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The lessons learned through Kids Cooking for Life go well beyond culinary skills.
KIDS COOKING FOR LIFE, a Bay Area nonprofit, is working to make sure kids can find their way around the kitchen when they’re at just the right age for it. “These days, there are so many students who graduate from high school, and they can code, but they can’t cook,” says Saeri Yuk.
Charities grow love of cooking, service among youth
It's a centuries-old tradition that the holiday season includes giving and receiving luscious foods. As we near the end of 2024, we're looking at gifts of food in a different way: suggesting an equally delicious option for holiday gifting that keeps on giving for years.
It's the gift of support for nonprofit organizations devoted to helping people heal through learning about food as medicine, and with programs aimed at kids from ages 8 on up.
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Learning to cook can be beneficial for all children. But for kids with special needs, learning to prepare healthy I meals can have amazing results, says Lara Rajninger, executive director of Kids Cooking for Life (KCL), a nonprofit based in Larkspur that teaches low-income and special needs children nutrition and cooking.
Marin Gives Back 2024
Our Marin Gives Back annual feature always ranks high among our most read stories of the year — and for good reason. Marin’s nonprofits make a real difference in our community, by helping children, seniors, the homeless, families, animals, the environment and so much more.
Best Youth Services in Marin
With home economics classes vanishing from most schools, it’s a challenge for kids to learn proper nutrition and food preparation. Fortunately, Kids Cooking for Life is here to fix that. Their well-trained staff will bustle into a classroom to walk students through how to cook healthy, delicious meals. They also offer virtual home lessons.
Kids Cooking for Life hits 15th milestone
What started as a single class 15 years ago is now a robust nutrition and cooking program serving seven counties throughout the Bay Area and touching the lives of more than 1,000 at-risk children each year.
Marin Gives Back 2023: How Your Donation Can Help Local Charities and Nonprofits
$50 covers the cost of fresh, nutritious groceries to be used in recipes for two classes, serving 30 young chefs.
Voted Best Youth Services in Marin 2023
We’re thrilled that Marin Magazine named Kids Cooking for Life, as one among five of the best nonprofits, in the youth services, 'Best of the County' category, which tallied 7200 votes. Thank you Marin Magazine and everyone who voted for us, we're grateful, humbled and proud.
Marin Gives Back: How Your Donation Can Help Local Organizations
$50 covers the cost of fresh, nutritious groceries to be used in recipes for two classes, serving 30 young chefs.
Founded in 2009 in Marin County, Kids Cooking for Life (KCL) inspires lifelong healthy cooking and eating habits through our free, after-school cooking and nutrition classes for children ages 10-18.
Give Support: How You Can Help Kids Learn Valuable Cooking Skills and Make Healthy Food Choices
Kids Cooking for Life is an Oakland-based nonprofit that teaches underserved youth the cooking skills and knowledge they need for healthy food habits — from the importance of using good ingredients to how to prepare meals at home.
“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”