iheartdisney
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For my kids to throw away a cookie says something!
We never did the Jr. Chef thing a few years back when it was sponsored by Nestle tollhouse...so I was really excited to see it was back with the Food and Wine festival.
The activity itself is awesome! The Chefs are great, lots of Disney energy, they involve every child, even the difficult ones (speaking about my own, not anyone else's! lol!) Goofy came out and "helped".So my gripe was not with the activity itself.
They were making a apple oatmeal cookie. Watching them make it I was thinking how it woud be nice if they gave us the recipie, so we could make them at home. Then after the demo, the kids each got a cookie, and that thought quickly went out of my head. DD4 ate one bite and spit it out and said I could have the rest. DS6 took a few bites and put it in the bottom basket of the stroller, and said he would rather save it for later. DD7 picked out the pieces of apple and threw the rest away. I tried a bite of DD4's, and it was not good. At all. It was like they used way to much flour and not enough sugar. I understand they wanted to do something healthy, but telling kids "Hey this is healthy" and then giving them a cookie with no flavor defeats the purpose- it enforces the attitude that healthy=yucky!
We never did the Jr. Chef thing a few years back when it was sponsored by Nestle tollhouse...so I was really excited to see it was back with the Food and Wine festival.
The activity itself is awesome! The Chefs are great, lots of Disney energy, they involve every child, even the difficult ones (speaking about my own, not anyone else's! lol!) Goofy came out and "helped".So my gripe was not with the activity itself.
They were making a apple oatmeal cookie. Watching them make it I was thinking how it woud be nice if they gave us the recipie, so we could make them at home. Then after the demo, the kids each got a cookie, and that thought quickly went out of my head. DD4 ate one bite and spit it out and said I could have the rest. DS6 took a few bites and put it in the bottom basket of the stroller, and said he would rather save it for later. DD7 picked out the pieces of apple and threw the rest away. I tried a bite of DD4's, and it was not good. At all. It was like they used way to much flour and not enough sugar. I understand they wanted to do something healthy, but telling kids "Hey this is healthy" and then giving them a cookie with no flavor defeats the purpose- it enforces the attitude that healthy=yucky!
