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Stay Strong with Family Meals September is National Family Meals Month
We’re celebrating the National Family Meals Movement this September, a nationwide event designed to underscore the benefits of family meals and the role we can play in helping your family share one more meal at home per week. September is the perfect month to join in the conversation that encourages and inspires people to return to the kitchen to enjoy wholesome meals together. Dinner tables should be for more than just eating. Join the movement and commit to one more meal at home per week this September for #FamilyMealsMovement! Discover how one small change per week can improve your family's health and happiness.
Make it your goal to eat at least ONE meal with your family each week in September.
Whether you shop in-store, use the Food City app or website to shop online for curbside pickup or delivery, you can save time and money on everything you need to plan your next family meal at Food City. Find the latest special savings in our weekly ad, shop from the Food City family of brands — like Crav'n Flavor and That's Smart — and look for extra savings every day with digital coupons.
Power Up Family Meals
North Carolina Sweetpotatoes
Sweetpotatoes are nutritious, filling, and delicious. They are packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients to support health.
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Sweetpotaotes are the perfect option for family meals due to their versatility. Serve up this nutrient rich powerhouse by mashing, baking, boiling, roasting, or air-frying.
Short on Time?
Microwaving a sweetpotato is quite possibly the quickest and easiest way to cook your sweetpotato. Without wasting precious time to preheat and bake, you’ll still achieve the sweet, caramelization that an oven-baked sweetpotato is known for. Saving time cooking makes for more time around the table.
Monterey Mushrooms
Mushrooms are a healthy addition to feature for family meals. Multiply the flavor and nutrients of your favorite dishes just by adding Monterey Mushrooms.
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Try combining ground meat with finely chopped mushrooms so you can enjoy reduced calorie versions of the recipes you love like burgers, lasagna, meatloaf and meatballs, without sacrificing taste or texture.
Avocados From Mexico
Avocados are a delicious way to boost the nutrition profile of your favorite meal. Nutrient dense Avocados from Mexico offer more than 20 vitamins and minerals, are a good source of fiber, and provide healthy fats, that support heart health.
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Host a weekly Taco Salad Night to bring everyone to the dinner table each week for a healthy meal that includes avocados and other fresh produce such as lettuce, tomatoes and peppers.
Whether it’s setting the table, placing ingredients in serving bowls or customizing their own meal creations, the whole family can be involved.
Need tips and advice on planning healthier family meals?
Eating a nutritious and delicious meal with your active family is never easy, espicially when you are short on time. Need tips advice on planning healthier family meals? Try some of these expert tips from the Food City Wellness team.
Powerful Pairings Family Meals – Produce Picks
Time Saving Solutions for Family Meals Month
For more nutritional advice and wellness tips read more here. You can engage with us on Facebook, Instagram, X (@FoodCity), YouTube or Threads for family meals shopping tips and recipes.
Too busy to plan a balanced meal?
Juggling jobs, kids and the demands of a busy life often come at the expense of family mealtimes at home. Your local grocery store is a wonderful ally—the solution to your mealtime dilemmas! Food City is here to help feed the family faster and for less! We have helpful solutions to you get a wholesome family meal on the table in no time. Find easy, healthy mealtime solutions in nearly every aisle of the store, includings many prepared meal solutions to help make family meals at home a little easier. Looking for healthier options for your family?Shop with confidence in-store and online with our Pick Well tags. These choices offer less fat, sodium, and sugar and more essential nutrients. You can also easliy shop one of our many Family Meal Deals featured each week in our ad this September.
Look for these and many more time-saving meal ideas in-store
ShortCuts Pre-Sliced Fruits & Vegetables • Salad Kits • Ready-Made Entrées & Sides • Skillet-Ready Sauces • Marinated Oven-Ready Meat & Seafood • Freezer Entrees • Fresh Fried & Rotisserie Chicken , Pizza, Sushi and More!
Inspiration for your next family meal
In addition to our in-store prepared meal solutions, we have a wide selection of simple yet delicious inspirational recipes at our Meals and Recipe Center!
For more recipes or information on why family meals matter visit the National Family Meals Month website.
