What’s Inside: Teach your kids to cook with this Roundup of sources for learning to cook. These can help you teach your kids this essential life skill.
This post is a follow-up post to Teaching Cooking Skills to my Kids in which we discussed 6 basic skills to make scratch cooking easy.
Top 6 Kitchen Skills
- Knife skills
- Dry Beans and whole grains
- Baking Bread from scratch
- Soup Stock & Sauces
- Meal Planning and Organization
- Making Condiments, Snacks, & Staples
This fantastic “Top 6 List” was conceived by Chris over at Joybilee Farms at 6 Basic Skills that Make Cooking From Scratch Easier. The following sources were so helpful to me when I was organizing the lesson plan suggestions for Teaching Cooking Skills to My Kids.
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Teach Your Kids to Cook: Life Skills Training
Sometimes you need to get help from others.
I’ve collected a bunch of excellent resources where you can find the help you need to teach cooking skills to your kids because you want them to be prepared for life.
Recommended Books:
- The Homemade Kitchen by Alana Chernila
- Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.
- The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children
- The Everything Beans Book by Katie Kimball (eBook or paperback)

Recommended Courses:
- Free Knife Skills Class by Katie at Kitchen Stewardship
- Cooking Curriculum for the Whole Family also by Katie at Kitchen Stewardship
Websites

More Knife Skills
- Kid’s Basic Knife Skills | 100 Days of Real Food
- Knife Skills for kids | Happy Kids Kitchen
- Knife Skills for Toddlers | Simple Bites
- Kid’s Knife Skills | More Momma
- 5 Ways to Improve Your Knife Skills | Learn to Cook
- Teaching Knife Skills: What, When & How | This Pilgrim Life

More on Dry Beans and whole grains
- Benefits of soaking beans & grains | Positive Pranic
- Soaking Nuts, Grains & Legumes | Deliciously Organic
- How to Soak Beans | Spend with Pennies
- How to soak & cook beans | Don’t Waste the Crumbs
- How to Soak Grains for Nutrition | The Nourishing Home
- Home Cooked Beans Can Boost Your Food Budget | Weston A. Price
- Three Bean Soup Recipe | Kitchen Stewardship

Baking Bread from Scratch
- How to make Restaurant Worthy Pizza at home | Good in the Simple
- Easy Cinnamon Rolls | Walking on Sunshine
- Homemade Cinnamon Rolls | Spend with Pennies
- Sourdough Discard Pesto Pizza | Traditional Cooking School
- 28 Sourdough Bread Recipes | Traditional Cooking School
Meal Planning and Organization
- Cooking Handicraft | A Humble Place
- Home Management Binder | Simply Convivial
- 20% off Coupon for Plan To Eat Meal Planning App | Plan To Eat

Making Condiments, Snacks, & Staples
- Frugal Pantry Staples | Thrifty Frugal Mom
- Homemade Pantry Staples | This Pilgrim Life
- Kitchen Pantry Staples to make at home | The Rising Spoon
- 10 Snacks Your Preschooler Can Make | Kids Cook Real Food
- 5 Healthy Snacks Your Kids Can Make (free eBook) | Kids Cook Real Food
Resources Galore
I hope this has given you plenty of resources and ideas for teaching your kids to cook. If you need a lesson plan for the semester, check out my post Teaching Cooking Skills to My Kids. Cooking is such a vital Life Skill to teach that we forget sometimes to actually take the time and teach it step-by-step.

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