Traditional Asian Recipes For Postpartum

A full 3-month menu with hundreds of recipes, and guides on how to buy Chinese herbal ingredients, what to avoid after C-sections, and more.

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"These recipes felt like a lifeline during my postpartum recovery." - Katy Y

Benefits of Postpartum/ Confinement Period Meals

  • Recovery

    Following principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, postpartum confinement period meals enable the body to recover from pregnancy and birth, with a focus on: 

    Recovering from blood loss  

    Easing digestion and bowel movements  

    Reducing scarring from C-sections  

  • Lactation 

    Our postpartum confinement meals heavily incorporate galactagogues, or foods and herbs that encourage breast milk production and help address low breast milk supply. 

  • Nutrition

    Restoring nutrients, amino acids, and collagen to the body is a critical part of postpartum recovery.  

    For those who breastfeed, our postpartum confinement recipes also focus on a high-level of protein, amino acids, and healthy fats like DHA, critical components to building up a newborn’s immune system and body. 

What's in the course

Specialized Weekly Menus 

3 months of menus tailored for the needs of each postpartum week: from blood loss recovery to lactation. 

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Traditional Asian Recipes 

Hundreds of Traditional Chinese Medicine and herbal bone broth soups, nutritious meals, hydrating herbal teas with tong cao, bei qi, dang shen and more. (Don't worry, we make it easy to buy and prepare, no herbal knowledge required!)

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How-To Guides 

What Foods to Avoid Postpartum (including for C-Sections)

How to Buy Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbal Ingredients - with easy Amazon links 

Shopping Lists for Required Kitchen Equipment and Pantry Staples 

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Each week has breakfast, lunch and dinner mains, nutritious soups, and an herbal tea, all tailored to the changing needs of a recovering body 

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Download a Free 3 Day Postpartum Menu with Recipes

Selected from the hundreds of recipes in the Tangerine Peels Recipe Course, featuring traditional bone broth herbal soups, healthy mains, and ancient recovery teas. 

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Read our Reviews

Ceci X

This course was the best gift I could have received at my bb shower. The recipes were simple and incredibly nourishing, making a huge difference in my recovery. It was such a thoughtful present, allowing me to enjoy traditional meals and made me feel connected to my culture.

Cindy L

This course was an absolute game-changer for me!! The step-by-step instructions made cooking traditional, nourishing meals so easy, even during my exhausted postpartum weeks! This is truly the only postpartum food guide you need!!

Tammy Tse

I can't express how thankful I am for this course... I always regretted not knowing the postpartum traditions to pass on to my daughter... It felt so good to support her in this special way

 

 

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Tangerine Peels: an Asian American Postpartum Recipe Course

Reconnect with your roots and ease into motherhood with confidence. Sign yourself or your partner/ support network up now!

Traditional Asian Postpartum Recipe Course

3 months of traditional recipes to nourish your postpartum journey

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Package Options

Basic

$0

Search the internet for recipes

Features

  • Don't know what ingredients to avoid 

  • Re-make the same 3 recipes over and over 

  • No nutrition, lactation, blood recovery plan

  • Have to look up every herbal ingredient and buy it ahead of time 

  • Scrambling week by week to build a menu

  • This was me for 3 months, which is why I created Tangerine Peels

 

 

Advanced

$42.99

Get the Tangerine Peels Course

Features

  • Weekly, delicious and nutritious menus -with no repeats for 3 months/ 12 weeks

  • Hundreds of recipes: traditional soups, herbal teas, breakfasts, meat and vegetable entrees, 

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine and herbal bone broth soups focused on body and blood loss recovery

  • Focus on foods that promote lactation/ breast milk production 

  • Herbal teas to ease digestion and help recovery

  • Clear list of foods to avoid

  • How-To Guide for Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs and online links so you can avoid the herbal store 

  • One-time purchase with continued access (for your second baby! Just kidding.)

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Professional

$3000

Hire a postpartum meal service

Features

  • Only available in select areas 

  • Non-customizable: eat what they serve to all their customers that week

  • Unaffordable: $3,000-5,000 per month

  • If you can afford this option, I'm truly happy for you! I know it was out of budget for us, which is why I created Tangerine Peels 

 

NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Samantha Han Wong

When my sister announced her pregnancy, I immediately started researching traditional 坐月子 postpartum Chinese recipes, but I found so few English resources to help me do this well. I was at a loss. Even my mother, a Very Traditional Chinese Lady (VTCL™) hadn’t done this in over thirty years and had few ideas when it came to 3 months-worth of recipes to nourish my sister and help replenish her body so that she could regain her strength and be able to help this new baby grow, especially after her C-section.

Searching online, all I found were the same recipes for steamed chicken and red jujube tea. My sister made it clear there was no way she would be eating the same three dishes on rotation for months, which is how the Tangerine Peels Recipe Course was born.

I've been cooking Asian food all my life and know my way around a wok. My grandmother, a Traditional Chinese Doctor in a time where there were few females in the role, passed down her commitment to helping others to me. I truly hope this resource is valuable in your journey.

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"This is exactly what I was looking for and couldn't find anywhere!! Great resource, strongly recommend!"

- Anna Zhou

"The recipes were easy to follow, but most importantly the Chinese Herbal guide saved my white-husband butt."

- Chris Seitz

"Gifted the course to my friends and they said it was the best thing they got at the baby shower."

- Grace Luong

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Designed for Asian-Americans, offering traditional recipes to nourish your postpartum journey

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