by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 21, 2018 | Tips + Tricks, Columns
This week on Spawned with Kristen + Liz, our weekly podcast about parenting and parenting culture (you are listeners, right? RIGHT? ), we covered a topic that should be right up your alley, Cool Mom Eats readers — kids and nutrition. We were really lucky to get...
by Cool Mom Team | Sep 20, 2018 | Back to School
There’s just something comforting about a hot lunch at school that a ham sandwich can’t quite satisfy, you know? (Unless it’s a warm, melty Croque-Monsieur — but that’s another story.) But for those of us packing our kids school lunches,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 4, 2018 | Back to School
When you find your favorite lunch bags on sale, that’s when you realize sometimes it does pay to procrastinate on back to school shopping sometimes. Or hey, maybe your new middle-schooler is realizing just a few days into the school year that they’re...
by Liz Gumbinner | Aug 29, 2018 | Tips + Tricks, Back to School, Shopping Finds
I get it, believe me. School mornings are busy! And as much as we love sharing healthy, homemade lunch box snack recipe ideas, I’m totally no-shame when it comes to a pantry full of store-bought snacks that I can pop into my kids’ backpacks or lunch bags...
by Caroline Siegrist | Aug 21, 2018 | Recipes, Back to School
With my son starting preschool for the first time this fall, I have to start figuring out some preschool lunch ideas that are toddler-appropriate. He still lacks the teeth to eat anything that requires a thorough chewing. (Read: nuts or baby carrots). Fruits with pits...