Raddish Kids Cooking Subscription Review: Recipes For Kids

My daughter is a picky eater. I’ll just put that out there straight away. She likes her foods situated so they’re not touching each other and likes raw vegetables and basic fruits above anything else. In order to help her branch out a bit with food, I wanted to get her more involved in the kitchen and as luck would have it, my mother gifted my daughter a year’s subscription to Raddish Kids. Go grandma!

If you’re looking for a cooking subscription box for kids, this might just be the best one for you! Read on to find out.

Raddish Kids Cooking Subscription Box: Cooking With Kids

Getting a kids cooking subscription is a great opportunity to get your kids involved in the kitchen and there are some great educational opportunities too. Since we’ve been home A LOT over this past year, I was doing all I could to look for things to do with kids at home and make a schedule for Ava so she had things to do look forward to and we were very happy to have this already in our mailbox each month.

Feel free to skip around to find what you need about this cooking subscription box for kids.

What Is Raddish Kids?
What Comes In A Raddish Kids Cooking Kit?
How Does The Cooking Kit Work?
Get Out Of That Cooking Rut
Pros
Cons

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What Is Raddish Kids?

Raddish Kids is a one-off or subscription service for children ages 4 to 14 that is delivered right to your doorstep, or in our case because we’re abroad, it goes to our forwarding service Fishisfast. Though it is considered a cooking subscription box, I would add that it also adds math, science, and culture into the mix for a great educationally balanced addition to home activities.

How often does it come?

You get just one box, which would also be great as a gift, or get a 6-month or 12-month subscription.

We have been using the Raddish Kids cooking subscription for over a year now and our (almost) 6 year old still loves it. She’s been doing them since she was 4 so if you’re on the fence about getting your little ones into the kitchen at this age, don’t be. She loves it and the utensils they send in the boxes really are very kid friendly.

How much does a Raddish Kids kit cost?

The price of a Raddish Kids cooking kit is between $24 per kit for a month-to-month subscription, $22 per kit for a 6-month subscription when paid upfront and $20 per kit for a 12-month subscription paid upfront. All US orders receive free shipping and international customers pay just $7 USD per kit.
- You can get the box shipped abroad, however, just a personal note on this, I tend to use a forwarding service called Fishisfast which opens my shipments and repackages them all together in one box which makes for less postage overall when I’m mailing multiple things. This year, we had the Raddish kits shipped there and then when a few were collected and some other overseas purchases, we had the whole thing shipped together and it is definitely a bit cheaper to go that route.. for us anyway.

What Comes In A Raddish Kids Cooking Kit?

3 Recipe Guides: Illustrated, laminated, and step-by-step recipes
Monthly Collectibles: Table Talk conversation starter cards + a colorful apron patch (apron included with 6 and 12-month subscriptions)
Quality Kitchen Tool: Exclusive cooking utensil designed for young chefs
3 Culinary Skill Lessons: Expert guides to develop safe and smart kitchen techniques
Creative Kitchen Project: Hands-on craft, experiment, or foodie game
Complete Grocery List: Digital and printed checklist
Bonus activities and resources online
- If you have certain dietary restrictions Raddish posts dietary substitutions online via each kit’s “Bonus Bites” page. You’ll find ingredient recommendations for every Raddish recipe to accommodate vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, egg-free, and dairy-free diets. They rarely use nuts in their recipes and if they do, they will be optional.
* Food/ingredients are not included

Added Bonus!

Raddish Kids actually goes above and beyond and also provides free resources on their website that include video classes so you can cook along together, more easy recipes to do with kids, music playlists, downloadable activities, lesson plans, and other great resources.

How Does The Cooking Kit Work?

Check Everything Out: The first step for us is of course to peruse the entire box and see what’s going on. What’s the theme, what are the recipes and then find the shopping list. We make one recipe per week and get it on the calendar so Ava knows when it’s her turn to make dinner. (Not all of the recipes are dinner foods mind you, but that’s just sort of when we have time to get it done usually it seems. I’m okay with eating pancakes for dinner sometimes, aren’t you?)

Buy The Food: There’s a shopping list and unfortunately it doesn’t have the great pictures like the cooking cards do. One of our favorite activities is going to the market and check check checking everything off of the lists. We make this a bit like a scavenger hunt and I read what Ava needs to find, and she finds it in the market. Of course, you could just get your stuff and have it prepared when your child comes home, but we like to have a little fun while we’re shopping.

Bake It, Make It, Cook It: Back at home, it’s time to cook. We come together as a family for this bit because there will likely be a stove or oven used at some point and we’re not quite to the point she can do that on her own but we do let her (make a mess) mix, stir, and measure the ingredients on her own. Seriously, she makes a way better chicken Parmesan than I ever have because of this cooking kit.

Eat Eat Eat: The best part for me has been that she tries everything she makes and usually eats it all up which is great knowing how picky she is. One of the recipes is green beans with garlic croutons and I did NOT think she’d have any of that but devoured the whole bowl and has consistently asked for more.

Try An Activity: There are activity cards that are included and some are better than others. There have been some standouts like the rainbow outline. Each time she ate something that was red, yellow, green, etc, she could color in a square with the goal of filling in the whole rainbow. This is great if you have a picky eater but one that is goal oriented like me. All she wanted to do was fill in that rainbow which meant she had to eat things like eggplant, cabbage, and beets to get there.

Iron On Your Patch: Once your child has finished all three of the recipes in the kit, you can help them iron the new patch onto their apron. It reminded me a lot of when I was younger and collected all of my Brownie’s patches on my sash. Anyone else remember doing that?

Get Out Of That Cooking Rut

The thing about cooking for me is that I also like more ‘basic’ meals so I guess the apple didn’t really fall far from the tree in this case. I’m not nearly as picky as my daughter but I’ve had 30 years longer to learn and try foods. It’s easy to get into a rut of cooking the same dishes day in and day out and the subscription box has been a great way to deviate a bit from the recipes I know and love and add some to the repertoire. Even better that Ava is the one cooking them so less work for me… or is it?

This has also been very inspirational for my daughter. She has become very interested in tasting foods and then trying to guess what is in them. Gordon Ramsey would be proud. And, she has become very enticed with making different sauces because of the cooking kit. She has figured out what should be used as the basis for sauces and now adds different herbs, spices, and other sauces to see what comes out. Again, she has managed to master this much better than I have so now even when we’re not doing a full kit, I ask her to come into the kitchen near the end of meal prep to “help me” and make the sauce for something. It gets her in and involved and eating more.

Pros

Heavy laminated card-stock cards/recipes: Anyone with a kid knows how easily that nice piece of paper gets ruined after just a little spill or egg yolk ends up on it. The cards in the box are all nice heavy card stock that has been laminated so little messy hands can paw all around and at the end, it can be wiped right off and put on the shelf for another day.
Not Just Sandwiches: I’m not sure what I expected, but I’m pretty sure I expected recipes that a kid could throw together. Saying that, I now know kids can throw together some pretty darn good things and it’s not just sandwiches. This past week we made Moroccan Kefta Rolls and Chicken Tagine. Suffice to say, it’s not super simple things.. and yet it is. You won’t be let down for dinner is what I’m trying to get at.
Pictures, pictures, pictures: Since our daughter is a bit young for the reading but wants to do everything on her own, the pictures are very well done. She can get everything out on her own (that she can reach) using the list of ingredients and also follow the directions easily while looking at the pictures. Of course, don’t just leave the kitchen or anything. Some help deciphering the pictures is necessary, but they are quite well done in my opinion.
Lesson Plans Online: If you’re homeschooling or interesting in doing more at-home education along with the cooking, Raddish Kids has made some really useful lesson plans available for free on their website to go along with each box.
Kiddo Kitchen Tools: Some of the tools that we’ve received like the rose shaped cake makers and the garlic crusher are really great and things we didn’t already have. Some of the utensils, you’ll definitely already have in your house so if you don’t like having too many of one thing, you probably won’t like that which would put it into the con list for you, however, my daughter now feels like she very much has her own kitchen set and she loves that she has something in the kitchen drawers.
Inspiration for Pick Eaters: The biggest thing for us has really been that it gets Ava involved in the kitchen the more she cooks, the more she eats. Whether or not you’re getting your kids this box, I highly suggest just getting them involved in the preparation because it really does wonders with that appetite it seems.

Cons

Conversation Starters: The four conversation starter cards seem to be a little off topic. They can be quirky little segues but often they take less than 10 minutes for us to go around the table answering and it doesn’t add much to the experience in my opinion.
Price: It’s not insanely expensive, but it isn’t cheap either. For us, we’re lucky to have a grandma that wanted to give this as a gift to her granddaughter. It’s $20.00 to $24.00 depending on which subscription you choose and for us the benefits outweigh the cons in a big way, but might not for everyone so I’ll put it in the con list because, well, spending money is always a con isn’t it? haha

We love our Raddish Kids Subscription Box and will continue using it and the online resources they provide. We’ve had some great fun making them and really mostly eating the foods that come because of them. If you’re looking for a fun kids cooking subscription box, Raddish Kids might just be the one for you. Check out Raddish Kids online to find out more info if you dig what you saw.. or want to eat what we ate.

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