Postpartum Meal Prep 🍝 Freezer Meals, Snacks, Kimchi 👩🏻‍🍳 Kitchen Vlog

[@allisarcadia]

My mother in law and sister in law both made me a bunch of freezer meals *while* I was in the hospital and surprised me with them already in my freezer. It was such a blessing cause my postpartum recovery was rough and I couldn't really walk for two weeks, let alone cook. Good for you having the foresight to prepare!

[@LadySkippy]

I'd love more videos about recipes like this in the future. I love meal prep, freezer meals, and crockpot meals. I find I eat healthier when it is prepped in advance than me having to make a new meal every night.

[@Bookwormscififan]

The ketcap manis does actually translate to sweet soy sauce, so you did a great job explaining the flavours of those Indonesian ingredients!! A lot of those dishes looked delicious!

[@admirathoria0073]

If you add 2-3 spoonfuls of the liquid from your previous kimchi batch, it will begin fermenting faster. I read this trick in a magazine and I do it when I make sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables.

[@priyabuddhavarapu]

good tip! it helps by introducing the already present bacteria from the pickling liquid to the new batch. This is the same principle behind my mom putting a spoon of old yogurt into a new batch of milk to make Indian dahi :)

[@kjtherrick4031]

Great idea! When you get the chance, please let us know how your meals turned out. I had not heard about meals that could be prepped, frozen, and then cooked in the crock pot. VERY good idea! The energy balls look yummy. Hope you, Robert, and your new son are all doing well.

[@angela_paolantonio-baldwin]

I hope you, baby boy and Robert are well! You're always a ray of sunshine! ❤😊

[@eebeegee8325]

I hope you and your little boy are doing well! I had my little boy on the 15th of May and am currently breastfeeding him late at night in Australia, watching this video. 😄

[@crose264]

Same! 😅 I had my boy on the 5th 😊

[@eebeegee8325]

@@crose264 Congratulations! 🎉🎊🥳 It's actually my birthday on the 5th of May too! Best month of the year 😉😆

[@crose264]

@@eebeegee8325 Thank you, same to you! Happy belated birthday! Too, cool

[@carole3680]

Feel the lovein your kitchen!😊

[@lucy_aviles]

I will always be in love with your videos, I am very excited to see your side as a mother. 🥺✨

[@elfenscheisse]

I am a total fan of such videos and those are great recipes.

[@milla-244]

Perfect timing for this video🙏 I have only a few weeks to go until my due date so should do some meal prepping as well. Thank you for the delicious sounding recipes and have a safe delivery ❤

[@violetstarla]

Lucy I really love your wallpaper and the renovations to your kitchen are so quaint. Love the "food prep diary" videos look forward to more of these. By the way my husband and I thank you for the game suggestions in a past video. We found Hipster because of you and its been so much fun playing it! I know its not easy and a lot of work so I'm wishing you a gentle and sweet postpartum. Rest well.

[@misscaffy]

Hey Loepsie!!! I'm so excited I got to visit the Netherlands, and the very first day of my trip I went with some friends to THE EFTELING!!! I went there because of you honestly because you talk so much about it and I loved it so much!!! I'd love to go back some day. They country is also so beautiful, such a nice experience!!

[@ohThaTairra]

Congratulations Loepsie! wishing the very best for you and baby Robert! also great content, thanks☺️❣️♾️

[@TheWolfeDen]

These are really great tips even out of the postpartum point. I'm a stay at home mom with two kids and trying to keep the family on a solid diet. Wishing you the best with your new addition ❤

[@kellybryson7754]

I love the idea of the "dump bags"

[@Margot1572]

Thank you so much for the toast recipe! ❤ It was so easy and one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. 😍

[@kateparker391]

Ouhh I love the freeze dried raspberries as a coating for the energy balls! I wonder if I can buy them near me... 🤔

[@JoelleGrace]

I think you can easily find them online too! Azure Standard may have them and Amazon most likely does.❤

[@annette.1030]

This look really suits you - your longer bangs, the eggplant color loose sweater - love it! I guess you must be a Deep Winter :)

[@aeolia80]

have you tried using a sweet fruit like apple or pear instead of the sugar in the kimchi? and when I lived in Korea it was common to use this like cooked down slurry/paste of sweet gluttonous rice flour and water in the kimchi, do any of the vegan kimchi recipes you come across say to do that?, also, liquid in the kimchi initially isn't ideal, it's fine to have some, and you definitely want some for later because you need kimchi juice for kimchijeon/pancakes

[@Loepsie]

Yes! The recipe I normally use uses apple and the cooked paste :) This was a very quick & lazy version, haha!

[@SandieMitchell]

Dump Bags, genius! I'm borrowing this idea. That was a lot of work, the only thing you didn't do was cook it! Time for you to sit down with a bowl of ice cream. 😋

[@Karinatimeaknits]

Is the full kimchi recipe available somewhere? I’d love to try and make it myself!

[@keridinsmore5181]

my American brain: ketchup mango. but really, this all looks delicious!! crockpot or one-pot/one-pan meals are my favorite lazy kind of meal!

[@planningtolive_thebestlife453]

The ketjap manis doesn’t seem to have a different English name as far as I could tell on Google. It was usually translated as sweet soy sauce. Described as having lots of palm sugar and spices added to soy sauce which results in a thick syrup consistency. How cool that you’ve shown me a new condiment that I’ve never heard of!!

[@planningtolive_thebestlife453]

Never heard of sambal badjak either! Looks yummy!

[@junegingerhair]

The vegan curry as first recipe looks amaaaazing ! I wrote the ingredients to test it :D

[@lolsous]

I am stealing all of these recepies for my post-partum meal prep now

[@manicantsettleonausername6789]

This all looked so delicious!

[@pheart2381]

Tried mashing sweet potato with butter,salt,pepper and freshly ground nutmeg? Lovely as a side dish with a knob of butter and warmed in the oven.

[@linaassassi2262]

she said ras ell hanout and i melted that was so cute haha lots of love from Algeria

[@PandoraSummer-d9v]

Just wanted to comment on the possibility- which is totally normal and real, that when I mother breastfeeds a baby, she cannot eat certain things that irritate his little stomach since it gets passed through her milk, however it is usually the most obvious things, such as chili, peppers, onions, etc.

[@elfenscheisse]

Absolutely, and i am glad i didn't have to write this comment! For breastfeeding, it is wiser to stick to extra stomach-friendly meals, even if oneself doesn't have a sensitive stomach because otherwise the milk will cause colics and flatulence in the baby (I remember my mother and grandmother years ago being upset by someone in my father's family who ate fat meat and bean soup during breastfeeding period. this why i had this in mind at once.)

[@xmrgx]

i've never thought of using that tray that comes inside the oven to bake food directly into it lol

[@joshenyou360]

Lucy, I am so proud of you and your hard work preparing all of this food. I just know that you are pooped from such a long day of prepping. If I might suggest, get your self a box or 2 of inexpensive plastic gloves. Place a box in the kitchen and perhaps in the changing room. They come in so handy whilst cooking and changing the baby and for so many other things. You are such a delight. 🥰

[@XSunnyHeartX]

That kimchi looks mouthwatering! What is the thing you used as weight? Also, when you said you were preparing 5 meals in a day plus making dinner, I thought it was kinda optimistic 😂 All of the meals look pretty good, to be honest! 🤤 I hope they are giving you all the energy you probably need right now. < Thank you for the inspiration. All the best!

[@Loepsie]

Those are the weights that came with the fermentation pot :)

[@annamariawelch7731]

good adea!

[@AnniCarlsson]

I been to Netherlands apperntly to often. When you as a swedish person reconise the shopping cart😂

[@LexiLadonna]

….. was that sandwich supposed to be like a knock off bahn mi? Low-key horrified lol But I’ll give some grace because I definitely craved strange foods while pregnant ha ha. The meal prepping looks awesome! I did the same type of things while I was pregnant and I definitely appreciate it having my freezer stocked

[@suzy9323]

I don't think it was a knock off bahn mi, I think she said gado gado, which is an Indonesian dish with a peanutsauce and lots of veggies 😊 So it's a sandwhich version of that dish, or.. toast version I guess 😂