?

Click on “view your meal schedules”, under the heading “schedules I’m cooking for click on the correct schedule you need to make a change to, click on the pencil with a red minus sign that is next to your meal that you typed in (this will remove you from that day), then pick another day that is available and fill in the meal you’d like to bring, and click on the green check mark to save the changes.

I’d like to change the type of meal that I bring to someone, how to I do that? (ie- I had lasagna down for what I’m bringing, but I will actually now be bringing pizza)

Click on “view your meal schedules”, under the heading “schedules I’m cooking meals for click on the correct schedule you need to make a change to, click next to your meal that you typed in on the little pencil; make the change, then click on the green check mark to save the changes.