The Family Meals Collective
Litterbach E, Denniss E, Middleton G. ‘From plate to post: exploring representations of #familymeals through a content analysis of Instagram’. Health Promotion International, 2025; 40(3).
Le Moal F, Litterbach E, Dunn K, Fraser K, Bouchaud C, Middleton G. ‘Unpacking family meals: state-of-the-art review critiquing the Western ideals, positioning and promotion of family meals’. Health Promotion International, 2025; 40(1).
Middleton G, Litterbach E, Le Moal F, Ayre S. ‘Are we overthinking family meals? 5 realistic tips to ease the pressure’. The Conversation, 2023.
Ayre SK, White MJ, Harris HA, & Byrne RA. ‘I’m having jelly because you’ve been bad!’: A grounded theory study of mealtimes with siblings in Australian families. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 2023; 19(2).
Ayre SK, Harris HA, White MJ, & Byrne RA. Food parenting practices and child eating behaviors in Australian families: A cross-sectional sibling design. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2023; 124(1).
Ayre SK, Harris HA, White MJ, & Byrne RA. Food-related practices and styles in households with sibling children: A scoping review. Appetite, 2022; 174.
Dunn K, Andrews FJ, & Warner E. The cooking and eating experiences of Australian families with children, living in private, inner-city, high-rise apartments. Housing and Society, 2021; 50(1), 70–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2021.1989858
Fraser K, Love P, Campbell KJ, Ball K, & Opie RS. Meal kits in the family setting: Impacts on family dynamics, nutrition, social and mental health. Appetite, 2022; 169.
Fraser K, Love P, Laws R, Campbell KJ, & Spence AC. Meal kit subscription services and opportunities to improve family vegetable consumption. Health Promotion International, 2023; 38(6).
Fraser K, Johnson BJ, Love P, Spence AC, Laws R, Campbell KJ. Mapping the behaviour change potential of meal kits to positively influence parental food literacy. Public Health Nutrition, 2023; 27(1).
Le Moal F, Michaud M, Hartwick-Pflaum CA, Middleton G, Mallon I, & Coveney J. Beyond the normative family meal promotion: A narrative review of qualitative results about ordinary domestic commensality. Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021; 18(6).
Le Moal F, Michaud M, & Coveney J. Exploring unequal class logics of mealtime food socialisation. An ethnography of family meals in France and Australia. Appetite, 2024; 195.
Le Moal F. Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2024.
Litterbach EV, Campbell KJ, & Spence AC. Family meals with young children: an online study of family mealtime characteristics, among Australian families with children aged six months to six years. BMC Public Health, 2017; 17(1).
Litterbach EV, Zheng M, Campbell KJ, Laws R, & Spence AC. Mealtime TV use is associated with higher discretionary food intakes in young Australian children: A two-year prospective study. Nutrients, 2022; 14(13).
Litterbach E, Laws R, Zheng M, Campbell KJ, & Spence AC. “That’s the routine”: A qualitative exploration of mealtime screen use in lower educated Australian families with young children. Appetite, 2023; 180.
Litterbach E, Laws R, Zheng M, Campbell KJ, & Spence AC. Mothers’ experiences of reducing family mealtime screen use in Australian households with young children. Public Health Nutrition, 2023; 27(1).
Middleton G, Golley R, Patterson KA, Le Moal F, & Coveney J. What can families gain from the family meal? A mixed-papers systematic review. Appetite, 2020; 153.
Middleton G, Golley RK, Patterson KA, & Coveney J. The Family Meal Framework: A grounded theory study conceptualising the work that underpins the family meal. Appetite, 2022; 175.
Middleton G, Golley RK, Patterson KA, & Coveney J. Barriers and enablers to the family meal across time; a grounded theory study comparing South Australian parents’ perspectives. Appetite, 2023; 191.
Middleton G, Golley RK, Patterson KA, & Coveney J. The family meal, a ritual frozen in time; an Australian grounded theory study. Health Promotion International, 2023; 38(5).
Scott AG, Hunter SC, & Johnson BJ. Exploring the social norms regarding parents’ food provision in Australia using story completion methodology. Appetite, 2022; 178.
Scott AG, Johnson BJ, & Hunter SC. Exploring the influence of context on social norms around Australian parents’ food provision using story completion. Public Health Nutrition, 2024; 1-28.
So JTH, Nambiar S, Byrne R, Gallegos D, & Baxter KA. Dads at mealtimes: Associations between food security, household work chaos, and paternal feeding practices among Australian fathers living with disadvantage. Nutrients, 2024; 16(2).
So JTH, Byrne R, Nambiar S, Gallegos D, & Baxter KA. “You just have to spread it thin”: Perceptions and feeding experiences of Australian fathers of young children living with disadvantage. Appetite, 2024; 194.
Spence AC, Hesketh KD, Crawford DA, & Campbell KJ. Mothers’ perceptions of the influences on their child feeding practices – A qualitative study. Appetite, 2016; 596-603.
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