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Having family meals

odawaraetsuko1

2025/01/28

My friend, Yuki, shared stories about her daily meals in the interviews she had with me. She talked about her meals since she got married. It’s interesting, as time passed, her thoughts and attitudes towards meals and life have changed.

How do you prepare and eat meals?

Who do you eat together?

What is the value of preparing meals and having meals for you?





Yuri is in her late thirties. When she married three years ago, she worked in a hospital as a full-time occupational therapist, 9am to 6pm. In total, her commute to work and from work was 180 minutes. She was quite busy. She lived with her parents. Her mom took care of cooking and other house chore.


Yuri married. She has decided to keep her career. She went out on her own, so she needed to do house chore on her own. She was too busy to settle in her new home. It took two hours and half to go to work and another two hours and half to go back home. Additionally, her husband worked 12-hour shifts. So, their individual time schedule didn’t match. So, how were they able to make their new life in such a hectic schedule?


Yuri found out that dinner time, though limited, allowed them to send quality time together. That’s a precious time for Yuri. Yuri’s commute time is too long. She can’t be home early enough to prepare for dinner. So, when she chose curry rice for their dinner, she sent an email to her husband. She asked him to cook rice and cut beef, onions, and potatoes then to cook them together. Her husband started cooking as he was ordered and waited for her to come home. Once she arrived home, she finished cooking curry rice. Yuri said that she was happy when the two of them enjoyed their dinner, saying “It’s yummy!” While they were eating and saying “It’s yummy!”, she was happy and satisfied. She felt safe. In their unsynchronized time schedule, dinner time became a precious time for her to relax and talk to her husband.


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