by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
You’ve braved the grocery store or you’ve had your groceries delivered. Your kids are home 24-7. And you’ve got to feed them. So, why is it so hard? Well, it doesn’t have to be difficult, in fact, feeding your kids during a quarantine (and...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Food + Recipes
Cookbooks aren’t just about recipes — they open us up to new perspectives, new cultures, new ways of thinking about food. They can be funny, quirky or heartfelt., and they can even make our lives richer — both at mealtime and beyond. Whether...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast, Food + Recipes
This week’s Jacky Lamenzo is a health coach with a focus on picky eating, to help make mealtime less stressful. We like that while we’ve gotten some great picky eater tips in the past, Jacky has a more kid-centered approach, focusing on how kids feel, and...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast, Food + Recipes
Feeding kids! We all love it so much! Hahahah. No. Well, maybe some of us do. But most of us — it’s just another one of those things we have to do as parents, and make the best of it. That’s why it was so fun to speak this week about that very thing,...
by Stacie Billis | Food + Recipes, Tips + Tricks
We’re big fans of pulling kids into the kitchen early and often. But that also means setting kitchen safety rules for kids — and for you. Not just because it keeps them safe (though that’s obviously the most important thing), but because it’s...
by Liz Gumbinner | Food + Recipes
We are always thrilled to find new cookbooks that make life easier for parents, especially because meal planning (and cooking and serving and cleaning and cajoling the kids to eat any of it in the first place) can be…well, not our favorite part of the day. But...
by Kate Etue | Food + Recipes
Need some last-minute help planning a deliciously sweet Valentine’s Day menu? We’ve put together all our favorite easy Valentine’s Day recipes that we’ve been sharing on Cool Mom Picks and Cool Mom Eats — from breakfast to dessert —...
by Stacie Billis | Food + Recipes
There aren’t many vegetables that I don’t like, but asparagus is among my least favorite. When my kids bellyache about the green stalks (and, yes, how their pee will smell afterwards), I get it. I pretend like I enjoy asparagus more than I do but, really, I serve it...
by Stacie Billis | Food + Recipes
Reducing meat is one of the hardest shifts I’ve ever made in my family’s eating. Even though I’d been a vegetarian through college, I had no idea at the time how to go meatless healthfully. (My youthful diet of pizza, pasta, and more pizza wouldn’t quite cut it for...
