Cooking Kids

If you’re an ingenious cook with a ton of recipes stockpiled away, then you probably think you don’t need inspiration when starting a kids cooking club. However if you want to make your kids cooking club an independent project for children, you need recipes that are easily assembled and quickly cooked. This leaves out a lot of favorite casseroles and soups. While nutritious and easily thrown together, these favorite dishes take lots of cooking time and possibly a lot of preparation.

So where do you find ideas for a kids cooking club? Well if you’re reading this, then you know that the Internet is a particularly great place for kid recipes. There are also magazines geared towards families and kids that have a section for recipes. You can check out Family Fun Magazine or even Simple and Delicious for some great ideas. Don’t forget about your local library, too. We just had a visit there and I came home with some great titles such as Cool Kids Cook, Passport on a Plate and Fun and Easy Recipes for Kids. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to leaf through a book for ideas rather than skim  the Internet. Plus, there are usually more pictures in a book.

 While regular cookbooks are a great place for finding good recipes, they aren’t always the best places to find recipes that can be tweaked for kids. Depending on how long you plan on your kids cooking club session to last, determines how complicated you can make a dish.

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