Health and Well-being

Wakefern Shares the Importance of Family Meals with the Whole Company

For National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM) 2018, Gold Plate Award-winner Wakefern Food Corp. encouraged family meals throughout their entire company. Natalie Menza-Crowe, director of health and wellness at Wakefern Food Corp., shared insights about ...

Cannabis and Hemp and CBD, Oh My! A Breakdown for Food Retailers

Whether you are walking through the aisles of your local supermarket, convenience store, pharmacy or simply perusing a health magazine, you have probably seen an increase in the number of products and advertisements promoting ingredients such as ...

World Food Safety Day: There is No Food Security Without Food Safety

FMI and SQFI support World Food Safety Day because it promotes awareness of the importance of food safety and inspires actions for safer food. We encourage you to participate in World Food Safety Day raise awareness around food safety at all levels ...

A Unique Approach to Celebrate National Family Meals Month

Each family has its own unique challenges to achieving a regular family mealtime. The Kellogg Company, a 2018 Gold Plate Award Winner, focused its National Family Meals Month campaign on helping WIC families have one more meal each ...

Did Millennials Usher in The Era of The Impossible Whopper?

Recently, Burger King introduced the Impossible Whopper—a vegetarian version of the classic Whopper—and there are claims of other fast food restaurants following this trend. Taste testers in the pilot location of St. Louis, Missouri, are giving the ...

Hy-Vee Sets the Table for National Family Meals Month

To reach every customer in their stores, Gold Plate Award-winner Hy-Vee provided customers with tips and tools to make mealtime more manageable, and partnered with other organizations to reach customers outside their ...

Family Meals Newest Spokespeople: Kids!

For National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM), three-time Gold Plate Award winner Skogen’s Festival Foods took on the challenge that parents face daily: engaging ...

Photo Friday: Proclaim It Family Meals Month

Last week the FMI Foundation attended the House Conference District Director Fly-in, where local district directors gathers on Capitol Hill to hear about national initiatives they can take back to their ...

Crashing Tailgate Parties – A Unique Way to Promote More Family Meals

Every September, National Family Meals Month™ is celebrated throughout the US, and in the upper Midwest of America, many families also enjoy meals together at tailgate parties in the parking lots of college and NFL football games throughout the ...

Key Trends and Products from Natural Products Expo West

The energy was palpable at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim earlier this month. There was truly a community feel throughout the event. The FMI Emerge team was there to speak with emerging brands wanting to grow their distribution and scale ...

A New Recipe for Food Safety at Home

The FMI Foundation and Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE) released the Safe Recipe Style Guide, to help standardize food safety recipe instructions. These instructions can help raise public awareness for proper handwashing procedures, ...

The SCOTUS Case that will Reexamine What “Confidential” Means to You

A legal case heading to oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court this spring has far-reaching implications when it comes to something you hold near and dear -- your confidential commercial information. FMI is a named party in the case because we ...

Bringing the Power of One More Family Meal to the Screen

Gold Plate Award-winner, GIANT Food Stores, “Power of One More Family Meal” campaign reached 65 million people in-store, at home, and in their communities....

More Fruits and Veggies and More Family Meals - A Winning Combination

Gold Plate Award winner, Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH),and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Foundation, partnered this past September to educate more families about the value of shared, produce-packed ...

Stir It Up! 2019 Delivers Top Awards for Best in Family Meal Fare and Raises $1.2M for the FMI Foundation

Each year at the FMI Foundation’s signature fundraising event, Stir It Up!, we replicate the culinary adventures that shoppers can experience every day in food retail stores across the nation. The 2019 Stir It Up! competition winners exemplified ...