Do you Barbecue with Family in Your Backyard on a regular basis?
Maybe you only head out there with steaks, potatoes, and hot dogs for the fourth of July or to celebrate a meaningful event.
Regardless of how often you barbecue in your backyard, here are some reasons to make it a regular experience.
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You can cook a whole meal
With an outdoor barbecue grill island, you can cook entire meals outside.
With a grill setup that includes a sink, refrigerator, and an ice machine, you’ll be able to prepare and serve lunch or dinner entirely in your backyard without having to go back into the house.
You can even get a grill island with storage to stash your family’s favorite snacks and non-perishable foods like unopened jars of relish and dry seasonings.
Cheaper alternatives include this Blackstone griddle with cabinets.
It’s much easier to spend time with your family in the backyard when you don’t have to constantly run into the house to get supplies, ice, condiments, or grab a cold drink.
Eating outside feels amazing
Who doesn’t love eating a good meal outdoors?
There’s something wonderful about eating outside and when you barbecue your meals outdoors your whole family can enjoy this feeling.
When it’s cool, it feels nice to sit outside feeling the breeze against your body.
If it gets too cold you can always get some propane patio heaters like the ones restaurants use to keep their patios warm.
Being outside also brings you closer to nature, even if you’ve only got a few trees and some grass.
You don’t need to live in a fancy house to have an inviting backyard.
Cut the grass and trim those weeds and everyone will enjoy having dinner in your outdoor setting.
You’ll get more fresh air
How much time do you spend indoors, away from nature?
Looking out the window for hours on end doesn’t count.
If you’re not getting a lot of outdoor time, you’re not getting enough fresh air.
Barbecuing outside with your family will give you that fresh air you need to feel and stay healthy.
When you barbecue, you’ll be spending hours outside getting fresh air the whole time.
You’ll breathe a little deeper and it will just make you feel good all around.
You can get everyone involved in cooking
It’s a whole lot easier to get everyone involved in cooking a meal when you’re cooking outside on the barbecue.
Being outside gives you far more space than you have in your kitchen and that means you can give multiple people tasks.
For instance, you can have someone chopping up onions while someone else is preparing hot dogs.
If you’re the grill master, you can prepare the more important meats like steak.
Barbecuing is an excellent way to make memories, and nothing solidifies new memories more than a good sensory experience with great-tasting food.
Your kids will carry the memories with them throughout their whole lives.
With a couple of tables – or just one large table – everyone can contribute something to the barbecued meal, even if only by chopping up veggies.
This will be especially fun for your younger kids who probably feel left out when everyone else is helping to cook.
You can have them sit down at the prep table with everyone else and give them an important task to do, like filling bowls of chips.
You won’t heat up the house in summer
Another reason to barbecue in the backyard is to avoid heating up the inside of your house in the summer.
If you need to cook something on the stove or in the oven when it’s already hot, you’ll significantly raise the temperature inside your home.
Then you’ll need to run your air conditioner longer to cool off.
That is, if you have an air conditioner.
If you don’t have A/C, you’ll just have to deal with a hot house.
Barbecuing outside eliminates the possibility of making your house uncomfortably hot after cooking a meal for your family.
As a bonus, barbecued food is tasty and if you run your grill on propane, you’ll save some money on your electric bills, too.
What will you serve at your next backyard barbecue?
What food will you serve at your next backyard barbecue?
Hot dogs? Hamburgers? Corn on the cob and potatoes?
You can cook just about anything on a barbecue, you don’t have to stick to the usual foods. Experiment with new recipes.
Try cooking different meals and don’t be afraid to get creative – your family will love the outdoor experience.
