Dear Readers,

I’m in search of tasteless.  Really tasteless.  And frozen.  Got any recommendations?

My mother is having some painful health problems.  It’s looking like it might be a tumor near her spine.  I’d like to make her food, but I’m stumped.

You see, my mother and I eat completely differently.  I like flavor.  As an example, I eat Indian food, mostly vegetarian (with the exception of fish), and anything with cilantro, capers, or stinky cheese.  My mother?  She eats a lot of chicken and has a spice cabinet the size of a pill box.  Capers?  I doubt she knows what they are.

To make matters worse, her stomach is tending to be a little upset off and on lately due to the pain meds.  She needs meals that are bland (think stereotypical 1950′s American, accompanied by boiled vegetables), and things that can be frozen in individual portions to be reheated in a microwave.  I’m thinking chicken-type stuff (as grossed out as I am to be touching raw chicken, I’ll deal).

Any help would be really appreciated.

You know, I used to get annoyed when my mother always seemed to be completely unable to make me edible meals.  Now that the tables are turned, I realize that I have the same problem.