Getting Started Plan
This checklist aims to help families get started with scheduling family meals.
Project Background
This article provides information on how the Better Together project began.
Family Meals and Mental Health
Family Meals and Diet Quality, Weight and Disordered Eating
Book a Workshop
Learn why children, youth, and other social groups benefit in many ways when families eat together or find out how you can support families to cook and eat together more often. Workshops are generally one hour long, but can be customized to meet your needs.
Please contact BC Dairy Foundation (nutrition@bcdf.ca) for more information or to book your workshop today.
Book a Display
Displays are available to health educators and for special events promoting healthy eating and lifestyles in British Columbia.
Please contact BC Dairy Foundation (nutrition@bcdf.ca) for more information or to book a display today.
Forum: Modern Psychology of Meals
On April 29, 2009, BC Dairy Foundation hosted a forum for health professionals, educators and the school community to share the exciting research findings on why modern families eat or don’t eat together. The research unveils the psychological drivers of family eating behaviour, the types of meals we eat and why, and the implications for society, family, food and fun.
Status of Family Meals
This document comes from Dietitians of Canada’s Practice-Based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) tool, where a summary of the key evidence regarding eating together is available. It can be accessed through the Eating Together Knowledge Pathway.
The Knowledge Pathway includes a list of research articles on the topic. To learn more about PEN and how to subscribe to PEN, click here.
Family Meal Model - Modes
BC Dairy Foundation, in partnership with the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
The research uncovered seventeen modes (or ways of eating).
Family Meal Model - Tensions
BC Dairy Foundation, in partnership with the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
Understanding the Family Meal Model meal tensions allow us to understand the underlying, often unconscious, motivations behind family meals.
Better Together Report
BC Dairy Foundation, in partnership with the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
This report summarizes the results of the research completed to explore the psychological drivers of eating behaviour in families with children (or grandchildren) between the ages of 5 and 15.
Eating Healthy on a Budget
Native Youth Health Initiative
