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How to Bring Home the Bacon - and Cook It Too
Every Sunday morning, Severn Williams totes two cookbooks under his arm as he heads out for breakfast with his wife, Nina, and toddler son, Ezra. At the restaurant, they leaf through the books for two or three recipes to make for weeknight dinners, then pick up groceries on the way home.
That night, after Ezra’s asleep, they put on some music and cook – lasagna, manicotti, breakfast casseroles, gumbo and other easy-to-reheat dishes that will allow them to sit down most nights for a stress-free family dinner.
It’s “sacred time,” even though the Williamses work 60-hour weeks for their Santa Barbara, Calif.-based public relations startup. Their dinner habits put them in a slight majority of working families.
Most nights, up to 40 percent of American families don’t eat their evening meals together, in the face of studies that point to regular family meals as a way to keep kids out of trouble, possibly boost their academic performance and keep family ties tied.
The hard part is making it more than just a sometime thing.
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Entrepreneurs have an especially hard time breaking away from business to focus on family.
“It’s easy to work around the clock and grab something to eat here and there,” says Williams, who founded Severn Williams Media in 2001. “For years, that’s what I did. [Now,] we’re looking for quick, healthy, tasty meal options, so the time we’re together is really spent being together.”
Author: Lynne Meredith Schreiber
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