Curious About Raddish Kids? Here’s What You Need to Know!

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The goal of Elle Jay at Home is to make your kitchen a safe haven, to give you fun recipes to try with your kids and to encourage you to enjoy the mess and memory-making. So, I wanted to review Raddish Kids. It’s a great tool to get you and your kids engaged in the kitchen.

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What’s in the Raddish Box?

First things first, let’s talk about what comes in the box and how it all works. Your family’s Raddish experience arrives in a super cute little brown package.

Opening it up, a child-sized kitchen tool greets you (we got this sweet, little, red whisk) along with a colorful envelope of recipe cards and other fun things, and a beautiful, quality, collectible patch.

You and Your Kids Will Want ALL the Patches

We’ll talk more about the community later, but I’ve been blown away at how many patches some subscribers have been able to collect! On Raddish’s website, you can order a child-sized apron or chef-coat. Iron on the patches, and then stitch them in place to really secure them down.

They’re really colorful and fun, and they make a great incentive for your kids to try a lot of new foods. In fact, it seems that the parents might get even more addicted to the patches than their kids! Raddish sells “vintage kits,” so if you miss one, you can look back at older offerings and pick out all the ones you want.

Then, like a Scouts’ sash, they’ll fill their apron up with great patches to show off all that they’ve accomplished! Watch as their confidence in the kitchen grows with every patch.

Is the Kid-Sized Kitchen Utensil Useful?

Like I mentioned, we received a smaller, child-sized, red, silicone whisk with a metal handle. It is built just like the one I love for making scrambled eggs. My two-year-old’s little hand had a better shot at holding onto it than one of my bigger tools.

Now, of course, my kid is a little young to have gotten all the benefits of this box, but she loves playing with my silicone baking utensils. Having one of her own made her squeal with joy.

I would recommend hand-washing the tools and letting them air dry. One parent in the community suggested that the holes where the wires enter the whisk handle allowed about 1 tablespoon to get in in the dishwasher, and then dirty dish water fell out when they turned it whisk-side-down. You can avoid that if you do not submerge it in water and let it dry upside down.

Other than that, the tools are handy, cute, and useful.

What Comes in the Raddish Envelope?

The envelope has all of the actual fun stuff. Kids are going to be drawn to the physical prizes, but that’s not where the activity lies. You’ll find:

• 3 recipe cards
• 4 conversation tags with a hole punched in the corner so you can collect them on a ring
• Extra kitchen skills activity cards
• More teaching tools.

The recipes are made for kids with lower reading levels; there are informative illustrations for every step. They are also printed on tri-fold quality card stock that is easy to wipe clean and stands up on your counter for easy reading. There are even pictures of the tools and ingredients, so your little one can gather everything by themselves!

The conversation cards will help parents talk to their kids about the theme represented in the box. We received a Thailand box, so our questions were about the food, where we’d like to vacation, and that sort of thing. My husband and I tried them out. It gave us a chance to think outside of our usual day-to-day routine and have more fun.

The other tools in the envelope help parents teach essential kitchen skills like using a knife, measuring, and whisking. You will also find fun facts related to the theme. Our Thailand box included a fruit carving challenge, too!

How Involved Can Your Kids Get?

How much your kids can get involved with the Raddish Kids recipes is dependent on their age, development, and your comfort level as a parent. In the Facebook community (which I will talk about here soon), some parents expressed concern over giving their kids chef’s knives.

The group brainstormed a solution and found a set of knives perfect for little hands! Some parents even suggested cutproof gloves for additional safety.

Some of the steps in our recipes included boiling water on the stove, sautéeing, and using a knife. Those are definitely things I’m not ready for my kid to do, but she’s two! When she finally understands that a knife can cut her and that everything on the stove is hot, I will let her get more involved.

Bigger kids can tackle filling pots with water, cutting vegetables, mixing marinades, and those with more kitchen confidence might even be able to do most of the work on their own. Please continue to supervise and help. Be your older child’s sous-chef and engage in conversation. The goal of the box is to spend time together!

The Raddish Community on Facebook

I’ve mentioned the Raddish Facebook Community a few times already. It’s an incredible free supplement to your box subscription. This is where you go for advice, support, and to show off a little bit.

Parents there discuss allergy substitutions that they’ve tried, and how they handled teaching their kids more dangerous kitchen skills. Other parents, then, respond with support and love. It bolsters your confidence that you can teach your kids well.

This is also the space where you can take pictures of your final dishes, the patches on your children’s aprons, and the occasional kitchen mishap. We all collectively groaned and sent love to a family who shared the story of how their dinner ended up on the floor just seconds after taking their display pictures.

Raddish is All About Community

This box isn’t just about food. It’s about starting conversations with your kids and neighbors. It’s about meeting new people and feeling less alone in your kitchen. Sound familiar?

Elle Jay at Home is all about getting people into the kitchen to share their experiences (cooking, baking, or just life in general). So, I love that all these parents have found each other and are able to talk about cooking with their kids.

It makes my heart so happy. That might actually be my favorite part of the subscription: you’re joining a larger family when you get a Raddish box.

Will Your Kid Like Raddish?

There are couple elements to the box that you probably want to evaluate.

• Will they enjoy cooking?
• Can the questions and activities engage them?
• Will they eat the food?

The simple answer to these questions lies with you, really. As a parent, your engagement with your children is going to determine how much fun they have. Be patient and supportive as they try new things, ask them questions, and just be there in the moment with them. You have the power to make it fun

Your kids are going to love the attention they get for participating in the activities and cooking with you. Soak up those giggles and relish the insane mess you’re making together (guys… no, seriously… we used, like, ALL the dishes).

Okay, But Will My Kid Eat the Food?

As for the food, let me tell you a little story. I am not proud to say that my 2-year-old’s diet has mainly comprised of waffles, PB&J sandwiches, cheese, and chicken nuggets. She’s a pretty good little eater. Though still a little picky, her favorite new phrase is, “Try it?” I love her!

The night we tested out our Taste of Thailand box, I made her a little plate with a single chicken satay tender, about half a cup of pad thai, and a bit of mango that would be going on the sweet rice dessert, later. We really didn’t think she’d eat much.

My little girl sat down at her little Ikea step-stool/table and proceeded to wolf down chicken satay hand-over-fist. Then, she picked the noodles and egg out of the pad thai and ate most of that. She tried the mango, but she wasn’t a fan (This was expected. She won’t eat it at daycare, either).

Then, she gobbled up a few bites of her sweet rice before going and laying on the floor, which is what she does when she’s full. My bottomless pit 22-pound, 2-year-old ate until she was full.

Are the Raddish Recipes Good?

That leads me to the next question though: are the recipes any good? This is a family site, so I’ll keep it clean… HECK YES! The marinade for the chicken satay is one that I’m going to use again and again in the future.

My kid absolutely loved it. Even the peanut dipping sauce? Yeah, she was all about that chicken satay, y’all.

I would 100% make this full meal again. The pad thai was really nice. You can’t go wrong with fresh lime juice, soy sauce, peanuts, and chewy rice noodles.

Hubs didn’t have high hopes for the sweet rice dish, but he loved it. I’ve been using the leftover coconut milk syrup in my coffee, too, by the way. It’s delicious.

What I Did a Little Different…

My chicken tenders marinaded a little longer than the recipe called for. It said 15 minutes to 2 hours. I put that together at the end of Cub’s naptime around 1:30 pm, so they ended up going for nearly 4 hours.

In the future, I might try a shorter time, but I wouldn’t hesitate to let them marinade for that long again. They turned out really well.

The recipe said the pad thai and chicken satay would take 40 minutes to make, but I did them simultaneously, and it took about an hour. It wasn’t too bad for a special meal. I made the sweet rice earlier and let it chill in the fridge until we were ready for dessert.

Because there’s only three of us, I halved the recipes, and we didn’t need that much food. It was actually super easy to do that, and everything was delicious.

Final Thoughts

Honestly, at just about $20 a month, a Raddish subscription is totally worth it. My kid isn’t even technically old enough to enjoy this, but she ate everything! Yeah, she’s a pretty good eater, but do you know WILD it is when you’re 2-year-old eats chicken satay? Seriously.

Whether your kid is picky or not, they are going to love learning kitchen skills, making recipes that come on really cool cards, and getting to spend time with you. And you’re going to love watching them grow and become more confident. If you sign up here, you can get $20 off of a 1 year subscription.

$20 off on a 12 month membership

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