Children love being in the kitchen. Often they love it so much that they are right underneath your feet as you try to slice and dice, stir and sauté. It’s great to have some tasks for children to do and a place for them to do it. In our kitchen, we have “the bench.” Luke eats lunch and snacks and plays with trucks and cuts bananas and watches me in the garden, all on this one amazing and well placed piece of furniture.
Depending on your set up and your patience, children can participate in a number of tasks, stirring doughs, cutting soft food items (like bananas), washing dishes, and making cookie balls, cutting out biscuits, etc. Helping your child to have fun in the kitchen sets the groundwork for later when they can prepare the meals and clean up too! Then you can sit on the bench and play with trucks and look out at the garden.
A Word about Nutrition
My focus is always on supplying my child with the most healthful foods I can find and that he will eat. With a little bit of ingenuity and a willingness to set boundaries, you will be surprised how healthy children will eat. Store-bought cookies and cakes are simply too sweet, and a child who is not raised on them delights in fruit such as dates and bananas. Make a big deal about whole wheat biscuits and your child will too. When cooking, don’t be shy about cutting down on the amounts of sugar called for in recipes. Usually, texture is unaffected. Ice cream at our house is made with frozen bananas processed in the food processor with coconut milk. Instead of focusing on what not to eat, try adding mineral rich, whole foods. Use whole wheat flour, add shredded carrots to cookies, and try adding sea vegetables such as dulse to soups and stir frys. By the way, dulse dissolves in soup, adding magnesium, iodine, calcium and a hosts of other minerals with little affect on flavor.
Tired of the same old dinners? Do your efforts to improve the nutrient content of your meals often fall flat?
Hire a Healthy Kitchen Trainer. Sabrina will work with you to stock and organize your healthy kitchen. She will develop recipes specifically for your family's needs. Then she will train you in a personalized cooking class. She will organize your session to focus on seasonal cooking, quick and delicious meals, lunches to go, or whatever your special needs may be.
Call today to set up your first Kitchen Trainer session. References available.
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