Homemade Meals for Busy Families
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mary Beth Lagerborg, co-creator of Once-A-Month-Cooking, discusses the importance of hospitality and how families can prioritize dinner time by cooking a month's worth of healthy meals in one session.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite home meals growing up we had tacos and we would sit around the table |
| 0:08.4 | eat together as a family and after we would usually play cards altogether and it would get real competitive. |
| 0:15.0 | So family meals became a little complicated when my younger daughter became a vegetarian. |
| 0:21.0 | So we discovered we all like fish so sushi and salmon our favorite family meals |
| 0:27.4 | Oh my that makes me hungry. You know the question what's for dinner can often bring feelings of dread to my wife |
| 0:34.8 | she sometimes just freezes like I don't know there's got to be something here so maybe you've |
| 0:40.2 | experienced that if so you're going to enjoy today's conversation on |
| 0:43.9 | focus on the family with Jim Daly I'm John Fuller. John today we're going to |
| 0:47.7 | look back on a classic program all about saving time and money in the kitchen |
| 0:52.1 | who doesn't want to do that? |
| 0:53.5 | You mentioned getting ready for dinner, |
| 0:55.4 | I'm like, all in. |
| 0:56.4 | How soon? |
| 0:57.0 | This sounds great. |
| 0:58.4 | I imagine you want your family dinner time |
| 1:00.3 | to be fun, engaging, and relaxing, who doesn't? But maybe you just don't know how to get there. |
| 1:06.0 | We all have busy schedules and it seems like everyone is going in a different direction, especially |
| 1:10.6 | at dinner time. Even with the boys out on their own now, Jean is busy most of the time and we're rushing to get to dinner. |
| 1:18.0 | But we have carved out the dinner time as the time to be together and we'll spend a good hour |
| 1:24.7 | enjoying our food and talking about things, usually laughing quite a bit about those things |
| 1:29.5 | that happen during the day. |
| 1:31.3 | It's a wonderful time to reconnect and reset as a family and I want to encourage |
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