by Kate Etue | Sep 16, 2015 | Back to School, Tips + Tricks
My kids’ lunch boxes come home from school looking pretty nasty some days — like when the peanut butter seems to have exploded inside, or when we open it on Monday morning to find a banana was left inside over the weekend. Gross. So we’ve been...
by Nicole Blades | Aug 29, 2015 | Back to School, Recipes
This summer, my son started a new trend: Coming home from day camp absolutely ravenous. The kid was practically making a beeline from the front door to the kitchen pantry. This guy was hungry. And as much as I wanted him to get a snack in that belly, like, pronto, I...
by Stacie Billis | Aug 26, 2015 | Back to School, Recipes, Tips + Tricks
When it comes to packing school lunch, the trickiest part is packing vegetables that the kids will eat, and not just cucumber wheels day after day. We found 7 creative ways to pack vegetables for school lunch so that they have high lunchbox appeal. While there are...
by Stacie Billis | Aug 24, 2015 | Back to School, Shopping Finds
Finding sweet snacks that serve as tasty treats is easy. The hard part is finding delicious store-bought snacks that are healthy enough—or at least not totally jammed with added sugar or artificial flavors—to pack into their backpacks every day for a little something...
by Cool Mom Staff | Aug 23, 2015 | Back to School, Columns
Here are some of our favorite food links around the web this week. Hope you enjoy them too. A guitar case lunchbox! Awesome! And have you seen our other top picks for the coolest lunch boxes and lunch box accessories in our Back to School 2015 guide? Amazing stuff....
by Stacie Billis | Aug 17, 2015 | Back to School, Recipes
We like to think of this as a safe space for busy parents, a place where you’ll find delicious, healthy recipes and ideas that are reasonable to execute, with some fun treats thrown in because, well, you only live once. We do not expect you to spend hours making...
We loves ours too. Big time.