Invest in Regular Family Dinners (With Recipe)

Reader Contribution by Linda Watson
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Regular family dinners can bring you hours of delight and help strengthen your family for less than the cost of going to the movies. Include grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and those friends and neighbors that just feel like family. Serve a welcoming main dish like my Beans with Carrots and Caramelized Onions recipe below to keep the costs down and to avoid many allergy and dietary concerns.

A few months after I started dating the man who would become my husband and the Cook for Good Taster, he invited me to join his family for Sunday lunch. His mother served a Southern feast, complete with hot, homemade rolls, green beans from the back yard, and plenty of iced tea. Three generations came together every week to trade stories and discuss their interests, from karate lessons to computers. Fortunately, I fit in well enough to become a regular.

My niece and nephew who were in grade school then are grown up now, with a new generation on the way. We get together once a month instead of every week, with everyone who can bringing a dish and taking turns hosting.

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