50 Best Mom Food Bloggers

Doesn't parenthood sometimes seem like one long cook-a-thon? You've just cleared the breakfast plate and the cries for mid-morning yogurt drink are already coming your way. And what are you making for lunch? Help!

Wouldn't it be nice if there were other moms who knew how you feel, understood how hard it is to try to get your kids to eat at all, much less feed them nutritious and easy to prepare meals? Who shared their funny stories, their insights, their juggling-act tips, and, most importantly, their recipes? top100-button.jpg

As you probably already know, there are such moms, and they're godsends to the rest of us. Food-blogger moms somehow manage to put food on their tables and tell us about it. They give us ideas, save us time, and let us know that we're not the only ones whose kids won't eat anything if it's not lodged in a pancake.

For Babble's first annual Top 50 Best Food-blogging Moms, we compiled our favorites of these superhero moms. No matter what angle they are taking - from organic eating, to cake-baking artistry, to pioneering on the range - they all know that whatever goes on those kids' plates is more than calories to get them across the monkey bars. It's health and nutrition, environmental awareness - it's family, it's love.

The Babble staff and contributors picked these fifty because each demonstrated excellence in voice, photography, design, or all three. We hope you use them, learn from them, and love them as much as we do. - The Babble Editors


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$5 Dinners | Erin Chase

 

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Erin’s Rankings

Who:

Erin Chase, mother of two (with one on the way), Southwest Ohio

Why We Love Her:

Two summers ago, after spending six years in the Dominican Republic as a teacher, housemother, and missionary to a dozen teenage boys, she returned to the US and applied her shopping and budgeting lessons to her own family table. She found herself constantly bragging to her husband “This only cost $3.85!” or “This was less than $5!” She got the idea to start 5dollardinners.com while (of course) doing the dishes. Why we love her, part 2: It’s a recession, people. But more than that, for her, it’s less about the coupon-clipping and more about the personal improvement angle. You can do this, her recipes, posts, and books imply – you just have to try. And what American doesn’t love a good personal challenge?

 

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Prudence Pennywise

Prudence Pennywise is on a mission “to feed her family of four scandalously good food for under $100 a week…

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3

Mindful Momma

Because she reminds us that eating in a responsible way is a major part of living a green lifestyle…

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4

The Wicked Noodle

Because when she had kids she recognized that one of the most important things she could do was learn how to cook for them…

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Food for My Family

With the help of her husband (who mans the grill), Shaina’s blog evokes a strong sense of unity, one that sees family dinnertime as a blessing not a chore…

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Lunchbox Limbo

Because Amanda, who once prided herself on being a “rip-and-pop” mom — that is, she ripped something open and popped it in the microwave — is now a self-proclaimed “frugal mom going organic…

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7

Cooking Mama

We fell in love with the feisty and funny Butler when she said, “Cooking for family is a political act, damn it!”…

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For the Love Of Cooking

You’re not going to find bells and whistles here; Pam’s blog is exactly what it’s billed as: a simple collection of [her] recipes…

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Annie’s Eats

We moms all say we want more websites with more healthy recipes, but what we really want is Annie’s Eats, a collection of baked goods…

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Cooking During Stolen Moments

Kate calls her kitchen a playground, and cooks during “stolen moments,” those too-short gaps between naptime and diaper duty…

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