Using Tools To Make Mealtime Easier CTV News Interview

Learn how to make mealtime easier and fun Quick fix at five – CTV Kitchener

Rosie Del Campo (CTV Kitchener) and Emilio Jose Garcia (KW Professional Organizers) share with you tips to make mealtime easier. 

Secrets to making mealtime easier

One of the first and most important things to make mealtime easier is to eliminate frustrations. Take a moment right now and reflect on your own habits around cooking. Can you quickly identify any frustrations? 

For example, you regularly put a pot of soup on stove to heat up and leave the room, returning to find a mess all over the stove. Or maybe it’s making the decision on what to have to eat everyday and getting overwhelmed by choices.

Getting everyone in the house on board with mealtime habits and routines is also a great way to ease frustrations around mealtime. Although it takes time to ‘train’ new habits into other members of the house, it is well-worth the investment as they become solidified into the new norm.

Ways to make mealtime fun:

• pick a theme (example: specialty dishes from different cultures, finger foods, breakfast for dinner, bbq)
• each person has a responsibility (example: Samantha cooks, Eva sets the table, Emilio clears the table)
• pick a topic to talk about over dinner (example: what’s your favourite animal and why? the best covid-19 friendly places to visit, what is your favourite dinner?)
• create a great atmosphere ( example: set the table, light a candle, select music that moves you, put away all devices and distractions)

Tools to use:

• shelf dividers
• lazy susans
• a timer
• meal planning app
• glide out shelfs
• small electronic appliances: hand emulsion blender, toaster oven, food processor, crockpot, rice cooker or instapot 
• physical calendar or meal plan

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