Anderson’s 5-Day Family Dinner Challenge
Friday, December 30, 2011 5:24AM
Is family dinner a priority for you? As seen on the show, the Lord family understands the challenges of trying to sit down to eat together. To help them better understand the importance of eating together as a family, they participated in Anderson’s 5-Day Family Dinner Challenge.
Are you ready to put dinnertime to the test?
Try your own version of Anderson’s Family Dinner Challenge. Remember, dinner doesn’t need to be a lavish five-course meal; the key is sitting down and talking.
How to Participate: For 5 nights in a row, cook and eat dinner together as a family.
Ground Rules:
1) No one can be late
2) No TV or cell phones
3) Everyone has to try everything
4) Every night during dinner, play one game.
If you are participating in your own Anderson’s Family Dinner challenge, share with us.
Tweet Us: I am participating in #Anderson’s #FamilyDinner Challenge.
Are you ready to put dinnertime to the test?
Try your own version of Anderson’s Family Dinner Challenge. Remember, dinner doesn’t need to be a lavish five-course meal; the key is sitting down and talking.
How to Participate: For 5 nights in a row, cook and eat dinner together as a family.
Ground Rules:
1) No one can be late
2) No TV or cell phones
3) Everyone has to try everything
4) Every night during dinner, play one game.
If you are participating in your own Anderson’s Family Dinner challenge, share with us.
Tweet Us: I am participating in #Anderson’s #FamilyDinner Challenge.
Filed Under: As Seen On The Show
Comments
Mr. Anderson
My and i sent down every nite for dinner, i cook at home every single night when i get home, from work and some times my kids will be here, its awesome..and i love your show
Family dinner. Imgrew up with family dinner, it was a great time. When my wife and I had a family we had family dinner every night. I believe my children thought it was a very weird event to have family dinner.
I find it very interesting that you now need to promote something like family dinner in order to have families to get together for dinner. My children do not have children but I believe they continue ti eat an evening meal with there spouses. How many couples even eat together?
I LOVE that you are encouraging the "Family Dinners" to your audience. I grew up in Iowa and having dinner as a family was regular practice. I'm proud to say my sister-in-law continued this tradition a few years back. Every night at 6:30 sharp is dinner with her 3 kids...nearly 7 days a week. She was born and raised in China and has adapted to this custom quite well...and is the glue that makes it happen. What is great, I live a mile from my brother and I always know, I can participate in a hot meal at 6:30, any given night. Keep it up America!
I am on a protien shake diet. So it is two protiens shakes a day lowfat and calories snakes lots of vegetables and exercise. I go to curves. Have you heard of them. So today I was just having dinner with my mom. She is the only family I have in this state.
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Many years ago I and 7 other people rented a victorian house in LA. We had all worked together in a theatre company and knew each other and felt like extended family - but were so busy that eating together seemed impossible. So we had a rule: WEDNESDAY NIGHT FAMILY DINNERS. No matter WHAT we all had to be there for at least one hour. To make it more fun, we rotated cooking in teams for that dinner. I did the first dinner with my friend Ken - soup, salad and bread. Our dinners became so well known, there was a write up in the LA Times called EIGHT IS A ENOUGH. haha - good times. Oh and we shared chores, just like a regular family would.
We discussed the show and decided to make an effort to have dinner together. It's just the two of us, retired and disabled, both of us usually lost in a book or on the computer, grabbing snacks as we go. We made a simple dinner (chicken and baked potatoes) together and ate at the table without TV, books, or the newspaper. It was a pleasant change!
Many of the most enjoyable memories I have are of family gatherings with the most delicious food you could imagine. Love of good food and family has been passes on through the generations. In addition to the food, it's the presentation that makes food appetizing. Whenever I'm with my grown daughters and son, we spend at least part if the time discussing new recipes and cooking something new and satisfying. My sisters and I helped with the cooking at a very young age. This started our love affair with food. Good food, gatherings with family and friends, what more could you ask! Bon appetit!
You did not include, on the eating program, people who can not eat at all. I suffer from Burning Mouth syndrome. I can not taste food and any time I try to eat, it makes my mouth burn even more. There is no treatment and it never goes away. Some of us avoid food because of this little known condition.