{"id":1000,"date":"2009-08-18T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2009-08-17T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T20:38:50","slug":"in-the-uk-the-recession-means-more-meals-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/08\/18\/in-the-uk-the-recession-means-more-meals-together\/","title":{"rendered":"in the UK, the recession means more meals together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by KayVee.INC on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25678284@N03\/3725846816\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3475\/3725846816_0db11d73d5_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tomato soup &amp; melted cheese sammich\" \/><\/a>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/aug\/17\/more-families-eating-together-recession\">The Guardian (UK)<\/a> ran a story about a new trend documented by sociologists at Oxford University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/aug\/17\/more-families-eating-together-recession\">The Guardian<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More families are eating together at home as a result of the recession, a report by Oxford academics has found.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of parents questioned say they are trying harder to ensure that everyone in the household eats the same meal to help keep costs down, while 48% of parents say they are eating out less frequently. One in six cited more family time as a side effect of the downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Changing Plates, based on research by the department of sociology at Oxford University and YouGov, and commissioned by Birds Eye, found that 67% of UK adults eat a meal with their families at least three times a week. Almost half do so every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The study&#8217;s author notes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonathan Gershuny, from the Department of Sociology at Oxford University, said: &#8220;The findings of this report suggest that while the family meal is adapting and becoming more relaxed, the social significance of eating together remain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/aug\/17\/more-families-eating-together-recession\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Guardian (UK) ran a story about a new trend documented by sociologists at Oxford University. The Guardian reports: More families are eating together at home as a result of the recession, a report by Oxford academics has found. A quarter of parents questioned say they are trying harder to ensure that everyone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[131,70,30],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economy","tag-family","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}