Spring Into Summer With Crunch and Munch Family Dinners

(Family Features) With parents often serving as coaches, chauffeurs, doctors and chefs, it seems as if there is less time each day to develop relationships and long-lasting memories with the ones you love. Involving the entire family at meal time will help transform dinnertime into a special time where children are invited to help prepare delicious, fun, family recipes.

Consider these tips from Janet Andreas, home economist and director of the French's Test Kitchen, that will help create quality family dinnertime.

• Establish dinnertime as a priority for the family.

• Try to plan meals in advance and set a regular dinnertime. Dinner doesn't have to be at the same time every night, but let everyone know when dinner will be served.

• Keep family dinners interesting by serving meals that everyone helps prepare.

• Create new variations of family favorite recipes like using crushed French's French Fried Onions instead of breadcrumbs as a coating for chicken, pork or fish.

• Serve dinner with enthusiasm and use dinnertime to create genuine, heart-felt conversation with each member of the family.

• Try to integrate changes gradually so your family isn't "freaked out" by family dinner. Try new things each week and see what works best for your family.

Here is a quick, simple and delicious dinner recipe that is so easy that the kids and dad can even make it.