Meal Plans
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If you’re going to do this, do it the full way. The complete program — every meal and the daily herbal drinks that have anchored Chinese postpartum recovery for two thousand years.
Three warm meals a day, ready when you are. Recovery food cooked the way it should be cooked, delivered to your door — so the only decision you make at lunchtime is when to eat.
You don’t need to be eating from the moment you wake up. Lunch, dinner, and a dessert — full recovery meals in a lighter daily rhythm, for the days when breakfast is already handled or you just don’t want one.
You can recover and stay on plan. Three meals a day with the rice, porridge, and sweets set aside — for moms managing blood sugar, weight, or staying low-carb / keto-aware through postpartum.
New to Chinese postpartum food and not sure if you want to commit to thirty straight days? Start here. Real recovery meals delivered every other day — enough to feel the difference, light enough to ease into.
Most mothers start with Classic or Herbal. If you’ve never had Chinese postpartum food before, the easiest way to decide is to try a sample first.
→ Try the $50 Local Tasting → Or call us at (626) 217-7539
If you’re outside our delivery area, you’ve probably been wondering
whether real Zuo Yue Zi recovery is even possible from where you are.
It is. Four plans, our same kitchen, frozen and shipped overnight to
the continental US. Shipping included.
If you’re in California, special pricing may apply — call us at (626) 217-7539.
You just did one of the hardest things a body can do. The next 30 days deserve a real plan, not whatever happens to be in the fridge. The complete program — every meal and the daily herbal drinks.
Three meals a day, every day, sent to your door — wherever your door is. The food does the work; you just heat and eat.
Maybe you’ve done this before. Maybe your appetite isn’t what it was the first time. Lunch and dinner, five days a week — full recovery meals, with two cheat days each week to eat with family or on your own terms.
Some parts of recovery cooking take a whole day to do right. We’ve already done them. The daily postpartum soups, the nourishing recovery stews that rebuild blood and qi, an entrée, and the desserts — cooked, frozen, and ready to heat.
Frozen meals ship via FedEx Priority Overnight — the fastest option available, so your food arrives at peak freshness. Each day’s meals come pre-portioned into a single bag — grab one bag, that’s your whole day. No guessing, no decisions.
If your freezer is small: Either pick up a small upright freezer (worth it if you’re doing a full month), or keep 5 days in the freezer and 2 days in the fridge — they thaw naturally as you go.
→ Try the $80 Frozen Tasting (8 items, real recipes)Side-by-side
| Herbal | Classic | Vita | Low Carb | Easy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meals per day | 3 | 3 | 2 + dessert | 3 | Every other day |
| Daily herbal drinks | Included | Add-on $10/day | Add-on $10/day | Add-on $10/day | Add-on $10/day |
| What’s distinctive | Full traditional regimen | Three meals, no herbal | Lighter, no breakfast | Reduced carbs and sweets | Every other day delivery |
| 30-day price | $2,890 | $2,590 | $2,299 | $1,999 | $1,550 |
| Best for | The mom doing the full Zuo Yue Zi properly | The mom whose family handles the herbs | The mom with a smaller appetite or family cooking breakfast | The mom managing blood sugar or staying low-carb | The mom new to Chinese postpartum food, or who wants to ease in without a daily commitment |
All Fresh plans available in 1, 7, 14, 21, or 30 days. 30 days is the traditional Zuo Yue Zi recommendation.
| Frozen Herbal | Frozen Classic | Frozen Essential | Frozen Soup & Dessert | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What’s included | 3 meals + dessert + herbal drink | 3 meals + dessert | 2 meals + dessert | 1 soup + 2 stew soups + entrée + 2 desserts |
| Daily structure | 3 meals daily | 3 meals daily | 2 meals, 5 days/week | Soups + entrée daily |
| Herbal drinks | Included | Add-on $100/wk | Add-on $100/wk | Add-on $100/wk |
| 4-week price | $3,890 | $3,490 | $2,790 | $2,190 |
| Best for | The mom doing the full traditional program | The mom who wants three meals daily, hands off | The mom with a smaller appetite or her own breakfast routine | The mom who wants the hard-to-cook parts handled |
All Frozen plans available in 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. FedEx Priority Overnight shipping included in every price.
The Herbal Program
If you’ve already chosen a meal plan, you might be wondering whether you really need the herbal drinks too. It’s a fair question. The meals do most of the heavy lifting — warmth, blood, milk, energy.
But traditional Zuo Yue Zi was never just food. It was always food, herbs, and rest, working together. The drinks are the part that reaches the deeper layer — the joints, the circulation, the parts of recovery that matter long after the first month is over.
That’s why most experienced postpartum families add them. Not because the meals aren’t enough. Because together is what the tradition was always meant to be.
I learned this on my own body. With my first baby, I did the meals but skipped the herbs. With my second, I did both. By week 3, the difference was unmistakable — my energy came back, my milk steadied, my joints stopped aching. That’s the reason this part of the program exists. — Nicole Huang, JingMommy
The drinks follow the same three-stage framework as the meals — Mild, Warm, and Heat — because the body does different work each week, and the herbs match it.
Week 1 — Mild: Cleanse and rest. Your body is still clearing lochia and resetting. The first formulas help that work happen gently, supporting circulation and internal cleansing without pushing the body before it’s ready.
Week 2 — Warm: Replenish and rebuild. The body shifts from clearing to building. The Week 2 formulas support blood replenishment, joint and ligament recovery (your body is still reabsorbing the relaxin that loosened your joints during pregnancy), and milk supply.
Weeks 3–4 — Heat: Strengthen and fortify. The deepest restoration phase. The strongest tonifying formulas come last, when the body is ready to receive them. This is the layer that supports energy, mood, sleep, and the long-term warmth Chinese medicine calls protection against 月內風 (yuè nèi fēng) — the cold-sensitivity and joint pain that can follow a woman for years if this window is missed.
Across 30 days, you receive 15 different formulas — a new one every two days — each matched to the stage of recovery your body is in.
The core ingredients are the herbs Chinese medicine has used for postpartum recovery for centuries:
This is not a single bundle brewed daily. Each of the 15 formulas is a specific combination, developed for that stage of recovery.
Within the 30-day window, here’s what mothers on the herbal drinks come back to tell us most often:
Time and again, these are the patterns we hear from mothers who do the full program — not guarantees, but consistent enough that we mention them with confidence.
Try Before You Commit
We made it easy to try.
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These are real questions our team answers every day. If yours isn’t here, call us at (626) 217-7539.
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If you know which plan fits, you can order online →. If you have questions — about timing, plan choice, or anything specific to your situation — call us at (626) 217-7539 and we’ll walk you through it.
Trusted by 10,000+ mothers since 2010.
The food was good, with ample portions and excellent packaging. Now I’m expecting my second and subscribed to their frozen postpartum meal again. — Veronica C., Baltimore, MD
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