Christmas cookie baking day!!! Love spending quality time with friends and family❤️. Even better that I get to share all this love with the neighborhood.

I wanted to be able to get the domain for this group...but Food and Freedom was already taken. Well...I could've gotten it, but it would've cost about $1,000, and I wasn't paying that. I thought about just leaving it and dealing with it, but nah...I wanted that domain. So I took to ChatGPT to brainstorm some ideas as well as just letting my creative brain flow while I sipped my dark roast coffee from my extra large coffee cup. I basically wanted to say Food and Freedom without saying it. I thought about "Beyond the Table" but those domains were like $3,000. "Infoodity and Beyond" was another fun one I came up with, but decided against that as it was a bit too abstract. Then I remembered back to the house I grew up in. We had this 5 foot tall dinner bell that you could rock back and forth atop this tall wooden pedestal and it would clang loud enough to hear all the way down the road to our neighbors house. I always loved that dinner bell. But I didn't just love it. I love what it stood for. It stood for me being a kid playing outside with my friends and brothers. It stood for my mom working in the kitchen to put together a homemade meal with real food, not McDonald's slopped down on a paper plate. It stood for our family gathered around our dinner table, hanging out, talking, no cell phones, no tv...just each other and our love for one another. Those...are The Dinner Bell Days. And that's what I hope to bring to my family, and I want to help you bring to yours.

The basic framework is obviously connecting with other people over shared interests and conversing over those topics. When you do that, people tend to “like” your post or your comment which then earns you points that count toward your level inside the community. I haven’t gotten it set up quite yet, but this week I will be adding my 30+ day meal plan to the group. It will unlock for FREE at level 3. That’s quite easy to attain, but it does obviously require engagement inside this community. I just wanted a way to reward those who’re most active, and I can assure you the 30+ day recipe book is a solid resource filled with some of my families favorite dinners. Here if you have questions! Jake