by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Okay, so you know we’re getting a little sucked into the world of enviro-shopping when we eagerly await a new SKU. But Klean Kanteen, a favorite safer sipper of mindful parents everywhere, has just taken the giant leap from regular old stainless into the...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Although she’s an NPR contributor and food columnist, Betsy Block is also a typical wife and mother. Which is to say that her family of four, she realizes, is mired in unhealthy dining habits at the corner of Picky Eaters Street and Sugar Fiends Drive, and her...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Yesterday, both my kids’ daddy and my own daddy opened up their brand new copies of Top Chef: The Cookbook. Which is why I held this review until today. Publisher Chronicle Books always does an outstanding job with their titles and this canvas-covered tome is no...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Check out any of the mom message boards and you’ll find members bragging about having used Born Free bottles since 2006 before everyone knew the dangers of BPA or knew how to pronounce Phthalates. As for the rest of us–me included– we’re now...
by Liz Gumbinner | Food + Recipes
Open Matthew Mead’s new Cakes for Kids cookbook and you’ll experience a combination of awe and complete intimidation. It’s as if my inner competimommy is saying Yes! We can make this! while my inner Peggy Bundy is like Are you freaking kidding me?35...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Despite my usual aversion to cutesy names, I have to concede that Domenica Catelli’s Mom-a-licious cookbook delivers deliciously on what its subtitle claims: Fresh, fast, family food. And what family doesn’t want fresh, fast food? The pictures are...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Last year’s Cookbook for Moms from our friends at MothersClick was such a resounding success, they did it again. The second volume includes more than 40 new recipes from more than 40 new contributors, all created and voted on by moms like us. Or at least moms...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Mother’s Day is hardly behind before we scramble for Father’s Day gift ideas and I’m loving the idea of personalized wines from the aptly named PersonalWine.com.Forget the foo-foo curliecue wedding style labels and go for a design that’s bold...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Fact: Moms like cookies. It is based on this statement of truth alone that I can highly endorse Sweet Talk Boutique, which turns yummy homebaked cookies into custom shower invitations, baby announcements, birthday cards and more.It may seem tough to mess up flour,...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
“Hey cool! My mom gave me a high-fiber vegan cookie bar!”Okay so phrases like high fiber, no refined sugar, no dairy or eggs aren’t generally an indication that kids will be excited about the resulting snacks. That’s why the newest goodies from...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I am fortunate to have made it through my first trimester fairly unscathed, with only a few "race to the toilet, hand over mouth" incidents. But if you’re going to reach for a shaky tummy remedy about 24 times a day, forgo all the artificial sweeteners...
by Liz Gumbinner | Baby, Food + Recipes
We’re always looking out for safer, non-leaching plastic baby bottle alternatives, like the ones from Green to Grow and my own baby’s choice, Adiri. But I know that some moms are like Ack, plastic! Plastic is the devil! Plastic will come to earth, eat our...
