29/05/2026

Food Doula nourishment out in the wild — our Slow Braised Beef, Tomato & Almond Ragu w/ Soft Herbs, here served with pasta, perfection.

Link in bio to book your delivery of nourishment. We deliver nationwide every Thursday. You can book for the next delivery, or book in advance for any Thursday up until the end of July currently!

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28/05/2026

Lost and found all at once in the early days, and for quite a while after in most cases. But trust me, you are home, take your shoes off, soften.

Perfectionism isn’t welcome in this new home. That causes parenting paralysis in my experience. Let it go, put perfectionism down, leave it at the door.

Share any perfectionism shedding wisdom below —

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28/05/2026

Food & Herbal Support , Nationwide, every Thursday , to nourish you when you need it most 🪐

28/05/2026

A window into your Food Doula Delivery.

Healing meals

Herbal Tonic Tea Blends

Snacks to hit the spot & hug the hormones.

Tonic Flow Cacao.

Focus Foods charts for your fridge, so you know what to gather and prepare which will best support your healing and replenishment — because we want to give you tools not just edible convenience. We want to support you beyond your food running out.

Whatever you are navigating, you’ve got this, and we’ve got you 🥣🌱

We deliver maternal nourishment nationwide EVERY Thursday now, to reach you with food and herbal support when you need it most.

Navigating hormone balancing, gut healing, busy times, ebbs and flows of life, TTC, pregnancy? Go for a Nourish & Restore Package.

Approaching postpartum and want to get prepared to be deeply nourished by stocking the freezer ahead of touchdown, or already navigating the tender sea of the fourth trimester? Go for our signature Postpartum Packages.

Link in bio to browse our ecosystem of nourishment 🚛

21/05/2026

New mothers need tangible support that makes them feel — nourished — supported — rested — cared for — loved — and time and time again, food allows for all of these things to be felt.

As well being vital fuel for aiding recovery, healing, replenishment, energy support, cell repair, food is also love, care, comfort, and support. Food offers a feeling.

The memory of being made or sent food stays with you. People always remember, not just how it tasted, and the ease it bought them, but the way it made them feel held in turbulent times. It can steady the ship in rough waters.

From our shop, you can order meal packages to be sent directly to love ones or alternatively you can purchase a gift voucher for them to redeem when they need it most.

Link to shop food support in bio 🥣🪐

19/05/2026

Weekly! We now deliver every Thursday, maternal nourishment to every corner of the UK 🚛

So excited to bring you more regular doorstop drops of delicious nutrient dense food for the changing stages of womanhood.

Order for yourself or gift, no nourishment to someone you love. You can book a delivery for the next available date or you can book further in advance by simply selecting the Thursday you wish to receive your food at the checkout.

Looking forward to nourishing you 🪐

18/05/2026

Mama, your body isn’t changing itself, I am changing your body.

I hope you are proud of your body, it’s giving me everything I need, and it’s rooting for us , each day bringing us closer to meeting each other.

I hope you can feel awe at your incredible body, building a human FROM ACTUAL NOTHINGNESS.

How did you find your body changing during pregnancy? Were you able to feel positive about it, welcoming the metamorphosis, or did you find it overwhelming, alien, frustrating, or perhaps you were somewhere in between, because as we know two truths can absolutely run through our emotional landscape simultaneously…

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17/05/2026

The kitchen is a powerful everyday medicine cabinet, a place to weave care, comfort and joy into the fabric of our lives. This has always been central to The Food Doula’s reason for being, since we begun delivering food to your doorsteps 7.5 years ago now 🥣🌿🪐

We create and deliver you nourishment, with passion for kitchen creativity that can heal and holds us through both the everyday and through life’s bigger transitions, when we’re traversing periods and portals of beginnings and ends.

Maternal nourishment is paramount to our wealth (well health). It’s the low hanging fruit to avoiding depletion and increasing our capacity for the constant demands of motherhood.

Mothers deserve to feel nourished. Mothers deserve to be prioritised, as we traverse holding so much, all day, everyday. The Food Doula is here to support you, whether it’s through our meal delivery, herbal apothecary, recipe library or journal pieces, the eco-system of nourishment I’ve been building over the last 7.5 years is a space to enjoy nourishment, care, comfort and pleasure in equal measure!

Link in bio to book— swipe for current menu 🥣 We deliver food across the uk EVERY Thursday. You can book for the next available date or book ahead for a Thursday in the next couple of months!

Wishing you a nourished week ahead 🤎

16/05/2026

Your kitchens , our nourishment - Swipe for snaps of our meal packages and herbal support in your kitchens, our community across the UK.

Supporting life’s changing phases, we help you whether your preparing your freezer for postpartum, already in postpartum, wanting pregnancy nutrient density, aiding hormone balancing, or simply just wanting healing meals on hand for days you have little time or energy to cook.

Or maybe you want to support somebody you love with food hugs from afar. You can buy them a gift voucher, book them a delivery, group together with others to support as a team 🥣🪐

We now deliver weekly, every Thursday! Dates are open up until the end of June currently, so you can book nourishment to arrive imminently or if your planning in advance, you can tick it off your list by booking ahead.

We love seeing your pictures, thank you! 🤎

Link in bio to browse packages and book a delivery slot.

11/05/2026

Picture by my 5 year old, capturing a morning stretch and morning breaths to attempt an anchoring into the day.

So much of motherhood is attempting things. So much of life, is attempting things.

Resourcing yourself to Re-source yourself when you feel you’ve lost your way, is important.

Re-wilding the self, important too.

But it takes time and curiosity.

Enquiry led living. Bio hearing, not bio hacking. Focussing not on how life looks, but on how life feels.

Personal depth & deepening over personal growth …Who’s with me?

04/05/2026

Slow Braised Beef, Tomato & Almond Ragu. One of the dishes on our menu. An Italian leaning bowl of comfort, slowly simmered for hours on end for fall apart beef - a perfect dish for building energy stores and hitting the satisfaction spot.

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✔️Grass Fed regeneratively raised beef
✔ IRONNNNN rich goodness
✔ Protein for tissue healing, iron stores, and energy recovery.
✔ Ground almonds for fibre and vitamin E, and delicious creaminess.
✔ Tomato passata + olive oil = perfect anti oxidant combo.
✔ Herbs for polyphenols
✔ Comforting and supportive for mood, I have this as a ragu for pasta but I’ve also enjoyed it with rice, baked sweet potato, mash with plenty ghee, quinoa.

Pasta of choice —

Deliveries are now WEEKLY, every Thursday, UK Wide, to nourish you/your loved ones when you need it most 🪐

Link in bio to book x

04/05/2026

Postpartum Rest, a layered and accumulative framework.
Rest comes in many guises. Rest is about focussing on how life feels, not how life looks in postpartum. Creating a culture of rest and replenishment is important. The world can wait for you to emerge. You are not only physically depleted from pregnancy and birth, impacting emotional and mental capacity, but energetically and spiritually open. You need time. And the thing with time, is it takes time.

Share this with those who are in need of rest, permission to rest, a soft nudge.

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03/05/2026

Big news! There’s been lots happening here in the background, many plates a spinning and most importantly many bowls of nourishment from us are feeding you, in so many of your homes across the UK. I’m very excited to announce that all of your support & orders mean we are finally able to bring you weekly deliveries as we grow!

Every Thursday you can have nourishment of the best kind, delivered to your kitchen, UK wide! Healing food and herbal support for life’s changing phases. Most known for our signature Postpartum Meal Packages, we love supporting your nourishment needs in one of the most tender times in a woman’s life. I’ve been there, twice, and know first hand how important nutrient dense and restorative food is after birth… exactly why I started the food doula, nearly 8 years ago!

We also support many of you who are wanting nourishment outside of this life phase, with our Nourish & Restore packages, for anyone needing whole food meals for when life is life-ing, hormones are seeking balance, recovery from illness or operations is needed, or you just want to have healing meals tucked away for needful days, we have got you.

Thursday deliveries are open for booking from now, until the end of June, so you can book nourishment well in advance and for a few dates at once if you want repeated nourishment booked at the checkout.

A million thank-you’s for being here, I appreciate you all 🪐

Link in bio to book nourishment for yourself or a loved one!

28/04/2026

The world can wait for you to emerge. Hold steady in the comfort of home as much as possible. With my first, I was at my favourite brunch spot 2 days after birth, uterus contracting still. I felt so teary on the way home, I was so emotionally and spiritually open and I just knew it was because it was too soon.. all in pursuit of the eggs with the burnt butter hollandaise at Milk in Balham 👁️ (IYKYK). In week one , aside from it feeling full of magic and love…we had far too many visitors — too much emphasis placed on saying yes to people who wanted to see us 😬, rather than actually about settling our baby girl into the world, slowly, steadily, or settling myself after the adrenaline and wildness of our birth on our bed. Second postpartum, I knew to do things differently.

I’d love to hear your experiences of this time and if you stayed hibernated or not? What was the pull out of the nest? If more than one, did your postpartum periods differ due to experience, wisdom and hindsight like mine, or what are your thoughts if you’re awaiting postpartum?

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27/04/2026

Included in all of our packages, these bliss balls hit the spot and hug the hormones. They’re packed full of dried fruit, nuts and seeds and pack a punch with the flavour.

There’s Raspberry & Almond, Lemon & Blueberry and Lime & Coconut. They’re really moist, such a good size and the perfect pick me up in the afternoon alongside a lovely cup of our herbal tea or cacao.

These are lovingly made for us in small batches in Somerset by Sweet & Wild, who are as passionate about healing whole food nourishment as we are and we’re loving working together to ensure the sweetness in your life can still support your health.

As well as enjoying these in our meal packages, you can order extras from them directly via the link in their bio .

Use code FOODDOULA at the checkout for 10% off your snacks. Their raw cake slices are also absolutely incredible, so be sure to try a tray of those too! We are sure you are going to love them as much as we do! x

26/04/2026

Day in the life of a food doula customer. A day punctuated with nothing but absolute sensory pleasure and whole food nourishment.

Holding you through life’s transitions & rhythms with meal & herbal packages, link in bio to explore the ecosystem of food and herbal support, delivered UK wide 🥣

Not after a delivery…How about delicious nourishing recipes for the week ahead? Find these in the recipe library and musings on life and nourishment in our Journal 📖

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22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day lovely humans. Looking back to the past is the future, it has to be. Doesn’t it? Seasonal. Cyclical. Earth Nourishment 🌿🪐 The undoing is needed, the re-routing, and re-rooting.

Sending you ease, on all your days x

20/04/2026

Herbalism is deeply rooted in some of the oldest health systems, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Native American traditions, and Ayurveda, with a strong western herbal tradition dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

Emphasising holistic well-being and preventative care, this proactive approach to health is about fostering a balance within our bodies, using herbs not just as remedies but as daily allies to maintain vitality. Herbal medicine offers powerful tools for rebalancing and restoring our health, whether it’s supporting the immune system, promoting relaxation, or enhancing digestion.

By understanding the unique properties of herbs, we can tailor our approach and herb choices to address specific needs, which ebb and flow with the landscape of our lives.This can start in the kitchen, with culinary spices and herbs , or with adding in pre blended herbal teas, or by gathering medicinal herbs and beginning to blend your own.

Why not try a beneficial and soothing cup of herbal tea this morning, starting by gathering what you have in your pantry — fennel seeds, cumin seeds, a pinch of turmeric, a star anise or 2, lemon and honey. Steep in water for 15 minutes and enjoy.

Kitchen medicine 🌿🪐

17/04/2026

1. Coconut Masala on the menu 2. Chamomile Cookies, recipe on the website 3. The Tonic Flow Cacao in your kitchen 4. Bliss balls to hit the spot & hug the hormones, included in all packages 5. Mealscape, nourishment from our kitchen to yours 6. Our logo, showing how we hold and support you with food, hand painted by me, Kate, The Food Doula.

Book now for UK wide meal delivery next Thursday 23rd. Herbal support, teas and cacaos ready to ship.

We believe nourishment is your North Star 🪐

15/04/2026

In the earliest days of motherhood you are truly climbing mountains every day together. So many firsts for you both. So much that is new. So much softness and so much hard. Feeling lost and found all at once.

I hope you are proud of what you are doing because you are doing so much. You need time, and thing is with time, is it takes time. Hold steady, rest, replenish, the world can wait for you to emerge.

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09/04/2026

Added extras — when ordering any of the food packages, you can now add extra herbal support, cacaos, jujube red dates, extra herbal tea blends, our Calmful Collection (6 loose Nervine herbs to add to your home apothecary to BYOB … Blend your own botanicals, teas, oxymels, herbal honeys etc). Nervine herbs are a category of herbs that support the nervous system.

Herbal support can also be ordered totally seperate to the food packages. Both as individual products or bundles!

We even have a postpartum herbal mini bar bundle which makes the perfect supportive gift for someone with a new tiny human 🪐 because hydration is a KEY aspect to postpartum healing and making it interesting , and warm is something we are passionate about. No glugging gallons of cold water please, when you can add beneficial botanicals to support healing, and consume warm drinks instead of cold to support digestion, and replenishment.

As our head of herbs says, ‘Water is a wasted opportunity’.

Make it herbal 🌿 even if it’s from your store cupboard (ginger, cumin, corriander, fennel seeds!)

Food deliveries arrived to all corners of the UK today, next available date is 23rd April, book a slot now / cone and browse the herbal shop, link in bio xx

07/04/2026

You’ve got this, and we’ve got you . Nourishment is a foundational pillar in postpartum healing & recovery.

For a long time, certainly when I launched The Food Doula, 7.5 years ago now, postpartum planning very much took a back seat to the birth plan.

Planning to be supported during this time, is getting a lot more airplay now, because what our culture has been accepting as an adequate approach to postpartum care is finally being flagged as inadequate, and unacceptable for mothers.

Planning to be deeply nourished in postpartum is just one way to ensure you are supporting and kickstarting healing.

Here’s where you can start with preparing to be nourished during postpartum and it’s never too late to start.

🥣Stock your pantry well and gather postpartum supportive foods, herbs and herbal teas.

🥣Batch cook meals and snacks.

🥣 Ask friends and family to make food for your postpartum freezer when they ask you ‘What do you need’?

🥣 At baby showers/mothers blessings or when visiting pregnant/new parent pals - encourage the making of snacks and teas to happen here so mothers go home with postpartum supplies. Or people can be given list of postpartum pantry items to bring (nuts, seeds, nut butters, dried fruits, convenience cooked legumes, pouches of cooked lentils, quinoa, jars of ), dark chocolate, jars of ghee & broth from (use my code FOODDOULA for 10% off) . Or to the event, bring a meal or 5 for mother to go home with!

🥣Use a postpartum meal service to fill the freezer further/ ask for a gift voucher. (We deliver UK wide, find us at www.thefooddoula.co.uk) or head to link in bio.

🥣Hire a Postpartum Doula who will support you with nourishment during the fourth trimester.

🥣 In pregnancy, create a culture of maternal nourishment - everybody researching it, cooking dinner? Cook double and pop some in the freezer in preparation to be nourished in postpartum.

🥣 Send this to a pregnant /postpartum friend and VERY importantly, their partners, who should be given the role of CNO in postpartum. CHIEF NOURISHMENT OFFICER.

🥣 Head to our website for more resources x

Nourishment as the North Star!!!

07/04/2026

The most supportive gift? Time and time again when asked what helped people traverse postpartum, what gifts made the most difference, food is the answer. Food delivered to their doorstep cooked for them. Food cooked by friends when they visited, leaving extra in the freezer, food sent to them by us!

Gifting food not only gifts nourishment, but rest and time, to focus on being still, healing and getting to know your new tiny human! A food hug is the most tender support 🪐

Were you bought food after having a baby? What do you rememeber about it, the feeling it gave you?

Link in bio to book food support, delivered this Thursday 9th, a few spots left! Or book for late April , and the May dates will be up soon. Just give me a dm if you want to be contacted about May nourishment as the dates go live.

Sending ease x would love to know your postpartum food support stories below 🤎

06/04/2026

Recent Roundup of work/life blend/integration.

1. Wild Garlic, every.day.

2. Plus daffs for the house.

3. Helped daff picking for the taproom here on the farm, with our treasured farm gang. If you haven’t visited , you must, and you can camp here from May (through the season).

4. Got kids corn cakes, one of the corn cakes on one plate broke, so I had to intentionally break one on the other plate before I delivered them so it was fair/in fear, to avoid sibling snack induced conflict, had to document, for the absurdity of it.

5. Teeny cake making for Easter.

6. A good egg breakfast this morning. Children staying with my sister for 2 nights, it’s very quiet and peaceful here. I miss them but also my nervous system is grateful for the reset and pause. Moments in the sun with food and a book and my uninterrupted thoughts, lovely.

7. Louise Bourgeois book, with notes in from when I was at art school. A reminder that I am an artist, always, we are all artists, always, and life is a tapestry of moments we can choose to make artful and be led with in curiosity, or not.

8. Butter bean, Ricotta & Lemon Smash on sourdough w/ curry leaf ghee tarka. Gosh this was good. Recipe now up in Recipe library on website (link in bio)

9. Cacao and fire. Comfort, yes. Still into moments of wintering. Find cacaos in the shop 🪐

10. Labels, textures, materials, new flyers. Never not developing newness behind the scenes.

11. Homemade kombucha has been one of the best habits I’ve added in this year. A weekly brew and harvest. Making drinking flavourful and adventurous, as a non drinker.

12. Oh, big news… 3 weeks ago, we got a new very very sweet kitten! Been settling him in. His name is Pluto. Piglet, the 5 yo cat, isn’t sold, but slowly slowly they are bonding, ishh.

13. Deliveries are this week (Thursday 9th) so gearing up for sending nourishment to every corner of the uk. To expecting or new mamas, or those of you who are in need of a food hug, just because. A couple of spaces left, you can book a slot now x

04/04/2026

Chamomile Cookies, swipe for recipe, save, screenshot, make, enjoy!

These cookies have very few ingredients are easy to make and are as nourishing as they are satisfying. See bottom of recipe for ‘ways to play around’ with the recipe, add ins, swaps etc!

Enjoy!

THE FOOD DOULA

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