Kids and Cooking: Encouraging Kids in the Kitchen

You'll find everything you need to make cooking with children an absolute joy, from expert advice and delicious recipes to fun food crafts and educational videos. Our helpful guides cover party planning, eating out tips, kitchen safety, and creative ways to encourage healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime. Kids And Cooking is here to help.

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Cooking for Gluten Intolerant Kids

It’s important to understand why a gluten intolerant diet matters, because often, the gluten intolerant child doesn’t show obvious signs of allergy or il...

Cooking for School Fetes

Anything goes for school fetes: small cakes that can be sold off individually to hungry kids or large cakes that mum can take home and serve for tea after a...

History Cooking for Kids

Children are fascinated by the past, and encouraging them to cook dishes with a link to history is a great way to expand their knowledge and to get them to t...

Kitchen Equipment for Kids

Kids love to do what they see grown-ups doing, so if you’re cooking in the kitchen that’s what they’ll want to be doing too. One way to encourage them...

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Simple Sorbets and Easy Ice-creams

Summer’s sunny days call out for iced puddings and it’s easy to make a tangy sorbet or velvety ice-cream with ingredients that don’t cost much. Zingy C...

Easter Celebrations: A Spring Themed Party Menu

Eggs are a big theme for spring, so this party menu makes the most of them. Spring Frittata If you’re not confident about using a frying pan, get the ingre...

Quiz: What's This Weird Food?

We all have foods we like or hate, but you'll be amazed at some of the weird foods you learn about in this fun quiz. 1. This large fruit is yellow green in c...

A Tropical Caribbean Party

Have fun with a Caribbean themed party by decorating your party room with seashells, buckets and spades and straw hats. Arrange tropical fruits in a basket i...

Foraged Feasts: Autumn and Winter

Foraging is great fun and you can find wild food to take home and cook all year round, not just in summer. If you’re going foraging, remember to keep to th...

Foraged Feasts: Spring and Summer

Foraging has recently become something of a fad, but for many generations of children, foraging was both a way of life and their contribution to the househol...

Cooking for Ill Children

It’s bad enough having a child that is ill or recovering from injury, but if they also lose their appetite you can begin to feel that they are slowing thei...

History Cooking for Kids

Children are fascinated by the past, and encouraging them to cook dishes with a link to history is a great way to expand their knowledge and to get them to t...

Ten Top Toddler Foods

So called superfoods are simply those that are nutrient rich rather than energy rich. This means they are high in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, usuall...

Food, Exercise and Body Image

A somewhat controversial study based at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth has apparently found that the problem of childhood obesity is not lack of ex...

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