Sunday Suppers
http://sundaysuppersphilly.org
Suppers are served every Sunday and include fresh vegetables, lean proteins and fruits while eliminating processed foods and sugary drinks. Meals are served family style on linen covered tables with fresh flowers, china and silverware; each family at their own table. Conversation starters and games at each table encourage interaction and engage family members. At the end of each Sunday supper, every family takes home all the items and recipes they need for another family meal.
This experience provides a model for families to take home and replicate as they initiate family mealtimes on their own.
Other essential elements of our program support families as they begin to make behavioral change around food purchasing, preparing meals and eating together.
Values
- Everyone is entitled to a sufficiency of healthy fresh food, the means to prepare that food, and a way to share it with their family.
- Providing people with an opportunity to participate in getting their needs met provides them with dignity as well as skills, strengthening the individual as well as the program.
- Mutual respect between all people is essential.
- Families are central in providing the love, support, and structure that children need to develop into happy, healthy and productive adults.
- Healthy food is important, and providing a positive, joyful eating experience for families is equally important.
- The unique needs of each community should be a key consideration in choosing, preparing and eating food.