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Partnerships Provide Family Meal Month Momentum

The movement is gaining momentum, and our country’s elected officials are joining the party, thanks to the efforts of FMI members and state grocery and retail associations....

Photo Friday: National Family Meals Month™ Visits FMI's State Issues Retreat

This year at FMI’s State Issues Retreat, participants celebrated National Family Meals Month™ by enjoying dinner together as a family! Mitty, the National Family Meals Month spokesmitt, made an appearance and celebrated with the group that included ...

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Eating Well And Shopping Well

We all want to eat well, but the concept means different things to different people. For some, eating well is all about the taste of the food; for others, it means consuming products of high nutritional value; and still for a growing number, eating ...

Have You Heard? National Family Meals Month Movement Is Trending

This September, the food retail industry celebrates the fourth annual National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM). NFMM and its huge impact is trending among consumers. Eighty-four percent of shoppers who saw the NFMM campaign reported healthier behaviors ...

Driving Home The Benefits of Family Meals

An enormous National Family Meals Month™ movement has grown with an expansive suite of turnkey materials, broad industry awareness, a blossoming list of committed partners, mounting consumer engagement, and most importantly, demonstrated behavior ...

How to Make Retail Foodservice Top of Mind for Meal Solutions

It’s 5 p.m. on a Wednesday and you’re driving your two kids back from soccer and ballet practice when your wife calls and asks what you want for dinner. What do you think of first? Pizza? Chinese? Leftovers? Questions of health and nutrition start ...

The Inspiration To Keep Everyone Coming To The Table

We all have them, those lists of things we know we SHOULD do, but for some reason we just don’t, or at least not as often as we should. We’ve likely long been convinced these actions are good for us, but if they require extra effort they slip into ...

The Food Retail Industry And Community Organizations Want More of What?

Everyone may not agree on what to have for dinner, but we can all agree on one thing: family meals are important....

Solving Consumer Needs Requires Innovation and Relevancy

Today, the industry’s compass needs to be pointed directly on how to solve consumer needs. To do that, the future of grocery will employ technology as a tool to help shopper buy more ...

The Inspiration To Keep Everyone Coming To The Table

We all have them, those lists of things we know we SHOULD do, but for some reason we just don’t, or at least not as often as we should. We’ve likely long been convinced these actions are good for us, but if they require extra effort they slip into ...

Serving Up Health and Wellness in the Fresh Department

Like cheese and wine, peanut butter and jelly, and fish and chips, consumers pair health and wellness with fresh ...

You’re Invited to Celebrate National Family Meals Month™

Have you ever felt like you missed out on the party? If you haven’t been participating in National Family Meals Month™ in September, a growing movement in food retail, you have been missing the party! ...

Proclaim September as Family Meals Month in Your State

A unique way for State Grocery and Retail Associations to support this cause is to have your state proclaim September as Family Meals Month. Beyond benefits to consumers, NFMM helps the food retail industry encourage consumers to have more meals ...

Retooling Your Resources For National Family Meals Month

This past September, American Heart Association (AHA) promoted National Family Meals Month™(NFMM) through their Healthy For Good program. The Healthy For Good movement aims to help people create sustainable, healthy ...

Campbell’s Family Meals Partnerships: Helping Families Eat Together

Campbell Soup Company, two-time winners of the Gold Plate Award, celebrated National Family Meals Month™ with their 2017 program Campbell’s Family Meals Partnerships: Helping Families Eat ...

Connecting Family Meals with Health and Wellness

The Kroger Co., a 2017 Gold Plate Award winner, focused their National Family Meals Month™ campaign on this natural connection between family meals and health and wellness. Kroger Health’s mission is to "help people live healthier lives, and one of ...

How Wholesale Grocers Can Leverage Multiple Brands to Celebrate National Family Meals Month

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) participated in National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM) for the past few years primarily utilizing its Best Choice brand. This year, AWG’s Grocers’ promoted (NFMM) through all of their brands (Best Choice, ...

Attracting, Exciting, and Engaging with Families

SpartanNash Company stated that their goal for National Family Meals Month™ was to “attract, excite and engage with all of the families that shop in our store and encourage them to eat together at home again during the month of September,” ...

Tackling the Eating Together Challenge

We know families appreciate the benefits of eating together—71 percent of parents say that ideally, they would like to eat dinner with their children every single night. Unfortunately, families succeed only half the time. Why do families fail at ...

National Family Meals Month Gains Mentor Power

This past September, Skogen’s Festival Foods celebrated National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM) through new and returning avenues....