Cooking with Kids: Good avocados can be hard to find

"Seasoning your food is important for getting good, tasty flavours. It is a great technique to learn as it comes in handy with all savoury cooking, and some baking too."

Avocados should feel soft when you very gently press the skin, but there should be no dents or bruises.

Good avocados can be tricky to find. Often when you buy them, they seem nice and ripe, but are black once you slice through, or quite tough and hard.

There is no exact way of stopping this happening, but if you look out for nice bumpy skin it is usually means the avocado is ripe, green softer skin is often a sign it is underripe.