In our communities, we love with food. We deliver meals to celebrate births and to memorialize deaths. We gather with friends, sharing recipes and plates and love.
Have you ever had a far-away friend dealing with a tough time, and you wish you could just step across the miles, appearing at the door with a casserole in hand?
When I was on bed rest, my friends swooped in and took care of me. They watched movies with me; they made me meals and sent me ice cream. As I watched other friends coping with surgeries, tough diagnoses, and grief, I found myself wondering how to help. How could I show my love and concern beyond a simple note?
Enter ShareCrate.
Created by the team behind DreamDinners, ShareCrate is a way to send a home-cooked meal to that special friend…even when they live states away.
ShareCrate meals are designed to make dinner time a worry-free breeze. You won’t find vegetables to chop or packets of raw meat like in some meal kits; each meal is contained in its freezer bag to prepare when you are ready.
A ShareCrate contains three meals: Chicken Florentine Tortellini that can go straight into the oven, Sesame-Glazed Meatballs and Rice that require just a bit of heating in a skillet, and a slightly more complex Honey, Garlic, and Orange Chicken recipe with Oven-Roasted Broccoli. My family of four devoured the entrees in the large-sized ShareCrate, wishing for even more!
A medium ShareCrate is $89 and includes 2-3 servings of all three meals. A large ShareCrate is $139 for 5 to 6 servings of the three meals. I love the idea of getting together with college buddies, neighbors, or a Sunday School class and letting everyone chip in a few bucks to send a ShareCrate to a friend.
Want to test a ShareCrate for yourself, or send some food love to a friend far away? I’m giving away a ShareCrate to one BeyondtheFried reader! The contest is open to all U.S. residents, but please note the delivery availability map for where ShareCrate is able to ship your meal.
To enter, leave a comment sharing how you love your friends and family through tough times. Feel free to share a favorite recipe, words of wisdom, or even any questions you have about ShareCrates. Contest entry is open through June 20, 2016.
DreamDinners kindly sent me a ShareCrate to review and offered to give one away to my readers.
What a great idea! I can see our Sunday School or teacher sorority doing this.
This is such a great idea! I would love to do this for friends who are out of state!
This idea is almost as bad as your husbands journalism.
Hey, Bob! If you are referring to the East Nashville News site, that’s a different person. We’ve been getting his hate mail lately! Thanks for stopping by, though, and be assured that we love our local firefighters!
What a great service! I’d love to bring meals to close friends with newborns… Was just hosting a shower and wondering how I could make that happen for a gf in another state.
Oh, I like this idea, particularly since *my* dietary restrictions aren’t necessarily shared by people I’d like to send a meal to!
What a great idea! Love that they are ready to go. When someone is sick or has a newborn they could really benefit from this!
And the winner is….Lesley Eats! Thanks for entering, everybody!