A personal chef for Postpartum / New Parents. A vetted chef cooks a week of meals fresh in your kitchen, from dishes you choose, around your allergies and dietary needs. Serving Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Before the baby. After the baby. Dinner's handled.
Your body just made a person.Dinner's handled.
A chef cooks fresh meals in your kitchen every week. Shopping, cooking, cleanup, all of it.
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The visitors stop coming
Week three. Mom flew home. Partner's back at work. The meal train ended.
Your body needs more
Healing, feeding a baby, running on no sleep. Your body is asking for more than usual, and under-eating isn't a plan.
No one has the bandwidth
It's not that you don't know what to eat. It's that no one can plan, shop, cook, and clean right now.
The part no one warns you about.
What changes after you sign up.
WEEK 1
The fridge is full. You didn't do it.
Your chef stocked the kitchen, cooked the week, and cleaned up. The whole house noticed.
MONTH 1
Four weeks of real dinners. The meal train is a distant memory.
The menu keeps getting more dialed to what your household eats, when your partner works late, and what the toddler will actually touch.
3 MONTHS
You stopped thinking about dinner somewhere around week six.
The postpartum cravings, the night you finally had friends over, the random weeknight. Your chef handled all of it.
6 MONTHS
The table came back. The evening after did too.
Dinner stopped being a question. The hour it used to take became the one you actually wanted.
Warm, hearty meals your whole household actually eats.
Your chef cooks fresh in your kitchen every week. Real plates, real portions, for you, your partner, and whoever else is at the table.
Your chef makes these, and hundreds more, built around your household profile. No fixed menu, no locked-in weeks.
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Our story
“My hope is to make our busy and beautiful lives a little bit easier by taking dinner off your plate, without sacrificing the quality we all want for our families.”
Erica Tuggle
Founder
Frequently asked
The questions new parents actually ask.
How does Livin work for new parents?
A personal chef comes to your kitchen each week. They shop, cook a full week of meals, and clean up before they leave. You share what your household likes and any allergies, and pick the meals that sound good. It's a weekly membership, so the support continues through the first weeks home and beyond.
Is this a good gift for new parents?
It's one of the most useful gifts you can send. Instead of a one-time delivery, you're giving weeks of real dinners cooked fresh in their kitchen. Cover a week, a month, or the first eight weeks home, and add a note.
What kind of meals will the chef make?
Warm, hearty, real food for the whole household. Comforting plates that reheat well one-handed, protein-forward mains, and options the older siblings will actually eat. Note any allergies or dietary needs and your chef cooks around them.
Can we start before the baby arrives?
Yes. You can get set up before the baby arrives so meals are handled the week you come home. We'll find a start time that fits your due date.
Does it feed the whole household or just the new parent?
The whole household. Partner, older siblings, visiting family, one chef, one shop, one cleanup. Everyone eats.
Is this medical or lactation support?
No. Livin is a meal service focused on comfort, nourishment, and taking the planning and cooking off your plate. We are not a medical, nutrition, or lactation care provider. For clinical guidance, talk with your care team.
We already have a meal train. Why do we need this?
Meal trains are wonderful, until they taper off around week two or three. Your weekly chef is still on the calendar long after the casserole dishes stop arriving.
Your chef's already in the kitchen. You're not.
Your chef comes to you at the start of the week. Shopping, cooking, cleanup, handled. Dinner tonight is already done.
Livin is there for the parts no one warns you about. The week you came home from the hospital, the night the visitors stopped showing up, the Tuesday your partner went back to work.
Meet your chef