by Cool Mom Staff | Sep 23, 2018 | Back to School
Next up in our 2018Â Back to School Lunch Guide, we’re offering up some inspiration for for those of you with kids who eat gluten-free. Packing school lunches for kids day after day is hard enough, but when you add additional dietary considerations to the mix,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 21, 2018 | Columns, Tips + Tricks
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 Staff | 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 | Back to School, Shopping Finds, Tips + Tricks
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...