Cooking With Kids

About 15 parents and their kids gathered for dinner on May 18 at Highland Community College, but it was no ordinary meal. The cool thing about this event was the kids helped prepare the food and, hopefully along the way, learned a few lessons as well.

Barb Curry with the University of Illinois Extension Office and Janet Vrtol from RAMP, supervised the first-ever Cooking With Kids class which was intended to teach kids about nutrition and how what they eat makes a huge difference in how they feel regarding their health. The kids were told that fruits and vegetables were things to be embraced an...