Do Your Kids Help You in the Kitchen?

Parenting Help and Advice

Kat Brown has lost over 23kgs with Lose Baby Weight and a healthy eating diet plan.
She is one of the Lose Baby Weight Motivating Mums and shares some thoughts on getting your children involved with cooking and what they’re eating:
I WAS a firm believer that it was only for “special” occasions for them to help me do anything in the kitchen but that is a thing of the past!
My kids will generally help me do at least one thing in the kitchen each day.
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1) Help me wash the plastic things in the sink

My 4 year old son LOVES to do this in the kitchen- granted most of the time I will have to re wash what he has already done but it is teaching him a lifelong skill that he will use later in life

2) Help chop veg for dinner

We have a fabulous kid’s knife to use for this that is not sharp enough to cut little fingers but will chop the veggies! My kids also do a lot of grating (under supervision) and they love to see the insides of the vegetables and it helps them to learn how their food is grown etc. too.
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3) Help make a smoothie

My kids love a smoothie and have one most days so they enjoy being able to make their own! I get them to tip in the ingredients and chop any fruit that needs to go in- the big enjoyment is getting to turn the blender on.

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4) Help bake healthy treats

My daughter and I do a big bake up once a month for her school lunches. She goes through the Guilt Free Cookbook and picks what she would like to take for a treat to school each day. She cooks most things by herself (she is 5) and I help her with the hot things.
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5) Get ingredients out of the pantry/fridge

This is a favorite for my 18 month year old as he loves to “help” so he can get tins from the pantry and vegetables out of the fridge.
Sometimes they can make a terrible mess, fight, whine and complain but they really do enjoy it and it is SO GOOD FOR THEM!
And it’s good for me to feel like I am not the only one who cooks and cleans 😉
Stay happy and healthy xoxo
Kat Brown (you can read Kat’s weight loss story here)
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