Postpartum recipe roundup
my favorite cookbooks, recipes and meal ideas for postpartum nourishment
Here’s a collection of recipes for your postpartum season. Below you’ll find a list of my favourite cookbooks, 50 + recipes and some postpartum meal ideas that I have been offering to the mothers I support in person. I hope this roundup is helpful and inspiring for a season that can often feel overwhelming! I will updated this list as I come across any new recipes that I love.
Your nourishment matters. You are the source of life for your baby, and you deserve to be taken care of with deep love and intention.
Cookbooks I love
Awakening Fertility by Heng Ou
Real Food For Pregnancy by Lily Nichols
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
The First Forty Days by Heng Ou
Life After Birth by Jessica Prescott and Vaughne Geary
The Nourishing Book of Baby and Child Care by Sally Fallon
Breakfast
Cottage cheese and oat pancakes - 2 eggs, 1/3 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup of oats, vanilla extract and a pinch of baking powder. Blend! Cook like regular pancakes. Such a great option for a higher protein breakfast.
Oatmeal (soaked overnight before making in the morning) with a side of protein (egg, breakfast sausage, bacon etc)
Coconut rice pudding with pistachio and rose
Cottage cheese scrambled eggs, paired with sourdough and breakfast sausage or fruit
Scrambled eggs with cottage cheese, bacon and a slice of sourdough
Smoked salmon with cream cheese on sourdough/bread of your choosing
Breakfast burritos - these can be made ahead and frozen. Scramble some eggs, add cooked bacon or sausage, salsa, herbs and/or veggies. Spoon the filling into the middle of the tortilla and roll up. Wrap in foil or parchment and freeze! To warm up, pop them in the oven at 400 F for 10 minutes or so.
Lunch
Replenishing beet soup (from Awakening Fertility)
Warming sweet potato, pumpkin and carrot soup - recipe on my instagram, here
Simple tomato soup with sourdough grilled cheese
Creamy mushroom soup with sourdough
Bacon and broccoli egg bake - you can sub anything in for the broccoli and bacon. I’ve done goat cheese, garlic, chorizo and tomato. Chicken sausage and mushroom. Add whatever you fancy!
Congee with different toppings like boiled egg, roast chicken, veggies (from The First Forty Days)
Chicken and wild rice soup (also great for dinner!)
Dinners
Slow cooked balsamic chuck roast (minus the rosemary, sub honey for sugar but you can also leave it out all together)
Bolognese with pasta or on top of roasted potatoes. If you can get your hands on some ground beef with organs, that would be incredible for the extra nutrition.
Hearty sausage stew with rice (from The First Forty Days)
Chicken, chorizo and bean soup
Chicken and veggie coconut curry
Slow cooker pulled pork (for more flavour, add in a jar of Primal Kitchen bbq sauce after the meat is cooked)
Pesto chicken with veggies and potatoes
Thai salmon, coconut rice and carrot salad - mix a few tbs of Thai curry paste, honey, a pinch of salt and some vinegar together. Pour over the salmon and bake as usual. I’d suggest avoiding raw carrot for the first few weeks, and focus on cooked foods but as you heal, this salad will be helpful to support hormone detoxification.
Ginger fried rice (from The First Forty Days)
Snacks / Sweets
Meat sticks (I love Chomps)
Boiled egg
Greek yoghurt, fruit and granola
Fruit with a nut butter
Cheese, meat and fruit snack plate
Canned oysters on a cracker/chip, I like to drizzle on a dash of sriracha
Cottage cheese with fruit or just plain!
Smoothies (allowed to come to room temp, adding in raw eggs yolk for extra goodness)
A mug of hot bone broth
Molasses cookies (from The First Forty Days)
Tart cherry and lime gummies - you could also sub any juice in this recipe! I like pineapple and coconut milk, orange, pomegranate, cranberry.
Spiced vanilla egg custard (from The First Forty Days)
Fruit crumble (from Life After Birth)
Digestive compote (from Life After Birth), added to yoghurt bowls, on top of oatmeal or eaten as is to support digestion post birth