What’s Cookin’ Good Lookin’?
Fire up the grill to beef up family time
Barbecues across the nation are getting fired up, giving Moms some time to cool off. Female head of households still do the majority of meal prep, but handing the tongs over to your significant other just might get your family together around the table more often.
In fact, in 73 per cent of Canadian homes where Dad is responsible for the evening meal prep, families eat together six to seven times per week. This is versus 68 per cent when it’s Mom1.The benefits of eating together as a family are well known. It has been shown children who eat with their families on a regular basis consumer more iron, folate and vitamins B6 and B12. Coincidentally all found in Canadian beef. Eating together as a family is also linked with healthier weights in children, higher scholastic scores and maintains important family and cultural traditions.
Not enough time you say? How about 16 minutes? In Canadian homes where the barbecue was used to prepare dinner, 87 per cent of those took under 30 minutes, with 43 per cent under 16 minutes2. Now that’s quick! And it seems more families are catching on to just how easy a beef meal on the barbecue is with a steady increase in use for meal prep since 19993. Not only is grilling up an entire well-balanced beef meal convenient, it’s also healthy and easy as there is less clean up to do.
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So pass the tongs and enjoy a Canadian beef barbecue, the perfect answer to “What’s cookin’ good lookin’?”
1 Eating Patterns in Canada, NPD 2007.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.