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Ideas For Busy Parents

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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

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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 ...

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

The FMI Foundation is proud to see a growing number of FMI retailer and associate members join the family meals movement by pledging their commitment to helping families share one more meal at home per week. Chief among these supporters is FMI ...

Top 5 Stories from FMI So Far This Year

With full inboxes and busy schedules, sometimes we miss things. That’s why it’s good to recap every now and then. With that in mind, here are the top five blog posts from FMI so far in ...

One Supermarket Chef’s Keys to Family Meal Success

With National Family Meals Month™ on the horizon, the FMI Foundation sat down to chat with Foodland’s Chef Keoni Chang, winner of the 2014 Supermarket Chef Showdown family meals category and Grand Champion of the 2012 Supermarket Chef ...

How Does Your Company Inspire Families to Share More Meals At Home?

With the nomination deadline for 2015 Gold Plate Awards on the horizon (July 31), we think it’s a great time to share learnings from some of our past Gold Plate Award ...

Video: CEO of Kudrinko's Ltd. Talks Fresh, Family Meals and Knowing the Customer

In a live interview from FMI Connect, Neil Kudrinko, president and CEO of Kudrinko's Ltd. gives an independent operator perspective on fresh, helping families share meals together at home and the importance of knowing your customer....

FMI Connect Has What Your Shoppers Want for Dinner

When shoppers prowl your store’s periphery looking for answers to the question, “What’s for dinner?” they want a few things: They’re looking for something that’s easy to make, healthy for their families, tastes good and puts them right at the center ...

Are You Taller Than An Oven Mitt? See How You Measure Up at FMI Connect

With the first ever NFMM on September’s horizon and a growing roster of enthusiastic supporters, our outreach efforts have been in overdrive. We’re bringing that momentum with us to FMI Connect next month to rally the industry around family meals—a ...

Supermarket Chefs Proving Affordable Family Meals Can Be Extraordinary Meals

Supermarket Chefs know that for their time-strapped, budget-conscious customers, getting a family meal on the table that won’t cause wallets or waistlines to bulge can be a tall order. Supermarket Chefs also know that shoppers often equate “...

IdeaXchange: Fighting for the family meal

The following article ran in the Supermarket News IdeaXChange on April 21, 2015: As one who realizes now that the majority of big decisions I’ve made during my life were shaped by conversations around the family dinner table, I honor the formative ...

Mark Your Calendars: There’s A New Month Coming to Food Retail

As the association of food retailers, FMI is here to help you realize the opportunity. The National Family Meals Month™ Retailer and Manufacturer Toolkits are designed to inspire your unique approach to activation and provide you with the assets ...

Announcing National Family Meals Month

Food retailers are doing more than ever to inspire and support home cooking, from quick dinner solutions, cooking classes and nutrition advice, to shortcuts like pre-prepped ingredients and freshly prepared entrees. That’s why this September the FMI ...

Inspiration Starts at Home

We all feel the pressure to cook and eat more family meals together. The challenges we deal with in our own busy families—out-of-sync schedules, staggered meals, fast food seduction—are the same ones our customers face every week. We know those ...