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These headlines and copy are designed to help you craft personalized and distinctive promotional materials for family meals. These elements can be mixed and matched to create unique messaging that resonates with your audience.
Sample Headlines with Copy
- How to get the 'Tude out of a Teen? Family meals! Adolescents are happier, more fulfilled and have better body image when they regularly enjoy family meals.1
- Friends are the family you choose. A family meal can be as simple as a meal with close friends.2
- Family meals are like a surge protector: They help safeguard youth against the harmful effects of cyberbullying.3
- Family meals can be as easy as 1, 2, 3: One fresh item such as meat or poultry, one frozen item such as a heat-and-eat pasta and one canned item such as a vegetable and VOILA. Dinner is served!
- Family meals don't need to be fancy meals. Just regularly gathering around the table to share a simple meal has multiple health benefits.4
- Park your family meal! Family picnics are perfect for family meals. Pack a basket with your favorite sandwiches, fresh fruit, and cold beverages and head to the park for a fun-filled family meal!
Sample Headlines
- Family meals help keep us connected!
- Family meals are like group fitness!
- Raise the bar on family meals!
- Family meal preparation can be as easy as 1-2-3!
- Make dinner prep a family affair!
- Discover the magic of making meals together!
- Party up your family meal by serving it "bar-style."
Sample Copy
During dinner prep, parents and children are getting a chance to work elbow to elbow and to talk about their day. And when children participate in preparing healthful food, they may be more interested in eating it, plus they are building life skills.
Turn salad kits into a family meal by adding a protein, an additional fruit or veggie plus a crispy garnish like a nut or seed. Easy proteins at your grocery store include roasted chicken from the deli, chopped roast beef, turkey or ham from the deli counter, cooked shrimp or grilled salmon from the seafood section, canned beans, or baked tofu.
Make pizza night a family meal night by topping frozen or deli pizzas with extra vegetables and proteins (like roasted chicken or ham from the deli) and serve it with a green salad or raw veggies with hummus from the deli.
Add breakfast for dinner to the family meal rotation. Take turns choosing the breakfast star of the meal, be it pancakes, French toast, omelets, breakfast burritos or chicken & waffles!
Nacho bar, breakfast bar, baked potato bar, burrito bar, panini bar, pasta bar or taco bar.
Make family meals easier and speedier by reaching for the ready to eat proteins from the grocery store, including roasted chicken, deli meat, cheese, hard boiled eggs, cooked shrimp, crab, canned salmon or tuna, baked tofu, and tempeh, shelled frozen edamame or canned beans.
Grilled cheese please! It takes 15 minutes or less to whip up some grilled cheese sandwiches while you warm up a couple cans of your family's favorite soup. Tomato-based soups, like minestrone, pair perfectly with grilled cheese. This is a great way to use up some of the cheese in your refrigerator.
Preparing a family meal is easier today than ever before! Your neighborhood grocery store has everything you need to bring the family around the table to help boost diet quality, physical and mental health.
Quick family-friendly dinners include grilled cheeses, quesadillas, tuna melts, spaghetti using your favorite jar of marinara and a salad kit, quiche (using a prepared crust), fried rice using leftover protein and precooked rice, panfried salmon filets with veggies and precooked rice, Tikka Masala or Butter Chicken using roasted chicken from the deli and jarred Indian simmer sauces.
Footnotes
1 Armstrong-Carter, E., & Telzer, E. H. (2020). Family meals buffer the daily emotional risk associated with family conflict. Developmental Psychology, 56(11), 2110–2120.
2 Utter, Jennifer et al., "Family meals among parents: Associations with nutritional, social and emotional wellbeing." Preventive Medicine, 2018.
3 Elgar, Frank J. et al. "Cyberbullying victimization and mental health in adolescents and the moderating role of family dinners." JAMA Pediatrics, 2014.
4 Melo, Giselle Rhaisa do Amaral e et al. "Family meal frequency and its association with food consumption and nutritional status in adolescents: A systematic review." PLOS One, 2020.
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