do YOU teach the grandkids to cook?

meritaten

awwww - rosyred - too messy? I cannot say that - I must be the messiest cook in the uk! so I really dont care if the kids spray cake batter all over the kitchen - I do it myself on a regular basis! and get covered in flour or icing sugar or both! thats half the fun! being able to make a mess - but out of it comes these delicious treats!

rachbc

both my kids cook - my 13 yo is constantly moaning at the rubbish they have to 'cook' in food tech and can cook a hole meal or us all unassisted.

I'm a firm believer in let kids learn to do stuff as soon as they are able and most people are horrified that my now 5 yo has been allowed to use a real knife since she as about 3, stand at the cooker and stir the porridge etc. She is gently supervised and not had an accident.

Quillion

My Nanny taught me how to cook and bake i wish she were here to teach my son too :-(

Looby_Lou

I quite often get my sons to help with cooking. I was really impressed when my 9 year old cooked dinner for us the other night when I was ill:A! (Now to teach them to wash up!)

lisakay_2

My 2 girls are 4 and 6 and we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. when the youngest was about 12 mths or probably younger I used to sit her on the floor with a mixing bowl and water/washing up liquid and a whisk whilst i cooked with her sister. 6yr old can now make her own omelette/cheese on toast and they both know the ingredients for bread, cakes, yorkshire puddings, crumble, spag bol, lasagne...AND they like to wash up!!:j. just got to teach them how to do the ironing now;)

cat4772

meritaten, I have so many wonderful memories of cooking and baking with my parents and grandmother. My mum has 3DGDs and 1DGS. My niece (10) and nephew (12) love cooking pizzas and baking cakes and bread and each time they visit my mother ask what they can make in the kitchen.

My DDs are 2y9m and 7m; DD1 will help mummy stir things cooking on the stove and is learning how to chop and cut things safely and even now tells me that we must wash our hands before starting to prepare food! However, I prepare cakes / biscuits using the food processor so not much use to teaching them how to cream butter by hand! That said, when putting twinks hobnobs on the baking sheets, DD1 has the job of flattening with a fork, and tasting 5 or 10 when they've been cooked

ticklepenny_2

My Grandma (dads mum) taught me how to cook which was a godsend as my mum and dad were never very good so I took over the roasts at 12, and at 13 persuaded mum to let me cook at least 3 times a week lol. I have started to pass this on to my DD who is 2 and she loves making pasta shapes, omlettes, cakes, biscuits, bread and has even helped making beef burgers from scratch. We originally started doing it to help her get over her fussy eating (she is still slightly fussy but improving) but now she just loves cooking and will ask every day we are at home to cook something, usually cakes or cookies lol. I plan to do the same with DS once he is old enough to follow instructions.

meritaten

I have just found out that my 8 yr old gd (the one with ADHD) who brought 'homework' for us to help her with last week - was made star of the week in school for voluntarily doing a school project without it being set as homework! yes you all guessed right! it WAS food related!
she wanted some Welsh dishes and thier names in English too - so we got my cookbooks out and she found and copied down some dishes and I told her what they were.
eg Bara Brith - Fruited Bread
so perhaps our cookery sessions have impacted on her schooling! Her teacher was thrilled and impressed with her apparently! cos usually she tries NOT to do any work!