First Trimester
Freezer Smoothie Packs
Prep 5 or 6 bags on Sunday, then breakfast is one bag, some liquid, and about 60 seconds in the blender.
Welcome to my kitchen
Real food from a dad-to-be's kitchen.
I'm Ryan, cooking my family through the pregnancy: easy foods for the rough weeks, whatever she's craving, and a freezer stocked for the baby.
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Easy, gentle, and ready from the freezer.
First Trimester
Soft & Fluffy Homemade White Bread (Bread Machine)
Soft, delicious, fluffy white bread that's about 5 minutes of hands-on work. The bread maker does the rest.
Breakfast
Ryan's Pancakes
Fluffy buttermilk freezer pancakes: cook one big batch, freeze them flat, then toast them straight from frozen on busy mornings.
Freezer meals
Freezer meals before baby
Future us, a few weeks into life with a newborn, will not want to cook. So present me is stocking the freezer now: food you make once, freeze in portions, and reheat when everyone's tired.
See the freezer guide
About me
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In the first trimester, the only thing my wife could keep down was homemade bread. I can't fix morning sickness, but I can work a bread maker.
Now I'm cooking my way through the whole thing: safe foods, cravings, freezer meals, and later on, postpartum meals, baby food and big family dinners. Real, everyday food, and every recipe here is one I cook for my own family.
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Recipe videos on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. I'm @dadatthestove everywhere.