A meal train for a family who needs one

Dinner is handled,
for as long as
they need it

Start a free meal train in minutes

Start a meal train How it works
Meals for the Hernandez familyDinner, Sep 2 to Sep 19 · 6 nights still open
TUE2Angela RuizChicken and rice, green saladClaimed
WED3The OkaforsLasagna and garlic breadClaimed
THU4Nobody yetThis night is still openOpen
Bring dinner Thursday
Replaces
MealTrainA shared spreadsheetA group text nobody can follow

The last thing a grieving family needs is a page with ads on it.

Studio Meals
Why Meals

Nothing is sold against this page.

Studio Meals is one page for one family and one hard stretch: the nights they need dinner, who has each one, and everything a cook needs to know before they start.

MealTrain is free because it sells ads against the page, then asks the organizer to pay to take them off. We do not sell anything against the page. There is nothing to remove and nothing to pay.

  • Free, with no monthly fee
  • No ads on the page, ever
  • The family address is never public
How it works

Four screens, start to finish.

No setup call, no monthly fee, and nothing for your friends to install.

1

Say who it is for

Their name, how many people to feed, and what they cannot eat. It takes about two minutes.

Who are we cooking for?This is everything a cook needs to know
The Hernandez familyFour adults and two childrenFeeding 6
No peanuts, no shellfishAna is allergicAllergy
Dishes do not need returningFoil pans are perfectNote
2

Open the nights

Pick the dates, choose breakfast, lunch or dinner, and set a drop-off window that works for the house.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Sep 2 to Sep 19Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays9 nights
Drop off 5:00 to 6:30pmThe front porch is fineWindow
Two people per nightA main dish and a sideAllowed
Open these nights
3

Share one link

Send it to the people who already offered. Nobody needs an account to claim a night.

Share the linkNothing in it says who it is for
usestudio.app/m/k7f2qd9vA random address, not a nameCopy
UnlistedNever indexed by search enginesOn
Address hiddenSent only to whoever claims a nightOn
4

Everyone gets reminded

Whoever claims a night gets a confirmation, then an email the day before they cook.

Confirmation sentAngela has Tuesday the 2ndSent
Reminder goes out tonightJames cooks tomorrowQueued
Address and phone includedOnly in these two emailsPrivate

Start a meal train in a few minutes.

Free, no monthly fee, and no ads on the page.

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What you can do

Enough to run the whole thing.

One page, one link, and a family who does not have to organize anything.

Claim

Claiming a night takes a minute

Friends open the link, pick a night, and say what they are bringing. No account, no password, nothing to install.

  • No account needed to claim a night
  • A name, an email, and the dish
  • More than one person per night, if you want
Thursday, September 4Dinner · drop off 5:00 to 6:30pm
Sarah Whitfieldsarah@example.com
Chicken pot pie and a saladWhat you are bringing
No account, no passwordYou are done in a minuteFree
Claim this night
Details

Nobody has to ask what to cook

Allergies, dislikes, favourites, how many people to feed, and whether dishes need returning all sit on the page, so the answers are there before anyone thinks to ask.

  • Allergies and dislikes, in plain words
  • How many adults and children to feed
  • Whether the dish needs to come back
Feeding sixFour adults, two childrenHeadcount
No peanuts, no shellfishAna is allergicAllergy
Nobody in the house likes mushroomsDislikes
Soup and anything with riceFavourites
Changes

Plans change, and the page keeps up

Anyone can edit what they are bringing or cancel from their own link. A cancelled night reopens on its own, so somebody else can take it.

  • Edit or cancel from your own link
  • A cancelled night reopens for somebody else
  • Organizer updates and a message wall
Thursday reopenedSarah had to cancelOpen
Update from the organizerAna comes home Friday. Thank you all.Posted
Twelve notes on the wallFrom friends and neighbours
When people start one
New babySurgery or recoveryA death in the familyCancer treatmentA new foster placementComing home from hospital
Privacy

A hard week is private.

A meal train carries a family address, a phone number, and the reason people are cooking. All of it is handled with that in mind.

The address is not on the page

Where to drop dinner off, and the phone number to call from the driveway, are emailed to somebody only after they claim a night. Anyone who finds the link learns nothing about where the family lives.

Unlisted, and not in search results

Meal trains are unlisted by default and are never indexed by search engines. There is no directory and nothing to browse.

A link that gives nothing away

The address is a random string. It does not contain the family name, the occasion, or anything else somebody could read off it.

A password, if you want one

You can put a password on top of the link, so the page only opens for the people you handed it to.

No ads, ever

Nothing is sold against the page. No banners, no sponsored recipe box, no upsell to take the ads off. The page belongs to the family and the people cooking for them.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. There is no monthly fee and there are no ads. Starting a meal train and claiming a night are both free.

No. They open the link, pick a night, and leave their name, their email, and what they are bringing. That is the whole thing.

Only somebody who has claimed a night. It is emailed to them and shown on their own private link. It is never on the public page.

Anyone can change what they are bringing or cancel from their own link, and a cancelled night reopens for somebody else.

Yes. Meal trains are unlisted and are never indexed by search engines, and you can add a password on top if you want a smaller circle.

No. It is a web page, so it works on any phone or computer with a link.

Start a meal train.

Free, with no monthly fee and no ads. Somebody you know is having a hard week, and this takes a few minutes.

Start a meal train