Eating together is a value that has long been forgotten but it has a number of benefits which brings people together with lovely experiences.
Every Meal has a story and stories never consist of a single person. It needs action, a timeline, a plot, love, and a happy ending. This journey could be made delightful on the paths that are not meant to be travelled alone. We tell our tales from our food, our ambience and our cultural representation and hence, eating together brings those experiences together on a table and are shared through taste buds.
The Experience
We are so busy with our lives that we forget how important it is to communicate with our family and friends. Eating together is a chance to learn from one another and it gives you a sense of security that you are always surrounded by the people who love you. It makes you internally satisfied and be heard.
Helps build relationships
Having meals together helps create bonds, increase well being for one another, makes you feel what the other person means to you. It makes it easier for the children to converse with their parents if they are going through something. It helps children to open up to their parents and gives parents a chance to converse with their kids to know what is going on in their lives.
Cultural Bond
Food has always been a factor for human nutrition and our evolution. Every culture has its way to prepare food and to choose what to eat. Food brings people together from the same culture and also makes the introduction of different cultures to one another. There is always a specific dish for a cultural event. People tend to associate their events with specific foods, it brings a family together to build a healthy relationship.
Homemade food
You will eat healthily. A person’s life could be miserable when they have to eat food from restaurants all the time, they are missing out on everything that a family could provide. Nourishment not only comes with the food but, with the quality of food and the people you are having it with. Homemade food is generally healthy and cost-effective.
A chance to explore different foods
Are you still reluctant to eat that certain dish? Eating together can make you try the food that can change all your perceptions and mindsets that you created being reluctant to it. It works as a support system for encouragement. You never know what you like, it gives you the element of surprise on what you were missing out on. Experimenting with your food will not only provide you with numerous nutrients but will save you from boredom to eat the same type of food every other day.
Good eating habits
Eating together can help make your eating habits healthier. A wise man once said, a person’s greatest asset is their health. Especially children could make good habits from the beginning to help them in their future to maintain the influence. You will get to absorb the habits of your elders, maybe reduce down the daily sugar intake or reduce the carbs. It can maintain your everyday life healthier.
We often forget how important it can be for everyone to eat together, no matter how much we want to isolate ourselves, we are social beings at the end of the day. Sharing meals hold a greater value than we can imagine, food is not only a fuel for our body but also acts as a bridge in our relationships, culture and our mental well being.