BC Dairy Foundation, in partnership with the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, initiated a project to encourage family meals in the province of British Columbia.

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.

To download a copy of this report, click here.

For more information about the Family Meal Model meal tensions, click here. These tensions allow us to understand the underlying, often unconscious, motivations behind family meals.

For more information about the Family Meal Model meal modes, click here. The research uncovered seventeen modes (or ways of eating).