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[:en]Win a Week’s Worth of Groceries![:]

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[:en]Do you sometimes eat movie popcorn for dinner? Do your kids feed the dog under the table? Tell us about your most embarrassing family dinner habits for the chance to win a week’s worth of groceries!

Grocery BagEveryone has an embarrassing dinner habit. Maybe your son blows bubbles in his milk, or your daughter covers all of her food in barbecue sauce. Perhaps you always start to tell a joke at the dinner table, but mess up halfway through. Or maybe your family eats at McDonald’s every other meal, and the counter staff at Wendy’s knows exactly what you mean when you say “the usual, please.”

Whatever your embarrassing family dinner habit is, email it to stories@thefamilydinnerproject.org by Friday, March 30 for the chance to win a $100 gift card to a grocery store in your area! If you win, you’ll also get individualized tips and advice to help you change your dinner habits from embarrassing to enviable.[:]

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7 responses to “[:en]Win a Week’s Worth of Groceries![:]”

  1. Hilary Avatar
    Hilary

    Often, on Saturday nights, we have dinner all along one side of the dining room table, where we can see into the living room, and watch a movie on netflix. We feel like we’re at the cinemapub, but we can be noisy and pause for bathroom breaks!

  2. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    Our family enjoys having dinner together and frequently inviting extended family, friends, and new acquaintances to join us. My embarrassing dinner habit is experimenting on our company! I never feel as though I have the “perfect meal” to serve our guests, so I almost always try a new recipe or two on them. As you can imagine, we often end up adding a new favorite to our regular repertoire. Other times, we end up with quite a disaster! It’s a wonder some of our friends are brave enough to ever come twice!

  3. Allison Avatar
    Allison

    I dread dinner time in my home. Our three children hate the texture of any kind of meat/fish/poultry. I have tried turning each into a puree and mixing them into potatoes, rice veggies etc.. Ive tried chopping them so small that they are barely noticeable but nothing works. I cant tell you how often i have gone to rinse their dinner plates only to fins their food smeared to the bottom of their plates in hopes that mom may not notice. Needless to say we have endless amounts of food experimentation’s in my home daily. It is quite embarrassing when we have company or when the kids eat at friends houses. Its hardly unnoticeable 🙂

  4. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I would like to preface this entry by noting that our embarrassing dinner habit started out with really good intentions. To encourage family communication a few years back we started having our children tell us something interesting about their day at dinner time. We used a round table format and each of us (hubby and I included) would mention something that happened or something we saw/read/etc. Somehow this has morphed into telling the grossest story you can. Topics range from school friends who can get milk throught their nose on command (okay – truth moment – so can my oldest daughter) to someone’s gory injury to anything my husband has seen at work (he works in the wastewater industry – enough said). The kids love it and occassionally someone from the under 12 friend pool is allowed to participate but we don’t really talk about family dinner with any friends we want to keep.

  5. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Since our usual weekday breakfast is cereal and fruit, after a long day at work I like to make breakfast for dinner — scrambled eggs, bacon, toast……nobody complains, but I don’t tell anyone outside the family we do it!

  6. Jenny Bella Avatar
    Jenny Bella

    On a very lazy over exhausted late afternoon after work Ive come home to serve up a mish mosh assortment of whatever can be pulle out of the fridge and pantry with minimal cooking. The left over iceberg lettuce (form the wedge w/blue cheese) chopped with whatever else I can find an some bottle dressing, boxed macaroni and cheese, and canned tuna. The kids don’t like tuna fish, so it’s cereal or waffle for them- their choice, cause by this point they need to fix it. My husband hates dinner like this, but is thankful that the tuna hasn’t been mixed Incase it reminds him of childhood also there has been the rare occasion of popping in some fish sticks in which case he completely refuses to eat. This may not be desasterous as some, but in our house it is generally considered “trash night”. Another “trash nigh” dinner, extremely rare, but is known to happens is a bucket of grocery store fried chicken and nasty sides. They love this cause it’s so disgusting and both the cat and dog love it to, plenty of fatty scraps. Ummm yeah!

  7. Sally Jones Avatar
    Sally Jones

    My most embarrassing dinner habit would be how every Sunday I plan out meals for the entire week. Usually come Tuesday with everything defrosted and ready to go I get talked into fast food. I’ve started to make dinner in the afternoon before everyone gets home and nuke it later.

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