One unconventional idea I had for my daughter (only because she was a little older) was to get her in the kitchen and more familiar with the surroundings. I wanted her to help prepare 3 meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Along with desserts: cookies, cake and pudding.
We won't make more than one item a day and even after the items are made I ask her what she used to make it. My hope is after a few times, we will make a binder of recipes for her reference and eventually she'll be able to make items independently with supervision.
First meal was dinner! Spaghetti to be exact. A full meal with many deviations but easy to make.
Getting the noodles out was the easy part! Breaking them in half was more of a challenge. Is it really necessary? Probably not but I break them out of habit.
Ground turkey was our meat of choice. Open the container easiest with a utensil then the disaster I could foresee coming with just a 2 hour finger poke fight with that plastic.
I opened the jar for her. She is still practicing how to open her milk from McDonald's. Young chef we add a little water to the jar to get all the sauce!
She did great. She knew all ingredients and I actually cooked the meat for her. Otherwise I would probably put her in a full body chemical suit to cook up sizzling meat in a frying pan.
Sadly I didn't snap a picture of the finished product but rest assured it looked like all other spaghetti dishes. Sadder news was that for the record I have proven over and over again even when you let your children cook with you doesn't mean they are going to eat it.
She ate her garlic bread and slurped up some noodles but the majority of her meal was not consumed. I can't wait for the day to come where she eats. Maybe that's another reason I'm getting her in the kitchen more often.
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