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I would do a salad or pasta salad topped with chilled grilled chicken, and a bowl of cut up fruit for dessert/breakfast/snacks. You can add lots of ingredients to the salad to make it more filling but nothing has to be heated once it's at her house.

A roaster chicken, salad with already chopped veggies, cut up fruit, muffins were the top favorite things I got when I had baby #2 in may.

I might do "nicer" fruit like cubed pineapples and strawberries, but if that's too acidic, grapes, ripe melons, a bunch of bananas, and pears work.

I like to do cooked rice and chicken stirfry or coconut milk chicken curry with non-gassy veg. I like picking things that are milder and easy to reheat and don't have really irritating foods in it like tomatoes or hot spices or dairy.

Alternatively, a quinoa tabbouleh with chopped rotisserie chicken would be a great all in one meal, with hummus and veggie dippers and pita chips. But it has tomatoes and acid from lemon juice.

If it's a family that doesn't like ethnic food (like my inlaws) I would do a pan roasted honey mustard chicken with green beans almondine and a rice pilaf or a tub of mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes from the store.

I also am a huge fan of taking things for breakfast or lunch or snacks - I.e. not dinner. I like taking a loaf of banana or zuke bread, hard boiled eggs, and dry sandwiches (just meat and bread and cheese if dairy is okay) or a sandwich friendly salad (egg, tuna, chickpea, or chicken salads) with a box of croissants.

I'd take baked stuff anytime especially right post baby when honestly calories are not so much on my mind! But also, salads, takeout.. I don't want to even look at my oven the first week or two postpartum. Wraps, she could eat the second half later if it's too big to finish and one that can be cold sounds good! Or pasta because it's easy to microwave the leftovers.

And the taco salad and muffins mentioned above sound great!

I usually do tacos where all they need to do is heat up the meat and then they can make their tacos or taco salads any way they want. I also like to bring breakfast. I will make an egg casserole so that they can reheat a portion.