Joshua ( just turning 8 ) is going to be responsible for cooking dinner once a week for the family. We have always said he would do this once he is eight and he has been panning for a while. The Press these days implies children have no idea about food, only like the most dumbed down tastes and have no idea what is good and bad for them. So we thought it might be fun to blog on this long standing agreement in the family…
We had agreed that when our children reached the age of eight they would become responsible for cooking one night a week. Obviously there are safety concerns here, which are pretty complex but in essence boil down to the fact that adults need to deal with: anything to do with ovens or boiling water, supervising knives, anything else that seems dangerous as we go along…
The child needs to decide what they will cook, tell mummy what needs to be bought, and actually do the deed itself.
According to Joshua, who has just turned eight -
“Cooking with mummy is fun because, you get to do stuff, it’s good to learn, it tastes really good,you should have a go, it isn’t scary and it’s fun”
It is probably fair to say that I (Mummy) like to cook and have always thought that my children should eat food that I would be will to eat too… which cuts out a lot of the stuff that is offered to children in the UK today. Because of this, they are not that keen on things generally marketed at children… would you be if you are a grown up? Frankly if I were offered some of the stuff people try to feed to children I would throw it right back in their faces….but I am try to teach my kids to be better behaved than that 
So, in part as an exercise to help my boys (Joshua (8) and Alex (5)) learn to plan stuff, and write it down, we are blogging our journey cooking. Not as a fancy cookery book world, but simply cooking to eat if you care about what you put in your mouth and get hungry of an evening… Most of the entries will probably be by my kids, so please excuse the many and varied mistake which will follow…