My childhood and my upbringing has influenced me in many ways. I am grateful for the positive experience I had and I try to recreate a loving, yet structured environment at home. My mom’s dinner routine is one of the things I remember. She was both a mother and a nurse, and somehow she managed to make family dinners happen almost every night. No doubt, she achieved this through planning and hard work but also by setting expectations. Her dinner time philosophy? Here is the dinner. Enjoy!
One meal, yes. Since the girls started eating solids, I have always cooked dinner for them this way.
It’s a hard-nosed approach that some people may think is necessary, but it has worked for me and my more selective eater. It’s not that I’m a drill sergeant, but it is the accepted rule. Today, I want to share a few tips on how I made cooking one dinner work for my whole family.