children cooking?

Question

how can i get my kids to try new things that i cook?any ideas

Answer 1

get them to help you make it

Answer 2

I found the best way to get children to try new foods is to get them to help you in the preparation. In my daycare we let the children participate with the cooking. They also tend to try things they have pick out at the store, while shopping have your child get certain foods and put them in the bags then tell them they will be helping you cook that certain food tonight for dinner or lunch. You can also try the three bite rule if it is on their plate they have to eat three bites, they may have more if they want but they will need to eat three bites. You must be firm on the rule one and everyone even you and your spouse must abide by this rule. I hope that I have been some help to you on this matter.

Answer 3

my children are 8 and 11. My oldest can practice dinner spagettii, tacos, eggs ,toast oatmeal, cookies , cakes, with help he understand a thanks to BBQ steak or burgers. He also makes grilled cheese sandwiches and if he has coaching fantastically a lot any project he set his concepts to. My 8 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous is extra of a prep chef and likes to cut and season the nutrients earlier that's cooked. He is attentive to a thanks to practice dinner maximum microwavable nutrients yet would not use the range because he's only too short and that i think status on a chair over a warm range is volatile. both children all started utilizing the microwave at about 2 yrs to nuke a hotdog (independant little boys needed no help from me)

Answer 4

Make sure the ingredients you use are foods they like and that you know are good: cheese, potatoes, squash, chicken, pork, pasta, whatever they have already tried and liked or something new to them that you know they will like (for example: my daughter likes apples so I bought some pears for her to eat instead). The more gradually you introduce new foods the better. It is easy to go from apples to pears but not so easy from apples to grapefruit.
If they refuse to eat what you've made, then they get no dinner. If you let them be picky now, then they will just get worse as they get older. If I make something I know my daughter likes such as chicken but it was cooked with tomato sauce, another favorite of hers, I make her eat at least half of it, even if she turns her nose up at it at first. I will give her more side dishes in exchange, but she has to eat half of her chicken. I make her try almost everything we come in contact with, she tries a bite of everyone's food at a restaurant and gets samples when we go grocery shopping. Who knew an 18mo. old would like salt and vinegar chips?
With children it is all about exposure and discipline.

Answer 5

I think asking them to help you cook is the best way. Children like to try things they made by themselves, and it's a good way to teach them how to cook as well. They'll learn how to look after their diet too, and younger they start learning it, better it is.

Answer 6

Ask them to help out in the kitchen while you are cooking. If they are old enough you can have them measure ingredients out or open cans. If they are younger you could have them fetche ingredients out of the pantry for you. If they are involved in cooking the meal they will want to try what they helped create.

Answer 7

Get them to help you shop, cook & eat - then they will can see how the it all comes together.

I'm sure they will take more of an interest if they help from the beginning!

Answer 8

buy a childrens cook book. get them to help you from start to finish. with the promise that you will clean up .

Answer 9

Show them how to cook form the very beginning of the recipe to the end. Believe me, if they helped make it, they will want to eat it.

Answer 10

Get them to cook it... My 11 y/o Daughter can cook a Sunday Roast .....No problem ....! ... I just got her involved in the "Art" of cooking .

Answer 11

Simple, dont offer them any alternative to what you have prepared for that meal, if they do not want to eat it do not cook them anything else. I've found that my son may say he doesnt like something just by looking at it, if i fail to give in to his demands of another meal he will eat it all and then tell me he liked it! Cook whatever you want, they wont go hungry!