The People’s Boyfriend

1. You get in touch with me by filling out an interest form (below).

2. We schedule a consultation.

3. If we decided to work together, we sign a contract, you put down a deposit, we establish dates, and plan a menu together.

4. I shop for ingredients, prepare the meals in your home, label and store them, and clean your kitchen.

5. Repeat step 4 as needed/desired.

Ingredient wise, almost anything, except finned fish. Due to a severe life-threatening allergy, I’m unable to handle or cook finned fish ☹︎.

Cuisine wise, my cooking is informed by my background as a Latinx person of mixed indigenous & settler (Ashkenazi & Sephardic Jewish) descent growing up in California. This means I cook with a reverence for local, seasonal produce and ingredients indigenous to Turtle Island, while honoring my mixed lineage.

It depends! I offer three different packages, but let’s talk if you need something a little different!

Note: all prices are based on a family of 3.

Nesting Package:

• 1 prenatal planning session;

• 1 prenatal meal prep session;

• planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, packaging, labeling, cleaning;

• 6 freezer friendly meals, 4-6 servings each;

• preparation of freezer ready snacks & herbal remedy ice cubes.

  $750

Week-by-Week Package:

• 1 prenatal planning session;

• 1 postpartum meal prep session;

• planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, packaging, labeling, cleaning;

• 3 meals, 4-6 servings each;

• 1 bone broth based soup, 4-6 servings;

• 1 herbal support tisane, 4-6 servings;

• 1 atole (either corn or oat-based), 4-6 servings;

• bedside snack prep for recovering birthing parent.

  $575

Cuarentena Package:

• 1 prenatal planning session;

• 6 weekly postpartum meal prep sessions;

• planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, packaging, labeling, cleaning;

• 3 meals, 4-6 servings each;

• 1 bone broth based soup, 4-6 servings;

• 1 herbal support tisane, 4-6 servings;

• 1 atole (either corn or oat-based), 4-6 servings;

• bedside snack prep for recovering birthing parent at each weekly visit.

  $3100 (a 10% discount off my weekly rate)

Yes!

I am trained as a postpartum birthworker (I completed my postpartum training with Cornerstone Doula Trainings in 2016 and my full spectrum birthworker training with CDT in 2020); & while I have worked as one, I am not one currently. I view my work with food as complimentary and proximate to that of a postpartum birthworker. Like a birthworker/doula, my scope of practice is non-medical. However, my personal scope is within the kitchen: menu planning; cooking; nourishing the recovering birthing parent.

If what you’re looking for is a doula/birthworker/birthkeeper, l can provide you with references to some excellent postpartum birthworkers!

“The People’s Boyfriend” is one my pet names for my husband, an incredibly generous and loving man I met at a slog of a governance meeting for a collective of collectives in Oakland over a decade ago.

In an idealized past, before the colonization and medicalization of birth, before midwives were pushed aside and their labor hyper-professionalized by men, your village would have come together and cared for you after your birth. A member of either your family of origin or chosen family would have fed you, or at least made sure that you were being fed.

Today, that tradition lives on in meal trains and in the act of sending new parents gift cards for meal delivery services. But sometimes, what our healing selves need is the consistency of someone showing up and cooking nourishing foods tailored to the needs of the postpartum body.

To me, the name speaks to that consistency and care, that community responsibility.

(It’s also kind of goofy.)