Hello!
If you read my baby prep spreadsheet post, you’ll know that nesting fully took over my brain and body these last few weeks. We’ll be back to business BTS and productivity soon, but if there’s one thing every single parent friend has told me, it’s that you will not want to cook in the fourth trimester; instead, you will want to feed yourself and your baby and possibly cry a little, and that’s about the extent of your bandwidth.
So a few weeks ago, my incredible friend Steph suggested we actually do something about it. She turned up with her Thermomix (which I’ve immediately added to my wishlist), and she'd even got us matching mummy chef hats. We spent an entire afternoon just cooking until the freezer was basically a postpartum pharmacy. It was one of my favourite days of my whole pregnancy, and it meant that instead of one overwhelmed woman trying to chop a butternut squash, it became a really special memory.
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I did a lot of research into the best foods for healing postpartum: mostly foods that are warming, iron-rich, protein-heavy, anti-inflammatory, gut-supporting etc etc.
So consider this my “everything I’ve prepped for postpartum” list. I’d genuinely recommend doing some version of this even if you’re not pregnant, because a freezer full of soup is just a good way to live.
All you have to do to get all the recipes is subscribe for free below and sign into substack, the full list will then appear in this post!
I’ll keep adding to this post as I find more things worth freezing. If you’ve got your own postpartum freezer stash favourites, send them my way (even though my freezer is full to the brim).
I’ll see you on Tuesday,
