05/09/2026
Doing your own postpartum meal prep sounds great until you realize it’s basically a part-time job.
Planning: 3 hrs researching postpartum nutrition and picking recipes that are
Freezer friendly
Postpartum supportive
Balanced
Easy to reheat
Shopping: 3 hrs building your lists, ordering, and picking up everything including
High quality ingredients
Freezer safe containers
Cooking: 12 hrs to make weeks worth of food it will take a lot of
Chopping
Measuring ingredients
Re-reading recipes
Mixing
Slow Simmering
Baking
Packaging: 2 hrs to portion because you need to
Have space to set all your containers to portion
Cool everything for storage
Label and date everything
List all allergens, just in case
Cleanup: 2 hrs to clean up all the
Dishes
Spills and messes
Store all leftover ingredients
Total: ~22 hours is a conservative estimate. This will take you at least a whole weekend to accomplish, and when you are pregnant, this much time prepping is exhausting.
You could do all this or spend 4 hours with us, with lunch and snacks included, learn about postpartum nutrition, enjoy time with other women, and take home enough food to fill your freezer for a blissful postpartum.
Comment EASY for the link to register for the easiest postpartum meal prep.
