Teaching children to eat and cook starts at home

Would like you all to meet my son Casey, he's 5yrs old and will eat anything that's sat in front of him. I brought him up from he had teeth eating what I eat mostly fresh food. Nearly every Monday we cook, I take him to the supermarket shopping, standing in the trolley he chooses what he wants to eat and we make something from it. It has worked wonders no need for us to cook more than one meal he'll eat whatever is sat in front him and when we go out there's no need for chicken nuggets or sausages. No need for processed food! Fresh food can be as cheap and nutritionally is better for them.

Casey lives with his mum 5days a week I get him on a Sunday and Monday. He knows I can't have him every day even though I know he'd love to be with me every day he keeps telling me so. I was brought up on farms so cooking was always a big thing I learned from my mum and granny and now want to pass it down to Casey. We play all day on a Sunday and a lot of a Monday, but take time out to go food shopping or even fishing to catch our dinner. It's so bonding he says when he cooks he's like daddy, that's the same feeling I felt as a child when cooking with my mum. He loves being involved in cooking his dinner if he cooks it he'll eat it. Brings us so close together we watch cartoons and chat while we're eating,he tastes the food while we're cooking and can tell me if it's ready, ie- like risotto or pearl cous cous he'll tell me when its ready. Is such a bonding experience it makes me smile from ear to ear and if people need guidance to help children eat with questions/answers/recipes I'll do anything I can to help. There's nothing more rewarding than cooking with my son and he turns around and says it tastes fantastic as he's munching down fresh vegetables/fish/meat. No frozen food in sight. When we go out it's so easy one menu does us all and he's only 5.

Bonding with our children is all about finding interests we both love and creating. It's not easy being a chef and dad you miss so much as there growing up but the smile the fun the laughs we have while cooking makes up for it. Plus we make and paint dinosaurs out of old boxes my escape from cooking. Could he be chef when he's older? I don't know and don't care so long as he's happy at what he does I'll be happy plus I know I'll still get the hugs and cuddles, The "3 c's" are "Little Chef, Big Chef, Both Cooking" together pulling us closer together.