by Stacie Billis | Jan 10, 2016 | Columns
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too. The value of a mess: You should let your kids totally botch household chores from an early age. New federal dietary guidelines: cut sugar, eat more...
by Kate Etue | Jan 7, 2016 | Tips + Tricks
I love starting the year off with a kitchen clean out. I’m pretty good about throwing away foods that expire along the way—except for spices. I tend to imagine that they last forever (they don’t) and often end up with multiples of certain spices or dried...
by Kate Etue | Dec 20, 2015 | Recipes
We’re realists here at Cool Mom Eats. No matter how delicious a recipe looks, we’re not going to suggest it if it has a thousand steps or requires special equipment that needs to be shipped from a fancy specialty store. Unless, of course, we’re...
by Jane Sweeney | Nov 28, 2015 | Shopping Finds
We always love shopping from indie businesses, but we’re especially excited to shop small today in a show of support for Small Business Saturday. When it comes to food and kitchen products, many small, often family-owned, purveyors are a nod to the old fashioned...
by Kate Etue | Nov 24, 2015 | Christmas, Recipes, Shopping Finds
updated for 2016 Our Christmas countdown has officially begun. Well, it actually starts December 1, with the beginning of Advent, but my kids have been counting down for a while now. As in, since December 26th last year. Now that the advent season is right around the...