Word: moms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chevron cooked up its Foodini's Fresh Meal Market earlier this year, the latest player in the $100 billion bake-off known, charmingly enough, as home-meal replacement. You know it better as the store-bought, ready-to-eat food that is supposed to taste as if Mom made it. Foodini's is part of the evolving, highly moveable feast that has become dinner, catering to a country that wants its food fast but restaurant-quality fresh. "I work, my husband works, my daughter dances and plays soccer, and my son plays baseball," says Jan Tulk, an attorney, during...
...ready-to-heat package. "We offer traditional food that people would cook at home if they had the time or the inclination," says Keith Robinson, chief marketing officer at Boston Market. "It's convenient, accessible, pretty affordable and easier than going to the supermarket. Our competition is Mom." Well, not quite. The 1,159-store nationwide franchise hatched a host of imitators that have added chickens roasting on spits and homey side dishes to their menus...
...Charles, who presented the meal on the family china. "I work hard, we have two kids, and my wife is stressed out. We believe in traditional-food values, but we don't have the time to do it ourselves." For harried Americans, time is money, and so long as Mom is out bringing home the bacon, somebody else is going to have to come up with supper...
...Newark, Ohio. "It was really hard for me at first after surgery," Denhardt says. "I had memory problems. I lost my hearing, and some of my face atrophied. Doctors don't tell you about things like that." When her daughter Teresa moved home to help, she introduced her mom to the Internet. Denhardt searched the Web, learning about new drugs and joining online support groups that allowed her to communicate directly with people around the world who have the same condition. "I've talked to people from Japan, Sweden, Germany, England and Israel," Denhardt says. Emboldened by her online contacts...
...girl's mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). She has her virtues, most notably a determination not to let either Grace, who has lost a leg in the accident, or her mount succumb to despair. But she's a driven, unforgiving sort of woman--chic, brittle, chilly, not at all ideal-mom material. To put the point bluntly, we know what she needs, which is a good horse whisping...