How old is your child and what can they cook?

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Inspired by the breakfast thread...

DD6 loves cooking, baking & preparing food but honestly its fallen by the wayside lately.

What do you cook with your children, DD loves baking, chopping etc but we haven't done much meal preparation and making dinners and following recipes aside from making meatballs.

DS is 20 and since he was 15, he has been choosing and cooking anything Gusto make. It has been really helpful and we get a great variety of meals.

The seven year old can do scrambled eggs and toast. And those rice packets that go in the microwave. He could get himself some cereal. That's about it.

The four year old make herself a great picky plate, but I don't think she'd be able to cook anything.

Both like helping in the kitchen, but we haven't done much in the way of teaching them to cook really.

Mine have been cooking since about 3. Obviously then it was helping me, and very basic things. Around 10 they could bake muffins and a cake and make very basic things. As teens they could make anything. I even bought one a Masterchef bible 😂. By 16 they could make complicated cakes, bread, cook the whole dinner from scratch, make soup and make ice cream from scratch too. Tonight my youngest is making me a perfect steak (basted with butter, garlic, seasoning and rosemary) and then he’ll toss the chips in the infused oil. 😋

You have to spend a lot of time teaching them, but it’s worth it.