Postpartum soups rooted in homestyle Vietnamese cooking.
A week of deeply nourishing meals designed to support rest, recovery, and replenishment during the postpartum period. Rooted in Vietnamese home cooking traditions and shaped by seasonal ingredients, each delivery is prepared in small batches with an emphasis on warmth, digestibility, and comfort.
Meals are intended to be gently supportive for the body during the early weeks after birth — featuring slow-simmered broths, healing soups, congees, braises, herbal ingredients, and mineral-rich foods that can be easily reheated throughout the week.
Each one-week plan includes:
7 x 32 oz soups, congees, and herbal broths
Fully cooked meals delivered frozen
Local delivery or pickup options
Designed for new mothers, but equally supportive for anyone in recovery from surgery or illness.
Please place your order at least 2 weeks prior to your due date to schedule your delivery and allow for 5-7 days for fulfillment.
*The Sheng Hua Tang soup is traditionally intended for the first 1–2 weeks postpartum and can be substituted with other nourishing soups for those in later stages of recovery. Please let us know any specific needs so we can tailor the selection accordingly.
Defrosting Directions:
For faster defrosting, place frozen soup in a bowl of warm water for a few hours.
Alternatively, defrost in the refrigerator over 1–2 days.
A week of deeply nourishing meals designed to support rest, recovery, and replenishment during the postpartum period. Rooted in Vietnamese home cooking traditions and shaped by seasonal ingredients, each delivery is prepared in small batches with an emphasis on warmth, digestibility, and comfort.
Meals are intended to be gently supportive for the body during the early weeks after birth — featuring slow-simmered broths, healing soups, congees, braises, herbal ingredients, and mineral-rich foods that can be easily reheated throughout the week.
Each one-week plan includes:
7 x 32 oz soups, congees, and herbal broths
Fully cooked meals delivered frozen
Local delivery or pickup options
Designed for new mothers, but equally supportive for anyone in recovery from surgery or illness.
Please place your order at least 2 weeks prior to your due date to schedule your delivery and allow for 5-7 days for fulfillment.
*The Sheng Hua Tang soup is traditionally intended for the first 1–2 weeks postpartum and can be substituted with other nourishing soups for those in later stages of recovery. Please let us know any specific needs so we can tailor the selection accordingly.
Defrosting Directions:
For faster defrosting, place frozen soup in a bowl of warm water for a few hours.
Alternatively, defrost in the refrigerator over 1–2 days.
“We originally hired Phoebe just for her postpartum package, but we were so obsessed that we’ve kept working with her privately every month since. She hits that impossible sweet spot where the food tastes like a high-end restaurant meal, but feels like the most nourishing, ingredient-first home cooking. You can genuinely taste the care she puts into it.
Her soups and congee were a lifeline for my postpartum recovery.
The difference was actually visible. Our baby nurse, who has worked with over 300 families, stopped me to say she rarely sees breast milk with that kind of rich color and superior consistency. She knew immediately it was the nutrition.
If you are on the fence about doing this for yourself, just do it. It is hands down one of the best investments we’ve made for our family.”
Family recipes from a lineage of matriarchs
The postpartum food traditions that inspire Bé Bếp’s meals are rooted in the long-held practice of “sitting the month,” a period of rest and recovery observed across many East and Southeast Asian cultures after childbirth. In Vietnamese culture, this postpartum ritual reflects the belief that the weeks following birth are critical for a mother’s long-term health and recovery.
Raised by a long lineage of matriarchs, I found myself drawn back to these traditions while researching the dishes my grandmother, Vinh Thi Trương—once known as a village healer—prepared for my mother during her postpartum recovery. The meals I cook today are a tribute to that ancestral knowledge and to the belief that food has the power to heal, restore strength, and bring harmony back to the body after birth.
FAQs
Still have questions? Feel free to reach out to us directly!
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We provide nourishing prepared foods to families and new parents after the birth of a baby. These meals are designed to reduce the stress of cooking while supporting recovery and nourishment during the early weeks of parenthood. We also offer healing soups for those in recovery from illness or surgery – not just in postpartum!
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Vietnamese postpartum cooking focuses on balance, warmth, and slow-simmered broths. Ingredients like ginger, turmeric, jujubes and goji berries are used to support circulation, digestion, breast milk production, and overall recovery.
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Unfortunately we don’t offer custom meal plans or make ingredient substitutions, but reach out and we can see what we can do. We don’t currently offer vegan/vegetarian versions of the meal plan.
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We recommend placing your order and scheduling delivery during the final weeks of pregnancy so meals are ready in the freezer when the baby arrives.
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Meals are portioned and frozen in 32oz deli containers to preserve freshness. They can be thawed in water or in the refrigerator overnight.
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When kept frozen, the soups can be stored for several months without losing quality.