Cooking dinner for your family every night can be such a headache, especially if one of your kids wants lasagna and the other will only eat pasta with melted butter (go figure). And let’s not mention the fact that you’re trying to squeeze in those veggies for their 5 servings a day and include all the food groups. Making sure that a meal is ‘well balanced’ can be hard work, but cooking it doesn’t have to be.  Little helping hands can be surprisingly useful in the kitchen arena just as long as you give them easy tasks like mixing, pouring, stirring, and washing.  And when your kids are involved in cooking the food, they are more likely to like it!