Dreamy Dinner time with the founder of Dream Dinners

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Stephanie Allen and her business partner, Tina Kuna, launched Dream Dinners in Snohomish, Washington in 2002. Today Dream Dinners offers 208 locations where you can prepare up to 12 dinners in about two hours and freeze them for later.

Stop. Unplug. Have dinner together… that’s the core message of Dream Dinners, and it’s being validated in the new book; The Hour That Matters Most. Stephanie and Tina say thriving family’s share these 6 characteristics:

1.) COMMITMENT
2.) APPRECIATION AND AFFECTION
3.) POSITIVE COMMUNICATIONS
4.) TIME TOGETHER
5.) SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING
6.) THE ABILITY TO COPE WITH STRESS AND CRISES

 

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