Cooking with kids: An expert guide
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Meals, memories and meaningful moments
A lunch or dinner cooked outdoors with your family isn’t just a meal. It’s a memory.
For any parent of young children, the school summer holidays are both a joy and a challenge. Weeks of quality time with the kids, with the puzzle of how to fill that time in a meaningful way.
Fun in the sun
Cooking together ticks every box – particularly cooking on the Big Green Egg. It teaches them many things: where their food comes from, how to prepare ingredients, how to act around fire. It encourages adventurous eating. There’s no travel, no complex logistics, no great expense. It’s time in the open air, away from screens. And at the end of it all, you get to enjoy a fantastic lunch or dinner.
For summer holiday tips and recipes, we reached out to some of favourite chefs and Big Green Egg champions, all of them seasoned experts in alfresco cooking with kids.
Our panel of experts
Explore all of our recipes
Within our extensive Big Green Egg collection, you’ll find some fantastic recipes guaranteed to get your children excited about cooking. From pizzas and flatbreads to chicken wings and tacos, there are plenty of dishes for which sharing the labour is as much a part of the fun as sharing the results.
