Strategies for Promoting Family Meals
- Try to make family meals a priority
- Aim for at least 3-4 meals a week
- Strive to make mealtimes pleasurable, enjoyable
and engaging
- Share the meal preparation and cooking with
other family members
- Keep mealtime preparation simple, easy and
nutritious
- Be flexible with the time or place of meals
(e.g., family picnic before sports).
- Teach children to cook and be involved with
meal preparation
- Create a relaxed setting for meals (clear non-food
items from the table, turn off the television, don't
answer the phone)
- Socialize and avoid topics likely to lead to
conflict
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