Senior Chef
Kids
Cooking Lessons
16-18 years old
Introduction
Senior Chef Kids Cooking Lessons for 16–18 year olds is
great
preparation for going to college. Now is the time to teach and
reiterate everything they have learned or should learn so they won’t be
eating fast food or TV dinners every night once they leave
home.
Let them cook main dishes (not
macaroni and cheese out of a box) such as lasagna, casseroles, meat
dishes, etc.
If your 16-18 year old doesn’t know how to cook and you are just
joining us feel free to look back at the previous
age groups
for ideas on how best to get your teenager on the right road.
Kids Cooking Lesson Plans
Lesson
1--Cooking main dishes and meat dishes
Lesson
2--One night a week chef
Lesson
3--Teaching your teen to shop wisely
Lesson
4--Nutrition and eating healthy
Lesson
5--Cooking International food
Lesson
6--Etiquette and dinner manners
Lesson
7--Teaching others to cook
Lesson
8--Preserving food
Teenagers are already old enough to cook
just about anything in the kitchen, so, now is the time to really let
their imaginations soar.
Give them more responsibility with the menu
planning and the preparing for the family. It will do them a world of
good when they are on their own someday.
If they
really enjoy cooking, let them create and experiment with their own
recipes.
Now is
the time to:
- Practice with halving and doubling recipes. (You can
do this
in the previous age group also.)
- Assign a night for them to cook.
- Try some international food nights-Mexican night,
Italian
night, Eastern European fare, Chinese, etc.
- Plan balanced menus, menus for special parties and
continue helping plan family meals.
- Learn certain kitchen tasks, such as canning or
drying foods.
- Learn shopping techniques, such as saving money,
what to buy, etc.
(Some of this your teen will already know. Now is the time to reiterate
for when they are buying their own groceries)