In our church and around our college campus we organise meals rosters for families who have just welcomed a new baby into their home. We have been blessed by meals rosters over the years and they truly do make a huge difference in the early days with a newborn. In fact, after I had Lydia, my church family was generous enough to keep it going (a couple of times a week) for some months. I was so grateful, especially since they can take a bit of organising.
I've just come across a fantastic website which will make meals rosters more manageable. It's called Food Tidings and it enables you to set up a system so that the organising happens on the one place, online. Someone needs to set up a roster and email the link to those who might like to be on it, then those who would like to be on it sign up themselves, nominating the date and the meal they are going to cook. This means the person organising it doesn't need to keep shuffling people and dates around - those signing up look after themselves, and they don't need to email details out to everone either, as that's all down on the relevant page (contact numbers, addresses, allergies etc). After being signed up to do one for a mum at college this weekend, I also discovered another fantastic function of the site - it sends an email reminder a day ahead so you don't forget - brilliant!
If ever there was a website which proved that the internet could be used for good and not just for evil it's this one!
I've just come across a fantastic website which will make meals rosters more manageable. It's called Food Tidings and it enables you to set up a system so that the organising happens on the one place, online. Someone needs to set up a roster and email the link to those who might like to be on it, then those who would like to be on it sign up themselves, nominating the date and the meal they are going to cook. This means the person organising it doesn't need to keep shuffling people and dates around - those signing up look after themselves, and they don't need to email details out to everone either, as that's all down on the relevant page (contact numbers, addresses, allergies etc). After being signed up to do one for a mum at college this weekend, I also discovered another fantastic function of the site - it sends an email reminder a day ahead so you don't forget - brilliant!
If ever there was a website which proved that the internet could be used for good and not just for evil it's this one!
4 comments:
Perfect timing! Two of my friends will now benefit from this in the next six weeks. I am so excited to have found this, thanks!
Another similar site, which others from church have used is:
http://www.takethemameal.com
We are also using takethemameal.com at our church for the most recent baby's family :)
Thanks!
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