Falling in Love, The Electric Slide, and For Better or Worse

Last night as I tucked our Isabelle into bed, she asked if Daddy and I fell in love like Rapunzel and Flynn Rider and if, when she got bigger, she would fall in love and get married too.  Whoa…I thought I had a few more years here.  She’s four.

Ironically, we will be attending a family wedding this weekend.  As a married couple of nearly 9 years, weddings always take us back to those days on the altar when we took each other for better or worse, in sickness and in health.  Man, for those of you who are married, you don’t really know what that means when you’re out there Electric Sliding on the dance floor or toasting champagne to the rest of your life.  

But, remember, we are family.  Get up everybody and sing.  (OK, I’m just practicing for the weekend…)  

Here are some of the ways that YOUR family uses our food:

1. Work lunches – Choose our ala carte option and take our meals to work with you like Marcia D!  This week’s recommendations:  Faux Chicken Salad, Carrot Raisin Salad, Mediterranean Quinoa Salad, and German Potato Salad.  Pick 4 of our dishes (all of these happen to be cold dishes) and pack your Hello Kitty lunch box to take into the office.  This will provide plenty of food for your weekday lunches next week!

2. Family dinners, Option A – Order our Individual Plan if you are eating separately from the family next week like Charlotte B!  If hubs and kiddos need their meat and potatoes, get your individual plan and spend less than 10 minutes reheating our meals while you prep their meals (hey – they’ll never even notice the difference with our Mac & Cheese!).  

3. Family dinners, Option B – Order our Couple Plan and make some substitutions if you want to feed the entire family like Melanie M!  Double up on a few main dishes so everyone can eat the same thing – one main dish and two sides will feed four of you…and even leave room for PB Cups!

The Modern Family Dinner Table

What does your dinner table look like?  A TV tray, a minivan, an office desk, an actual dinner table…with piles of mail and school assignments pushed to the corner? And what’s on your plates?  Steak and potatoes for dad, salad with low-carb bread for mom, grilled cheese on gluten-free bread for the kids?

What happened to our family dinner table?  

Hey, we’re not here to judge.  The modern family dinner table has changed dramatically.  Why, June Cleaver wouldn’t even recognize our table (or what’s on our plates) anymore.  Times have changed – travel, technology, activities, endless blasts of information from all directions…pesticides, arsenic, high fructose corn syrup.  Our lifestyle and our food is hardly what our parents lived and ate.

Conveniently Natural is a family-owned business and some days it’s a toss-up in determining whether we’re a family or a business.  My mom hat, my marketing hat, wife hat, CFO hat, chef hat, house-cleaner hat, customer service hat, kitchen manager hat…At the end of the day, we’re both a family and a business serving families who wear all these hats too.  We believe that TRUE health and happiness lies in combining all these roles, personally and professionally, because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our relationships. 

The quality of our relationships is determined by the communities we belong to ~ our family extends beyond blood relatives (I’m adopted anyway).  YOU are our family too.  Each week, our Conveniently Natural family prepares meals for the best family dinner parties around KC – in your dining rooms, offices, and maybe even on the go.  Conveniently Natural was born out of the idea that life (especially a healthy life) just doesn’t have to be that hard.  Let us help – that’s what family does.  Thanks for being part of our community and letting us be a part of yours. 

Good deed this week:  Add a Family Size (48 oz) dish ala carte this week and share with someone you consider family – a neighbor, co-worker, school teacher, old friend, or hey…call your mom.  She wants to hear from you.