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Heartfelt Connections: Olympic Inspiration Remind Why Family Meals Are Important

All the hardware has been awarded, the medal count tallied and the Olympic flame of the 2024 Paris games has been extinguished. As we reflect on the performances, the stories, and the efforts of the Olympic athletes competing on the global stage, ...

Dinner, Drinks, and Revelations

A year ago, after dinner and drinks out with friends, I discovered that I am an extrovert, albeit a sometimes shy one. Much like a family meal can be more balanced nutritionally than one eaten alone, according to the 2024 Family Meals Barometer ...

An Unexpected Family Meals Testimonial

The 2024 Google Doodle contest winner pays homage with her artwork that family meals have always provided her with a safe haven to bond more deeply with the people who matter the ...

A Decade of Highlighting Family Meals

This September, the FMI Foundation celebrates our tenth National Family Meals Month. This anniversary year provides a great opportunity to celebrate how far we’ve come and realize future opportunities for promoting the benefits of family ...

Top 10 Reasons to Start Planning for Family Meals Month Now

September is Family Meals Month – that special 30-day period when FMI invites you to incentivize your shoppers to enjoy the glorious nutritional, emotional and mental health benefits of sharing mealtime with their loved ones. That means if you ...

Key Takeaways from FMI’s In-Person Nutrition and Health Gathering

There’s nothing like getting together in person to discuss the biggest nutrition, health and well-being topics impacting the food industry. After three years of meeting virtually, we are thrilled that the FMI Health and Well-being Council had the ...

Celebrating Family Meals with the Gold Plate Awards

We'd love to hear how your company celebrated Family Meals Month and we invite you to apply to 2023's Gold Plate ...

Family Meals Month Profile: FMI’s Anna Kanaley

I'm always in search of a new recipe to add to my repertoire. My favorite source of inspiration for a new recipe is watching other people cook. Whether it's watching the movies "Hundred Foot Journey" or "Chef" for the thousandth time or scrolling ...

A Video Almost as Tasty as Your Grandmother’s Holiday Cookies

'Tis the season for bowl games and putting up new calendars – yes, I know. I am one of the few who still prefer seeing months laid out on paper, especially if accompanied by a quote from Ted Lasso. It is the time for getting new insurance cards and ...

The Dinner Gong: A Last Call to Apply for the 2022 Gold Plate Awards

When I was growing up, parents didn’t have cell phones, smart watches or tablets to stay in touch with their children at all hours of the day. After leaving the house, I was completely on my own. My whereabouts could not be pinpointed with an app or ...

Numbers Don’t Lie: Americans Took Positive Action Thanks to Family Meals Messaging

Are you ready for some good news? Our research partners at Harris Poll have again performed a post-Family-Meals-Month survey measuring just how effective we were at urging people to “Stay Strong with Family Meals.” We are pleased to report that ...

Time for Dessert: Placing the Cherry atop National Family Meals Month

The end of September has arrived and so too has the close of this year’s National Family Meals Month™. Seven years after its inception in 2015, this wholesome concept has grown into an impactful nationwide movement that encourages togetherness, ...

Expanding the Circle of Those Benefitting from Family Meals

A quick review of popular inspirational quotes about family reveals a healthy assortment suggesting a definition of family that exceeds the bonds of blood kinship. As part of the Foundation’s ongoing research about family meals before and during the ...

National Family Meals Month is Right Around the Corner!

This past weekend, I had some good friends over at my house to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather. It was a perfect opportunity to reconnect and share a few family meals together. Each meal required a lot of preparation, including several trips ...

The Key to Better Coping

This past weekend my wife and I took our rising sixth grader to the local mall on a pre-school clothes shopping spree. We were preparing to leave my daughter’s favorite clothes venue when store staff suddenly started ushering everyone into the ...

Developing a Roadmap to End Hunger and Improve Health

The food industry has an important role to play in ending hunger and improving the health of all Americans. We are pleased to share our collective report to the White House which outlines action recommendations for the government, noted challenges ...

Collective Journey to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health

As we find ourselves busily interacting with so many dedicated folks across the country, all focused on the many topics and issues swirling around the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, we have decided to take a moment to pause ...

New Infographic: July 4th Barbecue Breakdown

To help support our members’ communications with customers this holiday weekend regarding food price inflation, FMI has created a new July 4th Barbeque Breakdown infographic that highlights common ingredients people consume during their holiday ...

Increasing Family Meal Consumption to Boost Mental Health

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and therefore the perfect time to announce FMI’s Family Meals Movement new partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization ...

A Potential Panacea to the Plight of the Pandemic

We will be measuring the magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on our lives for many years to come. Some of that is because we will need some distance to fully comprehend the breadth and depth of even the most obvious changes the pandemic wrought. ...