What should I do when the food outside is red and the children refuse to eat at home? Try the parent-child kitchen, lead the children to know the mysterious field of the kitchen and participate in the cooking process of various ingredients. According to the survey on the eating habits of elementary school students jointly sponsored by the Pacific Sogo Culture and Education Foundation and the National Health Foundation,
Among the children who have the experience of cooking with their parents, 6% think that cooking with their parents makes the food better!
Wendy, the author of Wendy's Mom's Parent-Child Kitchen, has a pair of children. She thinks: "Cooking is a love, and it's a love for children. Therefore, although she is a professional woman, she began to actively study cooking after marriage, and obtained the certificate of taking courses in western food and bartending, and also obtained the C-class nanny license! In 29, Mommy Wendy led the whole family to participate in the "Parent-child Lunch Competition" and won the gold medal. Since then, the family has used cooking more to create sweet memories of parents and children.
A dish that conveys deep love. Why did you start thinking about cooking with children? Wendy's mother said with a smile that it actually originated from the precious memories left by her grandmother and mother when she was a child. "I still remember when I was in primary school, at lunch time, my mother or grandmother always brought the hot lunch just made to school in person. There are many little faces hanging on the railing at the school gate, and I am among them. I see my family coming from a distance. My waiting heart is jumping like a bird, and my heart has already flown out of the railing and come to my dear family. I can't settle down until I take the lunch.
after many years, I can't recall the dishes in my childhood lunch, but the happy memory of taking the lunch from my family has been deeply rooted in Wendy's heart and has been growing with her ever since. Therefore, she believes that a cooking can convey deep love. By playing cooking games with children in the kitchen and on the dining table and carefully tasting each ingredient, not only can the rich taste of taste be branded in children's minds, but also the dining table at home is always filled with laughter and moving memories.
parent-child chef, start a delicious game!
children can always catch a catchy poem that embodies food education in their lives, "Who knows that every grain is hard?" But how much do children understand the meaning behind the poem? How many points have you practiced in your daily life? Mommy Wendy believes that many life concepts and attitudes towards others can actually be subtly given to children at the dinner table. If you want to teach your children the values of acting in a grand way, you might as well start with the simplest diet education at an early age!
In fact, diet education is not difficult at all, because it is originally a part of life. To embody diet education in life, we can start with improving children's partial eclipse problem, making children learn to cherish food and establishing a correct diet concept, so as to cultivate good eating habits bit by bit.
Starting from improving the partial eclipse, children's partial eclipse has always been a headache for parents, who are worried that the unbalanced nutrient intake will affect their growth and development. Mommy Wendy thinks that parents can improve their children's partial eclipse problem from the following directions:
1. Review adults' attitudes towards food. Many partial eclipse problems actually come from adults. For example, parents don't like to eat green peppers, so this ingredient will naturally not appear on the table; Or when adults eat bitter gourd, they are reluctant to say something like "so bitter", which may make children have a negative impression on the food they have never eaten. Therefore, to improve children's partial eclipse problem, adults must start with their own attitude towards food! Parent-child chef, open a delicious game!
2. Provide diversified non-staple food ingredients from children 4? At the age of 6 months, we will start to eat non-staple food. During this period, parents should try their best to let their children try all kinds of ingredients, so that their children will have a wider acceptance of all kinds of foods and tastes in the future. If you are willing to try different flavors, you can get richer and more balanced nutrients.
3. As for the development of children's taste, it is suggested that children should be given a low-oil and simple diet to taste the original flavor of food. Besides eating healthily, they should also avoid developing children's eating habits that emphasize taste and deepen the negative factors of partial eclipse in the future.
There is no need to be reluctant to eat food. If children still can't accept a certain ingredient after many attempts, there is no need to be too reluctant. After all, they can still get the same nutrition from other ingredients, which will not affect their growth and development. As long as children don't eat most of the ingredients in a certain kind of nutrients (such as protein) for a long time, parents don't have to worry too much. Parent-child chef, open a delicious game!
It has both color and fragrance, and is more attractive to children. Mommy Wendy said that in addition to establishing children's correct concept of diet, giving full play to some creativity in cooking and taking some thoughts to change the taste, appearance and shape of food can bring surprises and freshness to children and attract them to try in many ways.
Even children can be invited to cook food together. When children cook food with their own hands, through the opportunity education of their parents, they can cultivate the concepts of caring for food, environmental protection, health, etc., which will also help children to establish interest in diversified food and indirectly improve the problem of partial eclipse. Preparing homework before going into the kitchen
Mommy Wendy said that it is not as difficult as expected to take the children into the kitchen. As long as we pay attention to preparing a safe environment for the children, when using dangerous operations such as kitchen knives or gas stoves, it will be fun and safe to cook with adults around.
the purpose of asking parents to establish the knowledge of * * * and take their children to cook is not to teach a chef, but to let them learn to use tools correctly, know the characteristics of ingredients and fully understand that everything has its own process. Parent-child chef, open a delicious game!
Choose safe kitchen utensils for children. "If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first." Before taking children into the kitchen, you must choose safe and applicable kitchen utensils for them to avoid hurting young hands. In addition, you might as well spend more time to find some lovely ornaments and accessories for your children to make up and order food, which will not only bring visual surprises, but also further enhance your taste and increase your appetite. The following Wendy Mommy will introduce the kitchen utensils suitable for children:
1. Safe tableware with heat resistance and fall resistance. In the choice of dining utensils for preschool children, it is better to use melamine and stainless steel with heat resistance and fall resistance. In addition, when purchasing children's tableware such as spoons and forks, in addition to the considerations of easy cleaning and heat resistance, whether the edge of the spoon is smooth, whether the handle is firm, whether the weight is too heavy to cause the burden on the hands, etc., are all details that must be paid attention to when purchasing.
2. Various molds add fun. Many cute molds are good tools to change the appearance of food. You can easily buy them in some large shopping malls, such as rice pressing molds, vegetable pressing molds, molded boiled eggs, toast pressing molds, sushi rice ball molds, etc. Besides, you can also find various lunch boxes, tableware and food decorations.
3. Knife using skills When a child uses a knife, parents are inevitably frightened and afraid that the child will be injured. In fact, as long as you follow the steps and let the children practice step by step, cutting vegetables can be as easy as playing as a family wine!
For children who are just beginning to operate knives, it is suggested that they can choose less sharp knives to use, such as western knives. Parents can prepare "soft-boiled carrots" for their children in advance, let them cut into carrots with a knife, and then move them back and forth and cut them into blocks by sawing. With the gradual improvement of children's proficiency, you can further practice cutting carrots into thick slices.
after completing the first stage of the practice of cooking carrots, you can enter the second stage, where children can cut "crisp cucumbers". The texture of cucumbers can be easily cut with a western knife. It is still practiced step by step from cutting blocks to cutting thick slices, which will not cause too much burden on the child's immature small muscles. When parents assess that their children's proficiency and operational skills are sufficient to cope, they can start to use sharper fruit knives and cut more diverse ingredients with the company of adults.
4. Cooking skills for stoves When children are first trained to cook food, they can use electric cookers such as induction cookers, black crystal cookers, electric stoves, etc., so that children can gradually get used to the heat emitted by the pots, and then turn to the kitchen to use gas stoves, which is safer.