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Your daily helping of food, fun and conversation. Also explore our Budget Friendly program, with recipes and resources to help you make a week's worth of dinners for less than $7 per person.
Food is the first essential ingredient in family dinner. Bring everyone to the table with recipes that are easy and family-approved. Dish Type. Main Ingredient. budget friendly. dairy-free. gluten-free. quick. vegetarian.
The Family Dinner Project, a nonprofit initiative started in 2010, champions family dinner as an opportunity for family members to connect with each other through food, fun and conversation about things that matter.
Whatever your challenges, The Family Dinner Project has practical tools and resources — easy recipes for crowd-pleasing meals, silly games for diffusing tension, ways to deepen conversation — to help everyone enjoy dinner.
Hungry for family dinner advice? Discover new ways to create lively conversation, overcome common challenges and bring your family closer with insights from Dr. Anne Fishel, The Family Dinner Project team and real families just like yours.
Recent studies link regular family meals with the kinds of behaviors that parents want for their children: higher grade-point averages, resilience, and self-esteem. Additionally, family meals are linked to lower rates of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, eating disorders, and depression.
Our free program, “Food Fun and Conversation: 4 Weeks to Better Family Dinners” provides you with proven content, tips and strategies to help you start — or improve — your family dinner routine. You get: 4 weeks’ worth of specially designed challenges to help you strengthen your family dinners
What IS a family dinner? Parents often wonder what “counts” as a family dinner and what they need to do to reap the benefits of eating meals together. These are some questions I’ve been asked at community dinners and in my family therapy practice: What if only one parent is home for dinner?
The Benefit of Family Mealtime. Anne Fishel, executive director of the Family Dinner Project, helps families find fun, creative, and easy ways to make meals a reality. Despite family mealtimes being hugely beneficial to kids, only about 30% of families manage to eat together regularly.
The Family Dinner Project, Boston, Massachusetts. 68,072 likes · 6 talking about this. The Family Dinner Project is a growing movement of food, fun and conversation about things that matter....
