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7 Ways Food Retailers Are Raising Their Mitt for Family Meals

It’s been great to see all the excitement and energy around National Family Meals Month. With a few weeks left to celebrate, we wanted to share how some food retailers are encouraging families to join the family meals ...

Hitting on All Cylinders with Family Meals

FMI’s National Family Meals Month campaign has focused on September as the optimal time to bring attention and reinforcement to the benefits of families sharing food and lives together at the dinner table. September is the month during which the ...

Top 5 Reasons Acme Fresh Market Wins A Gold Plate for Family Meals

In honor of September National Family Meals Month™, FMI is proud to recognize our members for implementing programs to encourage family meals through our Gold Plate Awards. Acme Fresh Market, the 2015 Retailer Category A (1-49 stores) Gold Plate ...

Gold Plate = Gold Star on Family Meals

Last night we were pleased to honor our four winners of the 2015 Gold Plate Awards at a reception on Capitol Hill with the House Agriculture Committee and Chairman Michael Conaway (R-TX-11). Here are some photos of the ...

Grocery Stories: Funny Family Meal Tips

Turn on the oven, Mom. Fire up the grill, Dad. And somebody find the children. It’s time to eat together because it’s National Family Meals Month. Created by the Food Marketing Institute, a supermarket trade group, this promotion urges families to ...

Making the Meal Fit the Shape and Schedule of the New American Household: the Grocer as Food and Family Facilitator

This webinar highlights findings from the FMI 2015 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends Report, conducted by the Hartman Group. Participants will gain insights into the changing consumer mealtime distinctions and broader household member participation in ...

Hy-Vee: Encouraging Families To Enjoy One More

In the spirit of National Family Meals Month, Hy-Vee dietitians are hard at work educating families on the benefits of sharing more meals together at home....

Kudrinko’s: Celebrating #FamilyMealsMonth With Shoppers

FMI member, Kudrinko’s, is committed to helping its customers make sharing more meals at home a fun, healthy and affordable ...

Celebrating Family Meals

To celebrate family meals and kick off this month long movement, we’ve launched a consumer website with resources and fun ways to get involved. Visit www.NationalFamilyMeals.org for more details and look for updates on social media using #...

Looking For More Reasons To Eat Together?

From the Child Development ...

Family Dinner vs. Extracurricular Activities

From the Washington ...

Everyone Benefits When Families Eat Together

The family who eats together stays ...

Ideas For Busy Parents

From the Huffington ...

Want Your Family To Cook Together?

Have Your Say: How can we get our families cooking together?...

Parents Are Trying To Get Their Family To The Dinner Table More Often

From PR Newswire....

Ask your kids to help with meal planning and prepping!

Kids who are part of meal planning and preparation complain less about the dinner menu....

Kings Food Markets: Leading Shoppers To Better Health Through Family Meals

As we hope you’ve heard by now, the food retail industry is celebrating the first annual National Family Meals Month™ this September. Every September grocers in communities nationwide will come together to raise consumer awareness of the many ...

Balducci's: Healthy Meals for the Modern Family

As FMI and the FMI Foundation prepare to launch the first annual National Family Meals Month™ this September, we’re talking with our members to find out how they’re helping families share more mealtimes together at home. This month we’re proud to ...

Chef Keoni Chang's Keys to Family Meal Success

Family meals played an important role in Keoni’s life growing up in Hawaii. He greatly values having experienced the ritual of dinner at home every night with his two sisters, parents and grandmother. “Every night we set the table, putting ...

Celebrating with Leftovers

We've all got them. Containers pushed to the back of the refrigerator, cans in the pantry providing the foundation of the tottering lego of food items on the shelves and perfectly good mystery packages of food whose original purpose has long been ...