Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World
Helping families grow food, cook from scratch, preserve the harvest, and build practical homesteading skills—one lesson at a time.
Junior Cooking Club
Teaching Kids Real Kitchen Skills—One Recipe at a Time
Because cooking is a life skill, not an elective.
Turn Cooking Into One of Their Most Valuable School Subjects
A ready-made, self-paced cooking curriculum for homeschool families
Reading. Math. Science. Responsibility. Confidence.
It all comes together in the kitchen.
Junior Cooking Club teaches children genuine kitchen skills through simple, step-by-step videos and a complete printable workbook. Your child can begin with basic skills like measuring, cracking eggs, and reading a recipe—and gradually work toward preparing complete meals for the family.
70+ step-by-step videos • 100+ recipes • Printable workbook • Lifetime access
Begin anytime. Learn at your own pace.
One purchase can be used with the children in your household.
A Cooking Course That Grows With Your Child
Junior Cooking Club is a complete, kid-friendly cooking course designed to teach real kitchen skills one simple lesson at a time.
Your child will begin with the basics—reading a recipe, identifying kitchen tools, measuring ingredients, cracking eggs, and learning kitchen safety. From there, the lessons gradually build toward breadmaking, breakfasts, homemade snacks, sauces, and complete family meals.
This isn’t about fancy recipes or creating perfect food.
It’s about helping your child become someone who knows:
This is not about fancy recipes or perfection.
It’s about:
- How to safely work in the kitchen
- How to follow a recipe from beginning to end
- How to make real food from basic ingredients
- How to recover when something doesn’t turn out perfectly
- How to prepare a meal and contribute to the family
- And most importantly—that they are capable
These are the same practical skills families passed down for generations. Junior Cooking Club helps you pass them on in your own home.
More Than Cooking—It’s Hands-On Learning
The kitchen brings so many school subjects together naturally:
- Math: Fractions, measuring, counting, multiplying, and dividing
- Reading: Recipes, ingredient lists, and step-by-step directions
- Science: Yeast, heat, texture, chemical reactions, and how ingredients work together
- Life Skills: Safety, responsibility, planning, cleanup, and time management
- Confidence: Completing something useful and serving it to the family
And unlike another worksheet, this is learning your children can see, smell, taste—and feel proud of.
Give Your Child Skills They’ll Use for a Lifetime
70+ step-by-step videos • 100+ recipes • Printable workbook • Lifetime access
Easy to Add to Your Homeschool Week
You don’t need to plan another subject from scratch.
Choose one cooking day each week, open the next lesson, and let your child learn at a pace that works for your family.
The videos can be paused, replayed, or watched before heading into the kitchen. Younger children can work alongside a parent, while older or more experienced children can gradually take greater responsibility.
Use the course:
- Once a week as a practical life-skills subject
- During a focused cooking semester
- As a family activity with multiple children
- To help a beginner become more independent
- Whenever your homeschool needs a break from textbooks and worksheets
There are no deadlines and no pressure to keep up. You’ll have lifetime access, so your children can return to the lessons as their confidence and abilities grow.
Everything Is Already Prepared for You
Inside Junior Cooking Club, you’ll receive:
- 10 complete learning modules
- 70+ step-by-step video lessons
- A downloadable workbook
- 100+ from-scratch recipes
- Kitchen resources and printables
- A course completion certificate
- Direct support from Laura
- Lifetime access
No complicated ingredients.
No expensive kitchen equipment.
No perfectly staged cooking lessons.
Just practical instruction designed for real families in real kitchens.
Complete Junior Cooking Club Workbook Included
Download, print, and use it as your child’s cooking notebook throughout the course.
From Cracking Eggs to Cooking Complete Meals
The lessons build upon one another so your child develops genuine ability—not just a collection of random recipes.
They’ll begin by learning:
- Kitchen tools and safety
- How to read a recipe
- Measuring and mixing
- Cracking and whisking eggs
- Shredding cheese
- Browning meat
- Washing and cutting vegetables
- Safe beginner knife skills
Then they’ll move into:
- Homemade sauces and dips
- Cookies, crackers, muffins, and snacks
- Biscuits, tortillas, pizza dough, and French bread
- Waffles, egg quesadillas, and breakfast casseroles
- A complete taco dinner
- A complete spaghetti dinner
- Roasting a whole chicken
- Making bone broth
- Repurposing leftovers into additional meals
By the end, your child won’t simply know how to make one recipe. They’ll understand how to put food together and help prepare a real meal for the family.
“But My Child Can’t Even Boil Water!”
That’s completely okay.
Junior Cooking Club begins at the beginning. Your child doesn’t need any previous cooking experience—and you don’t need to be an expert teacher or cook.
I explain each skill patiently and practically, just as I’ve taught my own homeschooled children in our family kitchen.
Mistakes are part of learning here. Dough may not rise perfectly. An egg might land on the counter. Something may cook a little too long.
That doesn’t mean the lesson failed.
Confidence isn’t built by doing everything perfectly. It’s built by trying, learning, and discovering: I can do this.
Begin today and use the lessons at your family’s own pace.
What’s Inside the Cooking Club?
Welcome: Getting Ready to Cook
Your child will meet their cooking coaches, learn how to read a recipe, gather helpful kitchen resources, and discover why mistakes are simply part of learning.
Module 1: Kitchen Basics
Learn kitchen safety, common tools, safe knife handling, measuring, cracking eggs, shredding cheese, browning meat, and preparing vegetables.
Module 2: Homemade Sauces and Dips
Make ranch dressing, barbecue sauce, pizza sauce, and cheese sauce from basic ingredients.
Module 3: Easy Treats
Build confidence with shortbread cookies, chocolate chip cookies, graham crackers, and simple no-bake treats.
Module 4: Homemade Snacks
Replace packaged snacks with cornbread mini muffins, banana muffins, crackers, and oatmeal applesauce bars.
Module 5: Introduction to Breadmaking
Learn about flour, yeast, kneading, proofing, and knowing when bread is ready. Recipes include biscuits, garlic breadsticks, tortillas, pizza dough, pie crust, and French bread.
Module 6: Healthy Breakfasts
Prepare homemade waffles, egg quesadillas, egg and cheese rollups, and a complete breakfast casserole.
Module 7: Taco Night
Bring several skills together to create an entire taco dinner—including homemade seasoning, taco meat, tortillas, tostadas, refried beans, cheese, and fresh toppings.
Module 8: Spaghetti Night
Learn to safely boil noodles, prepare homemade sauce, brown meat, make garlic bread, choose a vegetable or salad, and plate the entire meal.
Module 9: Cooking a Whole Chicken
Learn how to roast or slow-cook a whole chicken, cut up the cooked meat, prepare side dishes, make bone broth, create chicken pot pie, and turn leftovers into additional meals.
Bonus Recipe Collection
Continue practicing with smoothies, tomato soup, vegetable soup, buttermilk, queso, oven-baked rice, tater tots, French bread pizza, subs, homemade seasoning, and more.
Your child will also receive a course completion certificate to celebrate everything they’ve learned.
Meet Your Cooking Teacher
Hi, I’m Laura.
I’m a northern Michigan homesteader, author, educator, and homeschooling mom. My family raises and prepares most of our own food, but I certainly didn’t begin with all these skills.
I learned one recipe, one garden bed, and sometimes one mistake at a time.
I created Junior Cooking Club because cooking is about so much more than getting food onto the table. It teaches patience, responsibility, problem-solving, and how to care for yourself and the people around you.
These are the same practical skills I’ve taught my own children in our family kitchen. Inside the club, I’ll guide your child with the same encouragement, honesty, and room to learn.
I don’t expect perfection—and neither should they.
My goal is to help your child become the kind of person who knows:
I can learn this. I can make this. I am capable.
Frequently Asked Questions
What ages is Junior Cooking Club designed for?
The course is designed for children and young beginners, but readiness matters more than a specific age. Younger children will need hands-on help from an adult, while older children may be able to complete many lessons more independently.
Does my child need previous cooking experience?
Not at all. We begin with foundational skills, including kitchen tools, safety, reading recipes, measuring, and cracking eggs.
Do I need to be an experienced cook?
No. The videos provide the instruction, and you can learn alongside your child if you’d like.
Is this a live class?
No. Junior Cooking Club is completely self-paced. Your family can begin anytime and work through the lessons whenever it fits your schedule.
How long do we have access?
You receive lifetime access. There is no deadline to complete the course, and your child can revisit lessons as their skills grow.
How much parent supervision is required?
That depends on your child’s age and experience. An adult should supervise whenever knives, hot surfaces, ovens, stovetops, or other kitchen equipment are being used.
Can I use this as part of our homeschool curriculum?
Yes. Families can use Junior Cooking Club as a practical life-skills course while naturally practicing reading, math, science, responsibility, and food preparation.
What supplies will we need?
The course uses ordinary kitchen tools and familiar ingredients. You can look ahead at each lesson and choose recipes that work with your family’s preferences, budget, and schedule.
What if a recipe doesn’t turn out perfectly?
Then your child has experienced a real cooking lesson! Mistakes are welcomed as opportunities to troubleshoot, learn, and try again.
Is support included?
Yes. You can ask Laura questions within the course whenever you or your child need help.
Meet Hazel
Get ready to meet Hazel, our adorable resident pig with a big appetite and an even bigger heart! Hazel reminds us that food is meant to be enjoyed and she’s here to add a playful touch to your kitchen adventures.
Give Them an Education They’ll Use Every Day
Long after worksheets have been completed and textbooks have been put away, your child will still need to feed themselves and care for others.
Junior Cooking Club helps you pass down those skills now—one recipe, one meal, and one growing bit of confidence at a time.
70+ video lessons
100+ from-scratch recipes
Downloadable workbook and printables
10 complete modules
Lifetime access
Choose the full-payment or three-month payment option on the secure checkout page.
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