Postpartum Sample Menu

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Mains:

Chicken soup with carrot, onion, celery, barley and dill

Mung dahl kitchari with ghee and spinach

Minestrone with farro, cannellini beans, tomato, rosemary, mushrooms, green beans, mushroom or chicken broth 

Potato Leek soup made with bone broth

Italian Wedding Soup with chicken broth, mini beef meatballs, spinach,  carrots, celery and acini de pepe

Red Lentil Daal with sweet potato

Turkey meatballs with feta, sage, sautéed spinach, cassava flour and roasted squash

Simple chicken soup with carrots, onion, celery and pastina

Onigiri with black sesame, miso salmon, ume furikake and toasted nori

Flautas with slow cooked chicken, sweet potato, sautéed kale and cumin

Steel cut oats with flax seed, peanut butter, maple syrup and seasonal fruit

Amaranth porridge with apricot-papaya puree and shredded coconut

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Sides:

Roasted sweet potatoes with miso-honey glaze

Crispy roasted chickpeas with cumin and nutritional yeast

Jammy boiled eggs

Creamy mashed potatoes

Sourdough discard ‘cheeze-its’ (dairy free)

Edamame in sesame oil with sesame seeds

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Sweets:

Date/peanut butter/chocolate bark

Rice pudding with dried red fruit

Chocolate chia pudding with coconut and vanilla

Sweet potato brownies with pecans

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Beverages:

Nettle tea with Rose Hips - a great source of iron and vitamins A and C

Hemp seed milk - high in omega-3 fatty acids, iron and zinc - a great support for breastfeeding parents

Digestive fennel-honey tea

Raspberry leaf tea