Cooking food ideal for children

And 'the utmost importance that our children learn to cook. through this period of history, we have an epidemic of obesity in children and adults. A huge proportion of the population is overweight or obese and the numbers are rising rapidly. Our health services are overwhelmed, and insurers are becoming increasingly difficult to assure you, if you are overweight.

As we in this situation?

The reality is that we have relatively a lot of money and a lot ofof choice. In the past we had no choice, we ate a meal Mom cooked and eaten or not, but if not, but do not have anything else. Now we feed our children what they want to eat. If you do not like certain things then you should eat them not, therefore, processed food, the rooms are high in fat, sugar, and are more popular with children and the choice that is what he eats. Fruit is often a very poor second choice vegetables and even lower inList.

So really for us to encourage parents to get our children to cook. Either in person or send our children to cooking classes During summer vacation, or get their grandmothers, to give them a lesson, after school or a few friends together and have a cook-in is not important. "What is really important is that children learn your family, love of food to find out where she is from and how its on a meal for itself.

ThisInterestingly, to help children to cook a meal, are much more likely to eat vegetables. I am also the recipe for vegetable lasagna, when I taught a friend of my children, as recent years, and until then did not eat vegetables, now eats lasagna do this every time.

Vegetable lasagna

2 medium onions
2 medium carrots
1 courgette
1 red pepper
3 stalksCelery
2 cloves garlic

Bechamel

1 pint of skim milk
3 ounces butter
2 tablespoons flour
2.1 teaspoon nutmeg
Salt / pepper

Tomato sauce
2 cloves garlic
2 cans plum tomatoes
Salt / pepper
1 teaspoon oregano

cooked spinach
Cheddar cheese
Puff pastry

Chop the garlic and fry in a little olive oil with 1 tsp oregano. Add the tomatoes all season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, and cookfor thirty minutes. Break up tomatoes with a spoon trying to gently and season.

Bechamel

Melt butter and add flour, stir to combine and cook for several minutes over low heat. Add milk gradually, stirring constantly until the sauce bubbles. Season with salt and pepper and nutmeg.

Onions and sweat gently over low heat until soft, add garlic, chopped carrots, peppers, zucchini and celery and cook gently. Add inTomato sauce and simmer for twenty minutes.

Take the lasagna and prepare the ground with a layer of vegetables in sauce. Cover with a thin layer of spinach and then the pasta, spoon a thin layer of bechamel. Repeat entire process starting with the vegetables to be used until all the ingredients. Complete the dish with bechamel sauce covered with a layer of cheese. In the oven for one hour at 180C. Serve with a green salad.

It 'also importantnot too carried away with diet or eat only what "good" for you to teach a child to cook, is at least sure that in your cake, no trans "fats, sugar 'good', maybe some nuts and vegetables can the grated carrot cake or zucchini are good, and even mashed potatoes.

Enjoy cooking with children is an opportunity for you to know them and know how to get to them. We often speak of spending quality time with our children, and here is a greatOpportunities.