Will you be teaching your LO's to cook?

[Lubbird]

I used to love baking with my mum. She never had much money so it was one of our saturday activities. It's not just a skill thing it's great for bonding

 

[Tegans Mama]

I could cook a Sunday dinner and macoroni cheese and that's about it when I moved out. Oh I could also cook pasta. I've learnt a lot as time has gone on and would say I am now a competent cook - not amazing but I can cook some decent stuff. Wifey on the other hand was making dinner for her four siblings when she was 15 (not through necessity, through choice). Funnily enough I have the same number of siblings myself but I never had to cook for them. We will do our best to teach Tegan to cook but realistically she'll live with us until she either meets a partner or we kick our clogs

 

[PitaKat]

I will definitely be teaching my son to cook. My hubby doesn't cook, there's no way i'll be sending my son out into the world like that. I love the idea of the teenage child making family dinner once a week.

 

[Fizzyfefe]

When I do have childdren, absolutely! It is so much fun, and more healthy, to cook at home instead of eating pre-cooked or fast food. I think one of the reasons America is become obese is because no one eats home-cooked meals anymore.

Cooking and baking are my passions. I grew up eating a home-cooked meal every day, whether it was from my grandparents or my parents (although my mother was certainly better at cooking than my father). Both sets of grandparents spent countless hours in the kitchen, and I learned from watching them. Many sights and smells in the kitchen bring back memories from my childhood. I began cooking meals at a young age. Now, I love to experiment and throw things together. I refuse to bake goodies from a box.

It is my dream to one day attend culinary school and cook as a personal chef or in a fancy restaurant. I hope that my future children will one day share this passion with me.

 

[Kelz22]

Yes I will be teaching my LO when to cook when hes a bit older. I love to cook so I want my LO to want to love to cook to and its a good skill to have later in life. My OH is a good cook too.

 

[lindseymw]

My Mam never officially taught me how to cook. I moved out at 17 so just taught myself as I went along with it with the occasional phone all to my mam.

Joshua helps me 'cook.' If I'm doing baking, he helps mix, measure & pour the mixture out. If I'm doing something he can help with, then I encourage him to do so.

 

[tallybee]

Yea my kids like to be inthe kitchen, help me make meals. DS not as much (he is 8) but DD (6) loves it. She knows how to weigh ingredients (with help) and we bake a lot. She loves watching junior masterchef and wants to go on it lol!

As a child, I could cook a basic spag bol at 8 years old - with supervision and help of course, but I was actually doing it.

I think it's incredibly important. WHen I went into Uni flats at 18, I was shocked at how non-existent some of my flatmtes' kitchen skills were. Some didn't know how to tell if a pan of water was boiling or how to boil pasta. In fact I'm surprised some of them didn't get properly ill as they couldn't even seem to follow the instructions on a packet of chicken nuggets and ate them half-cooked...

 

[Sarahkka]

Yea my kids like to be inthe kitchen, help me make meals. DS not as much (he is 8) but DD (6) loves it. She knows how to weigh ingredients (with help) and we bake a lot. She loves watching junior masterchef and wants to go on it lol!

As a child, I could cook a basic spag bol at 8 years old - with supervision and help of course, but I was actually doing it.

I think it's incredibly important. WHen I went into Uni flats at 18, I was shocked at how non-existent some of my flatmtes' kitchen skills were. Some didn't know how to tell if a pan of water was boiling or how to boil pasta. In fact I'm surprised some of them didn't get properly ill as they couldn't even seem to follow the instructions on a packet of chicken nuggets and ate them half-cooked...

Oh so gross...

 

[cookielucylou]

Yes, we have started already. I'm a SAHM so most of our meals are home made so I let DS help whereever possible, where he cant help i try to let him replicate what I'm doing-obviously at 2 i'm not giving him a sharp knife so he has a box of pretend cutting veg instead which he chops while I do the real veg.
DS loves baking and we will often do it as an activity together, sometimes he will get the bowl out of the cupboard and go sit at the table with it to indicate he wants to make something.