How learning to cook can empower your child
February 27, 2020
Table of Contents
Join me in a conversation with Katie Kimball, as she explains how learning to cook can empower your child!
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- How to eat healthily without losing all of your time, mind and budget!
- Strategies to help kids eat healthier in general
- The benefits of giving your kids a sense of ownership of their dinner
- How to build choice and agency into your child’s day as well as educate them about the importance of food
- Why cooking is more than just kitchen work, and how learning to cook can impact kids in other ways
- Why learning to cook is a great tool for kids and families that follow dairy-free, gluten-free and grain-free diets as well as other diets.
- An overview of the excellent Kids Cook Real Food eCourse.
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Show Notes
- Why Katie created the blog Kitchen Stewardship (1:08)
- Strategies around helping kids eat healthier in general (3:36)
- Reasons why some parents are not teaching their kids to cook and the importance of taking the time to teach your kids to cook early (7:40)
- Strategies to help your kids take charge of their own health (10:00)
- Why cooking is more than just kitchen work (17:20)
- Tips to supercharge dinnertime and make use of the limited time properly (24:35)
- An overview of the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse (27:42)
- Where can people find the Kids Cook Real Food e-course and the Kitchen Stewardship blog (37:10)
Resources and Links
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More about Katie Kimball
Katie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, is a blogger, former teacher, and mom of 4 kids who founded the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse. Her blog, Kitchen Stewardship helps families stay healthy without going crazy, and she’s on a mission to connect families around healthy food and teach every child in America to cook.
Tara Hunkin (00:00):
This is the My Child Will Thrive Podcast and I'm your host, Tara Hunkin, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified Gaps Practitioner, Restorative Wellness Practitioner and Mother. I'm thrilled to share with you the latest information, tips, resources, and tools to help you on the path to recovery for your child with ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, or learning disabilities. My own experiences with my daughter combined with as much training as I can get my hands on, research I can dig into, and conferences I can attend have helped me to develop systems and tools for parents like you who feel overwhelmed trying to help their children. So sit back as I share another great topic to help you on your journey.
Tara Hunkin (00:46):
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Tara Hunkin (01:53):
Hi everyone and welcome back to the My Child Will Thrive Podcast. I am excited to introduce you today, Katie Kimball. Katie is the national voice of healthy kids cooking. She's a blogger, a former teacher, a mom of four kids who has founded the kid. The kids cook real food eCourse, which is amazing. And her blog, kitchen stewardship, which helps families stay healthy without going crazy, which is we like, and she's on a mission to connect families around healthy food and teach every child in America and beyond to cook. So that's the great thing about the internet. You can even reach beyond that now. So, Katie, welcome to the podcast. I'm really excited to have you here today because one of the biggest challenges we face as parents is getting our kids to enjoy eating healthy. So it's not just to get them to eat, but they, we want them to choose it for themselves as well. So yes. Can you tell me a little bit about how you started out? Like why did you create kitchen stewardship in the first place? Your blog.
Katie Kimball (03:04):
Yeah, I mean, I was raised by a mom who cooked probably a little more from scratch then, like the rest of the kids in my generation. And so I would have said like, my Mom's an amazing cook and she makes homemade bread and stuff like at Christmas. But it was, there was still a ton of processed food and like I had never cut an a pepper or fresh garlic or anything like that in my life until I got p. Yeah, for the first time. And you know, you just like realize that this little tiny life is depending on you for every single bite. And so that was like the very beginning of me sort of making a lot of little baby steps. And by the time baby number two was born, I had spent a lot of time in the kitchen, a lot of time at the cutting board, like thinking and processing.
Katie Kimball (03:48):
And I'm a former teacher, so it's just like, it comes really naturally to me to think about teaching other people everything I'm doing. And, and other moms around me were saying like, man, it's so hard. Like if I try to eat organic, it's too expensive. If I try to like make things from scratch, I don't have time for that. And so I felt, I felt other people's tension, like pulling you in all these directions. And I, and I would think as I'm chopping or cooking, preparing food in the kitchen, like, you know, there really are some habits and techniques you can do in t