8 Ways Dream Dinners Can Help Your Family

Friday, July 24th, 2009

The latest post on cheftouchedtips.com discusses the top 8 ways that Dream Dinners can help your family, which includes links to stories that help explain why it’s helpful.

They’re summarized here, with *my own comments* added:

8. Eating Healthy, we all know it is important, it is just hard to all eat the same healthy dinner together. *So true. With everyone’s busy schedule, it’s hard to get a good healthy dinner on the table at a time that everyone is sitting together at once.*

7. Save Money, groceries are more and more expensive, 25 % of the ingredients purchased at the grocery store gets thrown away. An average dinner in a family restaurant for four cost $45.00. Fast food average cost for 4 people, $35.00. *Even when I eat 1.5 servings instead of just 1 serving, that works out to about $6-$7/meal with Dream Dinners.*

6. Raise Great Kids, Children don’t come with an how to raise manual. The closest thing experts agree upon to insure your child’s great future. Eat Dinner Together. *I don’t have kids now, but I know that it was difficult to act up as a child when I had to face my parents at dinner time.*

5. Kids Get Better Grades in School Eating at the Dinner Table. It is not just what they eat, it is what they learn at the dinner table than impacts their entire life. *Often, I found myself still sitting at the dinner table after dinner while my pops tutored me in Biology…but I think they’re trying to say you learn more than biology at the table.*

4. Don’t Have Time To Cook. Whether you love to cook or hate to cook, crunch time for shopping, chopping, assembling and clean up is almost impossible every night. *Nothing beats the Dream Dinners meals that are assembled and cooked in one pan.  Even with the bagged meals, I appreciate that I don’t have to pull out the cutting board, bowls & knives.*

3. Brain Drain, “What’s for Dinner?” Every night we eat dinner and most women start thinking about what are we having for dinner in the morning. All day long there is that dragging feeling, what ARE we going to do about dinner tonight and the guilt that goes with it if ? *Sometimes I still feel this – especially if I need a “break” from Dream Dinners, I struggle to think of something healthy to eat instead.*

2. Entertaining. Is it your turn to host the family holiday meal? Would you love to have guests over for dinner and feel great about what you made? *Why yes! Yes I did make this Bombay Chicken with Coconut Rice from scratch. I AM a gourmet chef. (I wish).*

1. You Like to Know What is in Your Dinner, your family has picky eater. Pre-made frozen dinners are not made by your loving hands and you don’t know who made them and really what ingredients or processes where used to assemble them. *I am the picky eater in my family. I’ve gotten to the point where I KNOW which dinners I will love and stick to those. I love being able to tweak ingredients during assembly – especially being able to add extra garlic. YUM.*

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