[vanderZwan]

Speaking as someone who successfully involves their toddler in the kitchen: regardless of her great joy in being alllowed to participate and contribute (which you are completely right about), my daughter would still much rather prepare spaghetti for dinner than veggies.

Also, in some kind of weird benign parentification[0] twist, she now loves to feed me food, even if (or more like especially if) she doesn't like it.

So having fun with cooking food seems quite decoupled from her desire to eat it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentification - and I say it's benign because cooking together is completely optional for her