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That One Time I Got to Be a Speaker for the Homemaking Ministries Online Conference (Plus, win a NutriMill?!)

July 5, 2018 by Laura Leave a Comment

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I’m not sure which to tell you about first: the Homemaking Ministries Online Conference I was invited to speak for, or the NutriMill Grain Mill you have a chance to win!

I guess I’ll try to share both at once. :)

Coming in just a few weeks, you’ll want to take part in the 2018 Homemaking Ministries Online Conference. I was honored with an invitation to be a speaker and have had so much fun preparing!!

You’ll want to sign up to learn more about this conference here and when you do, you’ll be signed up to win some awesome homemaking prizes, including an actual Grain Mill!!!

There are more prizes where that came from. But more importantly, the Homemaking Ministries Conference covers much needed topics like:

Gospel-Centered Parenting
Overcoming Anger
Biblical Marriage
Your Identity in Christ
and many, many other kitchen, home, and Christ-focused topics.

As for my topic, I get to share from my 21 years of experience teaching my kids to cook. It’s been a blast working on this, especially once I realized how much my kids’ ability to cook is such a blessed part of our family’s ministries. Who knew? More on that during the conference!

When you sign up before July 9 to get info about the conference, you’ll not only be registered for the giveaway, you’ll also be given a chance to get a huge early bird discount. We’re talking a $20 savings! Plus this, which takes your savings up to $25:

So hurry over to sign up for the Homemaking Ministries Conference before July 9!

I can’t wait to share more as the conference dates get closer.

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5 for $5 Kids in the Kitchen Collection – Final Day!

June 1, 2018 by Laura Leave a Comment

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What are all the children doing this summer? They are learning to cook – every last one of them!

How? Well, they are pouring over all these books, picking out all the fun recipes they want to try, and they are begging their moms to buy more vegetables and fruit. Indeed. It’s a summertime miracle. This is not at all an exaggeration in any way.

Ok, fine. Some of the kids are begging to bake cookies. But who are we to argue or complain?

Do you and your kids need inspiration to get into the kitchen this summer and have fun learning together? This package is a must-have.

We put all these favorite Kids in the Kitchen eBooks together, and we knocked the price down from $32 to just $5! Then we added a freebie too! Your kids will love these fun recipe cards to go with their new cookbooks!

Get it all for just $5.

What to Do with the Kids in The Kitchen = One of the first eBooks we put together here. It includes 18 super simple, super fun and kid friendly recipes.

Malachi’s Favorite Cookbook = This one includes 17 of our son Malachi’s favorite recipes to make by himself. He helped me write this cookbook while he was learning how to cook a few years ago. These recipes can be read in cookbook form or can be printed to be used in recipe card form, which makes it extra fun!

Learn to Cook = A book that can be handed to older kids (ages 8 and up) so they can read and practice and learn to cook independently! And would you believe, this book also contains 55 easy recipes that kids love? 55!!!

Fill ’em Up! = This one is unique and we love it! It contains 7 recipes to use within 7 Bible lessons. The recipes have spiritual applications to go with them – so as you’re cooking, you are talking about scripture with your kids. The lessons apply to kids ages 4-18, providing great family devotional time with a practical purpose!

Teaching Your Kids to Cook = This is a favorite because you can use this to guide you through teaching your little ones to cook – beginning at age 2! This book includes games and activities to do in the kitchen with your young ones. And even better, it includes 48 kid friendly recipes to make with your kids as they are learning.

Plus get the Kids in the Kitchen printable recipe card pack for free. There is so much winning going on with this package!

THIS OFFER ENDS TONIGHT! Grab it now and get into the kitchen with your kids!

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5 Kids in the Kitchen Cookbook Collection

May 24, 2018 by Laura Leave a Comment

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One of the best things you can do this summer is get your kids in the kitchen. We decided to give you a little incentive in the form of a gorgeous pile of fun recipe books!

Kids in the Kitchen Collection

These books would cost $32 if you were to buy them individually. But we decided to give you the entire collection for just $20!

Now that my kids are 21, 18, 16, and 14 I cannot tell you how invaluable it is that they all know how to cook. Our kids MUST learn how to take care of themselves, feed themselves, and work hard. It is a tremendous gift that my kids are so capable in the kitchen. As an added bonus, my sons are all capable to provide their mother with chocolate as the need arises.

Here are my babies cooking when I could still get away with calling them babies. (Just kidding. I still call them my babies. Did you know babies can be 6’4″?)

No matter the ages of your kids, you’ve got to pull them into the kitchen with you. Not sure where to start or what to do? That’s what this fun eBook package is for!

Here’s what you’ll get for your $20 bill:

What to Do with the Kids in The Kitchen = One of the first eBooks we put together here. It includes 18 super simple, super fun and kid friendly recipes.

Get all 5 Kids in the Kitchen eBooks right now for just $20!

What a great set of resources for you to use this summer with your kids! (And/or if you really want to go nuts while teaching them to cook, I highly recommend this incredible Kids Cook Real Food eCourse!)

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Want a Kids in the Kitchen freebie for added incentive?

As if this 5 for $20 deal can get any better…

Get this set of gorgeous Kids in the Kitchen printable recipe cards with your purchase of this Kids in the Kitchen eBook package!

Seriously? Get 5 great cookbooks for just $20, plus get free printable recipe cards? AND YOUR KIDS LEARN TO COOK????

Yes. Yes. Yes.

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My 17-Year Old Confesses How He Really Feels About How I Make Him Cook

June 20, 2017 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Remember this kid?

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Oh my goodness, this guy!!

At his very core, our Justus is the same motivated, hard working, creative, g0-getter that he has been since he was little. Now he is 17 and getting ready to be a senior in high school. Ahhh, the senior year! Here we go again…

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Recently, Justus and I were working on lunch together in the kitchen and out of no-where he said, “When I have kids, I am totally going to teach them to cook like you taught us. Why do people think this is hard?”

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I’m not exactly sure what inspired his proclamation as it came without prompting somewhere between the steaming of the green beans and the grating of the cheese. But he went on with, “So many of my friends think cooking is hard, and I’m like, ‘Not really. It only takes 5 minutes to make scrambled eggs.'”

It hit me then that cooking with my kids from the time they were little became such a natural thing that they didn’t even know they were learning. To Justus, cooking is just cooking…a normal part of any day. There’s nothing hard about it for him because it’s just a fact of life.

Justus' Cooking Confessions

Sure it takes effort, and sure at any given time my boys would rather sit on the couch playing a video game. But when I say, “Justus I need you to brown the meat for dinner; Elias please make Guacamole; Malachi head on in and get the veggies ready…” they just do it.

What started with me “letting my boys help” in the kitchen has turned into my ability to turn them lose. During this on-the-run season in our lives, I’m really not sure how I would keep them all fed if they didn’t pitch in and help.

Be still my heart.

Hearing these words from my 17-year old meant a lot to me. He gets it. He understands that the reason most kids think cooking is difficult and that eating out is the only option is because they haven’t been taught how simple it is. And apparently he’s on a mission to tell his friends, “Dude. Learn how to scramble an egg. It’s not even hard.”

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My turn for a confession: I found it easier to naturally teach my older three boys to cook, but my youngest kind of got the shaft. Why? I think because by the time Malachi was old enough to truly be of help, I already had three bigger boys doing the jobs I needed done. Then when the older boys got busier and didn’t have time to help as much, I didn’t have as much time to focus on teaching Malachi the basics. Oops.

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All that to say, I encourage you to try and make it natural to teach your kids to cook. Pull them into the kitchen with you as much as you can so they learn without even knowing that they’re learning. But if that doesn’t work or it isn’t coming naturally, consider doing what I did with Malachi…

He and I sat down together and went through the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse together. That was the magic bullet for both of us as it finally inspired him to want to get in the kitchen and gave him all kinds of confidence! And it helped me because the course did most of the teaching so my overloaded brain didn’t have to think so hard or work so hard. Why reinvent the wheel, right?

Check out the wonderful Kids Cook Real Food eCourse your entire family can enjoy together. Malachi and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

A Kids Cooking Freebie for All

Want a freebie? Get a FREE Kid-Friendly Real Food Snacks Recipe download. This is a lot of fun, and a great way to motivate your kids to get into the kitchen with you this summer. And it’s free, so why not?

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If you get the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse, Malachi said he would be happy for me to email you a free copy of his cookbook. :) As you can see, it’s full of his favorites. (I promise he gave a big thumbs down to any recipe he didn’t totally love as I suggested various ideas – ha!)

Here are a few of the recipes my kids like to make on a regular basis:

Easy Guacamole
Cream Cheese Salsa Dip
Crustless Pizza Pie
Homemade Tootsie Rolls
And of course, lots of scrambled eggs :)

What are ways you’ve found to make it easier to teach your kids to cook?

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Easy Crustless Pizza Pie

March 2, 2016 by Laura 6 Comments

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Without a doubt, this crustless pizza pie tastes as good as it looks. Better actually.

Malachi's Pizza Pie

This recipe is simple enough for my 11-year old to make by himself, and tasty enough that we all decided to add it to the menu frequently.

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Pssst:

Said 11-year old learned most of his cooking skills because we “made him” take this Kids Cook Real Food eCourse. He was hooked after the first 5-minutes of starting this class. It is fantastic!!

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The best part is: You can make this with any pizza toppings you like. Make it full of veggies, full of meat, or a combination of both.

I will say that we made one with hamburger and one with pepperoni and all of us enjoyed the hamburger pizza pie best. The day we made these for pictures, I had no peppers or mushrooms in the house. Boo. We made them with sauce, meat, and cheese and served olives and tossed salad on the side.

See how Malachi is using one of our DIY Recipe Card Holders to hold up his recipe? Here he is, measuring the ingredients for the Cream Cheese Layer of the Pizza Pie.

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I promise he owns other shirts. Somehow, every time we took
pictures of him cooking, he was wearing the same thing! #ipromiseitsclean

Once the Cream Cheese Layer was in the oven, Malachi browned the hamburger meat – while standing on the AlienBoard. Is there any other way to do it? I promise you will not catch me multi-tasking in this way. But yay for the 11-year old!

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Here is the easy-to-make, very tasty recipe for your family to enjoy. MAKE THIS WITH YOUR KIDS. But that was a given, right?

Easy Crustless Pizza PieYum

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Easy Crustless Pizza Pie

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Author: Laura

Serves: 1 pie

Ingredients

8 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup pizza sauce
1½ cups shredded mozzarella, cheddar, or colby jack cheese
Any meat or veggie toppings you like

Instructions

In a medium-sized bowl mix cream cheese, eggs, pepper, garlic powder, and parmesan cheese until creamy.
Spread mixture into a pie dish.
Bake in a 350° oven for 15 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare pizza toppings.
Spread pizza sauce over hot cream cheese layer.
Top with any meat, veggies, and cheese you like.
Bake in a 350° oven for 10 minutes or until cheese has melted.

Easy Crustless Pizza Pie

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I can’t recommend the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse highly enough. It is well worth your investment. Learn about it here. Malachi loved this class!

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The Work It Takes to Teach Your Kids to Cook: Is It Worth It?!

September 30, 2013 by Laura 13 Comments

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The goopy finger reaches into the dough you asked him not to touch. The flour spills. Everyone wants a turn at the same time. The cookbook gets slopped on. The tiny hand grabbing for the spoon knocks over the glass of water. The excitement escalates. An egg gets cracked onto the floor. The smiling kid with cinnamon and honey all over his hands, face, and arms runs out of the kitchen to smear himself all over the couch….

Ah, it’s the picture of parenting bliss. These are the delightful reasons we all love letting our kids help us in the kitchen. Mmm-hmmm.

I remember it all very well. I knew the value of getting my kids into the kitchen with me to teach them the basics – plus they always loved helping me. But wow, usually it was so much easier to do it myself. After all, I didn’t need help spilling the buttermilk. I could do that very well all by myself.

The next time you have your kids helping you in the kitchen, and you begin to feel exasperated, wondering if it’s worth all the trouble and extra work – be encouraged by this walk down memory lane in the Coppinger Household:

These are my four boys, back in 2007. I don’t recommend always having all of your kids help you at once, but hey, when it’s Monkey Bread – everyone wants to help.

I had one that always walked on and jumped off countertops while helping me.
If I remember right, the floor was made of hot lava.

See what I’m saying?
Elias, please be careful with that vanilla you’re sniffing. It’s too precious to spill.

Sitting on the countertop was also a very effective way to reach the bowl.

Oh look, here they are making Snowflake Quesadillas. The little cuties. It’s great to look back at pictures of the kids and forget that what was really happening when I snapped the shot was that the five year old had his pants on backwards, the two year old was in the background screaming, and the other quesadillas were on the stove burning.

Why the walk down memory lane? Those pictures were all taken six years ago. See that little one in the middle of the picture above? Here he is now, making French Toast for our family brunch with very little help from me:

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Check out our littlest guy in 2007, when he was just two years old:

This is him now, making pizza crust for our lunch:

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My encouragement to you is this: If you continue to let your kids into the kitchen with you, teaching them basic skills and letting them do what they are able to do – your hard work WILL pay off. Now, all I have to do is hand my 11 year old a recipe and he can make it on his own. Now all I have to do is ask my 13 year old to brown hamburger meat for lunch, and he has it done in 15 minutes. Now all I have to do is ask my 8 year old to get the eggs ready for breakfast and he knows just what to do (except for the actual cooking part – we’re still working on that one). Now I can turn parts of our meal over to our 16 year old and he’ll take care of them completely.

My kids still have a lot to learn, but they’ve spent a lot of time helping me in the kitchen through the years, which has made learning to cook come more naturally to them.

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So keep at it! You will be blessed, and more importantly, your kids will be blessed with knowing skills that are very valuable! Want some more encouragement and some incredibly awesome resources to help you with this endeavor? Check out what is available for you now:

“Bless Your Parenting” Packet ~ $78 value just $49!!

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Teaching Your Kids to Cook and Learn to Cook Books

July 29, 2011 by Laura 17 Comments

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We are excited to announce that our new books, Teaching Your Kids to Cook and Learn to Cook, are now ready for purchase! We are offering these books as a download (pdf file), so you can purchase and receive a download link directly in your email inbox. In addition, we are offering you a chance to purchase both Teaching Your Kids to Cook and Learn to Cook in a package, offering you a hefty discount!

Teaching Your Kids to Cook – For Parents of Kids Ages 2-12

Teaching Your Kids to Cook is written for parents who desire to spend time helping their children learn their way around the kitchen. Filled with instructions, tips, activities, printables and over 45 simple, kid friendly recipes – you and your kids will have many opportunities to make messes together and get chocolate in your hair. Here’s hoping your kids learn how to put basic meals and treats together and learn to serve others too!

The recipes in this book include only wholesome, easy to attain ingredients. Teaching Your Kids to Cook is perfect for families with young children – oh the memories you will make!

Help yourself to free sample pages of Teaching Your Kids to Cook.

Learn to Cook – Because You Gotta Eat

Learn to Cook is written to anyone old enough to use a stove (I’d say ages 8 and up). Not only for kids, this book may also be helpful for adults who are new to cooking. This book can be handed directly to “the student” and while you should certainly be available to guide them along as they learn new kitchen skills, your sons and daughters, newlyweds and cooking novices can read Learn to Cook on their own and take off with all of the new skills they are learning! From measuring to menu planning to grocery budgeting – this book covers all the kitchen basics. Not to mention, it includes over 55 simple to prepare recipes!

The recipes in this book include only wholesome, easy to attain ingredients. Learn to Cook will equip the reader with basic kitchen knowledge – an incredibly important life skill!

Help yourself to free sample pages of Learn to Cook.

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The Package Deal

Depending on the ages of your kids or the needs of your family, you may be interested in owning both of these books! We’ve combined them into packages and chunked off a nice piece of the price, as several of the recipes and printables in the books are duplicated.

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Teaching Your Kids to Cook: Turkey Ranch Pinwheels

June 29, 2011 by Laura 35 Comments

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As I mentioned a few days ago, we’re working hard at our house on a new curriculum/ebook called Teaching Your Kids to Cook. Just like Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve, this has become a family project. I’m the one writing it, but all the kids get to be a part of putting this all together (and posing for pictures), which makes this task so much more fun!

Malachi (age 6) was eager to help me try a new “recipe” idea – one that requires no cooking – just a little bit of spreading, rolling and sprinkling. In the middle of summer, any recipe that requires “no cooking” is a winner, so we decided we’d give you a sneak peek into this recipe before the book is completed!

Turkey Ranch PinwheelsYum

4 Soft Whole Wheat Tortillas
3 Tablespoons Ranch Dressing (we make our own ranch dressing)
½ cup Turkey, cut into tiny pieces
½ cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Spread Ranch Dressing on each tortilla.

Sprinkle bits of cheese and turkey over the ranch covered tortilla.

See what a nice job Malachi did!

Roll the filled tortilla up as tightly as you can.

Let a grown up help cut the rolled tortilla into pinwheels:

Malachi was so excited that he “made dinner for our family” and he declared this to be the “awesomest dinner ever!” It’s true – these Turkey Ranch Pinwheels were super easy to put together, didn’t require a stove or an oven and Malachi (age 6) was able to do most of the work all by himself (okay, not really, but sort of). We devoured this entire plate – and we had made a triple batch!

Since we had been taking pictures of the entire process Malachi wondered, “Don’t you need a picture of me eating them, Mom?” Well sure. Just in case you aren’t sure what to do once you finish putting your Pinwheels together, here’s Malachi to show you:

Do your kids enjoy helping you in the kitchen? I know it’s usually easier (and less messy) to do the work yourself…how often do you pull the kids into the kitchen to help?

Update! The book is finished – find Teaching Your Kids to Cook and Learn to Cook books here!

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