{"id":4616,"date":"2008-03-13T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/wordpress\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-08-26T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:48:47","slug":"cooking-with-your-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/cooking-with-your-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking With Your Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning to prepare food is a life skill that everyone needs to learn.\u00a0 The problem is finding a willing teacher!\u00a0 Cooking is fun, when you are not in a hurry.\u00a0 It is very satisfying to prepare something that tastes good and others can also eat.\u00a0 Your child will feel the same. By following a few simple suggestions, teaching your child to cook can be fun for both of you!<\/span><\/p>\n

First, make sure you are not rushing to put a meal on the table.\u00a0 Teaching a new skill to anyone will take time and practice.\u00a0 Before starting any food prep, everyone should wash their hands.\u00a0 Children learn by example-wash your hands too! When they are younger, you can have them do small things, like tearing lettuce or washing fruits and vegetables in a colander.\u00a0 Older children can stir things in bowls or whip eggs with a hand whip.\u00a0 Grating cheese and learning to use a can opener are all good things to learn, also.\u00a0 Older children can read recipes to you, and this teaches them that things need to be done in order. \u00a0This is especially important in bread making.\u00a0 I know I have made a few brick loaves by not following directions!<\/p>\n

Learning to measure with dry and glass measuring cups is a simple task, and one that young children can help with.\u00a0\u00a0 I do not recommend having young children handle sharp knives, use electric appliances or the stove without adult supervision.\u00a0 Understand that there WILL be a mess.\u00a0 Do not expect perfection.\u00a0 Practice cracking eg\"catherine-cooking-again.jpg\"<\/a>gs when you are not in a hurry.\u00a0 Many bowls of eggs have flown in our kitchen onto the floor.\u00a0 Remember, you’re teaching children, not culinary arts students.\u00a0 The pay off in the end is great-your child will learn to cook.\u00a0 I remember telling my Mom that I didn’t need to learn to cook-“when would I ever need that skill!?”\u00a0 Moms are always right!<\/p>\n

There are many web sites to get other ideas for cooking with kids, and kid friendly recipes.\u00a0 These are two that have great information:<\/p>\n

Kraft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Family Fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning to prepare food is a life skill that everyone needs to learn.\u00a0 The problem is finding a willing teacher!\u00a0 Cooking is fun, when you are not in a hurry.\u00a0 It is very satisfying to prepare something that tastes good and others can also eat.\u00a0 Your child will feel the same. By following a few simple suggestions, teaching your child Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","cat-42-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tat-cooking11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}