- Kitchen Tools For Little Hands - beware, you may want to buy everything... it's all so cute!
- Five Great Kids' Cookbooks - a few excellent cookbooks to help you get started. Some are great for pre-schoolers (complete with pictorial recipes/instructions they can follow easily) and some will take you into the older years.
- 25 of the Best Kids' Books About Growing, Cooking and Eating Food - a big round up of all our family's favorites plus some great recommendations from friends.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Cooking With Your Kids
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Cooking With Your Kids
- Kitchen Tools For Little Hands - beware, you may want to buy everything... it's all so cute!
- Five Great Kids' Cookbooks - a few excellent cookbooks to help you get started. Some are great for pre-schoolers (complete with pictorial recipes/instructions they can follow easily) and some will take you into the older years.
- 25 of the Best Kids' Books About Growing, Cooking and Eating Food - a big round up of all our family's favorites plus some great recommendations from friends.
9 comments:
- Kim FosterMay 1, 2012 at 12:11 PM
I love all this. (Your son is insanely cute, btw!) The cooking, the gardening the harvesting of berries, the way both you and your husband are making it a way of life for the family, what an awesome way for a child to be raised.
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I also love that you are honest about the realities of cooking with kids. It's harder, messier, more time consuming, nothing ever comes out looking like its supposed to, and sometimes it ends in temper tantrums, and no food. But also, it just sets them on a path in the kitchen, and it's all worth it.
Thank you for inspiring your readers to start cooking with their kids. They'll be better for it. Love this!
Kim
@KimFosterNYC - AnonymousMay 1, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Hey eve! Your boy is mad adorbs!
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In my family, we all took turns making dinner beginning when we were quite young. My night was Tuesday, beginning when I was 7. But, it was a necessity because my mother was disabled and not able to do it. I think that made it more of a real thing vs a fun thing and as a result, I really did make dinner (or else I would be in big trouble when my dad got home from work).
Probably not the way you're gonna do it, but it sure worked! - Madeline s. Your son is adorable, and looks so much like you!!! I really miss my kids being that age, when even though it could be maddening, we cooked a lot together. Now, with my son being 13, it's more likely that he's in the basement playing guitar with his band, and I am fixing food for the crew. My daughter is 10, and really loves to bake- she made some killer peanut butter cookies all by herself last week: the only thing I did was put them in and take them out of the oven :)
ReplyDeleteWe are doing all the things you mention, and I don't think it would be possible to avoid it they are so a part of our life.
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One thing I've started to do now though, since we are now 3 1/2 and it can be a struggle for a control freak cook like me, is that I let my son "wash dishes" which he loves, and he can see what I'm doing while I cook. The floor is a little wet, but it could be worse!Lovely piece! And what a cutie is Will! My children are 3 and a half and two and they're increasingly 'helping' me in the kitchen which is wonderful, and messy! Jacques at two is obsessed with peeling onions and Francesca the elder loves to do all the stirring, whisking, pouring, rolling, biscuit cutting, cake decorating etc. But attention spans are still very short!
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This year my daughter's shown a huge interest in the veggie garden and loved sowing seeds with me and waiting for them to emerge. We also have chickens and its always a fight between them as to who's collecting the eggs or doing the feeding.
Getting kids involved at such a young age is brill! A great early education.
Louisa
Good job....keep it going! He will love you even more when he's older.
ReplyDeleteI love all this. (Your son is insanely cute, btw!) The cooking, the gardening the harvesting of berries, the way both you and your husband are making it a way of life for the family, what an awesome way for a child to be raised.
ReplyDeleteI also love that you are honest about the realities of cooking with kids. It's harder, messier, more time consuming, nothing ever comes out looking like its supposed to, and sometimes it ends in temper tantrums, and no food. But also, it just sets them on a path in the kitchen, and it's all worth it.
Thank you for inspiring your readers to start cooking with their kids. They'll be better for it. Love this!
Kim
@KimFosterNYC
Eve, Will's photos are adorable! Great, great post - we have been taking about nutrition a lot and cooking is a part of it. We will be checjking out your book recommendations!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Kim and Mem. And thank you, Olga! I hope you like the books - I wasn't able to include all of your great recs - maybe a follow up will be in order... But I found out about a few new ones I'm excited to check out (ordered for Will's upcoming b-day!)
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful! Thanks for letting us benefit from all your messes, experimentation and research. I'll definitely be returning to this post!
ReplyDeleteHey eve! Your boy is mad adorbs!
ReplyDeleteIn my family, we all took turns making dinner beginning when we were quite young. My night was Tuesday, beginning when I was 7. But, it was a necessity because my mother was disabled and not able to do it. I think that made it more of a real thing vs a fun thing and as a result, I really did make dinner (or else I would be in big trouble when my dad got home from work).
Probably not the way you're gonna do it, but it sure worked! - Madeline s.
Your son is adorable, and looks so much like you!!! I really miss my kids being that age, when even though it could be maddening, we cooked a lot together. Now, with my son being 13, it's more likely that he's in the basement playing guitar with his band, and I am fixing food for the crew. My daughter is 10, and really loves to bake- she made some killer peanut butter cookies all by herself last week: the only thing I did was put them in and take them out of the oven :)
ReplyDeleteWe are doing all the things you mention, and I don't think it would be possible to avoid it they are so a part of our life.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I've started to do now though, since we are now 3 1/2 and it can be a struggle for a control freak cook like me, is that I let my son "wash dishes" which he loves, and he can see what I'm doing while I cook. The floor is a little wet, but it could be worse!
Lovely piece! And what a cutie is Will! My children are 3 and a half and two and they're increasingly 'helping' me in the kitchen which is wonderful, and messy! Jacques at two is obsessed with peeling onions and Francesca the elder loves to do all the stirring, whisking, pouring, rolling, biscuit cutting, cake decorating etc. But attention spans are still very short!
ReplyDeleteThis year my daughter's shown a huge interest in the veggie garden and loved sowing seeds with me and waiting for them to emerge. We also have chickens and its always a fight between them as to who's collecting the eggs or doing the feeding.
Getting kids involved at such a young age is brill! A great early education.
Louisa