The meal is a joint affair!
It signaled a political majority final week with a finance regulation that kick-starts the event of faculty meals and a shared meal tradition in main colleges.
When you ask the overall inhabitants, it’s also clear that the group concerning the meal has nice worth. In Madkultur24, which is revealed at this time, we requested 2,000 adults what their meals seemed like yesterday. And the solutions largely rely on whether or not you ate collectively or alone.
After we eat dinner collectively, we place loads of significance on coziness and dialog. We eat 9 minutes longer. We make extra of the cooking, the uncooked supplies and the setting. We’re extra happy with the meal and discover it more healthy. Consuming collectively contributes to well-being, enjoyment of meals and well being!
Maybe that’s the reason just one in ten prefers to eat alone. And whereas cooking is getting quicker and quicker, we give ourselves simply as a lot time to eat now as in earlier measurements.
Alternatively, Madkultur24 exhibits that we now takes desk manners and cellular use extra simply on the shared desk (see the figures additional down), and that a number of cohabitants eat individually. Maybe it isn’t totally stunning that society's rising tempo of life and digitization at the moment are additionally starting to go away such an imprint on the meal.
If there’s something that notably surprises me, it’s that 585,000 adults in Denmark eat alone all through the dayi.e. morning, midday and night. It’s particularly single individuals and other people outdoors the labor market – i.e. those that have the fewest dedicated relationships.
This emphasizes to me that we should prioritize each the shut and the massive meal communities. After we try this, we don't simply fulfill a social want. It additionally impacts the meals, which i.a. is extra do-it-yourself and consists of a number of completely different components once we eat collectively.
Inclusive, wholesome and mobile-free meals in school are a extremely good place to begin. In Madkulturen, we contribute to this by offering recommendation to varsities and municipalities that need to develop college meals in observe. That's why you get on this subject two good examples of the group of a joint college meal.
As this month's Tal om meals shares the newest figures for the proportion of night meals with cellphones on the desk and essentially the most frequent the explanation why we pull out our cellphones throughout meals.
Lastly, we ask 3 sharp factors for way of life knowledgeable Anne Glad about Meals Culture24. Learn her good recommendation on what the meal says about our residing situations – and what we miss by consuming with a cell phone in hand.
Have enjoyable – each with the publication and with Madkultur24!
Greatest regards
Judith Kyst
Director of Meals Tradition