Would have loved an after-report from you!
Yes, Dog, oatmeal from an oatmeal box.....not packaged cookies, LOL.
The taking-food-during-a-time-of-trauma is not widespread all over the South, Guennie, or even within a town.
In our church in the small town we used to live in, we took meals to families for all kinds of things .... deaths in the family, someone having surgery, the birth of a new baby .... during flu season, whoever didn't have the flu would cook meals for the family of those currently afflicted (and homemade soup for the sick one) ..... just all kinds of occasions. People would also do things like mow the lawn for someone out of town for a family emergency or death. At least that's what happened in our neighborhood and our church.
A close friend of mine (who went to another church) broke her arm ..... went with the youth group of which her son was a member to go skating. Got on skates for the first time in umpteen years and promptly fell and fractured her forearm.
I prepared a meal to take to the family, thinking nothing of it. To this day, she reminds me of that and how much it meant to them and it's been nearly 20 years. No one in her church did anything for them. That really surprised me ..... I just took such things for granted. It's not done much here where we live now either .... I guess people have gotten busier and busier .... eat out more rather than cooking. It's a wonderful and much-appreciated ministry though .... one of which I have been the recipient a number of times and tried to repay when I could.