Cooking with children is much more fun if you’ve got kid-friendly equipment. So I was really pleased when Lakeland sent me the Cbeebies themed I Can Cook utensils to try out.
Arlo is forever barging himself into the middle of meal preparations and now I can give him his own set of kit to cook alongside me which he LOVES.
My favourite items from the set are:
I Can Cook grater
For chopping, slicing and grating, this plastic grater is great for little hands.
The pushing block enables quick grating and slicing of raw fruit and veg, while two stainless steel blades for fine or coarse grating are perfect for the likes of cheese or chocolate.
A powerful suction pad keeps it safely locked onto the work surface during use. I’d say cleaning it is the only bother really. It comes apart easily, but the cheese seems to get everywhere!
I Can Cook mixing bowls
The set of mixing bowls were much bigger than I anticipated, so are not just confined for use by mini-cooks.
They’re really sturdy, and like the grater have powerful suction pads underneath to stop them shooting off the work surfaces and coating your kitchen in cake mixture.
They also have pouring spouts which are supremely useful.
And finally the jolly whisk! I love a fun looking utensil to cheer up the kitchen and kids will love using it too.
I Can Cook whisk
You can win all of these fab items plus a couple of extras. Here’s how:
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WIN WIN WIN!
The prize:
Multi-purpose Grater
2 Mixing Bowls
Whisk
Silicone Mat – turquoise
Silicone Scraper – red
To enter:
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1. For your first chance to win the prize please comment on this post telling me what you enjoy cooking with your child.
2. For a second chance to win please tweet this post Win Lakeland I Can Cook children’s cookery set with @cookingkt http://wp.me/pU5T8-11a #win #prize and comment HERE telling me you have done so along with your twitter username
3. For a third chance to win please follow me @cookingkt on twitter and comment HERE to tell me you have done so.
4. For a fourth chance to win please go and ‘like’ Feeding Boys on Facebook, and come back to this page to comment you have done so.
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This giveaway is open to all readers with a UK mailing address. The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced in a subsequent post.
I am running this competition on behalf of Lakeland. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
There is one main way to enter and several ways to get bonus entries. You must leave a separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they will not be counted.
Closing date: 10pm Wednesday 30th November 2011
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Thanks to Lakeland for sending me samples of their I Can Cook range
My girls and me enjoy cooking cakes, any kind of cakes will do, They both enjoy helping out at dinner time, they help daddy make meat balls getting their little hands stuck into the mince
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I enjoy cooking anything with the kids, but they love pancakes the best. @pooohbear2811
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I cook my grandmother’s no-bake cookies with my niece. We love the time spent together!
I love cooking with my Bruce, especially cakes as I like to pretend that we have sprinkled magic on the mixture and that’s how it rises! She stares in awe at the oven, so cute!
My daughter loves to make cakes and watching her mix all the ingredients together is worth all the mess
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We love baking fairy cakes then decorating them
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Please enter me. I have just started weaning my baby so haven’t cooked anything with her just yet. When she’s a bit older I’m sure we will have lots of messy fun cooking together. Can’t wait to bake our first cakes together 🙂
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In our house it can only be cake really, Izzy is rather fond of mixing (though I’m not so fond of the mess!). She also thinks it’s great fun to put bread in the toaster – not technically cooking but hey ho 🙂
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I really enjoy baking with my son!
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I love to cook the Tomato spirals from the I can Cook cook book with my little ones. We also love the gold digger buns, delicious and healthy
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We love cooking together. She particularly enjoys anything that involved ‘knock knock knocking’ the eggs to crack them! Cakes would have to be our favourite.
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We LOVE cooking christmas rocky road… and making our own pizzas. The kids love shaping the base and then choosing their own toppings!
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I enjoy baking cakes and pizza with my children
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I just like you on facebook too.
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My daughter likes baking cakes best, but is pretty handy at chopping veg too!
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Me and my little boy love getting messy in the kitchen. We have a try at making most things, cakes, biscuits scones etc. He likes anything messy ( like icing and sprinkles) or that he can use his little rolling pin and cutters on!
Following on Twitter. @nataliemurphy14
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Triple chocolate brownies – although my daughter now makes them better than I do!
Love making gingerbread men with my little boy, we make them look like each family member!
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We love making scones and adding different ingredients each time, we made pumpkin scones in october and they tasted fantastic 🙂
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Our favourite thing to cook together is cornflake cakes, my little boy is only 19 months old but he loves helping in the kitchen.@RedRoseMummy
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I enjoy making and decorating cup cakes with my daughter.
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I Love cooking with my little boy he enjoys making cupcakes he is only 2 but loves to join in, get covered in cake mixture and having great fun decorating them and then of course eating them. Have watched I can cook on many occasions and thought what great accessories they use to make cooking easy and fun!
Tried following your blog via e-mail but it doesn’t like my email address for some reason 🙁
At the moment I most like cooking muffins with my children – They help me measure out everything and then it’s just a matter of chucking it together, giving it a stir and in the paper cases! Simple to do but they love muffins…and so do I :). Plus, muffins are a good way of getting in some extra veg like courgette & choc muffins or Carrot & sultana.
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We like cooking everything together, from messy baking (normally involving chocolate) to him helping peel veg for a roast dinner. He’s a little star, even ‘helps’ with the washing up!
My 3yr old loves makind chocolate cookies with me!!
I enjoy cooking lots with my little one but I think his favourite is pizza
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I enjoy seeing his enjoyment at seeing the final product! He’s so proud of it.
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We like making Rice Pudding at the moment – its very easy for them and very tasty!
We like to make cakes, especially cupcakes and especially if we use various decorations to make faces. We made some spider cupcakes for Halloween which went down really well too.
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We like to make cakes and cookies !
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It has got to be cakes!!
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Wow, what a fab prize.
My girls absolutely love cooking, my 8 year old was given a cookery book when she was 3 years old and we have worked our way through all 100 recipes! The girls favourite thing to make is hedgehog rolls which are made with bread dough. They are very simple to make and we have some very interesting looking hedgehogs!!
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Thanks for a fab comp xx
Love cooking anything, just for the look on the childrens faces!!
we enjoy making cakes together but they are big fans of helping to make a roast dinner too @MummyFever
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we love baking, biscuits because they love rolling and cutting 🙂
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I don’t have any children but if I did, it would be cakes.
If I win this prize, it will be donated to charity to go to Romania.
when my son was younger he used to love making all different shapes of biscuits
we enjoy making fishcakes, chicken or fish fingers and chicken nuggets are you getting the theme here, flour, then egg then breadcrumbs 🙂
He also loves chocolate cake, so quite often we make chocolate cupcakes much to his father’s delight.
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I love the idea of the grater, I bake and cook all the time with my boys
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I am going to start baking with Esther and William in the new year so this would make the perfect famly present for us this Christmas x
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We love cooking cookies! @wendymcd83
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we love making cakes together and decorating with jelly tots
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fairy cakes
Cakes.
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I like to cook Spaghetti Bolognese with my boys as I appreciate all the help with the chopping!
I like cooking shortbread (which normally turn out like biscuits) as the recipe is so easy and it is great fun rolling it out with a rolling pin before cutting the shapes you want. The end result is also wholesome, nutritious and tastes quite delicious
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The boys and I love cooking together, either baking cakes or helping chop the vegetables for dinner
We like to bake a lot!
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I enjoy cooking fairy cakes, we get to make yummy cakes and use loads of sprinkles 🙂
We LOVE baking … especially with chocolate.
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We enjoy making cakes and biscuits
mine are a bit older now but the grandaughter is next in line for a shot at biccies with nanny & anything with flour where we can make a mess is fab!!
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We cook so much my husband says that we cook up trouble!
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Son is quite young so we have only done ‘safe’ options so far like little cakes but this year I think we will be able to expand and be more adventurous!
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I cook every meal with at least one child at my side! It is most enjoyable to cook things which don’t need to be precise as they are most forgiving of two year old helpers.
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I tend to make lots of iced biscuits
My son likes to make anything that involves licking the spoon afterwards. I like making Banana breakfast muffins as they are a bit more healthy.
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fairy cakes and biscuits, which they can decorate themselves
i love doing cooking with my grandkids making cakes and cookies are great fun
We love cooking cookies, almost as much as we love eating them!
We love cooking cake’s to give to family and friends
Well My son is 12 & wants to be a chef, he makes me sit down and makes me little treats & suprises 😀 But our fave thing to make together is roast dinner 🙂 & birthday cakes
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I love cooking cakes with my girls, would be so much easier if I had a kitchen table though rather than having them stand on chaire to reach the side 🙂
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I love making muffins with my son!
I enjoy cooking boiled egg with my daughter because once it’s cooled she loves to peel it!
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My children enjoy making pizza
My grandkids love helping out whenever fair cakes, welsh cakes & cheesecake is being made. They also enjoy carefully chopping everything up when a stew is on the go. The same goes for cheese and potato pie, which is where a safer grater would come in handy!!
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I love cooking with my two, but at their ages 2 and 3 and a crazy dog in the kitchen it can sometimes prove impossible. Now my 3 yr old has started preschool my 2 year old will help with meatballs, and bolognese! We quite often make cakes which is where the suction on the bowls would REALLY help, the amount of mess we’ve encountered!!!
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Woops forgot to say that my twitter id is @desbrownllaneza and my facebook name is Dessiree Brown Llaneza
I try to transmit my love of cooking by encouraging my child to cook with me. Cookies are our favourite shared cooking activity.
Biscuits of any sort
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Love cooking chocolate rice crispie and cornflake cakes with my kids, yummy. Liked on FB, following and tweeted on Twitter as @pricenator
my grandson loves making cookies or shortbread, probably because its justs like playdough, rolling it out and cutting shapes
I love the grater! Piper always wants to grate the cheese when we make pizza and I’m constantly saying ‘mind your fingers!’
We make pizza from scratch because Piper loves to knead the dough and roll it out. Then she uses a spatula to spread the tomato sauce (we use Loyd Grossman tomato and basil cooking sauce instead of tomato puree because it gives a much nicer taste to the finished pizza. We puree it to get rid of the tomato chunks and it makes a gorgeous topping)
Then she sprinkles on the grated cheese and tops it with whatever strange topping combination she has decided on for that day 🙂 It’s amazing how much more Piper enjoys her food when she’s been involved in making it. @piperanddaisy
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I love cooking with different kinds of cheeses.
Now our grandaughter is 3, we just love cooking, she now can roll a rolling pin and mix. It is so much fun all round. We made cookies yesterday and she did most of the work. Also she helps Grandad with a roast dinner, making the Yorkshire mix and gravy. So hope she finds the love of cooking through us.
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I enjoy cooking cakes with the kids.
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My children like to bake anything that they can decorate. Biscuits are usually a favourite because they like using the different shape cutters. Lots Of coloured icing is a must.
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Fairy cakes are great fun
we love pimpkin cupcakes 🙂
er, pumpkin even!!
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I love cooking cupcakes with my kids and also chocolate brownies!!
my boys love to make cakes 🙂
my boys love to cook, we make a great spag bol, chicken pie and lovely cakes and crumbles. When they were smaller we cooked together lots – now they are 13 & 10 they cook themselves and we eat the results together:) – tonight they made me apple crumble with apples from the garden.
mince pies are great to cook with children because they can decorate them individually