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Win ‘I Can Cook’ kids cookery set from Lakeland

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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:

lakeland grater

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!

lakeland bowls

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.

lakeland whisk

I Can Cook whisk

You can win all of these fab items plus a couple of extras. Here’s how:

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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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GIVEAWAY RULES

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

Comments

  1. Tracy Grant says

    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

  9. Azra Dedic says

    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!

  18. nashath ullah says

    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 🙂

  22. Fishfingers for tea says

    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 🙂

  33. Liz Burton says

    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.

  48. Natalie Murphy says

    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!

  58. redrosemummy says

    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

  70. catherine adams (@kilmowskicat) says

    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!

  72. Natalie Holland says

    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.

  76. Lemknip Pink says

    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!

  96. Michele Elton says

    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!!

  108. Sue McCarthy says

    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.

  110. mummysknee says

    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.

  114. Edspire says

    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

  130. Helen Stratton says

    I like to cook Spaghetti Bolognese with my boys as I appreciate all the help with the chopping!

  131. Christine Ball says

    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

  133. ursula connelly says

    The boys and I love cooking together, either baking cakes or helping chop the vegetables for dinner

  152. Kat says

    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.

  157. Elaine Kidd says

    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.

  165. Karen McKinlay says

    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

  167. Hannah Beadle says

    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 🙂

  177. Kevin Mayers says

    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!!

  181. Dessiree Brown-Llaneza says

    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!!!

  183. Dessiree Brown-Llaneza says

    Woops forgot to say that my twitter id is @desbrownllaneza and my facebook name is Dessiree Brown Llaneza

  184. silvia says

    I try to transmit my love of cooking by encouraging my child to cook with me. Cookies are our favourite shared cooking activity.

  188. Ian Price says

    Love cooking chocolate rice crispie and cornflake cakes with my kids, yummy. Liked on FB, following and tweeted on Twitter as @pricenator

  189. lorraine polley says

    my grandson loves making cookies or shortbread, probably because its justs like playdough, rolling it out and cutting shapes

  190. piper and daisy says

    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

  195. Phyllis Ellett says

    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.

    @phyllgerry

  202. Katherine Coldicott says

    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.

  213. Karly Phillips says

    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.

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