by Julie | Food + Recipes
I’m one of those lucky women with a husband who loves to cook. The man not only knows the difference between tarragon and cardamom, he actually cares. Too bad our girls still prefer kiddie foods. So we’re making a last ditch-effort to cultivate some taste...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Ridding my home of all of our plastic water bottles of questionable safety felt good, but then I realize- duh-I needed some water bottles. Enter I Love Obento’s adorably decorated aluminum bottles. How adorable? My favorite for the kids has a tiny elephant...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I spend a lot of time complaining about breakfast, but that’s what happens when you take an anti-morning person and add kids. One of my tricks for dealing with mornings when I’m feeling less than perky is to hand over a breakfast bar. So when my old friend...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
There are plenty of ways to pledge your allegiance to your presidential candidate – bumper stickers, t-shirts, anonymous troll comments on Daily Kos. But Dave’s Gourmet has perhaps the most appetizing idea with a line of presidential hot sauces that are...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
For those of you who have seen the word vegan in the headline and are about to click away, don’t. Yes, the meals in the newly reissued Vegan Lunch Box recipe book all skip the animal products, but even kids who live on a diet of chicken nuggets will find things...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I’m part of the low blood sugar brigade, which means I’ve always got a stash of energy or protein bars tumbling out of my bag. Unfortunately, most of those protein bars taste like butt. You know what I’m talking about. So it was with great reluctance...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Have you tried Hint Water yet? You have to. You just totally have to. Take it from me, because I’m not a flavored water fan. Mostly I think water is pretty darn good, and it doesn’t need a whole lot of flavoring. But Hint Water–all natural, no...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
There is one definite problem with toting your eco-friendly 21st century reusable water bottle around, and that is, eventually it runs out of water. At least if you’re me and you drink like a fish all day long. Then I’m stuck toting around an empty...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Allergies seem to be taking over the world, and as I’m about to add “parent of schoolchild” to my resume, I admit I’m nervous about bake sale duty. If it’s not nuts, it’s gluten. If it’s not gluten it’s eggs. And...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day for kids, but if your household is like mine, you probably struggle a bit taking this knowledge and applying it to your daily life. I know that a plate of scrambled eggs with fresh fruit and whole wheat...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
The average American school year is 180 days long, which translates to a whole lot of lunches to pack. It’d only be a number of days before I was sending my kids off to the bus stop with a can of tuna, a can opener and a note saying, “please don’t...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I literally ate my way through the International Fancy Food Show in New York a few weeks ago, and came home with a belly that could get me a seat on the subway, a couple of blisters, and piles of new products I was excited to share with Cool Mom Picks readers. One of...
