Meadowland Farms Beef - Home Cooking Feeds Body and Soul

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The simplest home-cooked meal offers benefits that a drive-through, carryout or restaurant meal cannot offer. Studies show overwhelming evidence that sitting down to a home-cooked meal is one of the most important things you can do for your family.

Family meals are associated with improved diets, prevention of obesity, enhanced language acquisition and academic performance, improved social skills and family unity and a reduction in risk-taking behaviors.

Source: “Promoting Family Meals” Purdue University Center for Families, 2004.

Cooking together is a tradition that helps families bond. The kitchen is where family recipes and traditions are passed down from one generation to the next.

Source: “Cooking Up Memories” Buffalo News (New York), May 2007.

Family meals are associated with improved intakes of protein, iron, grains, calcium-rich foods, fruits, vegetables, fiber, and vitamins A, C, E, B-6 and folate, and a lower intake of soft drinks and snacks.

Source: University of Minnesota study, EAT, Eating Among Teens, in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Around the family dinner table, parents can model a healthy relationship with food and healthy eating behaviors.

Source: “Promoting Family Meals” Purdue University Center for Families, 2004.

Cooking and caring.

A home-cooked meal fills your home with the smells of cooking and creates a nurturing environment where family members know they will be safe and cared for.