Let’s Eat Group

Discover your inner chef and become more confident in the kitchen.

Let’s Eat Group is an occupational therapy cooking program held during the school holidays. The face-to-face group program is designed to teach participants how to safely and independently make simple and tasty meals.

Our occupational therapists will demonstrate how participants can cook using their current abilities, introduce new skills on task modification and use helpful assistive and adaptive equipment in the kitchen.

Cooking doesn’t just involve putting all the ingredients together. It also involves planning grocery list, budgeting, purchasing ingredients and cleaning up.

What does it involve?

Grocery shopping
Planning and preparing meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Learning and practicing how to clean up after cooking

What are the outcomes?

Learn cooking skills and strategies to be more confident in the kitchen
Learn the basics of food preparation (opening jars, how to open cans, cutting, cracking eggs, opening packets)
Learn about a variety of assistive or adaptive equipment which can help with cooking
Learn about task analysis and how to modify task to support independence and success with cooking
Strengthening social participation and skills

Who is the program for?

Kids and teens
Who has an interest in cooking
Who can use two hands together or have the necessary support available to assist (e.g working towards using a knife and fork with support)
Who can listen and follow 2-step instructions