How does dinner look different from when you were growing vs. dinner for your kids today?
Jessica Adams, a mother of three young daughters, shared, "I grew up with a dinner plate that had a protein, carb, and a veggie. And now I’m training my kids to have a dinner plate that has a smaller protein and two veggies, which we like to call in our household, ‘anytime food’, so they can eat that whenever they want. So if they do a good job with their ‘anytime food’ we then talk about their ‘sometime food’.
“I know growing up our favorite dinner was Hamburger Helper,” shared Jamie McGowan, mother of three kids (ages 9,10, and 13). “Somehow those have never been introduced into our home at this point. I grocery shop two to three days a week and try to keep fresh produce, fresh protein sources.”
“For us growing up, my mother stayed at home and cooked a homemade meal every night. And now with two working parents we do a lot with convenient food. We always have a frozen pizza in the freezer, which I never had growing up. When I was growing up, dessert was always there, but today the concept of dessert as a post-meal treat isn’t part of the routine,” Melanie Kahn, mother of 2- and 3-year-old, said.