Tips For Cooking With Kids

For Catherine, mealtime is a family affair.

For my daughter (almost three years old), it's more about her feeling empowered and getting to help prepare a meal, but my almost 5-year-old son has become a real help to me, chopping veggies, peeling, removing the ends off beans, pulsing and pureeing in the food processor and blender, measuring, and so on. I show my son the size we need to cut something and he uses a child-safe knife to mimic what I've done.