Meal Planning Child Style (with some help from Annabel's Kitchen)

I want a fruit n vegetabliser please. Or at least a knife which will stop me cutting my fingers off. (Note, don't panic this is why I have a husband!!)

I know your wondering what I'm on about. Well, we have recently been lucky enough to review the new Annabel Karmel book and after Bel reading it from cover to cover, I made sure that I recorded the series that went with it. The series Annabel's Kitchen is now showing on CITV. And, being the good mummy, I record it then we watch together. Annabel's Kitchen has a lot of fab gadgets (invented by Jimmy the penguin) that I think any busy mum would love to own - A fruit n vegetabliser which slices, dices, chops or squeezes any fruit or vegetable into whatever shape you'd like and a Cookatron which cooks things in seconds.

Bel enjoyed the first couple of programmes so much that this week all our evening meals have been planned by her from her 3 kids cookery books, The Annabel's Kitchen book, The Annabel's You can cook book  and a Cooking for Kids book.

So what have we eaten this week:

Monday - Baked Potato Souffles (bit like twice baked potatoes)
Tuesday - Tuna Pasta (one of the only meals demanded by Car)
Wednesday - Chicken Burgers (from Annabel's Kitchen)
Thursday - Salmon Burgers (adapted from Annabel's Kitchen)
Friday - Hidden Vegetable Bolognese (from Annabel's Kitchen).

All the meals so far has been a success, and even Car has eaten all of them.
Bel has loved being in charge both with helping to choose the food and helping to make it.

The book is laid out in funny chapters and follows Annabel and Jimmy (a penguin) cooking different items. Even though the programme is a big hit with Bel, Car will actually sit there and watch it, she thinks Jimmy is funny and the singing cupcakes make her laugh
Bel has even proclaimed that she would like to have Annabel's kitchen when she grows up, if she can go on the programme and know she wants to be a chef when she grows up (or a Explorer, Scientist or Astronaut!!).

So, if you fancy getting your child more into cooking then this is a good book. Letting Bel pick the menu this week means she has eaten every thing I have put in front of her!! The book is available from all good bookstores, rrp £12.99 and the programme is now showing on CITV at 3.30pm weekdays.

BNM

We were sent a free copy of the book to review. All opinions given in the review are mine, Bel and Car's with Neb giving a thumbs up to the food!!