“One of the best ways to ensure that children develop healthy eating habits is to instil a love of cooking” says food writer Hattie Ellis in The Independent on Sunday and she then goes on to recommend a number of cookery schools for children.
I don’t have that problem in my house – I have found that if you prove to be a rubbish cook yourself, your children learn a new skill pretty quickly.
It’s my 12 year old who is the best chef in da house. He loves cooking. Always has. Unfortunately for him the temptation is to cook huge enormous cakes for us all to eat for spurious reasons like “Happy Cake Day” and “Happy Found Two Socks The Same” day….so I have to limit cake cooking skills to birthdays, weddings and Christmas.
That said, it’s getting a good balance and he is constantly finding healthy savoury meals to cook us all when the mood takes him. The other day we were given some samples via a friend of friend to try out. A new baking mix range for children to encourage them to get active in the kitchen. You can make delicious energy bars, chocolate brownies, muffins and cookies with your children all made in the UK with 100% natural ingredients.
They were a really good idea and completely delicious – not found very easily yet but I’m sure they will be soon.
These were the ones we were offered to try and I love the packaging for kids:-
The Granola and energy bars were the delicious healthy option, but here we are trying out the brownie mix:-
Additional icing sugar for effect and extra calories:-
Somebody ate them all and they were exceptionally good – very moist:-
