When your grandparents were kids, there would have rarely been a night when they didn\u2019t sit with their family around a dining table to share a home-cooked meal and stories from their day. In some homes, weekend breakfasts or lunches – often cooked like dinner, taking hours, not minutes – would have been spent together too.<\/p>\n
At these family meals a set of rules passed down over generations would guide how people would eat and interact with one another. These rules were called table etiquette, put more simply – good manners!<\/p>\n
These days, lots of families don\u2019t eat together very often and meal times have become so much faster. The rules have become looser too. But nutritionists now think there was some kind of healthy magic in those old-school food rituals that futuristic families like yours could really benefit from.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When your grandparents were kids, there would have rarely been a night when they didn\u2019t sit with their family around a dining table to share a home-cooked meal and stories from their day. In some homes, weekend breakfasts or lunches – often cooked like dinner, taking hours, not minutes – would have been spent together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16592,"parent":14541,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n