Margaret's School

Fill Your Freezer is a live, 5-week series where we cook together virtually and in real time to fill your freezer with deeply nourishing, postpartum-specific meals. You’ll walk away with over 15 healing dishes, foundational education in postpartum nutrition, and a deep sense of readiness for the fourth trimester.

Whether you're pregnant, supporting someone who is, or a birthworker who wants to offer better care—this is a hands-on, heart-forward way to prepare.

👩‍🍳 This course is for you if:

• You’re in you're currently pregnant and want to truly prepare for your sacred 40 day window—not just cross your fingers that someone else will feed you

• You’re a partner, friend, or family member who wants to show up in a real way for your postpartum loved one

• You’re a midwife, doula, or postpartum professional who wants to nourish clients beyond checklists and advice

• You want to spend more time bonding with your baby, and less time overwhelmed, hungry, and depleted

💫 What You’ll Learn + Experience:

• How to cook tissue-rebuilding, digestion-supportive, milk-enriching meals

• What makes a food truly postpartum-supportive, from a digestive fire and nervous system perspective

• The progression of foods after birth (and why starting too heavy too soon can backfire)

• How to spot signs of postpartum depletion, gut imbalance, and nutrient deficiency

• Foods and teas to support lactation, ease elimination, and tone the uterus

• Why the first 40 days are sacred in Ayurveda—and how to honor them in a modern life

👉 Weekly Flow:

Week 1: Kitchen as an Altar.

• No cookalong this week. It's all about preparing your kitchen and freezer to make the next 4 weeks more easeful and enjoyable.
• You'll not only be creating your own kitchen altar but also relating to your kitchen as an altar, a devotional space to commune with the Spirit of Nourishment and get your kitchen and freezer ready for healing meals.

Week 2: Stoke the Sacred Fires.

• Learn how birth affects digestion and how to gently rebuild your digestive fire so the food you eat actually gets digested and assimilated well (your guts have been rearranged for 9 months after all!)
• We'll cover what the best first meal after birth is that begins the rebuilding process and together, we'll cook Mama's meat Stock, stewed fruits and roots, digestive teas.

Week 3: Build thy blood, heal thy tissues.

• Blood carries nutrients. When blood is depleted, it causes fatigue, low energy, slow healing, and lost life force energy. Learn the blood building basics and what foods promote tissue regeneration to feel stable and steady again.
• We'll be making: Motherstew, and one handed meals and snacks like egg bites and meatballs.

Week 4: Make that milk (& nourish that nervous system).

• Postpartum is the single largest hormone drop the body ever experiences in such a short period of time and as a result, many people experience extreme nervous system dysregulation. Food is the one of the most powerful yet simple ways to support regulation, specifically FAT, which also promotes lactation.
• We'll be making: Herbal milk tonics, soups, and filling fat bombs.

Week 5: Rejuvenate your radiance.

• In Ayurveda, ojas is the substance that's attributed to our radiance, stability, longevity, immunity, and creativity. Learn how to rejuvenate your radiance (ojas) through ojas-building foods that will have you feeling so satisfied, stable, and secure AMIDST the chaos of postpartum changes.
• We'll be making: Balance bowls, date bites, herbal ghee.

📦 What You Get:

🫕 5 Live Weekly Cookalongs
Cook alongside me from your own kitchen as we make 2–3 meals per session. I’ll guide you step-by-step while sharing postpartum wisdom, answering your questions, and offering live support.

📋 Weekly Shopping Lists + Prep Guides
So you always know what you need—and when to chop the garlic.

🌱 Container suggestions for easy clean up
to reduce dishes and make heating effortless in those weeks where there's no sense of time.

🧠 Digestive Wisdom + Practical Tools
Learn how to identify your current state of digestion, stoke your agni (digestive fire), and balance common postpartum symptoms.

🎁 Bonuses:

• Batch Cooking for Birth Prep guide

• How to Host a Fill Your Freezer Party toolkit

• Optional: Local Denver bonus—discounts for Soup Witch delivery (add it to your postpartum or baby registry!)

🧡 For Birthworkers & Support Pros:

• A Postpartum Recipe Bundle to share with clients

• Guidance on the first meal after birth

• Tools to help you center the mother, so she can center her baby

🥘 By the End, You’ll Have:

• A freezer stocked with over 15 nourishing meals, infused with love, herbs, and animal-based healing

• Confidence in your ability to nourish yourself or your clients

• More time to rest, bond, and repair—without stressing about what to eat or who’s cooking it

• A framework you can return to anytime—because this isn’t just about food. It’s about remembering how to be held, rest, and receive.

🍲 Details & Dates:

📅 Starts: Every Sunday in June (June 1 - 29), 4-5:30pm MDT
🎥 Live Cookalongs: 1x/week via Zoom (recordings provided)
🧺 Access: Lifetime access to all recordings + PDFs
💰 Early Bird Price: $197 through May 15 or 2 payments of $98.50
💰 Full Price: $297 or 2 payments of $148.50

This isn’t just meal prep.
It’s the groundwork for a radiant, rested, well-fed postpartum.

Let’s fill your freezer—and your cup.