Food’s Ready! Children, Eating habit, and Family Wellness.

What did the family meal look like during your childhood?
What does the family meal look like today?
What is the change?
What was your favorite meal at some point in your life?
Who was the chef of that meal? Why did that meal so impressive to you? 

Eating Together

During my childhood time, the traditional family dinner meant to spend joyful time with the family. Dinner time of the day was to relax, recharge, laugh, tell stories, and catch up on the ups and downs among the family members. Laughing is the simple format for nourishment. My mom was a great chef. The meal seemed like a feast that welcomes all guests, carried no condition, any argument that happened among each other would settle over the table, and everyone got the pleasure to enjoy the food. What does the family meal look like today? As a working mom, I almost always in a hurry to go for fast and convenient cooking to feed the family's stomachs. Eating together, and never allow the TV and mobile device to rob the time for the conversation with the kids. The child might tell you someone was bullying him in school and felt upset. It would be great to get them to tell their thinking about what did they learn from the failure when they tried to solve an interesting problem.

Ever Wonder Children Don’t Need Snacks 

The pandemic urges the children stuck at home. The parents might get crazy as the children non-stop playing and not able to stay quiet.  It's not uncommon for the parent to prepare plenty of snacks such as chips, candies, and cookies.  A child eats three meals per day is good enough.  Adding the snack time at 10 am and 3 pm causes a sort of burden to the little body with excessive sugar consumption.  Most snack is rich in sugar.  Excessive sugar erodes the health of the child and increases the risk of many kinds of illness.  How about we select to buy the sugar-free snack?  A big word to mention sugar-free on the package is safe?  Not really!  The great sweetie-taste snacks are carbs, contained coloring, artificial flavoring, preservatives, and emulsifiers.  Quality is more important than quantity. Children love the taste for sweets, almost always are junk food or drinks, that cause them overweight.  Instead, Keep fruits in the house, and eat them as a snack.  It’s easy, it’s cheap, it requires no preparation time, and it’s great for the children with physical benefits and emotional benefits as well. 

​Mommy Kitchen is Fun

Some kids are picky eaters.  You can cut the food into small pieces, or cook the substitute, or tell them more information about the health benefits.  Some moms would like to prepare the special meal box arranging the food in a creative, cute, and fun way to attract the children to eat.  Both the moms and kids get so much fun upon preparing and eating the food.

Crack the codes

Food’s ready!  What’s our breakfast today? I won’t tell the kids.  Let’s them crack the code.