KIDS IN THE KITCHEN

Note: This is a repost of a 2019 post. This granddaughter will be 18 later this month and she still enjoys cooking and baking. Being a high school Senior and holding down a job keeps her pretty busy now so there is less time for cooking and baking.

Don't be one of those parents who refuses to allow your children in the kitchen.  Allowing your kids to participate in the preparing of meals will help them to have a better understanding of foods and will cause them to try more foods.  Kids love to eat what they make!  This is an excellent way to get them to try new and healthy foods.  One of my granddaughter's favorite activities is helping me in the kitchen.  One of her favorite foods is our healthy pear-pecan cakes that she bakes.  This is a picture of her in action creaming ingredients for said cakes when she was six years old. She is now 14 years old and she cooks and bakes as often as she can. She bakes dessert for 250-300 homeless once every month. When she's at my house I can leave the meals to her. The best part? She eats healthy foods routinely.