Let’s Get Cooking! Cookbooks for Kids and Families
Cooking together is one of the simplest ways for families to connect! These fun, engaging cookbooks will inspire kids and parents alike to try something new. Along the way, kids build valuable skills like critical thinking and creativity – and often become more adventurous eaters, too. Best of all, it’s quality time you can share together as a family.
My First Cookbook: Fun Recipes to Cook Together
This great book will get kids (and their grownups) into the kitchen! With everything from after-school snacks to celebrations and family meals, each recipe has step-by-step photos, encouraging maximum kid participation. Every recipe is kid-tested and approved, too! (America’s Test Kitchen)
Favorite Recipes: Frozen Banana Bites and English Muffin Pizzas
The ChopChop Family Cookbook by Sally Sampson 
With a focus on whole, healthy foods, this cookbook includes meal-prep tips, cooking basics, nutritional information and mix-and-match menu charts. More than 150 easy, budget-friendly recipes, from free-form lasagna to vegetable fried rice, make it fun for families to cook together. (Storey Publishing, LLC)
Favorite Recipes: Roasted Coconut Granola and Cornmeal Griddle Cakes
The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs
From breads and breakfast to pizza, cookies, cupcakes and more, this cookbook will have kids feeling like pro bakers. Each recipe is kid-tested, with clear how-to photos and instructions. A helpful introduction chapter covers the basics, with details on measuring, baking terms and tips for success. (America’s Test Kitchen)
Favorite Recipes: Spiced Applesauce Muffins and Yellow Cake Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting
Milk Street: Cook What You Have by Christopher Kimball
Make a meal out of almost anything! With this creative and practical cookbook, make dishes from around the world using ingredients you already have in the kitchen. The recipes focus on two dozen key ingredients, and the possibilities for bold, fun flavors are endless. (Voracious)
Favorite Recipes: Chicken and Potato Tray Bake with Garlic, Lemon and Parsley and Shrimp and Cheese Tacos
Life-Changing Salads by Danielle Brown
This is not your everyday salad book! It’s full of satisfying, plant-based recipes – crunchy chopped salads, warm bowls, wraps and more. It also has recipes for pasta and fruit salads, plus lots of non-dairy dressings. It’s a great way to increase your family’s vegetable intake and eat healthier. (DK)
Favorite Recipes: Pizza Night Salad and Super Food Brain-Booster Salad
The Weekly Grocery Shop by Nabula El Mourid
Plan better, eat, better and spend less with this innovative book. Learn how to make a meal plan for the week and shop for the most nourishing, budget-friendly foods, then put your groceries to work in versatile, approachable recipes for every meal. A variety of options will please even picky eaters! (Hardie Grant Books)
Favorite Recipes: Caprese Smash Burgers and Lazy Fish Tacos
Cooking Classes for Kids and Families
From mastering simple recipes to building lifelong healthy habits, kids can get hands-on in the kitchen at these metro Atlanta cooking classes.
Flour Power Cooking Studio
Learn all about cooking and culinary arts at Flour Power! Offerings include family events for all ages, classes and camps for ages 3-17 and kid’s night out events for ages 5-12. $30-$50+. Alpharetta and Marietta
Young Chefs Academy
Students as young as 4 years can learn everything from kitchen safety to baking techniques to table setting. Choose weekly cooking classes for beginners or more in-depth programs such as Junior, Senior or MasterChef classes. $35+. Marietta, Sandy Springs and Cumming. youngchefsacademy.com
MJCCA Culinary Arts Studio
After-school and summer programs are available for preschool through age 17; choose from single-day classes or 16-week sessions Build & Bite Lab, Tea Time and Kitchen Opposites. $56-$670. Dunwoody. atlantajcc.org
Taste Buds Kitchen
Cook a three-course menu at a family class, or sign up for a parent/child class to create a tasty masterpiece. Weekly and one-day classes for ages 4-17 include Junior Chefs, Let’s Make Dinner and more. $40-$50+. Alpharetta.
Cozymeal
Cooking classes for teens and kids ages 5-15 include pizza, pasta-making, cupcakes, sushi-rolling and more. Cook at a prearranged location with a chef or let the chef come to you! $95-$125. Locations vary.
Kroger Chef Junior
Available at select stores on Saturday mornings, this program offers fun and easy activities to get kids started in the kitchen! Past classes include a hummus garden, pizza bagel and banana pudding. $7. Locations vary.
