What is For Dinner At Your House Tonight?

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to talk about Dinner with a number of  friends. Now these are not all foodies mind you, they are normal uber busy folks with classes, jobs, kids and a zillion distractions before dinner is served every night.

We were all kind of venting about dinner and what it really means, and also what kind of notions that we all have about dinner (from childhood) stuck in our heads.  These ideas, I discovered over the course of the many conversations about dinner, are really doing more harm than good in our lives. Here is a sampling of the different attitudes about dinner that we discussed:

• Dinner = Cooking a Complicated Recipe that you have never cooked before
• Dinner= Must include a salad main course bread and dessert each night
• Dinner= Must include stuff that is “good for you” even if the kids won’t eat it.
• I only think about Dinner on my way home from work
• I only think about Dinner when I am ready to eat it
• I can’t plan ahead, as I am not sure what I will want to eat that night

There were a number of other, interesting ideas about what dinner means to folks and what they do about it. We were discussing how we/folks get caught in the “let’s go out trap” and what we can do to plan ahead and avoid it.

Because, truthfully, if you want to really know what you are eating for dinner  (high quality, organic, fresh, low fat, low carb, grass-fed etc…) you will want to cook at home. Restaurants are in the business to make money and oftentimes this means that what is important to you, may not be what is important to a restaurant.

I was curious about what you think about dinner at your house.   What are your challenges? What do you wish you could figure out? How can LivingTraderJoe’s help?

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