“The Little Chefs Project: A Collection of Kid-Friendly Tips, Tricks and Recipes for Fun in the Kitchen” + Giveaway
I recently had an awesome opportunity to work with Chef Boyardee and The Motherhood, talking about my boys and eating habits. I was featured for the first time in an E-book published by Chef Boyardee & The Motherhood, entitled The Little Chefs Project: A Collection of Kid-Friendly Tips, Tricks and Recipes for Fun in the Kitchen. If you look closely at Chapter 5, you’ll see a picture of my youngest (Sammy) with a can of Chef Boyardee, as well as my personal experiences and thoughts from my friends. Chapter 5 is about Fun with Flavors and is a pretty good chapter if I say so myself! In fact, the whole book is great!
The layout of the book includes the following:
Chapter 1 – Feel Like a Kid Again
Chapter 2 – Teachable Moments
Chapter 3 – Everyday Fun
Chapter 4 – Family Time
Chapter 5 – Fun with Flavors
Chapter 6 – Family Traditions
Additional Resources
Chef Boyardee Timeline
Contributing Bloggers
Each Chapter of the Books includes:
Our Favorite Recipes
Tips from Bloggers
Thoughts from Bloggers
Advice from Family & Friends of the Bloggers
This E-book is pretty dang cool! Be sure to take a moment, head over and check out what other moms in the blogosphere had to say about their experiences with their family’s eating habits. In addition to the E-book, we’ll be hosting a cook-along next week – highlighting Chapter 5: Fun with Flavors. Now for a fun giveaway!!!
GIVEAWAY
1 lucky reader on The Mommy-Files will win a Chef Boyardee prize pack, including the following items:
– Kids’ kitchen measure and prep kit
– Kids’ recipe box
– Scrapbook album
– 2 Chef Boyardee chef hats
– Chef Boyardee adult apron
– Chef Boyardee child apron
– Chef Boyardee pizza kit
– Time capsule
– 2 coupons for FREE Chef Boyardee Beefaroni
– 5 Chef Boyardee Recipe Cards
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– Check out the E-book and tell me in a comment one tip or idea you learned from the book.
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– Contest open to U.S. residents only.
This is a compensated post as part of a campaign with Chef Boyardee and The Motherhood. The giveaway is sponsored by Chef Boyardee and The Motherhood. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.
The winner is #82 – congrats to Christian Alejandro N!!!
I liked the tip from Sarah, In the Trenches of Mommyhood about how children are more likely to try something if they helped make it and using taco night as an example. I have a 3 year old picky eater, so I’m definitely going to try this out.
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I learned that if you have picky eaters, try creating a new, quick and easy recipe WITH them! Introduce them to fun new flavors, like dips and spices, and encourage them to help you pick ingredients and create meals. Little Chefs are more likely to eat food they helped you cook!
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They say to pre-measure ingredients into containers before you start cooking with younger helpers. That is a great idea!
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