Cooking With Kids

What's for Dinner? This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. As a busy working mom to three, count them: THREE, teenage boys, "What's for dinner?" is probably the number one question I get asked every day. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a rut, offering the same old same old, even though nobody complains--but I do like to … [Read more...] about Dinner: Changing the Game

Breakfast Smoothies provide a healthy breakfast you can whip up quickly and enjoy in the morning. If your mornings are as busy as ours, you’re going to love how fast and easy these are to make. And with no added sugar, yet plenty of nutrients, you can feel good about sharing them with your family! Our easy healthy Breakfast Smoothies are … [Read more...] about Easy Healthy Breakfast Smoothies

The Best Fun & Healthy School Day Lunch Once school starts back, our busy days become even more packed with activity. As a homeschooling family, we often get immersed in our studies, and then when hunger calls, we have no idea what to have for lunch. We often find ourselves out of the house for field trips and other activities and need … [Read more...] about Fun and Healthy School Day Lunch: PBJ Bento

Halloween Fun with Ghoulish Goodies This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. My boys look forward to Halloween every year. From planning creative costumes, choosing the perfect pumpkin to carve, and joining in the neighborhood festivities, everyone enjoys walking in the crisp fall evening to share the fun (and goodies). … [Read more...] about Kids in the Kitchen: Ghoulish Goodies

Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. If a cookbook can be called life changing, it would be Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations: A Year of Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and Paleo Recipes for Every Occasion. Some see allergen-free diets as a 'trend'. But for … [Read more...] about Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Paleo Celebrations

Cub-Friendly Holiday Cookbook This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. My junior chef and I have been planning our holiday fare with The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook: Cub-Friendly Cooking With an Adult by Mike Berenstain. A cookbook written just for kids with family-friendly recipes, this colorful Berenstain Bears … [Read more...] about The Berenstain Bears’ Holiday Cookbook

Cooking With Kids: Berry Patch Shortcake #ChooseGood #Annies On busy weeknights, it can be a challenge to come up with an easy dessert our whole family will love. Yogurt is a favorite snack at our house, so our junior chef came up with an idea for a berry themed dessert he calls Berry Patch Shortcake. We headed to Publix to pick up some of our … [Read more...] about Berry Patch Shortcake & Paypal Cash Giveaway!

Cooking Kits for Kids from Kidstir My son has aspirations of being a chef and restaurant owner one day, and he is really passionate about all things related to cooking. He would rather look at kitchen gadgets than toys, and he is already adept at cooking full meals for our family. He loves to experiment in the kitchen and is inspired by new … [Read more...] about Kids in the Kitchen: Cooking Kits for Kids

The absolute best things about Giada De Laurentiis' Happy Cooking--well, except for the delicious and healthy recipes--are the pictures. Photograph after photograph after photograph appear on every page of this delightful cookbook. For me, and for my young chef, pictures are very important in a cookbook, and Happy Cooking is really beautifully … [Read more...] about Happy Cooking

Cooking with The Homemade Kitchen As my son and I cook together, I realize the sweetness and importance of these shared experiences, and I cherish these times with reverence and awe. Never much of a cook myself, my son inspires me to try new recipes and get back to the basics of cooking, rather than being more concerned with convenience. Slowing … [Read more...] about The Homemade Kitchen

Create a Bento Box ABC & 123 School Day Lunch Little Passports has teamed up with Wendy Copley, one of their Blog Ambassadors and author of Everyday Bento: 50 Cute and Yummy Lunches to Go, to bring you an amazing Back to School Bento Box! Back to school is a busy time, and creating the perfect lunch can be tricky and time consuming. … [Read more...] about Fun School Day Lunch

Cooking Up Some Fun My little junior chef is getting very skilled in the kitchen, and he especially likes to try new recipes and techniques. He has recently been taking cooking classes in our area. These opportunities have helped him (and me) branch out from the familiar and experiment with new foods and different methods of preparing them. As … [Read more...] about Kids in the Kitchen

For kids who love to cook, The Berenstain Bears' Country Cookbook: Cub-Friendly Cooking with an Adult is a fantastic resource for easy recipes and ideas. My youngest son is a true junior chef, and he loved this cookbook right away. It's size is just right for little hands, it's colorful design is engaging, and the Berenstain bear theme makes it … [Read more...] about The Berenstain Bears’ Country Cookbook

To celebrate baseball season, we are making baseball cupcakes, perfect for sharing with the team! Ingredients 1 1⁄2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder 1 cup water 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vinegar For topping: canned vanilla frosting peel apart cherry … [Read more...] about Kids Cook: Baseball Cupcakes

The Cleaner Plate Club by Beth Bader and Ali Benjamin is a wealth of information for not only getting kids to eat, but also for putting clean stuff on their plates. Much more than just recipes, half of the book is a primer for healthy eating. Beginning with a plan for healthy choices, shopping strategies, and understandable nutrition … [Read more...] about Kids Cook: The Cleaner Plate Club

Cooking With Raddish My son loves to help out in the kitchen. I've been looking for a way to combine his love for cooking with "school" so that we can expand on his meal preparation abilities and learn real techniques and the science behind them. So, we were thrilled when we received our first Raddish box. I've been looking everywhere for ways to … [Read more...] about Cooking With Kids: Raddish

My boys love Chinese food any time, but it is especially fun for us when Chinese New Year rolls around each year. We enjoy learning about different cultures, and China has been an especially fun country to learn about in our history studies. Cooking with Kids: Celebrating Chinese New Year This easy and fun recipe for pot stickers makes a good … [Read more...] about Cooking with Kids for Chinese New Year

Kids’ tastes in food are one of life’s great mysteries. Take vegetables, for example. Yesterday your son would eat green beans, but today, thanks to his new aversion to green foods, he won’t go near them. If this sounds like dinnertime at your house, you’re in luck. Picky eaters have finally met their match! With the help of The Wisest Kid in … [Read more...] about My Kid’s Favorite Food