Cooking and Recipes for Preteens

Cooking with your child can be a great way to spend quality time together. There are many different styles and recipes available to you and your child. This pages provides you with the resources to cook or bake the recipe(s) you want.

PAMF Content for Parents

• Intuitive Eating

PAMF Content for Your Preteen

• Cooking as a Hobby


• Recipe Archives


• Recipe of the Month


• Safety in the Kitchen


• Taste Buds

Outside Resources

• Cook with Your Kids!: This Food Network Web site utilizes an array of interactive media to get your child cooking. Some resources include video clips on topics such as "create a kid-friendly kitchen," cooking demos, recipe ideas, educational baking and baking how-to tips.


• Cooking with Kids: This nonprofit organization teaches hands-on food and nutrition education to elementary school children. Cooking with Kids engages children in hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures. Students are encouraged to explore many varieties of foods using all of their senses, to have fun and to exercise choice.

Recommended Books

• Cooking with Heart and Soul by Isaac Hayes and Susan DiSesa


• Month of Meals: Classic Cooking by American Diabetes Association

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