{"id":2458755,"date":"2020-05-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=325972"},"modified":"2020-05-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:00:00","slug":"kids-fit-kitchen-injects-fun-and-fitness-into-group-cooking-classes-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/kids-fit-kitchen-injects-fun-and-fitness-into-group-cooking-classes-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Fit Kitchen injects fun \u2014 and fitness \u2014 into group cooking classes for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.125\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-325972-759\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled gallery-container\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-e1590170921858-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-e1590170921858-768x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen | Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-e1590170921858-768x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-1-768x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen | Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/IMG_5166-1-768x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/young-cooks-on-the-movekids-fit-kitchen-injects-fun-and-fitness-into-group-cooking-classes-for-kids\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/young-cooks-on-the-movekids-fit-kitchen-injects-fun-and-fitness-into-group-cooking-classes-for-kids\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cQuick! Put it in the freezer before it makes you cry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Sara Broome, founder of Kids Fit Kitchen and our cooking class instructor, opens the freezer door so that her pint-sized assistant, Madison-Grace Barbles, can place the red onion inside. The girl in pink, who is nearly 4, helped cut the ends off the bulb, her tiny hand placed over Broome\u2019s on the chef\u2019s knife. She did the same with yellow bell pepper for today\u2019s featured recipe, Rainbow Summer Rolls, her expression alternately serious in concentration and grinning with pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">While the onion chills in the freezer for five to 10 minutes \u2014 long enough to quell its tear-inducing sulfuric gases so that Madison can help slice it up without fear, we learn \u2014 the duo relocates to the living room for a set of lunges. From my screen I see two silhouettes, in unison, step back, pop forward, and clap to patty cake on the way up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Broome\u2019s Kids Fit Kitchen program is simple yet engaging: prep two ingredients in a plant-based recipe, then perform two movement exercises, until the dish is finished. \u201cWhen kids are part of the process, they will eat healthy foods,\u201d Broome notes. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a cutesy little thing, it\u2019s an educational program. It\u2019s an experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote p402_hide\" readability=\"1.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>\u201cThe power of food and movement brings people together.\u201d \u2014Sara Broome, Kids Fit Kitchen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">A lifelong vegan and longtime local fitness coach and educator, Broome (aka Sara B Fit) formulated Kids Fit Kitchen Live as a TV show. However, when she launched the series via YouTube and Facebook Live about two months ago, Broome missed the in-person interaction that set the tone for group classes. Those began about eight years ago while she was a nanny striving to get kids off the couch (and to eat vegetables!) at dinnertime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">So, Broome switched to a live webinar format via Zoom, offering a week of daily free classes to a steady mix of about a dozen kids and grownups. (She reprises the live webinar series as a free, two-day introduction on Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31.) Participants may then sign up for the more intensive 6- and 12-month family group coaching program that weaves together nutrition education and personal development activities with a side of environmental and animal awareness. (Each lesson incorporates a \u201ccompassionate cue\u201d by Broome, who recently authored \u201cBlinky Saves the Sea Turtles,\u201d a children\u2019s book about the harm of plastic to sea life).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cIt\u2019s so fun to see the parents and kids together on Zoom,\u201d says Broome, who sends a grocery list in advance so attendees can follow along by cooking at home. \u201cIt\u2019s time to put the fun back into having to be home together. Let\u2019s feel a sense of structure, routine and connection during a time of disconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Parents and guardians might also collect new tools and tricks for making healthful living fun. We learn how certain superfoods, such as cucumbers and brown rice, protect against aging and detoxify the body. (Kids dig anything with superpowers, natch.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Throughout the rainbow-rolling session, Madison uses a vegetable peeler to carve carrot ribbons, learns how to flex abdominal muscles in a seated Russian twist, and smacks a basil leaf between her hands to release natural essential oils. \u201cIt smells better!\u201d she chirps confidently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">While Broome turns away from the camera, Madison wraps sticky wet rice paper around colorful ingredients at a swift, smooth pace, all by herself. In seconds she\u2019s finished the dish. With her mother, Ashley, alongside to carry the glass plate, Madison jumps down from her perch, eager to deliver her work to her father off-screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cGuys, your kids just made dinner,\u201d Broome exclaims. \u201cYou\u2019re welcome!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\"><em><a href=\"mailto:amandaraewashere@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amandaraewashere@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/young-cooks-on-the-movekids-fit-kitchen-injects-fun-and-fitness-into-group-cooking-classes-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen Kids Fit Kitchen founder Sara Broome with Madison-Grace Barbles.Courtesy Kids Fit Kitchen Show CaptionsHide Captions \u201cQuick! 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