When you’re juggling the needs of a newborn, it’s hard to find time to get to the supermarket, let alone cook healthy meals. But the good news is that postpartum meal delivery services are here to help!

Postpartum meal delivery services are the answer to fast, efficient meals for time-poor and exhausted mums. Some arrive at front doors cooked and ready to nourish recovering bodies, while others arrive as a meal kit with everything mums need to cook meals themselves. There are some that help with post-pregnancy weight loss, others that feed the whole family and many that cater to allergies, intolerances and dietary choices. And ANY of them make a very welcome gift for a new parent!

Basically, whatever your needs as a new mum, there’s a meal delivery service out there to help you through the postpartum stage. And just think – by spending less time tackling supermarket trips with the pram, you get more time to snuggle your delicious new baby.  It doesn’t get better than that.

Types Of Postpartum Meal Delivery Services

New mums have two types of meal delivery services at their disposal in Australia: ready-made meals and meal kits. Let’s take a closer look at each:

Ready-made meals are the quickest and easiest way to nourish your overtired postpartum body – and the rest of the family if need be. Meals arrive already cooked and individually packaged, ready for you to simply heat and enjoy, or pop in the freezer for another time. These services also cater for new mums who are on special diets and/or trying to lose some unwanted pregnancy weight.

Meal kits include ingredients and recipe cards for cooking delicious, nutritious meals yourself – no supermarket required! These are fantastic for adding variety to a boring dinner routine, but you do have to prepare them, which can be tiresome if you’re unwell and juggling a newborn.

Most meal delivery services will obviously work out to be more expensive than if you shopped for the ingredients and cooked it yourself. But sometimes, your physical and mental health is more important and removing the burden of cooking can be priceless.

And don’t forget, if you’ve got other tiny mouths to feed besides your newborn’s, check out our list of baby food home delivery services that include everything from purees to chunky toddler meals!

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 20 Postpartum Meal Delivery Services In Australia

Whether you’re looking for complete meal kits with recipes to save you trips to the supermarket, or healthy ready-made family meals that save you hours in the kitchen, we’ve got you covered. This shortlist has a little bit of something for all kinds of tastebuds and every type of diet. We’ve even summarised each company’s delivery areas to help you narrow down your choices quickly (before baby wakes up!).

The Whole Bowl Co

Nutritionist-approved meals that are designed to nourish new mums with whole foods. Ingredients are local and sustainably produced, and the meals are delivered frozen, so mums can have a healthy, delicious meal anytime.

With everything from wholefood brownies to quinoa frittata and warming soups, there are delectable meals to suit any mum’s tastebuds.

What we love about The Whole Bowl Co:

• Women supporting women – LOVE!
• Meal bundles can be ordered as a gift
• Amazing range – including lactation cookies!
• Meals are created with nourishing new mums’ bodies in mind

What the reviews say:

• Delicious and a thoughtful gift
• Thrilled with the quality

Cost: From $14

Delivery areas: NSW, ACT, QLD & VIC

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Meals For Mummas

This gorgeous business is all about allowing mums to focus on their newborns by providing nourishing, organic, freshly-prepared meals either to the hospital or at home. Based on Ayurvedic and wholefood principles, the meals are created to support mums as they journey through the postpartum period and beyond.

Meals are delivered fresh, after being made by in-house chefs and bakers, using only organic, locally-grown and ethically sourced ingredients. Meals are designed to be nutrient dense and perfect for a mum’s body as she recovers from birth.

Menus include Pregnancy (coming soon), Postpartum (The First 42 Days) and Beyond (Beyond 42 Days Postpartum).

What we love about Meals For Mummas :

• A beautiful philosophy and principles
• Brilliant, detailed menus
• Great customer service

Cost: From $18

Delivery areas: Sydney, Central Coast NSW, Newcastle & Hunter Valley Regions

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New Bub Club

A meal delivery service not just for postpartum mums, but postpartum families! The complete meals are designed to not just nourish mum but the whole tribe after a new baby joins the fold.

All of the meals are made from scratch, are total comfort food and come in weekly subscription packages. You can choose between fresh and frozen meals, with menus rotating each week based on seasonal availability.

What we love about New Bub Club:

• Created by a mum for mums
• Zero waste packaging
• Fresh or frozen meal options

What the reviews say:

• Couldn’t recommend it more highly
• Varied food
• Delicious meals

Cost: From $110 weekly subscription

Delivery areas: Metro Melbourne, regional Victoria coming soon

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The Baby Days

Imagine having nutritionist-designed meals delivered not just for you, but the entire family after giving birth. The Baby Days deliver fresh meals, which are generous serves that can cater for two to three people, so everyone gets a warming food hug!

The meals and snacks have been carefully created to be nutrient dense and contain specific ingredients that target common postpartum concerns including fatigue, hormonal imbalance and physical recovery. But of course, everyone in the family can enjoy them.

What we love about The Baby Days:

• Includes snacks and breakfasts
• Mum-run business
• Meals are cooked fresh and delivered fresh
• Uses seasonal, local, organic ingredients where possible

What the reviews say:

• Left me feeling healthy and sustained
• Delicious, comforting food
• Eliminates stress

Cost: From $10

Delivery areas: Perth’s inner and select surrounding suburbs

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Nouri

Using seasonal, organic and locally-sourced ingredients Nouri creates postpartum meals that are aimed at helping mums thrive during the post-birth period. Even though the meals are specifically created for postpartum mums, they’re actually brilliant for the whole fam!

Nouri is very particular about its ingredients, with the fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices sourced from a local greengrocer. Meat is local, grass-fed, free-range and where possible, organic. Eggs are organic free-range and their ethos is all about supporting local suppliers and producers.

What we love about Nouri:

• Passionate about ingredients
• Mum-created business

What the reviews say:

• Exactly what my body was craving

Cost: From $90

Delivery areas: Melbourne’s south-east

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The Golden Month

Supporting women through nourishing postpartum meals, The Golden Month creates easy-to-make meals and snacks that have been specially formulated for mums. Their nourishing range is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic practices.

As well as make-at-home snacks, which can be delivered, The Golden Month also creates nourishing meals that can be picked up from its warehouse.

What we love about The Golden Month:

• Beautiful, plant-based meals
• Option of fresh or make-at-home snacks and meals

Cost: From $25

Pick-up area: SA

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Newy Supply Co

A business passionate about food, with a background of nutrition and cooking at its core, Newy Supply Co. creates incredible postpartum meals for the entire family. Their philosophy is all about real food, real flavour, with no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or refined sugar.

All meals are cooked fresh and delivered frozen, with taste delights including Australian Native Pepper Berry and Beef Stew and Peanut Caramel Slice.

What we love about Newy Supply Co:

• Meals are suitable for the whole family
• Creative and delicious menu

Cost: From $8.99

Delivery areas: NSW, VIC

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QuiteLike

A meal delivery service all about making mum-life easier, QuiteLike delivers ready-to-cook recipes to your door. Experience the joy of cooking without the stressful stuff, and mix up the family dinner with a new menu every week.

Feed your family in three simple steps with QuiteLike, the meal kit for food lovers:

1. Choose from 30 delicious, seasonal recipes each week
2. Skip the supermarket and get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients delivered
3. Follow the six-step recipe card for effortless cooking

What we love about QuiteLike:

• Collect Flybuys points every time you cook
• QuiteLike is homegrown and Aussie-owned
• Incredible variety of recipes

Cost:  From $62.00 per box

Delivery areas: NSW, ACT, Victoria and Queensland.

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Marley Spoon

Marley Spoon is one of the most popular meal delivery services in Australia. This is a super-slick, professional organisation supported by a fantastic website and awesome customer service. And best of all, it creates wholesome food that the entire family can enjoy.

It’s very simple to order – you just need to choose which meals you would like to prepare from an extensive range of recipes. You then receive a Marley Spoon box delivered to your doorstep, packed with all the ingredients and instructions to prepare the meals that you picked.

All ingredients come measured so there is zero waste. The quality of the ingredients is also the very best – generally far better than the products I would normally pick when I shop.

Following the recipe is really easy – with simple instructions and clear photos to illustrate each step. We felt that Marley Spoon helped us get out of our boring meal rut and introduced us to flavours and tastes that we wouldn’t normally eat.

The only downer is that you still need to prepare and cook the meal – which can be a bit of a hassle if you’re tired or run off your feet.

Delivery Areas: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Wollongong, Newcastle and the NSW Central Coast.

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Pepper Leaf

Many families are raving about Pepper Leaf and are loving the quality and ease of the meal preparation. You can pick from a classic, vegetarian or family box and you get free seasonal fruit with your first two orders. The recipe cards are very easy to use and follow.

We love the choice of recipes on offer with yummy curries, tacos, and delicious home cooking, with an exotic twist.

Pepper Leaf is a local family business that works with top-quality suppliers.

Delivery Areas: Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Sydney, Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, Adelaide, Canberra

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Hello Fresh

One of the original meal delivery services, Hello Fresh offers a wide range of meal kits ranging from classic meals to vegetarian and family favourites.

These recipes are generally more simple and less exotic than some of the other meal delivery services, which is great if you’ve got fussy kids. They have many loyal customers who love the taste of their meals.

Delivery areas: Multiple areas in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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Dinnerly

This ‘new kid on the block’ is a fantastic budget-friendly meal delivery service for families with multiple mouths to feed. You still purchase a weekly subscription – but the meals are priced from only $5.49 a serve.

The difference comes from the complexity of the dishes. While the quality of the ingredients is just as good as Marley Spoon’s the meals are much simpler. Plus you get digital recipes rather than recipe cards, less packaging and less choice of meals.

We love that the dishes are more reflective of the kind of food we would normally cook – so much less fussy. Think stir-fries, yummy tacos, macaroni and stews. All the meals are comforting and always tasty.

Delivery areas: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Wollongong, Newcastle, the greater Perth region, Darwin and NSW’s Central Coast. More areas coming soon!

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Lite n’ Easy

A popular choice for new parents who are watching their weight or those that are too time-poor to cook, Lite n’ Easy drops delicious, nourishing meals right to your front door.

Delivery Areas: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

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Youfoodz

YouFoodz brings ultimate flexibility to a postpartum and family meal delivery service. You can create custom meal plans to suit your goal – whether it’s to lose weight, eat healthier, gain muscle mass or just avoid preparing meals. The meals come in individual serves so not ideal for family meals but still a good option to keep in the fridge, when you need a quick dinner for one.

All you need to do is remove the cardboard sleeve and microwave each portion for 90-120 seconds. There are also snack and drink options available. Plus you can buy the meals in many supermarkets across the country.

Delivery areas: SA, VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD, WA, NT, and TAS (select areas only, see the full list of postcodes at youfoodz.)

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MACROS

If you’re looking to up your postpartum health game, MACROS is a fantastic meal delivery option. The meals are made from fresh ingredients that are high in protein with good carbs, and of course, portion controlled. They don’t include any dairy, artificial sweeteners, refined sugar, MSG or super-processed ingredients.

The meals are made fresh to order and delivered fresh, not frozen, with a shelf life of seven days in the fridge. Plans include meals for weight loss, sculpting or gaining muscle as well as family and plant-based.

Delivery areas: MACROS delivers nationwide, you just need to check they deliver to your postcode.

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Every Plate

Very similar to Hello Fresh, Marley Spoon and Dinnerly, Every Plate is a meal kit delivery service, but it’s all about simple recipes without the frills. Fewer ingredients and more homey meals like honey soy chicken or rump steak.

It starts at just $2.39 per serving with meals available for up to six people.

Delivery areas: The majority of NSW, VIC, ACT, QLD and WA.

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The Dinner Ladies

This family-run business offers the kinds of nourishing, home-cooked meals, that you just don’t have time to cook yourself with a newborn in your midst. Think pies, lasagne, stews, curries and soups. There are meals created for all members of the family, including kids and vegetarians.

Most meals come in two sizes – Small serves two adults with accompaniments. Large serves four adults with accompaniments.

Dinner Ladies meals are perfect for the freezer and for those nights when you just can’t be bothered to cook. They also offer gift vouchers.

Delivery Areas: Sydney, Metro Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat. (There is a minimum order of $100 and a $15 delivery charge if your order is under $200 (delivery is free if over $200.)

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Gourmet Dinner Service

Gourmet Dinner Service offers Chef-prepared, healthy & ready-made home-delivery meals that aren’t just great for postpartum mums, but the whole family.

You can pick from a single serving, enough for a couple or a meal for the entire family. The dishes are all hearty and delicious – such as lasagne, pies, meatballs, Mac and cheese as well as bread and salads.

You can also buy meal boxes as well as desserts and cocktail food.

Delivery areas: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Canberra and surrounds.

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My Muscle Chef

My Muscle Chef is a fantastic meal delivery service for new mums looking to gain muscle, control calories and/or boost overall nutrition for an optimal workout.

You can easily build your meal plan from a variety of delicious dishes – such as stir-fries, stroganoff, curries, pasta and more.

Portions are individual so this delivery service is not ideal for a family but great if you need a quick dinner for one.

Delivery areas: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and more.

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Dietlicious

Looking for a postpartum meal delivery service that helps you shift some pregnancy weight? This is the healthy-eating version of Gourmet Dinner Service. You can do a food cleanse or pick your meals based on the number of calories you wish to eat per day.

If this is diet food, then we’re happy to be on a diet permanently! The meals are tasty and super healthy.

Delivery areas: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and surrounds.

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 Which is your favourite meal delivery service? Tell us in the comments below!