Family meals can be a wonderful time to reconnect and share in any busy household. But there’s so much more to getting a meal on the table than just cooking.

 

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Finding the time can be a challenge. Sometimes just finding the dining room table can be a challenge! But these articles from Housekeeping Channel can help you take back mealtime:

In 8 Can-Do Ways to Simplify Your Life, Marcia Gracia of GetOrganizedNow.com shares tips to make your life easier, starting with supper.

A well-stocked pantry saves time in meal-planning and money at the grocery store, but only if you can find what you’re looking for. Ten Steps to an Organized Pantry by Lea Schneider will help you become master of that part of your domain.

And what about after supper? Use Five Steps for a 15-Minute Meal Cleanup to make family dinner a pleasant memory.

A little Meal Planning 101 can really help when it comes to serving a nutritious, enjoyable meal every night. There are great resources for meal planning on the Internet, including subscription services that will do all the planning for you. If you’d rather tackle it yourself, Cara Mirabella has a series of menu planning tutorials on her blog, The Household Helper, beginning with this article: Menu Planning Tutorial, part 1.

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service also has tips for making mealtimes more pleasant in this PDF: Enjoying the Family Meal.

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