What’s with the junk food on Kid’s Menus at restaurants? It reminds me of the assumption that most people make when they learn that I teach cooking classes for kids. “You must bake a lot of cookies,” they say…
Is it that difficult to believe that kids can enjoy good food? I don’t mean “good” like [...]
It’s almost impossible to find a parent who doesn’t eagerly share his or her woes about his or her child’s food “issues.” Some kids refuse to eat anything green. Others only want to eat food that is white. Some love crunchy while others will abstain. Taking each person’s preferences and aversions [...]
I was proud to be named the “Cooking with Kids expert” for a new audio program, soon to be released on A Million Cooks. Each of my “food-casts” will be one minute long and will be related to family meals and cooking with kids. After 6 years of teaching cooking classes for children, I have [...]
Does this sound familiar: “How much more do I have to eat before I can have dessert?” If so, you are not alone. In fact, we started hearing this so often at our table that we decided to stop serving dessert every night. Dessert was becoming such a powerful incentive to eat their “growing food” [...]
Recently, I shared some photos of our new backyard chicken coop. We designed it after talking with lots of 4H families who raise poultry – taking into consideration many of their horror stories about predators and pests. Here are a few tips that you might want to incorporate into your own coop design.
Consider using Hardware [...]
We recently returned home from our annual summer vacation to Montana. As we ate our dinner at a brewery in the Salt Lake City airport, I overheard a woman commenting to her server as she handed him her empty plate. “I just always think of those starving people in Africa” she said. I casually glanced [...]
Since I teach cooking classes for children, people ask me all the time about what their kids can really do in the kitchen. They find it hard to believe that their toddler can actually help, without causing chaos. When I do workshops for mother’s groups or schools on Family Mealtimes or Cooking with [...]
