Barbecue
The grill smells done long before it actually is. The gap between aroma and plate is one of summer's hardest waits for a child. The visual support below makes those minutes concrete, so the evening does not run on constant when-is-it-ready questions.
Charcoal grill
A black charcoal kettle grill with the lid open, showing burgers and sausages cooking over hot coals.
About this visual support
The trouble with the smell is that it promises food now, while the grill still needs twenty more minutes. The child catches the scent of charcoal, sees the smoke rise and concludes that the plate is close. When it is not, every extra minute stretches longer than the one before, and the questions come faster than you can lift the lid.
The fix is to move the wait from gut feeling to sight. With pictures for light the grill, place the food, wait, turn and eat, the child knows they are on step three of five. A concrete tip for grill evenings: put the timer card next to the food card. Then the timer, not the parent, answers the is-it-done question, which removes a lot of the loitering by the rack.
In the Routined app you can build a barbecue sequence with a built-in timer, so the same flow travels from the back garden to the camp site. The pictures stay on the phone, and the next Sunday cookout does not have to start with a long explanation.