Do your kids cook like you??

[rascal]

My kids have been bought up with my cooking. some plain and some fancy.
Our granddaughter who is 12 but older and more mature.
She is still not sure what she wants to do job wise.
I asked her a few questions about cooking and she wants to learn some Indian dishes I make for her family. I asked her if she wanted to have an overnight here and do butter chicken. They all love my recipe so shes coming in a few weeks time to stay and shes making it my way with my recipe all by herself. She has a flair for cooking as she regularly cooks brekky for all them.
Maybe she might like that as a job option??
I'm kinda hoping she does.
Are your kids following your footsteps?.


Russ

 

[TastyReuben]

Well, we don’t have kids, so the closest would be a nieces and nephews.

Counting both sides of the family, I have 15 of those. Most, I honestly don’t know what they get up to or how they feed themselves or their families, but three have been around me enough to have eaten plenty of my cooking.

They do not cook like me, but that’s ok.

The one I talk to the most, she’s vegan, so of course I don’t expect her to cook the same foods as I do, but she, like plenty of people nowadays, cooks from meal kits, where all the prep work is done ahead of time. TBH, she’s rather lazy about cooking, she wants everything to be low effort and fast, but she also wants healthy, good food, so that’s where the meal kits come in.

I have a nephew who likes to cook and create, won’t go near a recipe to save his life, and I’ve witnessed a few of his meals…he really needs to learn some fundamentals, IMO.

He’ll mainly also cook from meal kits during the week, but does like to cook from scratch on some weekends, but it never sounds like anything I’d want to eat - he’s like a goat, he’ll eat just about anything, and everything is good to him, so hearing that he had a tuna, limburger, and marshmallow sandwich isn’t unheard of.

A third one who’s spent some time with me - he’s frozen pizza and frozen waffles and frozen chicken nuggets all the way. Wouldn’t know how to scramble an egg.

It doesn’t bother me, though. I never felt like I needed to influence anyone that way. Everyone should go their own path, and if they do or don’t cook like me, or at all, I’m fine with that.

 

[rascal]

Well, we don’t have kids, so the closest would be a nieces and nephews.

Counting both sides of the family, I have 15 of those. Most, I honestly don’t know what they get up to or how they feed themselves or their families, but three have been around me enough to have eaten plenty of my cooking.

They do not cook like me, but that’s ok.

The one I talk to the most, she’s vegan, so of course I don’t expect her to cook the same foods as I do, but she, like plenty of people nowadays, cooks from meal kits, where all the prep work is done ahead of time. TBH, she’s rather lazy about cooking, she wants everything to be low effort and fast, but she also wants healthy, good food, so that’s where the meal kits come in.

I have a nephew who likes to cook and create, won’t go near a recipe to save his life, and I’ve witnessed a few of his meals…he really needs to learn some fundamentals, IMO.

He’ll mainly also cook from meal kits during the week, but does like to cook from scratch on some weekends, but it never sounds like anything I’d want to eat - he’s like a goat, he’ll eat just about anything, and everything is good to him, so hearing that he had a tuna, limburger, and marshmallow sandwich isn’t unheard of.

A third one who’s spent some time with me - he’s frozen pizza and frozen waffles and frozen chicken nuggets all the way. Wouldn’t know how to scramble an egg.

It doesn’t bother me, though. I never felt like I needed to influence anyone that way. Everyone should go their own path, and if they do or don’t cook like me, or at all, I’m fine with that.

Daughter is a very good cook. But she spent lot of time around me. Shes a better baker than me by a street.
Sons couldn't gara. Lol

Russ

 

[Windigo]

I have no kids of my own, but two stepsons with autism and sensory issues around food. One of them only eats two different meals and handful of other foods due to ARFID .
The other has slowly grown to appreciate food more now he's approaching 20. He has asked me to teach him how to bake, which has his interest at the moment. So I've already made several cakes with him.
He says he's interested in learning more, so I'm teaching him things like boiling eggs and stuff and encourage him to cook. The problem is that while in theory he's interested, he only wants to cook when we do it together and doesn't practice so he ends up forgetting what he learned.
I don't have the energy to cook with him every weekend due to my illness, so it's a very slow process and something his mother forbids him to do in her kitchen. So it will probably take years for him to get some skills in this department.

 

[Rocklobster]

My kids all like to cook and eat..We constantly share photos, links , opinions on our FB messenger group..I find it easy to buy for them at birthdays and Christmas..I get them decent quality cookware and some more obscure tools they might not spend the money on for themselves...They appreciate it...

 

[Rocklobster]

I gifted them a box of foil pop ups last xmas along with their other presents. . It was for a bit of a joke and I use these a lot at work and thought they might find them useful. They reacted in an underwhelmed sort of way. But, last fall they all asked for another box because they used them all the time. Lol. Father knows best.

 

[medtran49]

NOT AT ALL!

DD never liked to cook and still only makes pretty basic simple things. Oldest DGD went through a sweets baking phase and even took a course in high school thinking she might be a baker but that phased off over time. For regular food though, both DGDs would rather just pull something from the freezer and stick it in to cook than make it themselves. They are 19 and 15 BTW. DD will be 44 very soon.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Both my eldest and youngest sons cook - and cook well. I´m sure the middle son would as well, but he had cerebral palsy at birth.
Youngest is a BBQ freak. I´ve watched him cook for more than 20 people, no sweat. His problem is that he thinks "veg" only includes fried potatoes and cooked beetroot.
Eldest is also a good cook, and when he first came over to the UK, worked in a Korean takeaway, learned a lot!

 

[JAS_OH1]

My youngest and middle daughters are both uninspired when it comes to cooking, so they hitched their stars to men who like to cook and do it well. Oldest daughter cooks out of necessity (husband who can't cook and a young daughter) but is very busy, so she likes quick and easy, box mixes, preseasoned frozen meals, and yes, home meal kits when someone gifts them to her. The oldest makes macaroni and cheese from a box if he is cooking. He prefers using Doordash several times a week. I think he knows how to make breakfast foods but he lives alone and is rather introverted, so no one to cook for and he doesn't feel the need to do it for himself. I can't say I blame him, I don't like cooking for just me, either.