Need some easy casserole ideas to deliver to a family

I often send a big ol' lasagna, fresh Italian loaf (with garlic) and a tossed salad. Not an expensive dish at all, and hearty. Make a second batch for your family or freezer and the meal price even becomes more reasonable (buy in bulk). Depending on the family, I either make traditional lasagna or a yummy veggie-based one.

 It's easy to transport, freezes well, and is easy to find a foil pan that fits it. I make a batch of Killer Brownies and call it dinner!

HTH

Lisa

I would use the disposable pans because sometimes when you receive the meals, you can forget who brought what dish. Glad makes a line of ovenware that I use, it has lids that snap on (lids not oven save) and they go from freezer to oven with no problem.

I have an easy chicken pot pie recipe that can also use turkey left-overs

1 can veg-all mixed vegetables drained or 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables thawed

1 cup cooked chicken or turkey cut in pieces

1 can cream of chicken or mushroom soup undiluted

1 cup Bisquick baking mix or self rising flour

1/2 cup milk

1 egg

(if using self rising flour 2 T melted butter)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In 8 or 9 inch square baking dish lightly greased, mix vegetables, chicken and soup and spread out evenly in pan. In a small bowl mix remaining ingredients until blended. Spoon evenly over vegetables and chicken. bake about 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

Take along a bag of salad mix and some brownies or cookies for a balanced meal.

Sheila

I would definately use a disposable pan for any meals.  I have a whole dining room table full of glassware and cookware that I need to return from people who delivered meals to us after my surgery.  It just makes it easier when you don't have to return anything.  Glad makes casserole size containers as well as the smaller ones.  You can also find the aluminum throw aways at the grocery store. 

As for food, we had some great meals delivered to us.  Beef stroganoff, shredded beef for sandwiches, lasagna, stuffed shells, mostaccioli, chicken enchiladas, chicken paramesan, shredded pork for fajitas, tater tot casserole, beef tacos and chicken tacos, chicken and rice casserole.  Soups would also be good. I also had the chicken recipe with the onion soup and cranberry sauce posted above delivered.  It was outstanding!  I will tell you that we had an overdose of lasagna sent to the house.  We had three pans in one week. We were craving some kind of food that was not in a red sauce after about 2 weeks.  LOL

Chili with some cornbread is something my family would eat.

You can add a bag of salad and some ice cream bars and most children will be happy. 

Samon, I don't have any great recipes to share but I do have a recommendation for you.  I have frequently provided casseroles for folks during chemo, recovery from surgery, etc.  I have found that it is vital to provide an extensive ingredient list.

If you use any prepackaged food in the casserole, just cut out the package ingredient list and attach it to your written recipe list.  That way if there are any allergies that you don't know about, it will give the family important information.