Under supervision
The recipe (for what?) is like this….
- Collect two or more of the little tykes.
- Provide a fairly large set of safe ingredients (no alligators)
- and make sure that deep frying, large fire roasting, etc is avoided for safety reasons.
- Ask one little tyke to design a recipe, to be made by another under guidance(of the first tyke) and supervision (grand-parent)
NB: Of course please see that their ideas aren’t strenuous, impractical or fatheaded, and be alert so as to stave off disaster.
By the time they finish, they will be quite hungry. The resulting product will be eaten by both/all the tykes and the grand-parent(s) prepared to be a fine actor; Hopefully they will eat without too much complaining. This will also teach them about food, company and collaboration, if not also conversation. Now, on another day the second tyke designs for the first one to prepare a dish/meal. If there are one two many tykes, a round-robin scheme should be arranged.
I’m sure that the other Friday bloggers will have more mundane, but kindly advice/thoughts: Sanjana, Padmum, Raju, Maria, Shackman , Ramana and Conrad.
Chaordic Commentary 
Oct 15, 2020 @ 19:54:45
Brilliant! Your parents’ experience with your tyke?
Oct 21, 2020 @ 23:50:43
Oh, not at all, they ideally wouldn’t let her lift a finger.
Oct 17, 2020 @ 04:59:51
Interesting. Food and natural education all in a sweep! It actually would make their relationship to food much more personal, creative and healthy I should think.
Oct 19, 2020 @ 06:32:15
In my time, the first dish any kid learned to make was ‘rice krispie buns’. This involved getting a breakfast cereal called ‘rice krispies’ which was a bit like puffed rice, and mixing them with melted chocolate. Take spoonfuls of this mixture and lay it on some greaseproof paper. Let the chocolate dry, and there you have your ‘buns’. Kids love making them and eating them. I like eating them too. Especially when someone else makes them.
Oct 23, 2020 @ 23:28:00
oh blimey! I’m just wishing I can have a few of those handy to munch.