Get the Kids Cooking and Preparing Food | Meat Direct

School holidays are the perfect time to get the kids in the kitchen. Often, we bake with our kids but why not get them involved in preparing meals? Start young with age-appropriate tasks and soon you’ll be enjoying them cooking a meal for you! You’re also teaching them valuable life skills. And it’s amazing what they’ll eat when they have been involved in preparing it.

Their involvement can start way beyond the kitchen. Get them involved in planning the meal, shopping, then chopping and cooking.

Here’s a few ideas to get you started:

Crumb their own schnitzel or pieces of chicken or fish
Make their own salad
Chop and dice fruit and vegetables to make their own kebabs
Make their own satays with chicken tenderloins
Create a pizza using a pita-bread base
Roll meat balls
Make burger patties for their own hamburger
Cook a sausage on the BBQ
Make their own nachos
Build their own wraps with steak or chicken and salad
Toasted sandwiches