Kids in the Kitchen: It's Never to Early to Teach Cooking & Eating Healthy Food

On-Demand Class · Feeding & Nutrition

This class gives real-life demonstrations of kids of all ages performing real jobs in the kitchen. It walks you through age-appropriate jobs for your child and recipes they can help make for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Class Description

Experts agree that one of the best strategies to avoid picky eating is to get children involved in preparing their food. However, few resources actually show busy moms how to do this. Let's be honest: as moms, our hands are full, and letting the kids help often takes longer than doing the job ourselves. But this class gives you practical demonstrations of kids of all ages doing important jobs likes unpacking groceries, washing greens, peeling, chopping, basting, grating, preparing their own snacks, and plating dinner for the family. These are life skills that not only forge strong bonds between you and your children, but set them up for lifelong healthy eating habits and skills to feed themselves properly in your absence! Kids in the Kitchen is both instructional and inspirational. It's a way to show moms in the trenches the joy that can be achieved through feeding their children well and letting them become the "bosses" in the kitchen. In this course, you'll find the wisdom only a mom can have from feeding 5 very different children - coupled with expertise in functional nutrition. The course is broken down into 6 "bite-sized" videos. As moms, we don't have large chunks of time to dedicate to learning, so each video is between 10 and 30 minutes long. You can easily knock out the whole course in just 1 week. Here is the course outline: Introduction: Creating a Family Food Culture Part 1: 5 Secrets to Raising Kids Who Eat Anything Part 2: Tips for Avoiding Picky Eating Part 3: Age-Appropriate Jobs for Your Child Part 4: Snacks & Meals Part 5: My Favorite Kitchen Tools & Containers "Kids in the Kitchen" comes with an interactive workbook to enhance your learning. You will also get Melissa's Healthy Snacking Guide for snacks on the go, recipes for DIY oatmeal mix, breakfast breads, and customizable family meal schedules that include chores the kids can help with. You will love all the resources you find in this course!

Class Materials

"Kids in the Kitchen" Digital Workbook

Sessions Overview

  1. Introduction: This Module gets you thinking about your current family food culture. Or if you even have one? How would you describe it?Do you plan your meals and snacks in advance? And what does your ideal family food culture look like? Let's take a minute to think through and answer these important questions.
  2. 5 Secrets I Learned Through Experience: This section outlines everything I would tell myself if I could back to my early days of parenting! All the tricks and lessons I wish I would have known, but learned the hard way. It's a summary of the most important tenents for feeding young children. If you master these, you will raise amazing ea…
  3. How to Avoid and Redirect Picky Eating: Kids are picky for different reasons. Do you know the underlying reason for your child's picky eating? This section will help you better understand these variables and help you pinpoint the root problem so that you can employ the right solution. You will see examples from my own children here!
  4. Age Appropriate Kitchen Jobs: Want to know what jobs your kid can do at his or her age? This section will spell it all out for you. You will have a robust listing of food related tasks the kids can handle at various ages, and I will show you real-life demonstrations so you can note the ones that seem perfect for your family. So…
  5. Snacks & Meals Creating Ownership and Independence: Snacking is SUCH an important topic. Kids ask for snacks all the time. What are some healthy rules around snacking? What does a good snack look like? How can kids prepare and plate their own snacks? This section answers all of this and more. You will also see me demonstrate 5 favorite family dinner…
  6. Tools for Success: The right tools will make it fun and easy for your kids to help in the kitchen. This section takes you through some of my favorites and shows you where to purchase them. You will also get a customizable weekly menu / food chore planner. This schedule is what we keep on our fridge for all to referen…

Your Instructor

Melissa Owens

Melissa Owens is a mom of 5 and an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach & Essential Oils Specialist. She completed her certification through IIN, a top rated program for holistic nutrition. Melissa is a passionate family food coach and functional health educator. She has seen through her own experiences how good nutrition heals the body. Melissa learned how to employ an arsenal of food-based and natural therapies to restore health in her home amongst her own children who suffered from recurring ear infections early on. She now teaches other moms how to set their homes up for health with the right nutrition and supplements for all ages. She created the "Kids in the Kitchen" online course to teach busy moms how to raise the next generation of health nuts by involving their kids in cooking and food prep from a very young age (18 months!). In addition to cooking, Melissa loves using essential oils to make her own natural products for the body and home. She also loves learning languages and watching documentaries about food and travel.

Degrees and Certifications

Certificate in Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching (IIN) 2019 Essential Oil Specialist (doTerra International) 2016

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