31 Recipes You Should Be Cooking In March (2024)

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With an adult supervising, a 10-year old should be able to scramble eggs, stir fry vegetables or flip a pancake on an electric stovetop (you may want to wait longer if you have a gas range). Safety tip: Be sure to teach them to tie back long hair and never wear loose clothing around the stove. Prepare a sandwich.

National Nutrition Month, celebrated each year during March, focuses on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.

Your child can start cooking as early as 18 months or 2 years old. Real cooking skills can be taught to toddlers, depending on the child's maturity and the parent's supervision. At Kids Cook Real Food^™, we teach bananas and butter knives, starting officially at age 2.

If you've been introducing your kids to cooking skills over the years, by the time they're teenagers they'll have the ability to do anything an adult can do in the kitchen (dads too!). They can plan, shop for, and cook a full meal for the family.

Cracking eggs takes a bit of training, but it's a great Montessori practical life activity you can start around 3 years old. Kids love to practice tapping the eggs on a hard surface, breaking them open with their thumbs, and later crushing the shells with a mortar and pestle.

Turning dates into a syrup or sauce can also be used in savory cooking, just as they are in baking. Dates are cooked down with rosemary and water in this Seared Duck with Date Jus and Piave Foam recipe to make a sweet date jus that pairs perfectly with the seared duck.

Food is divided into 7 different groups : drinks, carbs, fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat/fish/eggs, fats, and high-sugar foods. Each of these groups provide different nutrients and should be consumed at a different rate.

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As the MyPlate icon shows, the five food groups are Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Protein Foods, and Dairy. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasizes the importance of an overall healthy eating pattern with all five groups as key building blocks, plus oils.

Led annually by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the month of March is recognized as National Nutrition Month.

Most game is now out of season, although rabbit and venison are both still very much available. Lighter spring dishes lend themselves nicely to poultry and pork, and of course, new season lamb.