What a time it’s been for students & teachers over the past year and a half!

Schools, students and teachers have done such a great job of shifting to online learning during the pandemic - some of us have discovered that our children learn even better in a digital environment! But we’re not going to lie, we’re a little bit excited to have our kids head back to school in person. There’s just something about helping them get their snacks & lunches ready, pick special outfits for the first day and back to school shopping for fun supplies that really starts the school year on a good note.

But did you know that many teachers buy supplies for their classrooms using their own money? This school year we partnered with Amazon to celebrate teachers by helping them get ready for the new school year – whether that’s back in the classroom or continued Zoom sessions from home, and everything in between.

Amazon actively supports the #ClearTheList movement, where teachers are encouraged to create their school supplies list on Amazon. These Amazon Wish Lists can be shared with anyone that wants to support that teacher and classroom, especially to give them the tools and supplies they most need and want ahead of this school year.

By the way, creating an Amazon Wish List is super simple!

All you have to do is visit Amazon.com/WishList, and “Create a List.”
From there, it’s easy to share the link with others. Customers who purchase items from an Amazon Wish List can have them sent directly to the Wish List owner.

After that, anyone can purchase items from your list! Share it with family and friends, post it on social media and encourage people to not only donate to your list but also others!

We recently partnered with Amazon to conduct a giveaway for $1000 to clear a teacher’s list on our behalf. We were so inspired by all the submissions to our giveaway that we decided to highlight a few more standout teachers in their community.

Check out our contestant spotlight below and please consider donating and fulfilling these teachers lists! They work so hard to teach our children, the people who will become our future leaders, and they deserve the best opportunities out there.

Contestant Spotlight

@findmeinthesun, nominated by a friend: “I nominate @findmeinthesun ! She is a fantastic 5th grade teacher. She is always super enthusiastic about school and always has a bright smile on her face for her students. If anyone deserve this it’s her! Please consider clearing her list! I know she would be so grateful for your kind donation! ❤️” Support Alexis’ classroom by shopping her Amazon Wish List.
@maria_elena_5, nominated by a friend: “I’m nominating my friend @maria_elena_5 who is one of the most amazing teachers I know! She is a first grade bilingual teacher in Idaho. Her passion for her job comes through in the time and care she puts forth in getting to know her students and their families. She cares about instilling a safe and welcoming learning environment for her students and is always creating innovative lessons where kids are not only learning but having lots of fun too. I can’t think of a more deserving person than @maria_elena_5 !” Support Maria’s classroom by shopping her Amazon Wish List.
@mari_417: “Thank you for thinking of us teachers! I nominate myself! 😬 this will be my 14th year teaching secondary math in Boyle heights. 7 at the high school level and 7 at middle school. This last year was so tough and although I am excited to see my students in person I am nervous and worried to go back. Anything on this list will help make my classroom more inviting to my students.” Support Maribel’s classroom by shopping her Amazon Wish List.

Learn more about our #ClearTheList Winner!

@la_profesora_ramirez: “Hello! I am a second grade teacher in LAUSD. I have been serving our community for 20 years and counting! Thank you for investing in our children! I love SuperMamas! 🥰🥰🥰🥰”

Are you a teacher looking to fulfill your wishlist? Post your Wish List link in the comments section below and maybe someone from our community will donate to your Wish List too. :)

We ALWAYS get asked about what we feed our kids. The truth is, we have picky eaters 😬 just like a lot of you. Sometimes they can be good with eating their veggies and a variety of what we cook for dinner, but honestly we are busy moms and we were looking for an easy option on school days and even for quick dinners after a long day at work.

We recently connected with the creators Sunnie, a meal service for kids that provides plant-forward, balanced, and nutritious pre-made lunches, and decided to give it a shot for our own kids. What we discovered is our kids love these meals. Paulina’s girls are big fans of the pizza kits. And they’re so easy to order! They are delivered straight to our front door with multiple options like pizza, tacos and sun-butter & jelly, plus have options to buy in bundles and add on fun snacks like smoothies, granola bites and yes, even cookies that we may have stolen a bite of. 😋

We were so impressed with the meals that we reached out to co-founders & moms, Katy Tucker and Lisette Howard, for an interview on what Sunnie is all about.

Our Interview with Sunnie Co-Founders Katy Tucker and Lisette Howard

SUPER MAMAS: Tell us who you are, what you do, and a little bit about your families.

SUNNIE: We’re Katy Tucker and Lisette Howard. We’re both friends who live in the Los Angeles area and we each have three children (Katy has 3 girls and Lisette has 3 boys). We both love food and healthy cooking for our families so we started our own business, Sunnie, to make healthy lunches and snacks for kids. (We named the company after Katy’s grandma Sunnie - who lived to be 100 and we think would be very proud of what we’re doing!).

SUPER MAMAS: How did the idea for Sunnie come about?

SUNNIE: After running around from pickup to pickup, baseball games and doing life in general with too many activities jammed into the day, we realized that the pace of life has not kept up with the pace of kid food. How many times have you found yourself grabbing a shelf-stable, preservative-ridden snack to keep the crew happy? We wanted to change that and create meals and snacks that kids love to eat and parents feel guilt-free about giving their kids!

SUPER MAMAS: Tell us about your ingredients. Why was it so important to you to create fresh, organic, vegetarian meals for kids?

SUNNIE: We spend MANY hours sourcing the freshest organic ingredients for our products. It's important to us that our label contains only clean, easy-to-read ingredients with zero preservatives. These days finding something convenient in the market is difficult and

SUPER MAMAS: What are your top tips for encouraging our picky eaters to try new foods?

SUNNIE: The best thing we ever learned (from our incredible Sunnie Advisor, Jill Castle) is that you should always have one food on the plate you know your kid loves and another that might be new or even something they said in the past they don't like. We can't tell you how many parents have told us that their kids "hate" carrots but eat carrots in their Sunnie Pizza Pack because they're there!

SUPER MAMAS: Besides Sunnie, what are your favorite recipes to feed your kids to guarantee they’re getting a healthy, balanced meal? (But let’s be honest - sometimes we have to give in to chicken nuggets, pizza or Mac and cheese too. 😂)

SUNNIE: A few staples in our houses are DIY taco night as well as spaghetti and meatballs! Kids love to make tacos (their way) with a whole slew of different items to choose from and what kid does not love spaghetti?!

SUPER MAMAS: Where can parents purchase Sunnie?

SUNNIE: You can find us on our website, www.feelsunnie.com or at a handful of local specialty grocers in LA.

SUPER MAMAS: Can we expect new types of meals in the future?

SUNNIE: We have lots of exciting things in our product pipeline including a breakfast option (yay for easy on-the-go breakfast!) and we also have a new snack line that is coming to a grocery store near you this summer.

Want to try Sunnie?

Sunnie offers local delivery to all LA and Orange County zip codes. If you live in other parts of California or in Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah or New Mexico they can ship products to you at a flat rate. Click this link to learn more.

More about Sunnie: Two busy, health-conscious moms, Katy & Lisette, were tired of the lunchtime “battle royale” with their kids- the non-stop daily meal planning, the half-eaten lunches, and "constantly having to compromise between a balanced meal and “just eat something”. In addition to the constant in-home pressure, they were also frustrated about the lack of healthy grab-and-go meals for kids at the grocery store to support active, busy families. They knew it was time to revolutionize the approach to kids’ mid day meals.

Katy & Lisette teamed up with Jill Castle, MS, RN, one of the country's leading pediatric nutrition experts to find out what type of nutrition 3-to-7 year olds actually need in order to support their growing bodies. From there they spent their free time honing and testing plant-forward meal kits using healthy alternative ingredients. The end result was Sunnie (named after Katy’s grandmother and the feeling kids get when eating healthy, filling meals).

Sunnie exists so that parents can feel better about feeding their kids when time is limited or they're on the move. Kid-approved. Nothing but the good stuff, so kids can "shine from the inside out". #feelsunnie

Amazon #ClearTheList Spotlight