by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Mamas who like their products of the natural variety will be happy that there’s now one more webshop on which to find them all in one place. Abe’s Market just launched this week and as far as I can tell, all signs point to awesome. The lovely site has a...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
It’s October (holy cow) and as most of you know, this means Breast Cancer Awareness month. And that means 600,472 products jumping on the pink ribbon bandwagon. Some are awesome. Some are not. And we do our best to try and pare them down for you. (In fact, Cool...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I’ve got a friend who goes all out for Halloween starting in mid-September. Her six year-old son has already drawn countless zombies and skeletons for their front entry, and she’s now planning what sort of cupcakes she should decorate this year —...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I recently treated my kids to a scoop at the local gourmet ice cream shop and was shocked to find that to add a topping (i.e. four M-n-Ms) was about half the price of the ice cream itself. Holy moly. New recession tip: Staying in for ice cream and doing our own fun...
by Carrie | Food + Recipes
I may be little late on the drinkable/pureed/food in a pouch thing, but I think I am like most moms in that I’m left scratching my head and staring at the pantry when trying to think of what to give my toddler as a healthy, delicious snack. And frankly,...
by Christina Refford | Food + Recipes
When I first heard of the MojaMix Custom-Mixed Cereal, I thought you’d have to be a pretty picky eater to need that. And then I remembered that I custom-order three different kinds of coffee beans to hand mix at home for my perfect roast. Who am I to judge? In...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Bacon is the new black, it would seem, and everywhere I look (least of all our own fridge) there is someone proudly proclaiming his or her love for the stuff. So I wasn’t entirely surprised to have found a number of bacon-oriented gourmet items at the Fancy...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Since the recent revelation that SIGG bottle liners contain BPA, we’ve been on the look out for more alternatives made of stainless steel and not aluminum, which requires a liner in the first place. There’s the Safe Sporter which we’ve featured on...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Like so many of you, we were super bummed to discover last week that SIGG bottles are not BPA-free. But after a few minutes of being bummed, we had this idea: What if, instead of everyone just tossing out their bottles, we ask one of our favorite sites to create...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
We are not what you’d call a soda family. While I love a nice cold fountain Coke or Pepsi with a slice of pizza like every other New Yorker, it’s not something I keep around the house. But when my older nieces or friends’ tween kids come to visit...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Remember the Candy Buttons of your youth? You know, the ones with absolutely no flavor (save for sugar) that you peeled off the paper strip, trying your best to increase the ratio of candy-to-paper that in fact made it into your mouth? Well now a company has done them...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
It’s disheartening to support a brand like SIGG for making safer, BPA-free drinking bottles for kids and adults when it turns out that nope, that wasn’t the situation at all. Or as the old saying goes, “we was played.” News broke this week that...
