It's great to plan ahead, especially if you have a baby on the way or are anticipating a surgery or the start of a course of treatment. That's why you can set up an order up to 30 days in advance. If, however, you haven't planned ahead, don't worry! Your order just needs to be received the day before and we'll most likely be able to deliver or ship it the next day. Please note that we make local deliveries on Tuesday and Wednesday (arriving same day) and send out shipments on Monday and Tuesday only (arriving in 1-2 days). PLEASE NOTE: FOR UPS orders -when you check out and are selecting a date, that is the date that your order will be shipped out and NOT the date it will arrive. 

One thing we know to be true–appetites vary from person to person and can be very situational. A breastfeeding mom might be eating a lot whereas someone going through chemo may only be able to eat a small amount at a time. Additionally, sometimes people show up with a lot of food when you first have a baby or are healing, and sometimes they don’t. For that reason, we don't specify exactly how many days our packages will last. We recommend ordering a few items and seeing how long it takes you to go eat it all (and anticipate that you'll be eating a lot more when you're postpartum). You will need to have some room in your freezer–each soup/stew is roughly the size of a quart jar, although our pouches can fit next to each other more easily than jars.

Nope! Although we think setting up a subscription makes your life way easier and you'll get a 5% discount if you do, you will only be getting a subscription if you choose it, otherwise your order will be a one time thing. We’re not here to trick you into signing up for a recurring subscription and then making it really hard to cancel it–there’s enough companies doing that already! Even if you do sign up for a subscription, you can pause or cancel at any time.

Kitchen Doula makes the best gift and there are lots of ways to send our food to someone you care about. If your recipient lives within 50 miles of Oakland, you can choose anything from our menu and have it delivered to them. You'll be prompted in the checkout to indicate that it's a gift and to write a gift message if you want. If your loved one lives outside the SF Bay Area but still within CA, AZ, OR, WA, NV, UT, you can choose one of our healing packages and have it shipped (if they live elsewhere, email us at hello@kitchendoula.com and we can let you know what the shipping cost will be). We have 5 soup/stew minimum for non-local orders. We can ship nationwide. Don’t worry if you’re not sure whether they fall within that radius, our system will let you know! Please do be sure that you have their correct address and that you know they will be home if you are having something shipped or delivered. If you don’t know what they want or when they want it, you can send them a gift card for a dollar amount or gift certificate for one of our packages and they can customize it and choose the delivery date.

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