It is nearing the end of October: Eat Better, Eat Together Month. We’ve already talked about:

• Finding the time and prioritizing the meal
• Why mealtime is important
• Cooking together with your kids
  
• Having good conversations

Another way to encourage the family to sit down and eat together is to make it fun. Holidays help inspire us to prepare certain foods and to decorate the table in a festive manner. During the week of Halloween I like prepare fun foods. My simple favorites include:

• Prepare a bunch of orange colored foods and serve on black plastic plates
• Prepare your favorite spaghetti. Put a green stuffed olive halfway into a raw meatball. After cooking, the meatball looks like an eyeball
• Cut sandwiches or toast into pumpkin shapes

An article in today’s (Oct. 25) Star Tribune, Parents make evening meal a priority, offers more mealtime advice.

Posted by Susan at 10/25/2004 02:57:56 PM | Link