Cook School is packed full of fun photographs of children getting stuck into bowls of sticky cake mix, rolling out pastry, snipping chives and creating exciting multi-coloured stir frys. Every easy and tasty recipe is explained with clear step

and discovered we lack a cooking culture in this country, with 60% of children leaving school without being able to cook five basic dishes. The result is a loss of pleasure, enjoyment, and ability to feed themselves affordably, so many resort to ready meals

as possible. Cook School is full of easy recipes that children like to cook and it’s this sort of food that my children like making. Whenever we are on school holidays, the children like to choose recipes tthey each want to cook – these include Lola’s sweets

Best Children's Food and Beverage Brand – PlumBest Family Restaurant – Barefoot Books Storyteller's CafeBest Feeding Product – Brother Max 2 Drinks Cooler Sports BottleBest Family Cook Book – Cook School By Amanda Grant

Best Children's Food and Beverage Brand – PlumBest Family Restaurant – Barefoot Books Storyteller's CafeBest Feeding Product – Brother Max 2 Drinks Cooler Sports BottleBest Family Cook Book – Cook School By Amanda Grant

After playing a key role in making cookery compulsory on the curriculum again, the founders of healthy fast food chain Leon have prepared a try-this-at-home recipe plan called Cook 5 in bid to turn rookie chefs into aspiring gastronomes.“There’s a

There are over 100 triple-tested recipes in Good Housekeeping: Easy To Make! Favourite Family Meals (Collins & Brown, £5.99) from healthy snacks and soups, to wholesome meals to feed a hungry child after school. One of our favourites are the Sticky

trays from the oven, then pile the whole tasty mixture onto the toasts and serve immediately. Adapted from Cooking Italian With Kids by Liz Franklin (Ryland Peters & Small, £14.99). 

now!). What did you have for school dinners? All I remember fondly about school dinners were the sponge puddings (and custard). Do you have any cooking heroes? Has to be Delia Smith. My Mum used her cooking books of the 70s and 80s obsessively and I

What’s your earliest food memory? The breast of my mother. What foods did you like and dislike as a child? There were no foods that I can remember disliking. All my mother’s food was delicious. What did you eat for school dinners? My mother used