Quotes About Mealtime

The children ate everything on the table. They ate hamburgers and rolls and tomatoes and beans and corn, and they drank many glasses of milk.

Growing up we were very working-class; you had dinner at 12, then tea at 4:30. If you got supper, you were doing bloody well.

They were eating in the kitchen. Looking at the spoonfuls of pea soup entering Mama's mouth, she decided to shift her focus to Papa. "There's something

The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing 'one more bite' into someone's mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.

Avoid 'distracting' meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.

Mes labiau r?pinam?s pamaitinti savo vaikus ir nekreipiame d?mesio ? pat? valgymo ritual?, kurio paskirtis - palaikyti šeimos nari? tarpusavio ryš?.

Eat together and not separately, for the blessing is associated with the company.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

tried to reenliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing "The Chewing Song,"† an original Kellogg composition

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. The choreography of many people working in one kitchen is, by itself, a certain definition of family, after people have made their separate ways home to be together.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.

At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.

I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

For me, it's simple: easy recipes equal more family time.

said grace. A bit of eyes-closed silence before a meal was probably a very good thing, no matter what thoughts might pass through her mind—gratitude, regret, contemplation, or nothing at all.

I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family's bodies.

In retrospect, it was only a matter of time before the Family Dinner passed into history and fast foods took over. I knew its days were numbered the day our youngest propped my mouth open with a fork and yelled into it, "I want a cheeseburger and two fries and get it right this time." I just didn't serve meals with show business pizzazz.

He put down his chopsticks and wiped his napkin with his chin.

No matter if my dad had to work, or my sister was gone until 7, or I had basketball practice until 8, we always ate together. I think that's a big part of the Hispanic family, the culture. That is key to our existence, really.