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Price Chopper's Kids Cooking Club
With Jodie Fitz

Hey kids, hi there! Are you ready to cook?
I'm so glad you've come to Price Chopper's Kids Cooking Club web site and am looking forward to cooking with you. Let's pull out our aprons and get ready to try new recipes!

First, I want to tell you what we'll be doing at the Kids Cooking Club! If you sign up, every month you'll get an email newsletter with new recipes to try at home and a schedule to let you know where I'll be cooking ... so maybe you can join me! You can visit me when I'm in your area and, because you're in the Kids Cooking Club, you might even be selected to join me on the web or on TV for a local news cooking segment. Stay tuned for more details on these cooking opportunities, how you can bring me to your school and more.

Here are three recipes you can try: Apple-Banana Smoothie, Peared Chicken Salad & Flying Saucers. These reccipes focus on "5 A Day", a theme celebrated at the end of September to help you include fruits and vegetables in your diet. Even if you don't think you like a certain fruit or vegetable, you should continue to try it in different ways because mixed with other ingredients it sometimes tastes different.

Each month we'll explore different recipes, sometimes focusing on seasonal fun, or sometimes different tastes from around the world. In fact, you never know what we might have cooking in the Kids Cooking Club! In our household, sometimes recipes get a 'thumbs up' and sometimes they get a 'thumbs down', but our motto is you never know unless you try!

I'm looking forward to cooking with you each month as we get cooking and stir up a little fun!

Sign up today! (Note to parents)

Hi there! I know as a busy, working mother of three how hard it is to try to fit time in with my growing family and sometimes how challenging it can be to get them to eat fruits and vegetables throughout the day. Over the years I found that the kitchen became a place for me to connect with my kids. As we cooked together I began to notice them trying more foods as I experimented with recipes, new tastes, and masking the flavors of fruits and vegetables in recipes.

My sons are very active in sports, and although I'm often at games and practices, my husband serves more as the sports enthusiast they connect with in the household. I found that it was my cooking activities that gave me a common ground with all of my children and their diverse age span of 17, 12 & 6.

When I often ask my kids how their day was from school, it's not uncommon to get the one word answer, "fine" or "okay." Put us in the kitchen prepping for dinner, and suddenly they magically seem to begin filling me in with the events of their day, each fighting to share their own stories; the kitchen has become a Ôcomfort zone' in our home.

Whether you're a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or caregiver, I hope that you will join your kids in the kitchen, encourage them to cook, spend time together and have a little fun. You will find that it will be time well spent and without realizing it, you'll pass on a life skill and a memory to last a life time.