The labor that happens in the home is usually not categorized with other food work, as it is done in private settings and is part of the reproductive labor, or unpaid work, performed to quite literally reproduce members of society. This contrasts with work considered productive labor, wage work performed in the public economic sphere to produce the material goods and services for societies. Whether it is called care work, affective labor, or domestic work, the planning, shopping, cooking, and serving that goes into feeding families, households, and communities is rarely given an equal platform as the other sectors, even within the more expansive and comprehensive scholarship on food systems. In this chapter, we argue that reproductive labor is food work, and like all forms of food work, is essential to the food system.  By examining how the values assigned to reproductive labor respond to the historical shifts in who does this labor and why, we show that bringing greater dignity to the work of feeding families in the home is linked to the broader movements for labor justice, in the food system and beyond.