Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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In The Kitchen With Our Kids
A guest post from Appliances Online.
Who else has fond memories of cooking with their Grandma or Mum as a child? Are there any recipes that you have passed down to your own children?
Cooking with kids is a messy, fun and chaotic event, but it can be a great way to get them on the path of eating healthily and enjoying food. Encourage little ones to practice their skills with easy peasy recipes that they can really get involved in try cookie decorating, pizza making or ice lolly molds for bright colorful results.
You can also teach your children basic skills everyday, like mashing potatoes or peeling fruit, don’t worry about the mess, just focus on safely teaching them these essential techniques. Of course they can help clean up after! Make sure you give yourself plenty of time and space too.
The kitchen is a great place for kids to learn, providing they are supervised by an adult, there are many things we take for granted that can provide fascinating for children.
So what gets your kids excited in the kitchen?
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As an occupational therapy student, I can tell you that there are a near infinite number of reasons to let your kids help you. Of course they're learning cooking skills to use at future meals (and you help prevent them from becoming helpless 20-somethings that live off of TV dinners...). But they're also building some great muscle skills--strength, for one, but also learning coordination. And cooking is highly motivating. My 7-year-old cousin can make a cooked meal by himself, with supervision, and he's so proud. There's no reason not to let them help from time to time!
I adored helping my mom in the kitchen when I was little and she made it fun! That's something I want to pass on to my own kids when I have them. It always surprised me at how few of my friends knew how to cook because their parents didn't do what seemed like a normal thing to me, to bring their kids into the kitchen to help out and teach them at the same time!
I have always been in the kitchen since I was a little girl.
I now am 21 years old and can fillet, roast, puree, flambe, saute, fricassee, and prepare just about anything. There isn't a recipe that I don't feel I can tackle.. and I have had my son in the kitchen since he was 2!I'm actually a teacher with a non profit that teaches elementary school kids how to cook and eat healthy. Our recipes range from the simple like fruit smoothies to making their own garden pizza with vegetables grown out of the school gardens. The kids even get to use their own knives. Which are the plastic lettuce knives but they still work great for kids and so they learn knife skills.
I really wish I grew up with something like this back in the day but I'm glad to be able to pass this on to the next generations to come.
My baby girl is still in my tummy, but I plan to cook with her.