Our ultimate guide to last-minute Halloween recipes: Nearly 200 Halloween treats, meals, cocktails and more
We truly love Halloween, which is why we start gathering creative, fun Halloween recipes on Cool Mom Eats, around, oh...July. But we're busy! Just like you. (It's a parent thing, right?) So if, like us, you still need some last minute Halloween recipes whether you...
I have found the best frozen cookie dough on the planet. (Not just because it’s saving democracy but that helps.)
Are you ready for the best frozen cookie dough? Truly, the absolutely 100% best, better than all the rest (sung Tina Turner style), magical, worth-busting-through-my-WW-points, eyes-roll-back-in-your-head cookie dough? Because, my friends, I have found it. Now when a...
Upgrading 6 kids’ menu favorites for the whole family. In case they’re missing their favorite restaurant.
So many of us miss eating out our favorite local restaurants these days, unless they've got heat lamps outside these days and a good social distancing table plan. As for our kids, well, they mostly miss eating out so they can make us spend good cash on the most basic...
8 astoundingly creative Halloween snack trays to fill the bellies of your ghosts and goblins
With snack trays and food boards overwhelming our Instagram feeds lately, Halloween snack trays seems like it may be on lots of our lists of "ways to make Halloween not suck completely this year." A creative Halloween snack tray is basically a Halloween variation of a...
DIY haunted gingerbread houses for Halloween: Our favorite tips to make yours extra fun
I've always wanted to make a DIY haunted gingerbread house for Halloween, and this seems like the year I finally do it. Let's be honest, Halloween isn't going to be the same this year. In lots of ways. And that kind of sucks. But on the other hand, sometimes the...
5 fall-inspired family dinners for the week ahead | Weekly Meal Plan 226
For next week, I am planning some of my family's favorite fall-inspired dinners that are easy to make, prep and clean up. Because Fall seems to be full of all kinds of busy even though we are doing all of the things from home. And honestly, fall cooking is my...
5 simple kitchen experiments for kids that count as homeschool science class. You already have the ingredients!
Lately, my homeschooled children been having fun with these simple kitchen experiments for kids that absolutely count as science class time. And as we get into our second month of school, I really need this in my back pocket! Honestly, some days, my kids complete...
12 creative pumpkin recipes you can eat all day long, to make the most of fall’s essential ingredient.
It's pumpkin time, if you hadn't noticed, and I'm ready for some creative pumpkin recipes -- you know beyond pumpkin soup and pumpkin bread. With fresh pumpkins now in season, and canned pumpkin filling the shelves at our supermarkets, I've found so many recipes —...
5 make-ahead dinners you can prep on the weekend and eat all week: Weekly Meal Plan 225
How is it that even with schooling from home and almost no social outings, I still feel frazzled when it comes to getting dinner on the table? To make things easier, I'm planning 5 make-ahead meals this week. These can be prepped over the weekend and stored in the...
5 delicious dinners all made in the Instant Pot: Weekly Meal Plan 224
The Instant Pot is hands-down my favorite appliance in my kitchen. The Cool Mom Eats team has been singing the praises of the Instant Pot for several years now, and I agree; every time I cook a meal in it, I think "why don't I cook all of the meals in this magic...
6 snack tray ideas for kids to munch on independently all day. Say no to snack servitude!
Just as I was resigning myself to a lifetime of snack servitude for my son during at-home learning, I saw Kate post a gorgeous snack tray idea for kids on the @CoolMomEats Instagram feed that she spotted from Prashana Vidanapathirana. Is it possible? Would a little...
The best way to clean your kids’ lunch boxes in the age of Covid: It’s easier than you think.
In the past, we've written about how to clean our kids lunch boxes safely, say if a banana gets left in there over the weekend or a container of spaghetti somehow gets tossed back in without a lid. But this year, we have the fun (i.e. not at all fun) added layer of a...
Weekly meal plan: Easy comfort food dinners to usher us into a very weird fall
This is the first week I've worn a sweater all day, so it's starting to feel like fall, even down south where I live. Â We're ready for chili dinners and fires in the fireplace -- which is nicer than thinking about the long winter of social distancing that lies ahead...
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DIY haunted gingerbread houses for Halloween: Our favorite tips to make yours extra fun
I've always wanted to make a DIY haunted gingerbread house for Halloween, and this seems like the year I finally do it. Let's be honest, Halloween isn't going to be the same this year. In lots of ways. And that kind of sucks. But on the other hand, sometimes the...
5 simple kitchen experiments for kids that count as homeschool science class. You already have the ingredients!
Lately, my homeschooled children been having fun with these simple kitchen experiments for kids that absolutely count as science class time. And as we get into our second month of school, I really need this in my back pocket! Honestly, some days, my kids complete...
6 snack tray ideas for kids to munch on independently all day. Say no to snack servitude!
Just as I was resigning myself to a lifetime of snack servitude for my son during at-home learning, I saw Kate post a gorgeous snack tray idea for kids on the @CoolMomEats Instagram feed that she spotted from Prashana Vidanapathirana. Is it possible? Would a little...
The best way to clean your kids’ lunch boxes in the age of Covid: It’s easier than you think.
In the past, we've written about how to clean our kids lunch boxes safely, say if a banana gets left in there over the weekend or a container of spaghetti somehow gets tossed back in without a lid. But this year, we have the fun (i.e. not at all fun) added layer of...
Dozens of our favorite school lunch ideas that kids can make…even when school is at home
Just because your kids aren't in school in a traditional way doesn't mean that parents aren't thinking about school lunches. With so much on our plates these days (womp womp), it's a good opportunity for us to teach our kids to be more reliant, and make school...
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Upgrading 6 kids’ menu favorites for the whole family. In case they’re missing their favorite restaurant.
So many of us miss eating out our favorite local restaurants these days, unless they've got heat lamps outside these days and a good social distancing table plan. As for our kids, well, they mostly miss eating out so they can make us spend good cash on the most...
DIY haunted gingerbread houses for Halloween: Our favorite tips to make yours extra fun
I've always wanted to make a DIY haunted gingerbread house for Halloween, and this seems like the year I finally do it. Let's be honest, Halloween isn't going to be the same this year. In lots of ways. And that kind of sucks. But on the other hand, sometimes the...
5 fall-inspired family dinners for the week ahead | Weekly Meal Plan 226
For next week, I am planning some of my family's favorite fall-inspired dinners that are easy to make, prep and clean up. Because Fall seems to be full of all kinds of busy even though we are doing all of the things from home. And honestly, fall cooking is my...
12 creative pumpkin recipes you can eat all day long, to make the most of fall’s essential ingredient.
It's pumpkin time, if you hadn't noticed, and I'm ready for some creative pumpkin recipes -- you know beyond pumpkin soup and pumpkin bread. With fresh pumpkins now in season, and canned pumpkin filling the shelves at our supermarkets, I've found so many recipes —...
5 make-ahead dinners you can prep on the weekend and eat all week: Weekly Meal Plan 225
How is it that even with schooling from home and almost no social outings, I still feel frazzled when it comes to getting dinner on the table? To make things easier, I'm planning 5 make-ahead meals this week. These can be prepped over the weekend and stored in the...
