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"  If your child&amp;#039;s favorite foods are limited to plain pasta and potato chips, consider promoting him or her to your kitchen&amp;#039;s sous chef. Many have found that including their children in the meal prep makes the kids more likely to want to eat it. More from Delish: Kid-Friendly Dinners to Cook Together Jol\u00E8ne Bouchon, Delish&amp;#039;s senior editor, says that&amp;#039;s certainly the case for her two-year-old son, with whom she cooks easy and fun foods like smoothies, pancakes, and pizza. &amp;quot;He likes to sample every step of the way,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s far more likely to eat broccoli if he&amp;#039;s standing there while I&amp;#039;m cutting it than if I just serve it to him.&amp;quot; According to The New York Daily News, Carolyn Land Williams, an Alabama-based mother and writer, has seen so much success from this approach with her four-year-old daughter (who now helps in the kitchen so much that she has her own &amp;quot;helping&amp;quot; stool next to the counter) that she has written a child-friendly recipe collection. The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook, which Williams wrote with the help of Cooking Light magazine editors, includes a list of tasks appropriate for child cooks ages 3 to 12. &amp;quot;If you encourage children to help with the process, even in a minor way, it neutralizes some of the control issues about food,&amp;quot; Williams told The Daily News. &amp;quot;It becomes a project which they enjoy and find challenging.&amp;quot; More from Delish: 5 Easy Noodle Recipes for Kid Cooks Along with The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook, there are other kid-friendly cookbooks that can help you bring your child into the kitchen. Jol\u00E8ne&amp;#039;s son loves the book, Soup Day, which she explains, &amp;quot;is actually a storybook with a recipe at the end. I actually got him to eat veggie soup this winter by showing him all the vegetables in the soup in real life and how I was cooking them.&amp;quot; When I was a child, Alice Waters&amp;#039; Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child&amp;#039;s Restaurant Adventure, was a favorite book of mine. From the 46 recipes it contains, my specialty, as a ten-year-old, was the Roast Chicken with Herbs. Other great children&amp;#039;s cookbooks include the classic Pigtails and Froglegs: A Family Cookbook from Neiman Marcus, which is illustrated with wacky drawings by Chuck Jones, the animator responsible for Bugs Bunny; the British Flossie Crums series of books tells the story of a fairy with an eye for baking; and Emeril&amp;#039;s There&amp;#039;s a Chef in my Soup! Recipes for the Kid in Everyone, is the celebrity chef and father&amp;#039;s illustrated kid-friendly tome that includes recipes like &amp;quot;Gone Fishin&amp;#039; Fish Sticks&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Grill-It-Up-a-Notch Ham and Cheese Sandwiches. More from Delish: Kid-Friendly and Ready in Minutes Do you cook with your children? Would you like to start? If so, or even if you already do, here are some great recipes to get you and your child&amp;#039;s culinary careers started. Recipes for Kid Cooks        Ham and Pineapple Pita Pizzas    Savory Stuffed Rice Balls    Blueberry Banana Pancakes        Strawberry Smoothie Pops      Raisin Bread Triple-Decker      Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas     "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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