Independent Cooking Made Very Easy

If you’re a parent or carer who thinks your child won’t ever be able cook, if you’re worried they can’t be left alone with a hot oven or sharp knives, if you think they can’t follow a recipe, if you think they will never move beyond “Glory Cooking” where you do most of the work and they take most of the credit, then this is the cooking method you’ve been waiting for. Read on to find out why…

You’ve Tried And Tried To Teach, And It Hasn’t Worked

You’ve been online, you’ve listened to all the advice from everyone you know, including occupational therapists and other professionals. You’ve tried using recipes from the well-known cooking websites, you’ve found picture recipe cards that end up confusing things even more, you’ve bought adaptive kitchenware because you have been willing to spend a little to overcome the challenge, and your child still hasn’t been able to make meals by themselves. You’re getting to that point of giving up, but…

Change Their Lives, Change Your Life

You can either continue as you are, without your child being able to cook for themselves and having to wait for you to make their meals for them, or you can choose to take a new approach and use the Independent Cooking Made Easy method.

If you continue as you are, it will probably result in you continuing to cook for them and them not having the opportunity to feel that satisfaction of being able to say, I cooked this for you.

But if you want something different to happen, if you want them to be able to cook or prepare some meals for themselves, you are going to have to do something different. Make the choice that will change their lives, and yours.

Click the button below, enrol, and you will immediately start a new path. It will contain everything you need to get started and take your child on a life-changing journey over the next 30 days.

But If You Don’t Succeed, The Real Cost...

If you don’t teach them to cook and prepare meals at least at a basic level, you (or someone else) will have to make every meal they eat for the rest of their lives.

Sometimes we like to believe that convenience food or takeaways will solve the problem, but

• Convenience food and takeaway food will be more expensive long-term than home cooked meals
• Convenience food and takeaway food have higher levels of salt, sugar and fat
• When others prepare our food for them, they won't control over what goes into the food they eat

But that’s not the worst of it – not being able to cook for themselves or prepare any meals for you or others robs them of the satisfaction of doing it and of being proud of themselves. You won’t ever get to see that moment they proudly serve you food they have cooked independently.

How We Taught Our Daughter To Cook

A few years ago we were using traditional ways of cooking with accepted techniques. We were struggling to find ways to get past the “Glory Cooking” stage with an adapted Tuna Pasta recipe using fresh not tried pasta. She practiced cooking this meal each week but every time there was an issue, overcooked pasta, chunks of raw onion, ingredients forgotten. But the biggest issue was carrying the saucepan of boiling water to drain the pasta. More than once she almost dropped it. What this meant was that she needed to be supervised just in case!

It took time but eventually we woke up to the fact that the traditional ways of cooking would never work for her because of the hot ovens, boiling water, and heavy pans. Add to this the challenges of peeling, chopping, and weighing, and we knew she’d never be able to cook in the traditional way without support or supervision.

For her cooking wasn’t safe, and we had a long list of things that wouldn’t work:

• no hot stoves
• no heavy pans
• no sharp knives
• no chopping ingredients
• no timing food accurately
• and losing focus

We struggled with what to do.

About that time, we bought an air fryer after hearing how great they were. We very quickly found how easy our daughter found it to use. She could make a bacon roll in the air fryer because of the easy-to-use settings, timer, and lightweight removable basket without any help from us. It was an aha moment as we realised the air fryer did almost everything a grill/fryer/oven does and was a lot safer for her to use.

And so, we began experiment. At first our daughter just made herself simple lunches in the air fryer. Grilled cheese and tuna melts become her go to recipes.

But we also knew this hadn’t solved the wider issues around things like cooking herself pasta. We took a gamble and bought a small 1 quart/2 litre slow cooker to experiment if that could replace her needing to cook in a saucepan using a hob.

While these two appliances made cooking safer for her, there were still problems of sharp knives, chopping ingredients, losing concentration as she cooked a meal. We realised recipes had to be adapted, and in many cases re-imagined.

We started to make Visual Recipe Cards that kept it simple but included every single step:

1. Making sure she washed her hands before she began
2. Getting all the equipment needed ready
3. Getting all the ingredients needed measured out and ready to use
4. The exact steps in which ingredient to add when
5. What the cooking times and temperature are
6. How to serve the food
7. What the cleaning up looked like

These 7 steps became part of the system she always followed. But the system needed more to make it work so she could make food unsupervised, so she:

• uses pre-diced frozen ingredients (like onions) to avoid using sharp knives
• uses recipes with a maximum of 5 ingredients to keep things simple
• uses the same settings on the slow cooker and air fryer so it's easier to remember

But over time, with lots of adjustments, occasional disasters, and loads of practice, the recipes gradually came together. While we might have enjoyed cooking with her, she gets a lot more satisfaction cooking for herself. And for us as a family, it’s relieved some of the day-to-day pressures of life, because this is one skill she has. She thinks of herself as someone who can cook, not just for herself but for us as well, and that’s a great feeling for her.

Transformed Confidence

The Independent Cooking Made Easy program will increase your child’s confidence in themselves and their ability to learn new skills will grow. You might even find this is a launchpad to encourage the habit of doing other things around the home for themselves.

When they can cook without help, their view of themselves will change. They will think of themselves as someone who cooks. They will be keen to impress family and friends with the dishes they’ve made.

They will be able to cook for you so you don’t have to prepare every meal in your house.

Here’s What You Get In The Program

A tried and tested way of preparing 4 lunches that start to build your child’s confidence in themselves and teaches them how to use an air fryer to make their own lunch. And then how to cook 12 main meals by themselves.

• 16 Videos featuring our daughter so your child can see someone like them making the recipe all by themselves, without help, so they can picture themselves making and serving meals too

• 16 Visual Recipe Cards that make each recipe easy to follow. Each printable Visual Recipe Card follows the same 7-Step System so your child knows what to expect each time:.
  
• Wash Hands so your child cooks hygienically
• Get Equipment Ready before they start so your child doesn’t get frustrated because they don’t know where things are
• Get Ingredients Ready so your child doesn’t forget anything
• Preparation shows your child what to do with the ingredients, such as what order to add them so they feel confident of success
• Cooking Times are as standardized as much as possible, so your child doesn’t get confused by lots of different cooking times
• Serving Instructions visually showing how serve the food they have cooked
• Cleaning Up at the end is a life skill, and by doing this your child gets to understand that dishes need to be washed, things need to put away and tops need to be wiped clean and everything should be left tidy after they finish cooking.

• 16 Visual Feedback Forms so that you can talk to them about making adjustments to take into account individual tastes, likes, and dislikes. After all we all prefer to cook the kind of food we like to eat.

To avoid any feelings of overwhelm, the course is delivered slowly over a month, with a new recipe released every two days so your child has time to practice at home at their own pace in a way that works for them.

All this with a 14 Day Money Back Guarantee!

P. S. The time is now. If you don’t do anything, nothing changes. You will carry on cooking every single one of their meals. Do you really want that? Do they want that?

Or do you want them to be able to prepare their own lunch and cook their own meals? Do your want the chance to see the satisfaction on their face as they proudly announce, “I cooked this”?

This change will only happen when you decide to make it happen. Are you going to make that decision today? Click the Enrol Now to make it happen now.