🍳 Cooking with kids
Super Healthy Kids
By Prepear, Inc. d.b.a. Super Healthy Kids. Visit Super Healthy Kids
Desk research from the maker's own pages. Not yet tried by us. Checked 2026-10-24.
A family recipe and meal-planning site for parents, with kid-friendly recipes (muffins, smoothies, sheet-pan dinners), picky-eater ideas, and articles on routines, sleep and kids' fitness. It started as a meal-plan service; today the site is mostly free, ad-supported recipes and articles, and its meal plans run inside the Prepear app made by the same company, which offers a 14-day free trial. Kids are the audience for the food, not the users of the site.
Our take: Handy free recipe source for parents feeding young kids; if you dislike ad-heavy sites or want a kids' cooking course, look elsewhere.
Checked in a browser
A browser check on 2026-10-25: what loads, the ads and trackers we saw, and what a child meets first. Not a hands-on test.
| Child safety: 2 out of 5 | Programmatic ads played on the first visit, including a sticky video ad and a bottom video banner (10 ad frames); the site is written for parents, not children. |
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| Data: 1 out of 5 | The first visit contacted 20 known ad networks plus ID-sync services (id5-sync, rlcdn/LiveRamp, liadm, tapad) before any consent. |
| Ease: 3 out of 5 | Recipe cards are large and clear for a parent, but two video ads cover the bottom of the phone screen. |
| Cost honesty: 4 out of 5 | Recipes are free; a link to the Prepear meal-planning app was the only paid offer seen. |
What we found
- 64 third-party sites contacted; 20 known ad networks (AdThrive/Raptive, Teads, Criteo, PubMatic and others) and 6 trackers
- 84 cookies set before consent, 29 of them from third-party domains
- 10 ad frames; the screenshot shows a video ad with a 'Skip Ad' button and a second video ad pinned to the bottom
- This is a parent-facing recipe site, so the ads are on a page meant for adults
From the test: Useful family recipes for parents, but the site is heavy with video ads and ad trackers, so it is one for grown-ups to browse, not to hand to a child.
| Ages it suits | for parents of kids roughly 1-12 |
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| What its terms say about age | The privacy policy says the services are not intended for anyone under 16. The Prepear app is rated 16+ on the App Store. (terms) |
| Price | Free, with paid extras. Recipes and articles are free with ads (Oct 2026). Meal plans live in the Prepear app: free download, 14-day trial, then Prepear Gold in-app subscriptions listed on the App Store from $9.99 a month or $59.99-$119.99 a year. |
| Works on | Web, iPhone and iPad |
| Account | No account needed |
| Ads | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes |
| The AI in it | No AI. |
What's good
- Large free library of kid-friendly recipes
- Filters for allergies and special diets
- Practical picky-eater and family-routine tips
Watch for
- Heavy ad tracking on the site
- Meal plans need a separate paid app
- Privacy policy not updated since 2020
Data and privacy
The privacy policy (last updated June 29, 2020) covers Prepear and Super Healthy Kids together. It describes third-party advertising and targeting cookies, with an opt-out through the Network Advertising Initiative, and says it does not knowingly collect data from under-16s. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
No independent studies found; the maker's own claims are about healthy eating, not measured outcomes.
In the Big Index
- On the list 19 best cooking-with-kids resources
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Where these facts come from
- https://www.superhealthykids.com/
- https://www.superhealthykids.com/meal-plans/shk-meal-plans/
- https://www.superhealthykids.com/meal-plans/meal-planning-app/
- https://www.superhealthykids.com/privacy-policy/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prepear-meal-planner/id1248495163
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