Are we overthinking family meals? 5 realistic tips to ease the pressure

By Georgia Middleton, Associate Lecturer, Flinders University
Eloise Litterbach, Postdoctoral Researcher, Deakin University
Fairley Le Moal, Postdoctoral researcher in Sociology, Flinders University
Susannah Ayre, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology

Eating together regularly as a family has long been promoted as a simple solution for improving health and wellbeing.

We have been told that to achieve these proposed benefits we must follow an idealistic, age-old formula: all family members at the table, happily sharing a home-cooked meal and chatting without distractions. But the modern reality includes time-poor families,…

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