Children's Kitchen

If you are anything like me, a working parent with young children (well, now my children are grown but I certainly had to contend with this when my children were young!), you may find it difficult to manage the time to prepare healthy lunch boxes for your little ones to take to school or, perhaps, you may not know how to prepare wholesome meals inexpensively and quickly! If this sounds like you, Children’s Kitchen (CK) is here to help. CK can provide fresh, tasty, wholesome lunches, designed by your children, delivered daily to your door!

Children acquire healthy eating habits by growing up eating healthy meals. We all like to eat what we have grown up eating. Eating habits, like any other general health and behavioral habits, formed during one’s early years tend to last a lifetime. Most adult diet plans fail because they require drastic changes in one’s lifestyle and eating habits. People change religions easier than eating habits!

CK provides the opportunity for young children, ages five to eight, to generate lifelong, healthy eating habits by encouraging your kids to create wholesome meals for themselves and their peers in our CK Teaching Lab. The CK Teaching Lab will transform food into a fun, interactive learning tool! And it is free for children from low-income families or those that qualify for free lunches at school. Here are some examples of what your kids will learn at Children’s Kitchen Teaching Lab:

• The lunchbox serves as a teaching tool for children to learn about a diverse variety of healthy foods and to build wholesome eating habits by encouraging your children to create their own lunches, empowering them to make choices that will influence their health and quality of life into their adult years.
• At a very young age, between five to eight years-old, your children will learn about natural, fresh food vs. prepared, prepackaged, and processed food.
• We’ll take trips to farmers’ markets and talk to local farmers about what foods they are growing and raising and how. We’ll also take trips to supermarkets so your young ones can learn how to gravitate towards natural, fresh foods.
• We’ll focus on one natural food at a time, allowing each child the opportunity to get to know each food in all its stages, from planting and growing to simple and safe ways to prepare each food and how to match each featured food with equally nutritious foods to create a balanced meal.

Nutritious meals have no value, unless they are eaten. Children are more likely to want to eat healthy foods if they participate in the gardening, harvesting, and preparing of them. Perhaps, the elder President Bush would not have famously declared, “I don’t like broccoli,” if he had opportunity to know broccoli as a child!