This is a guest post written by Emma Galloway of My Darling Lemon Thyme .

Teaching our kids that vegetables are grown in the earth, that cakes come from mixing natural ingredients in a bowl before baking instead of merely buying one ready-made, to me, are some of the greatest and most fundamental things that we can do as parents.

The world we live in today is somewhat of a scary place. To think that so many of our little ones are growing up believing that milk comes from the shop, beans from a can and juice from a bottle is just heartbreaking.

So what can we do to help change all this you ask?

Get in the kitchen and cook with your kids.
Continue reading to get Emma’s Coconut Cupcake recipe