Raising a family's fibre intake without a fight at the table
Getting one adult to eat more fibre is hard enough. Getting a whole household there, especially with children who reject anything that looks like "health food," is a different problem entirely.
The trick that works more often than lecturing about vegetables: swap, don't add. A child who won't touch broccoli might still eat a date chopped into yoghurt, or dried fruit mixed into a snack box next to the usual crackers. You're not introducing a new food group, you're changing what's already in the bowl. Dates work for this better than most fruit because they're sweet enough to compete with the biscuit they're replacing, and a small handful (about 20g for a child's portion) already carries a couple of grams of fibre.
Keep the swap small and repeatable rather than a one-off "healthy meal" everyone resents. Two or three Mariami or Medjool dates in the school snack box, three times a week, will do more over a school term than one elaborate fibre-rich dinner nobody finishes. Cut them into quarters for younger children — a whole date can be a choking risk under about age four, so this isn't optional.
Adults in the house should make the same swap visibly. Kids copy what they see eaten, not what they're told to eat. If dates only appear as "the thing dad tells me to eat," they'll be treated the same as any other rejected vegetable.