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LET’S GET COOKIN’. Alll Girl Scout Troop categories including Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes & Senior Girl Scout, and all Boy Scout groups are welcome to earn their cooking-themed badges in the Lil’ Pinkies Up Kitchen!

Girl Scout & Boy Scout  Badge Options:


What would you like to get out of our time together? Here are some creative options we have successfully done for local troops!

  • Exploring new ingredients and food combinations using our eyes, nose, ears, hands, and tongue. In this badge, the scout is in charge of how they choose to explore new food

  • Snacks scouts can make all by themselves.

  • What makes a lunch balanced for a healthy brain and body? Learn how to make a delicious school lunch balancing healthy fats, lean protiens, and complex cadrbohydrates

  • How does yeast bloom, and create delicious pizza crust? Why do oil and vinegar not mix? Why does golden brown delicious food taste better? How does salt affect our taste buds?

  • Learn easy recipes you can make in the great outdoors over an open flame, or while camping with family and friends.

  • The best part about any holiday? The FOOD! Explore a familiar holiday’s most popular fare, or explore a new holiday through its food traditions.

  • Learn good nutrition, safe cooking skills, and meal planning.

Got Something else in mind?

Snacks Badge (Girl Scouts)

Learn how to make yummy snacks for yourself and share them with friends and family

Find out about different types of snacks

  1. Make a savory snack

  2. Make a sweet snack

  3. Snack for energy

  4. Slurp a snack

When you,ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to create different types of healthy and delicious snacks.


Simples Meals Badge (Girl Scouts)

Make amazing meals and learn to create a whole meal of your own.

1. Step up your skills with a pro

2. Whip up a great breakfast

3. Fix a healthy lunch or dinner

4. Create a delicious dessert

5. Make your own meal

When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to serve up a meal for your family and friends.

New Cusines Badge (Girl Scouts)

Cook up four dishes from across time and distance, and find out where your taste buds want to travel!

  1.   Make a dish from another country

  2.  Create a dish from another region of the United States

  3.   Whip up a dish from another time period

  4.   Cook a dish that makes a statement

  5.   Share your dishes on a culinary "tour"!

When I've earned this badge, I'll be able to make amazing dishes from all over the world and way back in time.

Eating For You Badge (Girl Scouts)

Find out how to eat to keep your skin glowing, mind focused, and energy flowing.

  1. Know how good nutrition helps your body

  2. Find out how what you eat affects your skin

  3. Explore how your diet affects your stress level

  4. Find out how what you eat affects your sleep

  5. Look at how your diet affects your energy

When I’ve earned this badge, I will have learned how to eat for a healthy moond, mind, and body.

“Local-vore” Badge (Girl Scouts)

Girls will find out how the efforts of locavores – people who are committed to eating locally grown, seasonal foods – can be an important and delicious part of healthful eating.

  1. Explore the benefits and challenges of going local

  2. Find your local food sources

  3. Cook a simple dish showcasing local ingredients

  4. Make a recipe with local ingredients

  5. Try a local cooking challenge

When I have earned this badge, I will know how to prepare a meal of seasonally and locally grown dishes.

Dinner Party Badge (Girl Scouts)

Complete all five steps to earn your Ambassador Dinner Party badge.

A cook becomes a chef by truly thinking about how every part of a meal works together. Good chefs balance a heavy meal with a simple meal, choose spices that taste great together and even consider temperature—would guest like a cold dish between two hot ones?

  1. Create your Menu 

  2. Make budget and shopping list 

  3. Practice timing your courses

  4. Explore imaginative ways to present food

  5. Host your dinner party

When I have earned this badge, I will know how to fully host family and friends from start to finish.

Cooking Merit Badge: (Boy Scouts)

The Cooking Merit Badge introduces principles of cooking that can be used both at home or in the outdoors. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about food safety, nutritional guidelines, meal planning, and methods of food preparation, and will review the variety of culinary (or cooking) careers available.

Meeting Plans & Ideas:

Cooking (Boy Scouts)

Focus on the basics of preparing good meals.Develop the skills needed to become self-sufficient in cooking for oneself and others. Teach a variety of cooking methods. Prepare Scouts to utilize different heat sources when cooking. Emphasize the importance of good nutrition by introducing the USDA MyPlate guidelines. Highlight potential cooking hazards and how to prevent them. Teach Scouts how to plan menus, purchase food, and store perishables properly.

cast iron chef Adventures (Boy Scouts)

Plan a menu for a balanced meal for your den or family. Determine the budget for the meal. If possible, shop for the items on your menu. Stay within your budget.

  1. Prepare a balanced meal for your den or family. If possible, use one of these methods for preparation of part of the meal: camp stove, Dutch oven, box oven, solar oven, open campfire, or charcoal grill. Demonstrate an understanding of food safety practices while preparing the meal.

  2. Use tinder, kindling, and fuel wood to demonstrate how to build a fire in an appropriate outdoor location. If circumstances permit and there is no local restriction on fires, show how to safely light the fire, under the supervision of an adult. After allowing the fire to burn safely, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site.