As a child, my favourite family meals were always the spontaneous ones. We'd often have impromptu picnic dinners in the backyard on warm summer evenings. My mum would prepare simple but delicious food - usually sandwiches and fresh fruit, sometimes with sparkly juice. We'd laugh and play games until sunset and it was so much fun.
Now that I'm older, I realise these were probably some of my mum's cunning tricks to make dinner time a blast so we'd eat without fussing! But they're some of my happiest memories nonetheless.