Meals Matter
Meals Matter
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The Meals Matter Blog offers advice and tips on using a positive and realistic approach for meal planning, healthy eating, feeding families and fitness. Posts are written by registered dietitians, staff and guest bloggers of the Dairy Council of California.
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Eat Better, Eat Together is a blog series by registered dietitians and parents whose stories and advice help families start or strengthen a commitment to balanced family meals and create healthy, successful families. Take the Eat Better, Eat Together Family Meal Pledge at Facebook.com/MealsMatter.org.
Monday, October 24 is Food Day, a nationwide campaign for healthy, delicious and affordable food produced in a sustainable and humane way. Modeled after Earth Day, Food Day gives us the chance to celebrate the many benefits of food – nutrition, flavor, cultural tradition – and to remind others of the power of nutrition education and the tremendous amount that agriculture gives back to its communities.
Pledging to eat balanced meals with foods from all the food groups together as a family is a great way to celebrate Food Day today and every day. If you haven’t already, take the Eat Better, Eat Together family meal pledge on Facebook. Then, roll up your sleeves and get the whole family involved in preparing your family Food Day meal.
Start with Arugula and Chicken Sausage Bread Pudding, Lemon Dill Carrots and Very Easy Fruit Salad. Mix and match recipes like Puffy Chile Relleno Casserole; Quinoa ,Snow Peas, Tomato and Mozzarella Salad; Three Cheese Black Bean Chili with Cheddar Crust and Mixed Berry Cobbler to celebrate Food Day with balanced family meals all week long.
Visit Facebook to take the Eat Better, Eat Together family meal pledge and follow the Twitter hashtag #EatBetter2Gether for family meal updates. Then register at MealsMatter.org to add these and other recipes to your personalized family meal plan and shopping list.
“Family Meals Matter” features registered dietitian-approved recipes from the thousands of user-contributed recipes available at the free family-nutrition and meal-planning website, Meals Matter, maintained by registered dietitian moms with Dairy Council of California. Healthy Eating Made Easier™
Photo Caption: Arugula and Chicken Sausage Bread Pudding, EatingWell.