Postpartum Cooking Grocery List
The following are recommended food items to have on hand at home for your postpartum doula care and meal preparation in addition to the other foods you enjoy.
Please adapt your list for your personal food preferences and any allergies.
FRUITS:
☐ apples, pears and other fresh fruit in season
☐ dried fruits (apricots, cherries, currants,
dates, figs, prunes and/or
raisins)
☐ lemons
☐ limes
☐ several cans of coconut milk
☐ unsweetened shredded coconut
FRESH VEGETABLES & HERBS:
☐ asparagus
☐ avocados
☐ basil
☐ beets with beet green tops
☐ butternut squash or other squash
☐ carrots
☐ chard
☐ cilantro
☐ garlic
☐ ginger root
☐ leeks
☐ onion
☐ potatoes
☐ tomatoes
☐ spinach
☐ yams
☐ zucchini
FATS:
☐ ghee (clarified butter)
☐ butter
PROTEINS:
☐ whole chicken or cut up fryer
☐ fish
☐ chicken broth
☐ whole milk
☐ cottage cheese
☐ split mung beans
☐ raw almonds
☐ cashews
CARBOHYDRATES
☐ whole oats or thick rolled oats
☐ quinoa
☐ basmati or jasmine rice
☐ thin rice noodles or other noodles
dark sugars of choice
☐ molasses
☐ succanat
☐ honey or agave
☐ maple syrup
☐ coconut sugar
SPICES:
☐ black pepper
☐ cardamom
☐ cinnamon
☐ clove
☐ cumin
☐ fennel seeds
☐ fenugreek
☐ salt
☐ saffron
☐ thyme
☐ turmeric
☐ vanilla