Recommended Resources

At Motherwit we know it takes a village. Here are our top recommended resources for postpartum foods:

1. Make your own. Not everyone can do this, but if you're expecting and fully in nesting mode, or if you're feeling called to support an expecting family in your life--please do choose this adventure! I recommend learning and cooking along with these resources:

• Ēwe ʻOiaiʻo and I made these digital cookbooks packed full of information and recipes, customized to our Hawaiʻi context
• Thriving Postpartum
• From Mothers to Mothers
• The First Forty Days

2. Use a postpartum doula or other postpartum food service.

• On Oʻahu
  • @nurture.bloom on IG
• On Maui
  • @maui.mama.meals on IG
  • FREE Farm to Mother program by Pacific Birth Collective 

3. Use Farmlink! This food hub and delivery service gathers locally grown and made products and provides next-day delivery on Oʻahu. Some of my favorites for postpartum you can find on their store include:

• Motherwit's very own Tinolang Manok, Pork & Palula Jook, and Kabocha Ginger Bisque
• The ʻUlu Co-op's pre-cooked and frozen canoe crop starches like kalo, ʻulu, sweet potato, and pumpkin
• Bone broths by Farmlink, Maui Bone Broth and Forage Hawaiʻi
• Cooked lūʻau which they have frozen from Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi or fresh lau which they sometimes have from various farms
• Classic bolognese ragu by Onda Pasta
• ʻAi Pohaku kiawe flour ʻĀina Bars for a quick-energy snack
• A variety of well-raised meats, bones and sometimes organ meats 
• A variety of fermented foods like kimchi, coconut yogurt, kombucha, etc.
• A variety of aromatics (like ginger, ʻōlena) and herbs for you kitchen herbalists out there
• Lots of other fresh produce and prepared foods for convenience!

4. Use a meal prep service that makes healthy food like Nina Cucina