Lisa Barnes, Author at Cool Mom Eats

5 clever ways to start an indoor herb garden

by Lisa Barnes | Mar 9, 2021 | Recipes

The idea of starting a food garden can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you were not gifted with a green thumb. But pandemic life has us considering doing all kinds of new things that we may never have attempted before (see also: sourdough bread). Rather than...

Thanks a lot, TikTok: Trying the Baked Oats recipe with teens

by Lisa Barnes | Mar 1, 2021 | Recipes

As a totally cool mom (at least, in my head, anyway), I like to think I stay up to date with the latest social media and trends my kids are seeing and experiencing. But let’s be honest, I am often waaaaay behind them, which is the case with TikTok. I’ve...

These are my 13 favorite new recipes I discovered for my family this year. Pandemic silver lining!

by Lisa Barnes | Dec 30, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

One of bright spots of 2020 is that I have discovered so many amazing new recipes for my family, stemming mainly from my newfound love for meal planning. Yes, meal planning! Who would have thought? Pre-Covid, I really was more of a wing-it-at-the-grocery-store kind of...

The plate-licking good dinner recipes that helped me get my cooking mojo back | Weekly Meal Plan 232

by Lisa Barnes | Dec 12, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

So this week, seems I got my second wind, y’all. After struggling through a bit of a cooking slump last week (Thanksgiving tends to do that to me), I finally turned a corner and got inspired to test a few new recipes to add into my rotation. After some very...

Easy family dinners for the week because the burnout is real | Weekly Meal Plan 231

by Lisa Barnes | Nov 28, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

Welp, as of this week, we’ll have made it to December. Wow. That’s 48 weeks of family dinners under your belt, most likely at home, all during an extremely stressful and uh, unusual 2020. If you are human, which I can presume you are, the burnout is...