Kids Cooking For Life

Developed by Nutritionists, Approved by Kids

Although Kids Cooking For Life (KCL) is located in California, they have excellent online resources that can offer you recipes and tips for cooking with your students in your school garden and classroom.

They teach students with the following 4 Essential Skill Sets in mind:

Capable

✓ follow a recipe to completion
✓ learn cooking fundamentals: measure, chop, simmer, sauté and season

Safe

✓ knife skills
✓ heat cooking
✓ food safety and hygiene

Smart

✓ choose lean protein, whole grains, eat veggies and be sugar smart
✓ replace empty calories with nutrients
✓ learn about ingredients, labels and nutrition facts

Mindful Eating

Cooking increases self reliance and self esteem. Taking charge of food choices builds self confidence for life. Appreciation of various fresh ingredients fosters connection with nature, culture, sustainability and community.

Kids Cooking for Life recipes are affordable and quick to prepare, using ingredients that are widely available in mainstream supermarkets, can be adapted to accommodate dietary restrictions and are flexible to allow for substitutions and modifications. They are low on utensil use for easy clean-up, and most importantly, the majority of their students must like what they cook. This recipe collection has been assembled over several years by a passionate team of nutritionists, educators and parents and has been stringently tested to meet all these criteria.