How Is Your Family Spending Together?

What sort of activities do you and your family find yourselves doing lately? Are you planning crafts projects together? Movie nights in? Camping in the backyard? Or video game time?

With the economic downturn, many families have been forced to spend more time at home doing things together. For families that all grown up, they don't get to spend time together out side of church, like watching movies, going to the park and other things they used to do when the kids are still small and playful.

I joined for one reason only to have it be a great opportunity to spend time with my growing children...we make popcorn, we cook together, we garden and do things together. When they grow up and have lives on their own, it would be nice to talk to know that the time is well spent. Just being there.

Times in the garden

Cooking Together

Families today are becoming more cautious of their spending, so they share some of the ways to spend time with the whole family without spending too much yet with all the fun. Sometimes we just don't realize that it’s still the simplest activities that children remember and enjoy the most.

Convenience Foods Ideal for Travel

Traveling light is a necessity if you want convenience and fun. Though it depends on the nature of your trip and your personal interest, I still believe in convenient traveling.

When I travel I always go with a bag of food even on airplanes as I want to eat healthy and not have to eat what is on offer.  On road trips, it is a healthy eating consideration picking on easy to eat foods. I always make sure I do have some fresh foods that are on the low perishable end.

Apples & oranges, celery sticks, carrot sticks and sugar snap peas (the ones you eat in the shell). I may even have a salad already prepared in containers for each person with the salad dressing on the bottom, not mixed in and take some plastic forks.

Take a look at some of the convenience foods that you'll likely to buy when traveling to certain destinations:

German Convenience Foods

Asian Convenience Foods

South American Convenience Foods

American Convenience Foods

 

I would make my own trail mix with dried fruit and roasted nuts and seeds.  I put carob chips instead of chocolate chips. There are a few quick ideas, I will return with a few more ideas later after I know how long your trip is.  I am sure someone else will have some good ideas.