8 Top Ways Dream Dinner Can Help Your Family

 #8 Eating Healthy, we all know it is important, it is just hard to all eat the same healthy dinner together. http://perfectfamilysize.blogspot.com/2007/09/rx-for-healthy-families-eat-dinner.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/business/03metrics.html

 

#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.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/21/news/economy/moms_foodshopping/index.htm?cnn=yes

 http://wasteage.com/mag/waste_food_waste_2/

#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.

http://family.samhsa.gov/get/mealtime.aspx

http://www.thecutekid.com/parenting/eating-dinner-outside.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/nyregion/05dinner.htm?_r=1&oref=slogin

#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.

http://parentingmethods.suite101.com/article.cfm/family_meals_mean_healthy_kids

http://www.parents.com/recipes/nutrition/kids/eating-dinner–family-style/

#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.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/cookingtrends/cooking.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/specials/hc-genstressday4.artdec18,0,2588456.story

 http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/November05/DataFeature/

# 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 ?

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1733856,00.html

#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?

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=16451

#1 You Like to Know What is in Your Dinner, your family has picky eater. Premadefrozen 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.

http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpnutrition/0,,p7p7,00.html

http://preschoolers.about.com/od/foodnutrition/tp/Top10picky.htm