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- Medical Video: 3 Jokes That Make People Instantly Like You
- Tips for cooking with children to be safe and enjoyable
- 1. Pay attention to the menu choices and ingredients to be cooked
- 2. Share tasks when cooking with children
- 3. When eating, praise the child for helping to prepare meals
- There are several other things to keep in mind when involving children in the kitchen
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One of the best ways to introduce your child to healthy and nutritious food is to get them to cook. Cooking with children will let them be involved in all cooking processes. Starting from recording and buying materials to be purchased to the process of preparing and cooking the food itself. Then, what should and should not be done when cooking with children? Check out the tips below
Tips for cooking with children to be safe and enjoyable
1. Pay attention to the menu choices and ingredients to be cooked
When you prepare food with them, try cooking ingredients from a healthy diet. Explain the reasons why we need to choose as low fat foods as possible. You can also explain why it's better to choose chicken and fish than red meat.
Also explain why it's healthier to eat low-fat cheese than other types of cheese that have high fat. Basically, give a number of healthy food choices, and let the children choose what menu to cook. Also make sure that the menu is liked by everyone at home and makes your child feel involved in all processes.
2. Share tasks when cooking with children
Regarding the division of tasks, you also have to understand whether their age is enough to do it. For example, you might not give a sharp knife to cut vegetables in a 6-year-old child.
Instead you can tell him to wash vegetables only. Or, don't let them take a dish from a hot oven or do something else that is quite dangerous. You can tell him to open the oven door or decorate the food to make it more beautiful.
3. When eating, praise the child for helping to prepare meals
Cooking with children certainly has its own memories. To make children more eager to eat nutritious food, try to praise the child when the meal arrives. Tell other family members that the younger sibling or sister has helped parents cook.
Also say thank you to the child for helping, even if only a small help. That way, the child will feel valued and the desire to cook healthy food will emerge through this fun way to cook with children.
There are several other things to keep in mind when involving children in the kitchen
- Make sure that there are adults who accompany when your child is cooking, can you or other adults. Don't leave the child alone in the kitchen, also include older siblings or caregivers (if any), who can accompany them together.
- When your child peels vegetables or fruit, teach them to direct the sharp sides in the opposite direction from them. For children whose motor and balance are not good, don't let the child do this.
- Explain how to weigh the amount of food. Even though you don't use the exact size, use estimates using the glass, plate or bottle at home.
- Use the side of the stove in the back when cooking on the stove. Make sure the pan handles and frying pan are pointing inward. This is so that children will not accidentally nudge and drop it from the stove.
- Teach your child to hold the handle of the pan or cook properly. After that, don't forget to turn off the stove and oven after you're done.
- Tell the child that if he has trouble doing something (such as taking a plate from the top cupboard), he must ask for help from his parents.
