Another Seat at the Table: Expanding the Power of Family Meals

Includes a Live Web Event on 05/22/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

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Is the Family Meals Movement part of your organization’s September planning? Do you celebrate National Family Meals Month™️? Join David Fikes, Executive Director of the FMI Foundation, and Krystal Register, MS, RDN, LDN, the Vice President of Health and Well-being at FMI, to learn what benefits promoting family meals has for both your organization and community.

As the proud founders of Family Meals Month, the FMI Foundation is excited to share how your organization can best leverage our resources to make family meals more accessible for your consumers. Family meals have enough social, mental, and physical health benefits to warrant year-round celebration, and the FMI Foundation's resources make running a campaign of your own simple. Tune in for new resources, tools for conversations on civility, and challenges that expand the reach of family meals.

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David Fikes

Executive Director

FMI Foundation

David Fikes is the Executive Director of the FMI Foundation, which has the mission of supporting the food industry through a focus on research and education in the areas of food safety and health and well-being. His position allows him to act upon his conviction that humans have a right to safe food and consumers have a right to clear information and viable choices.

Formerly, David served as FMI's Vice President for Communication and Consumer/Community Relations and before joining FMI he was the Director of Communication for the American Frozen Food Institute. Prior to entering the world of food trade associations, he worked for 20 years as an Episcopal priest, serving parishes in Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.

He and his wife, Lisa, are the proud parents of 11 year old Harper whose soccer skills have now exceeded those of her Dad.

Krystal Register, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND

Senior Director, Health and Well-being

FMI-The Food Industry Association

Krystal Register, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND is the Vice President of Health and Well-being at FMI - The Food Industry Association. She is responsible for overall leadership, strategic planning and execution of nutrition, health and well-being activities and initiatives at FMI. She serves as the lead coordinator and subject matter expert for nutrition policy, programs, operations, and communication issues across the food industry for FMI members, industry partners and community collaborators. Krystal is committed to connecting the science of food and nutrition to improved public health.

Prior to joining FMI, Krystal was a food retail dietitian with Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. for twelve years and made significant contributions to company-wide wellness programs, consumer health messaging, employee wellness, community events, and media response. Krystal’s background includes environmental and nutrition science studies with degrees from the College of William and Mary and James Madison University, with both clinical nutrition and personal coaching professional experience.

Krystal currently serves as Chair of the Food & Culinary Professionals (FCP) Dietetic Practice Group with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and is an Academy Fellow. She has served for many years with FCP as Supermarket/Retail Subgroup Chair, Treasurer, and Membership Chair. She also served as mentor to the Academy Foundation Nutrition in Food Retail Program Development Fellow, and contributes to many advisory committees, including the Portion Balance Coalition, USDA’s MyPlate National Strategic Partnership, and the National Fruit & Vegetable Consumption Coalition.