Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 11:41     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Noooo, we have a personal chef and we like to support our local bakeries.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 10:42     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Anonymous wrote:How much are your kids involved with holiday related food shopping, prep work, cooking and baking ? What items do they help with or make?


Of course they help they want to.

Raise your children to be self-sufficient.

All kinds of cookies always experimenting with different chocolate chip cookie recipes, peanut blossoms, sugar cookies decorated, date bark, brownies, oatmeal cookies, chocolate pudding pie, apple pie, chocolate mouse recipes in cakes or pies, ice cream pies......

Mashed potatoes, chicken, brisket, short ribs, tacos,

And yes my kids go grocery shopping when young with me, when teens without me, as adults with and without me.

Everyone at the table has a job. Every place setting has a turn. Ie some clear plates some load diswasher, some put glasses on the table etc..... We make it fun by making place settings a few weeks before with decorations.

Or we go out to eat... if no one feels like doing all of the above..

Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 10:37     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
DD (18) made playdoh ornaments for her, her brother, and the dog last night? Does that count?

Flour, water, and salt and everyone put their handprint in the dough---very preschool but super funny since the kids are are 18 and 15 now. And yes, I LOVE them!
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 10:34     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
DD (17) has made two different types of cookies to take to school and share with friends. She wants to make Buckeyes this weekend because they are her cousins' favorite. I supply the ingredients and offer advice as asked but we do our best to stay out of her way. She is responsible for clean-up and does an ok job. We are happy to encourage anything she wants to cook or bake.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 21:06     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Anonymous wrote:Honestly no one here enjoys cooking or baking , unfortunate because we all enjoy eating.


Cleanup is a chore. Buy.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:48     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Honestly no one here enjoys cooking or baking , unfortunate because we all enjoy eating.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:28     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Usually does, but too much school work this year so I’m doing all the baking.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 00:14     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Cookies
Sometimes will shop for ingredients
Will sometimes try making a new item
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 17:14     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
One of my husband's favorite Christmas activities is to make those peanut butter chocolate kiss cookies with our kids because he made them with his mom and grandma. He got our son to start helping roll the cookie balls in sugar when he was just 3.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 17:11     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
Kids have helped me bake Christmas cookies since they were little - now in college, they asked me to wait to make them until they were home so they could help. One boy, one girl
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 14:39     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
All. Ever since they were small, I s as Keats let them prepare one item themselves and help with all the other stuff.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 13:58     Subject: Are your kids cooking and baking for holidays?
How much are your kids involved with holiday related food shopping, prep work, cooking and baking ? What items do they help with or make?