Family mealtimes

Family life can be hectic. Amongst juggling work, household chores, school, extracurricular activities and family fun, parents have the important role of ensuring their children are well fed. Thanks to the hecticness of family life it can be a struggle to find the time and inclination (or have all family members home at the same time) to sit down together as a whole family for mealtimes.

Research conducted by HiPP Organic, exclusively for the Wean Team, has found that when it comes to family mealtimes, almost 90% of parents say that eating together as a family is very important. Despite this, only 25% actually manage to sit down and eat dinner together 1-2 times a week.

Whilst family life is very busy for us, with evenings especially being very hectic of late as Bug participates in a number of extracurricular classes away from and after school such as fun football, swimming classes and athletics which means mummy is taxi with Jelly Bean comes along for the ride, we strive to sit down for meal times every night as a family.

Birds Eye captures mealtime moments with Martin Parr.

Renowned food brand and British institute Birds Eye have an exciting competition that gives entrants the opportunity to win the chance to be part of British Food History.

Being all about food, and good food at that with their new slogan being ‘the food of life, it is no surprise that this Birds Eye competition features food.  Teaming up with world famous photographer Martin Parr, Birds Eye are on a quest to uncover and capture the eating habits and behaviour of the nation.

The initiative to capture the nation’s eating habits through the lens follows the Big Mealtime Audit, a study by Birds Eye to reveal the way real people eat and interact at meal times.