by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 9, 2020 | Back to School, Recipes, Tips + Tricks
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,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Apr 8, 2019 | Shopping Finds
This amazing new Easter bunny bento kit may be exactly what we need to balance out all the Easter chocolate, Easter jellybeans, and yeah, Peeps. It was created by our own contributor and friend, Marsha Takeda-Morrison, she with the nearly encyclopedic knowledge of all...
by Cool Mom Team | Sep 24, 2018 | Back to School
Next up in our Back to School Lunch Guide we’re talking about lunch help for your picky eaters. We know how hard it is to stay inspired when it comes to packing school lunches (what with 200 or so of them to do in a year) let alone when you add in that layer of...
by Marsha Takeda-Morrison | Apr 18, 2018 | Recipes
What do you get when you cross sushi with a sandwich? A Japanese dish called onigirazu, which is a seaweed-wrapped rice ball – with fillings – that is not pressed into the traditional round or triangular shape. Turns out our very own Whole Foods has been testing...
by Kate Etue | Mar 16, 2017 | Recipes
I’m all about treating the kids to a silly, unexpectedly festive lunch full of St. Patrick’s Day spirit, but to be totally honest, I’m just really ready for Spring Break to get here. Mama doesn’t have it in her to go full-out bento this year....