“Cook at home and enjoy family meals.”
I read these words recently in the newly updated food guide…
Thanks to a young friend recently visiting from Germany, who inspired us, I have been encouraged to ALSO include EVERY family member in the making of suppers, no matter the initial headaches, and turn them into a s..l..o..w.. going culinary social event from start to finish.
Food prep, feast, clean up…
I realize that though our Canadian family is one of the few (it seems) who aren’t running off to a million events after downing a quick fast food supper meal, I realized we still were not eating slow enough… like Europeans seem to do…
These folks across the ocean seemingly take 2-3 ours of everything together – food prep together, eat together, drink together, visit together… and often then games together.
I like this.
Intentional togetherness feasting.
I’m thinking too of the early house churches where the communion dinner was a full intimate meal and not like now in many places with little cups and little wafers done assembly line like and quickly with no interaction with others.
So, I’ve been re-inspired to swim upstream in my culture…
Make meals together.
Eat together.
Linger together.
Celebrate together.
Play together.
Bonus delight: invite a friend or two, or a family or two on the whole process! Adopt others into your family for dinner.
Forget the too many cooks in the kitchen theory.
(Yikes, did I just say that?)
Let’s make it work.
I wonder too…
Could we have less anxiety and depression in our country if we did this more…?
Less isolation…?
(Wow, all that prompted from the newly updated food guide…)
Following and Trusting 