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

Turmeric coconut curry with fresh turmeric, lemongrass, chicken and bok choy

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

Simple chicken soup with carrots, onion, celery and pastina

Red Lentil Daal with sweet potato

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:

Broccoli rabe sauteed with garlic and ghee

Roasted beet salad with either citrus or sesame oil and mint

Crispy rice with ume-shiso furikake and black sesame seeds

Brown rice congee with fish stock, ginger and shiitake mushrooms

Hasselback sweet potatoes with paprika, chili and nutritional yeast

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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