How old are the children, please?

lasagna, anything with diced veggies if you will allow the kids to use a knife, soups, grilled cheese, my dd loved/loves to make little finger foods or hor d'ouevres, simple sandwiches like prepared biscuits/rolls that heat in the oven and add ham and cheese and eat as sandwiches, breakfast for supper, fruit salad with yogurt as the the sauce, grilled bbq skewers, baked potatoes wrapped in foil and then topped with something like chili to make it a meal

Daughter is 7, boys are 9 and almost 11.

Such a great idea. While Sophia was with me for a week, I had her dry dishes. At the second evening drying duty she complained... and wanted to know, how come I didn't have to wash or dry dishes.

I told her, who ever cooks, doesn't have dishes duty.

LOL

The following evening we ate Grilled Cheese Sandwiches courtesy of Sophia. Such fun.

Love the fact, you all are making different foods. Sophia is 10.

Moni

How about shake n bake chicken with baked potatoes —white or sweet— and a side of veggies? There is a recipe on line for home made shake n bake which I use. I use it on boneless pork chops or fish as well. I love green beans with a sprinkle of thyme and butter or yellow squash with a sprinkle of tarragon and butter. We always microwave our veggies but you can prepare as you like.

Haha Moni! We had the same rule in our house too. That’s why I started cooking dinner for the family when I was 12.

I also like to prepare a boneless pork loin roast. I sprinkle wax paper with salt pepper garlic powder and lots of caraway seeds then roll the roast in it before putting it in the oven. Making baked beans ...canned and add molasses topped with a few slices of bacon is a good and easy go with.

A taco bar, baked potato bar or salad bar. The kids can help prepare all the fixins' and then build their own taco, potato or salad just the way they like it.

When I was in Girl Scouts ages ago, we had fun making these: take a good sized piece of heavy duty foil. Place a hamburger pattie on it, season and top with carrot slices, potato slices, and, if desired, an onion slice. Wrap tightly and place on hot coals. Works also to just place on the grates of a grill and cook until done, turning once or twice.

Someone also mentioned skewers. My grandkids loved kebabs, which are easy to do with chunks of chicken and veggies or even pineapple. We often put the meat and veggies on separate skewers too since they usually have different cook times. Brush with marinade or sauce to keep moist while cooking.

I like the kebabs idea and all the “bars” DawnInCal mentioned, though she forgot one...Sundae Bar!

Mini-frittatas made with whatever ingredients appeal to you. Use a mini muffin tin. Place each child's choice of ingredients in the cups, then pour the egg mixture into each cup and bake. You can use a tiny bit of one ingredient on top to identify which cups belong to which child or draw a little diagram on a piece of paper to remember.

What about mini meatloaves in muffin tins, fruit pizzas. Quesadillas.

Pizzadillas!

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/kid-tastic-pizzadillas

Stuffed bell peppers

Meatballs mini meatloaf cups

Using a cupcake pan, spray with oil. Use a flakey biscuit fit in the cup and up the sides. Sprinkle in some grated cheese, your choice, put in a pre made pre cooked meatball thawed if using the frozen type. Pour a little pasta sauce over that, sprinkle more cheese. Put in oven following directions from the refrigerator biscuits. Whomp biscuits is what we call them. Cute mini meatloaf cups

Pinterest has lots of recipes with children

Sammy, how could I have forgotten the ice cream sundaes!?!? Doh!!!

And then you have kids like my neighbor, age 10. She's been watching the cooking shows since she was tiny and has been cooking with me for much of that time. She's a serious cook; I call her 'chef'.

A couple of years ago, she knocked on the front door and asked me if I had a tart pan, of all things! Whether we are making something together or she is on her own, she will gather all of the ingredients and tools required for the recipe, then assemble them on the counter according to their order of use.

,,,,according to their order of use. (rhizo) My mom taught foods and cooking at a local high school and that's what she taught me when I was little. I still do that but, now at 65, that's so I don't forget anything!

How fun to be baking with your young neighbour.

I've gotten too forgetful in my old age. Not only are ingredients in order of use, I start out with the pile to my left, and as I use it, set it to my right. Or I might add something twice?!

When I'm looking for recipe inspiration, I head to the internet! epicurious is my favorite, but there are hundreds of cooking sites and blogs.

My first husband used to let the children help him make his famous Welch Rabbit when they were so little they had to stand on a kitchen chair, next to the stove, to stir the melting cheese. I taught both how to make a PB&J at age 3 - I hated fixing lunch! Both are amazing cooks today!

Thanks for the suggestions....I do get stumped sometimes. Elmer, my daughter laughed and laughed at your remark. She said " Mr Fudd is too funny." Rhizo, your neighbor sounds a lot like my daughter. Though she is young, she is very interested and enthusiastic. The boys are willing participants, but not to the same degree. I'm comforted to know that when they leave home, they will have some basic cooking skills. In the meantime, it is an activity that we all enjoy.

It's great you cook with your kids. I worked in preschools and we would give the toddlers and preschoolers knives and they would slice fruits and vegetables for snacks and for fine motor practice. It is so cute to watch them concentrate. Kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for sometimes.

Back in the late 1960's I remember taking cooking classes in the summer. We mostly baked cakes and cookies but I remember graduating and receiving a pin. I think the pin was in the shape of a light bulb or electric bolt. Wish I could remember. Anyone else remember this?Or maybe it was just a regional thing.

Welsh rarebit?

I don't think so, Elmer. It was rabbit, meaning the Welch would sell it as rabbit. Menus today say rarebit. Maybe the Welch filed a grievance.

Welsh rarebit is actually the name. Read it in Joy of Cooking if I remember correctly. I was shocked it had no rabbit in it. Of course, the Welsh language is really hard to understand, so it's easy to see how it might have been subjected to a "game of phone" and ended up with that name.

Welsh rarebitAlternative namesWelsh rabbit (original name)TypeSavouryVariationsBuck Rabbit, Blushing Bunny, Hot Brown Cookbook: Welsh rarebit Media: Welsh rarebit

Welsh rarebit (spelling based on folk etymology) or Welsh rabbit (original spelling)[1][2] is a dish made with a savoury sauce of melted cheese and various other ingredients and served hot, after being poured over slices (or other pieces) of toasted bread,[3] or the hot cheese sauce may be served in a chafing dish like a fondue, accompanied by sliced, toasted bread.[4] The names of the dish originate from 18th-century Britain.[5] Despite the name, the dish contains no rabbit meat.

Definition of Welsh rabbit

: melted often seasoned cheese poured over toast or crackers

See Welsh rabbit defined for kids

First Known Use of welsh rabbit

1725

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Welsh%20rabbit

If you will notice the ORIGINAL name is rabbit.

Yes, it was.

Now often known as Welsh rarebit, this dish of toasted cheese was originally known as Welsh rabbit… but why?

There is no evidence that the Welsh actually originated Welsh rabbit, although they have always had a reputation for being passionately fond of it (a fourteenth-century text tells the tale that the Welsh people in heaven were being troublesome, and in order to get rid of them St Peter went outside the Pearly Gates and shouted ‘Caws pobi’ (Welsh for ‘toasted cheese’)—whereupon all the Welsh rushed out and the gates were shut on them).

A more likely derivation of the name is that Welsh in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was used as a patronizingly humorous epithet for any inferior grade or variety of article, or for a substitute for the real thing (thus a Welsh pearl was one of poor quality, possibly counterfeit, and to use a Welsh combwas to comb one’s hair with one’s fingers). Welsh rabbit may therefore have started life as a dish resorted to when meat was not available. The first record of the word comes in John Byron’s Literary Remains (1725): ‘I did not eat of cold beef, but of Welsh rabbit and stewed cheese.’

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/08/origin-welsh-rabbit/

By any name, i would like your recipe for it.

ETA: Also the type of bread you think is best.

Jean Pere, a popular Canadian chef and cookbook author, has at least one children’s cookbook. I gave one to my then 10 yr. old granddaughter for Christmas. She must have inherited the love to cook gene from me!

My dear dad used to call it Welsh Wabbit, lol. I've only seen it called rarebit in restaurants and cookbooks but know that some call it rabbit.

Haven't had rarebit in a very, very long time. Anyone have a good recipe?

My 9 y/o grandson loves to make "egg in a hole" for dinner or breakfast. He can do it by himself although I suppose its not really a great idea for 3 children to do together - but anyway just throwing it out there :)

When my nieces were that age, I was trying Asian cooking. My nieces and I made: paper ( foil) wrapped chicken, won ton both soup and fried, sushi including spam musubi.