Cooking With Kids Tips
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Getting children involved in cooking is a great way to boost kids’ ’nutritional know how’, introduces them to explore new foods, gives them skills, increased confidence, and a way to have fun and enjoy the many benefits of creating and eating healthy foods!
Here is a list of our tips that give suggestions on:
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how to involve children in the kitchen
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how to make it fun for the kids to help cook
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how to use cooking time with kids as nutrition education time
List of Tips for Cooking with Kids
- Involve your kids in making dinners each day.
- Pick a recipe and talk with the kids about what is a healthy ingredient.
- Avoid foods that are breaded and deep-fried. They are high in fat and calories.
- Teach kids to read food labels and see what is really inside their foods by doing a scavenger hunt in the cupboards.
- When children help create a meal, they often feel very proud and excited to taste it.
- Plan the week's meals with the help of your kids.
- Involve the kids in finding a fun recipe.
- Spend quality family time together by cooking together.
- Cut 100% whole wheat bread into fun shapes with cookie cutters for your child's sandwich.
- Skinless white meat chicken/turkey are low in fat. Lean ground turkey is a healthy substitute for ground beef.
- Involve your child in cooking and preparing meals.
- As they are putting away the fruits and vegetables, guess where they came from.
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