Do I Have to Cook with My Kids to Foster a Curiosity and Love for Food?

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus mini episode, we explore what it means to invite kids into the kitchen and to explore food with us. Because it’s not just about cooking with them or even encouraging them to eat new foods.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Stacey.
0:06.2	And I'm Megan.
0:08.6	Welcome to this little tiny, mini episode of Den I Just Feed You.
0:13.7	We're kind of thinking about June already.
0:16.3	It's next week and how a lot of the episodes are specifically about kids in the kitchen,
0:24.6	but not cooking with kids. Yeah, not cooking with kids. So listen, I think cooking with kids is a
0:34.3	topic that people ask for a lot. And we've talked about before many times.
0:39.6	We've talked about it.
0:40.5	We've talked about the value of it because it is something that we have valued in the past
0:45.8	when our kids were younger.
0:47.5	We think it's very beneficial in a whole host of ways.
0:52.4	But I think something that we have come to realize
0:56.2	as we've grown as both professionals and as mothers,
1:01.7	is that cooking with your kids isn't the only way
1:06.3	that you can impart these lessons
1:08.8	and create food memories with your kids. And that by limiting the
1:13.8	conversation to being about cooking with kids, it's not that inclusive. Cooking with kids can be
1:22.1	incredibly stressful. Messy, chaotic. Yeah, like if you're neurodivergent, if you're a single parent, if you're a parent with the kind of job, that's very, very stressful and time consuming.
1:34.9	If you're a parent who doesn't have an out-of-the-home job and you're just overstimulated and exhausted and already invest so much time in your one kid or maybe you have several kids and there are different ages.
1:48.6	And it's really hard to manage.
1:50.0	I mean, the list of reasons why you might not want to get into the kitchen with your kids goes on and on and on.
1:56.9	And you might just not like it.
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