Zarbees – Natural cough syrup for children that alleviates natural worrying of parents

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

This may not be a popular stance, but I curse the day that a bunch of dodos couldn’t figure out how to properly medicate their children, leading to a ban of all those fabulous multi-symptom cold medicines and over-the-counter cough syrups for kids. I keep...

A mellow baby is the very best kind

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

My older three kids gave me a heck of a time when it came to taking a bottle, so with number four, I’m determined to find one that she not only takes, but doesn’t add to the challenge with extra gas. And I may have just found the answer with the new Mellow...

Gluten-free gourmet cookie mix for those of us who’d given up on cookies

by Mir | Uncategorized

I’ve been gluten-free for coming up on a couple of years, now, and while I’ve learned to bake a few essentials, I’ve mostly given up on cookies. Because gluten-free cookies–by and large–suck. And I love to bake, but I’m certainly...

Know what your school needs? A bar.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Food + Recipes

Could your local school use a salad bar? Because I sure know that ours could. Well, believe it or not, you can possibly get one –free– thanks to a grant by the Salad Bar Project.But you need to hurry. Chef Ann Cooper, Whole Foods, and TheLunchBox.org are...

HappyBaby = HappyMama

by Stephanie Slate | Baby, Food + Recipes

Kids like snacks. Like, really, really like them. Understatement of the year, right? I truly believe that if I just had a constant supply of snack-type foods on hand, my children would eat all day. And I have a sneaking –or is it snacking?– suspicion that...

Maia – Not your average yogurt

by Melissa | Food + Recipes

I’d like to think of myself as somewhat of a yogurt connoisseur. I grew up on Dannon and over the years have tried everything from the healthy and organic to the junky and gimmicky. And apparently I’ve passed on the yogurt gene to my son because the first...

Do Fun Stuff and help some kids with some seriously fun kindie tunes

by Christina Refford | Doing Good

I’ve never doubted the power of music to unite people–though it does bring to mind those big events like Woodstock or Live Aid. But it’s the effort of one dad and some very cool bands with loads of heart that now deserve to get people behind an...

Chef Sam Talbot’s tips on cooking without sugar

by Cool Mom Team | Tips + Tricks

When Kristen and I had the opportunity to sit down with Sam Talbot, our Top Chef crush for the last few years, it was hard not to say yes. (Frankly, it was hard not to get all sweaty and nervous for days beforehand.) It was a bit intimidating; not because he’s...

Organic baby food that fits in your back pocket

by Lexi Petronis | Baby

I have approximately 563 teensy glass baby food jars left over from when my 3-year-old was a baby. Okay, I may be exaggerating. But the pantry sure feels like Baby Food Container Central. My plan was to use these jars in all kinds of useful, and… well,...

Possibly the most fun way yet to get your kids to eat their veggies.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Food + Recipes

Remember those Dapper Dan the Magnetic Man toys from when we (or , okay, maybe our parents) were kids? It was so much fun to use the magnetic wand to give that smiling bald dude bizarre facial hair, hats, and eye patches. And now our kids can make those faces–...