Back to Basics. Do families still eat together? ~*~

After reading another Apsense Members wonderful blog today about margarine, I got to thinking about my own family. My thoughts shiffed to not only what we consume but also how we are spending our familly time together, especially our dining time. 

I look back now,and remember we ate a lot of magarine and solid hydrogentated oils when I was growing up.  Yikes!  Biscuits were fantastic in the South..where I'm originally from. Mmmm...Mmmm good! My moms biscuits were the best.  Even her 3 finger prints, pressed down on to the front of the biscuit, hold a special memory for me.  Oh don't worry, my mom is still around and still making biscuits, I'm just 2,300 miles away from home now, a little bit harder to enjoy her 3-finger print biscuits and sopping them in turnip liquor. (soaking them in the turnip juice after cooking fresh homemade turnip greens).

I am just thankful that I grew up also having balanced meals consisting of lots of veggies and pleasant family gatherings around the table.   Perhaps, now we know more about solid hydrogentated oils not being good for you, amongst other things, but there are a lot of things besides the oils that could be examined and changed for the better.

Somehow, this subject really got me to thinking about the status and standards of my own family.  Now a days, too many of us eat on the go and dont enjoy the immediate family gatherings around the table.  I would not trade my child hood memories for anything, yet...I have fallen off the band wagon, as they say, in creating these  memories for my boys, lately.

 I have personally been trying to bring that back, to my own family.  Yes, I'm good sometimes, but when I'm bad..I'm so so bad.  Here is a recent scenario in my home.  Give me kudos for honesty here..lol.

I realized one day, one of my kids is upstairs munching on Doritoes and cream cheese while on My Space, the other is glued to his Nintendo chowing down on these sour worm creature things, me..well coffee and candy while doing my Social Networking.  Hubby, at work eating Burritoes off the local lunch truck.  Brakes!   What happened to family time, Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner? I tend to be a very heatlhy minded person...what was happening.

Yes, guilty. 

So..we are back to a family schedule, like the "old days".  It's working great for us.  I know it's hard, my boys play sports..etc..etc..  My boys do know dinner will be served at a certain time.  My husband is rearranging his schedule, so that we can all try to meet once again around the dinner table, or choose to get up earlier and share a breakfast together as a family.

I hope we can keep this up.  I'm sure enjoying the family time and so are they!