When my daughter was in the hospital, we had a lot of food given to us.
Lasagnes were nice, but by our 10th Lasagne.. The best two things we got were
a freezer bag full of about 12 grilled chicken breasts (these were homemade-but
I think you can get them in the stores also). You could defrost them for
lunches with fruit, for dinners with a pasta or mac and cheese, -they were very
versatile. The other great thing we got were gift certificates to our local
delivery Chinese food and delivery pizza/Italian place-for days when you can't
even defrost anything.