Zuo Yue Zi Meal Plan
元氣月子餐
Lighter. Balanced. Simpler.
Two full Zuo Yue Zi meals a day, cooked the traditional way — for the mother whose mornings are already taken care of.
30 days · lunch, dinner & a dessert$2,299
If you're looking at a lighter plan and quietly wondering whether it still counts as doing Zuo Yue Zi properly — it's a fair question, and worth answering plainly.
Here's the honest answer. Vita isn't a smaller version of the tradition. Your lunch arrives complete: a soup, an entrée, warm vegetables, rice and grains. Your dinner arrives complete: the Taiwanese postpartum soup, a second nourishing soup, an entrée, vegetables, rice and grains. A dessert. The daily healing drink. Nothing thinned out, nothing skipped.
What Vita sets aside is breakfast — the one meal that's often already handled at home.
In many households, breakfast is the meal that's already arranged — the one someone at home tends to take care of. Lunch and dinner are a different matter: the long-simmered soups, the slow braises, the dishes that shift week by week with your recovery. Those are the meals worth handing to us. So when breakfast is covered at home, Vita puts everything into the two meals that need us most, and asks nothing for the one that's already in hand.
What Arrives Every Day
Every day of your plan, delivered fresh:
Fish soup or the day's lunch soup, an entrée, warm vegetables, and rice and grains — the full midday meal, balanced the traditional way.
The Taiwanese postpartum soup, a second nourishing soup, an entrée, warm vegetables, and rice and grains — slow-simmered, never shortcut.
One gentle dessert to close the day, and the daily healing drink that comes with every plan — because recovery can still be sweet.
On the Table
Real dishes from a Vita week.
Menus rotate across the plan to follow the recovery sequence.
Perfect For You If…
The Vita Meal is for the mom who wants lunch and dinner taken care of completely — and doesn't need breakfast on top.
Maybe your mother or your partner is already up early, and breakfast is the one meal your household has arranged. When it's already in hand at home, there's no reason to have it delivered on top.
So Vita covers the two meals that are hardest to manage yourself and leaves the one that's already handled to your household — a lighter plan, and a lighter cost, without cutting a single thing from your lunch or dinner.
If your mornings aren't covered, though — if you'd rather wake to a warm meal already there and not think about food at all — that's exactly what the Classic plan is for, and it's worth every bit of it. Vita is simply for the mother who has breakfast handled.
Moms Say
"I don't eat much in the mornings, so this was perfect — two proper meals a day, and nothing wasted."
— A Vita Meal mom
Make It Yours
The Vita plan is complete on its own. These add-ons are here if you want more.
Recovery Booster
熬雞精
Your go-to recovery booster — slowly simmered for hours from aged hens and white-feather chickens until every drop is rich with collagen, protein, and minerals, then concentrated into one small, warming cup.
Easy to sip on the mornings you'd rather not eat a meal, it arrives ready to warm — no cooking, no cleanup. Mothers who add it tend to keep it for the whole month.
$10 / serving · add on whenever you like
Herbal Add-On
月子藥膳
The daily herbal drinks that have anchored Chinese postpartum recovery for generations — 15 formulas that follow the traditional recovery sequence, stage by stage across your thirty days.
Because the formulas are staged week by week, most mothers start them on day one, alongside their first meals, so the sequence stays whole from the beginning.
$10 / day · one cup a day
Choose Your Length
Two full meals a day plus a dessert, delivered fresh daily. Pick the length that fits your recovery.
Every Day Includes
元氣月子餐
Pricing
依天數計費
14–30 day plans: $500 deposit · balance within 3 days of first delivery. 1-day: paid in full.
Order onlineWant the herbal drinks too? Add them for $10 / day — one cup a day, add as many days as you like. Chicken essence can be added at $10 / serving. Meals are delivered daily; remote areas receive every-other-day delivery and an additional delivery fee may apply.
Not sure which length fits? Call us at (626) 217-7539 — we're happy to talk it through, no pressure.
Review At Your Own Pace
Prefer to look things over on your own? Grab the order form, compare every plan side by side, or browse the full menu.
Mornings Not Covered?
If no one's handling breakfast at home, you shouldn't have to either. The Classic plan adds egg and porridge each morning and a second dessert — the full three-meal rhythm, so you wake to warm food already there and never think about a meal all month.
Explore the Classic Meal — $2,590Good Questions
Same kitchen, same recipes, same daily delivery. The Classic plan adds breakfast — egg and porridge — and a second dessert. Vita gives you the full lunch and the full dinner, plus one dessert and the daily healing drink. The simplest way to choose: if breakfast is already covered at home, Vita fits nicely; if it isn't, Classic is the one worth having.
Each Vita meal is a full recovery meal, not a smaller portion of one — lunch and dinner both arrive complete, with soup, an entrée, vegetables, and rice and grains. What Vita leaves out is breakfast. For mothers whose mornings are already covered at home, or who simply don't eat first thing, that's the natural fit. If you'd like breakfast handled too, the Classic plan is the better choice — and if you start with Vita and change your mind, call us and we'll sort it out.
Yes — the herbal drinks are an option on Vita at $10 / day, one cup a day, for as many days as you like. The 15 formulas are staged to follow the traditional recovery sequence, so most mothers start them on day one, alongside their meals, and keep the full arc intact from the beginning.
In our regular service area, meals are delivered fresh every day and we aim to reach your door before noon — though actual times can shift with traffic and routes, so an exact hour isn't guaranteed. Remote areas receive every-other-day delivery, delivery times there can't be guaranteed, and an additional delivery fee may apply. Refrigerate your meals when they arrive, and heat them thoroughly before eating.
At least one month before your due date, if you can. The week your baby arrives, you will not have the bandwidth to compare plans or fill out forms — and you shouldn't have to. Your start date can be adjusted once the baby comes.
Not Sure Yet?
Most mothers who choose the Vita plan tried a sample first. Have a day of meals delivered — and let the food make the case.
Or call (626) 217-7539 — we're usually around later than you'd expect.
