Tips for cooking with children at home

Cooking with children can be a very rewarding activity, both for the older ones and for the little ones. In addition, it is a good opportunity to bond and learn healthy habits.

In today's blog we give you some tips for cooking with children at home and enjoy this family activity together.
 
-Start with easy and fun recipes. If you decide to prepare a dish that is too elaborate, the children will probably get bored and lose interest. It is best to always opt for quick and easy recipes so that children have the opportunity to participate in almost the entire cooking process.
 
-Let them make decisions. To encourage the interest of children, nothing better than giving them the opportunity to decide what they want to cook. Make them responsible for almost the entire cooking process.
 
-Involve them throughout the recipe development process. You can all go to the market or supermarket together to buy all the necessary ingredients to carry out the recipe that you will make together.
 
-Clearly detail the tasks before starting the recipe. You can assign them the most reasonable and lowest risk tasks, such as mixing, garnishing, stirring, adding ingredients, etc. You will make them feel good!
 
-Provides a safe work area for children. Keep them away from heat sources and do not have sharp objects such as scissors or knives.
 
-Prepare all the ingredients before the child enters the kitchen. This is the key to controlling potential clutter and focusing on recipes and not other things.
 
-Explains what each ingredient is and its role in the recipe. In this way, while they have fun cooking, they will also learn healthy habits and how to relate to the ingredients, as well as where they come from.
 
-They will learn mathematical skills, such as the sum of units of the quantities of ingredients, fractions when cutting food into smaller pieces, counting the number of tablespoons...
 
-Encourage them in what they do well. Their self-esteem will be boosted and they will want to continue cooking. We all like to be told what we do well, and even more so if we are in a continuous learning process like children.
 
-You can increase the difficulty. However, if you see that they did well on their own in the cooking process, you can enter more complex recipes, with more ingredients, more kitchen utensils, more preparation steps...
 
-Teach them to recycle. When cooking, a lot of waste is generated, whether it's plastic from used food packaging or parts of food that we don't use. Teach them which bucket each item should go in and save those foods that can still be used to make another recipe. Take the opportunity to introduce the importance of healthy, proximity food.
 
These are some of the tips that we propose to cook with the little ones at home, fun is guaranteed!
We leave you some easy and healthy recipes to put them into practice together.
You dare?