How teaching children to cook can get them healthy for life: Food writer reveals the easiest ways to get kids to help in the kitchen from letting them make mistakes to throwing a baking party...
Many parents will find having little ones around while cooking dinner a struggle, but now a cookbook author has revealed the easiest ways to get children involved in cooking at home – from giving autonomy to teaching them their family history through food.
Food writer and mother-of-three Amanda Grant, from London, who is the co-founder of Cook School, a company which helps children to understand food through cookery lessons, meal kits, and recipes, spoke exclusively to Femail about the best ways to help children in the kitchen.
Teaching children kitchen skills can have the effect of reducing the likelihood of obesity later in life – when children aged 5-12 are taught how to cook, it’s been shown to positively imporve their diet,’ Amanda told FEMAIL.