Find out what your child would like to cook. When a child is involved in the process of cooking a dish, they are more interested in eating it later. Try to choose a recipe together, ask your child to help you with the shopping list before going to the supermarket, and listen to your child’s ideas and suggestions during cooking. Say to them that tastes differ and that you want to know what they like. This will make it easier for you to create the list of foods that everyone in your family will enjoy.
Teach your child to distinguish different tastes and smells. Children may refuse to eat unfamiliar foods, especially if they smell or taste strange. But when cooking together, the child can learn the ingredients of a dish, smell them, and touch and taste them, which will increase their trust and interest of an unfamiliar dish. In addition, we perceive dishes with complex flavors better when we not only recognize them with our taste buds, but also with our sense of smell. Therefore, in some situations, it makes sense to invite the child to first smell the dish, and only then taste it.

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