Kitchen Helpers – How to Cook with Kids!
Did you know August kicks off Kids Eat Right month?
Yep, this month (as well as each and every month of the year) you can have a few more of these cute little hands in the kitchen!
To highlight the role everyone plays in ensuring a healthy future for our nation’s children, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and its Foundation celebrate Kids Eat Right Month™ each August. Kids Eat Right Month focuses on the importance of healthful eating and active lifestyles for children and families, featuring expert advice from registered dietitian nutritionists to help families shop smart, cook healthy and eat right.
My good friend Sara Haas is a chef and a mom to a wonderful little one. She’s also a past Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson who is 100% invested in encouraging families to get in the kitchen with their kids!
Thus, when Sara decided to do a blog brigade to promote Kids Eat Right, I told her I would join the fun.
While Hayden isn’t quite ready to throw all hands on deck in the kitchen just yet, I decided to enlist the help of the wonderful blogger community who is filled with mothers, healthy foodies and amazing recipe creators to share their best tips, tricks and recipes with you today.
Kitchen Helpers – How to Cook with Kids!
Kids Eat Right
This is the daddy of resources from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics! I highly encourage you to check this out and see what new tips and tricks you can pick up!
Teaspoon of Spice
Deanna and Serena run a successful blog and are the queens of Facebook Live! They have great resources to help encourage you to get your kids comfortable in the kitchen! Plus, they’ll help you whip up the latest seasonal produce dish made fresh from your CSA boxes!
3 fun ways to get kids cooking
Jessica Levinson, MS, RDN, CDN
You guys remember Jess, right? She’s one of the featured guests for the series we did back in April and she’s incredible in the kitchen! Her twin girls know a thing or two about great cooking and they’ve got a killer homemade applesauce recipe to prove it!
They’ve also got a few more highlights from their kitchen experiments, too!
The Foodie Physician
OMG, I know, adorable, right?! Sonali, aka The Foodie Physician, has been over here on the blog a few times! She’s the author of those great cookbooks: The Natural Pregnancy Cookbook & the Natural Baby Food Cookbook! Plus, Sonali likes to get her hands dirty in the kitchen with her sweetheart, Sienna!
Grab the recipe for their Baked Zucchini Fries here!
Oh my gosh, I can’t get enough of these adorable little chefs! Brynn, the mom, dietitian and recipe guru behind The Domestic Dietitian, has a wonderful site that includes some great tips on getting your kids to be comfortable with new foods in the kitchen! One of her best tips: try a new food with a favorite food! Genius, right?!
And, if you’re up for more, I’ve got a great roundup of KID FRIENDLY recipes creations from the wonderful The Recipe ReDux Bloggers below!
Breakfast & Snacks
Chocolate Chip Pistachio Breakfast Cookies – Key Ingredients
Zucchini Banana Oatmeal Pancakes – Joy Food Sunshine
PB and Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal – And A Dash of Cinnamon
PS Audra’s got a ton more where this came from!
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins – Food Pleasure Health
No Bake Trail Mix Bite – Bucket List Tummy
Yogurt Buttons – Lonestar Nutrition
Lunch & Dinner Ideas
Cucumber Carrot Salad with Sesame Seeds – Making Healthy Choices
Baked Zucchini Cutouts – Lonestar Nutrition
Healthier Chicken Nuggets – The Domestic Dietitian
Gluten Free Greek Yogurt Mac and Cheese – Joy Food Sunshine
Don’t worry, if you’re so excited about all these great resources and can’t get through them all right now, be sure to pin this cutie below and you can come back to this a bit later!
Brynn at The Domestic Dietitian says
August 1, 2016 at 9:54 PMThis is such a fantastic post! It totally motivated me to join the Kids Eat Right movement thru the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Great resources, tips and recipes!!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 7:11 AMAh, thanks so much Brynn! I adore your blog posts and am so grateful you contributed!
Deanna Segrave-Daly says
August 2, 2016 at 6:46 AMYou know this is the kind of post that makes my heart smile!! Thanks for promoting kids in the kitchen and extra thank you for your kind words about our blog, FB live and including our posts 🙂
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 7:12 AMAnytime Deanna and Serena! You know I <3 you ladies!
Sara @sarahaasrdn.com says
August 2, 2016 at 7:04 AMAmazing! I love this post so much Liz! Thank you so much for spreading the news that KIDS CAN COOK! I love that you featured our amazing colleagues too. A wonderful read!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 7:12 AMOf course! My pleasure and what a great idea to start a blog party for this month!
ELANA NATKER says
August 2, 2016 at 7:26 AMGreat post! Looking forward to more Kids In the Kitchen ideas and tips!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 4:24 PMThanks Elana!
Jessica @ Nutritioulicious says
August 2, 2016 at 7:50 AMSuch a great post and resource! Thanks so much for including me and my girls. Xo
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 4:24 PMMy pleasure Miss Jessica! Love those smiles!
Kim says
August 2, 2016 at 10:32 AMLove this! It’s so nice to see all the RD bloggers’ cute little ones! With my job I find that the kids are more excited to eat new foods even from just scooping out their own food or handing out napkins! You have inspired me to create a new post 🙂
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 4:24 PMAh that is so awesome Kim! It sounds like you have such an awesome job! Can you take me to work one day?!
AZ@...And A Dash of Cinnamon says
August 2, 2016 at 3:35 PMI agree with all the other commenters! Great post and always neat when you can get kids involved. Let them help and start creating great habits young!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 2, 2016 at 4:24 PMAmen! And thanks so much for your recipes!
Jodi says
August 2, 2016 at 6:19 PMThis is a great post! Kids in the kitchen is the best for bonding and promoting healthy eating
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 3, 2016 at 7:15 AMThanks Jodi! So true- lifelong habits are formed!
Sonali Ruder- The Foodie Physician says
August 3, 2016 at 8:20 AMSuch a wonderful post! Thanks so much for including me and my sous chef Sienna! I’ve tried to get her in the kitchen with me from the beginning and now she loves to cook! We’re still working on the eating part, haha!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 4, 2016 at 8:28 AMShe’s adorable and I’m sure that will come with time!! Take her out to SD and Aunt Liz will spoil her with tacos lol!
Laura says
August 3, 2016 at 12:39 PMLove the charts with suggestions on what even very young kids can do in the kitchen. I think it really helps kids develop healthy attitudes to trying new things when they are involved! Thanks for sharing my carrot cucumber salad. Spiralizing is so kid friendly since my kids love noodles! They can have as many vegetable noodles as they wish!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 4, 2016 at 8:28 AMLOVE the spiralizing with kids! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe, such a great color combo in there!
Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table says
August 4, 2016 at 8:07 PMI love this post!!! Forwarding it to my BFF who has 2 small kids. Do these guidelines work for spouses too? 😉
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 6, 2016 at 8:41 AMAh thanks Laura! They can certainly try lol!
Nicky Watterson says
August 24, 2016 at 3:52 PMI had a little helper in the kitchen today. Every morning, I allot 20 minutes for making breakfast, not a minute more or there will be chaos. My daughter loves measuring and dumping things! She s gotten really good at it she can scoop flour, then sweep the extra off the top for an accurate measure, and triumphantly dump it into the bowl!
Elizabeth Shaw says
August 25, 2016 at 7:38 AMThat is the best idea ever! I love it, and I know those memories will stay with her forever!
Farrah says
August 25, 2016 at 6:42 PMAwww, this is really cute! I wish I’d learned to do more in the kitchen when I was little!