Research shared by The Smithsonian highlights something that stay-at-home mom's have felt for a long time: home-cooking is a burden on women and under-appreciated by men and kids. Despite the incredible benefits of community, nutrition, and culture that home-cooking provides, it's an increasing struggle in modern life to put that home-cooking on the table. When it is, the food is "often met with whines and complaints from both their kids and husbands or boyfriends. As the researchers reported, 'We rarely observed a meal in which at least one family member didn't complain about the food they were served.'"

Possible Preaching Angle:

There are two things to take away from this: 1) Whether you're a man, women, or child, work to cook at home and be grateful for your food. 2) This is a picture of how so many of us view Communion or the Eucharist. The Table is set, with a lavish meal that cost our Host so much. And so often, we brush by it with hardly a thought, or meet it with inner complaints and whining instead of the deep gratitude such care, love, and selfless nourishment deserves.