{"id":53201,"date":"2019-07-24T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=53201"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:13","slug":"importance-family-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/importance-family-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What\u2019s for dinner? A famous line in every home, right? But more important than <\/span>what’s<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0for dinner<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is\u00a0<\/span>how<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>are we eating dinner. Sitting down for family dinners\u00a0is something that only 30% of American families do\u00a0daily, but the research is conclusive \u2013 there are a lot of benefits to eating together, as often as possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Here are some reasons why it\u2019s important and some tips on how to start making family meals part of your routine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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What\u2019s for dinner? A famous line in every home, right? But more important than what’s\u00a0for dinner\u00a0is\u00a0how\u00a0are we eating dinner. Sitting down for family dinners\u00a0is something that only 30% of American families do\u00a0daily, but the research is conclusive \u2013 there are a lot of benefits to eating together, as often as possible.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here are some reasons why it\u2019s important and some tips on how to start making family meals part of your routine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":53221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2746,3246,3212,3065],"tags":[2641,3211,2511,211,91,2970],"class_list":["post-53201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid-stuff","category-healthy-habits","category-nutritionists-corner","category-nutritionist-tips-with-alicia-blittner","tag-dinner","tag-family","tag-healthy-eating","tag-kids","tag-nutrition","tag-week-night-dinner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53201"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73719,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53201\/revisions\/73719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}