AIBU to ask you for suggestions of meal ideas i can make for new mum?

[duckbilled]

A good friend had her beautiful dc2 tonight and I have been thinking of ways to help her. She doesn't have a very good support network and before the birth was anxious with managing a toddler and a newborn.
I will be in the same position in a few months and the thing I think would practically help is food!
I plan on making a few dishes for her family in the next few weeks and would love your suggestions.
I was thinking a vegetable curry, lasanga, cake..... But drawing a blank on any other recipes.
Help please!

Before Dc1 was born, I made loads and loads of 1 person lasagnes, fish pies, cottage pies and potato-topped chicken pies in those little tinfoil trays you can buy and froze them. I took out whatever I wanted in the morning and all I had to do was whack them in the oven at dinner time and micro some frozen veg to go with. That kept us going for a week or two!

Oddly enough, I didn't manage it in advance of DC2 being born...

Puddings!
I was sooo desperate for a filling pudding-Apple crumble, fruit pie, that sort of thing...although my babies were winter babies but I was starving!!

I make some nice little cakes with sultanas & cherries in which are a great little energy booster:
6 oz caster sugar
6 oz stork
Cream together then add
3 eggs
6 oz self raising flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Half a teaspoon mixed spice
Mix well then add
Couple of handfuls of sultanas
Half a small tub of glacé cherries
Spoon in to muffin cakes and bake at 180 degrees for 15 min.

Don't try a sausage casserole though they don't reheat well. Chicken casserole with ready done mash potatoes are great too.

Fish pasta bakes, Beef bourguignon etc for freezer, but also make some fresh pesto for her and buy spaghetti, minimal fuss meal in 5 mins ( now sure about eating it one handed though) cookies last longer than cake. Also in the hot weather consider buying her those ice lollies you freeze yourself.