Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, Mountain Lakes, N.J., said it expects at the end of 2011 to close its Fulton, N.Y., Birds Eye frozen vegetable plant.

It's the latest, must-have "bag" in the fashion -- food fashion that is. Lean Cuisine Market Creations, a pouch meal kit line, is the latest release from Nestle Prepared Foods, Solon, Ohio.

Keeping its name in front of consumers, casual restaurant operator T.G.I. Friday's, Carrollton, Texas, is introducing three flavored cheddar cheese dips.

Tyson Foods certainly isn’t chicken about competing in other categories. The Springdale, Ark.-based company recently expanded its prepared meals line-up with five new multi-serve Tyson Skillet Creations products.

Talk about turning up the heat. ConAgra Foods has been testing Marie Callender’s Signature Sautés at Wal-Mart stores.

Having posted a strong performance just a year before, the nation’s largest poultry, beef and pork processor, Tyson Foods Inc., ran into some fowl conditions in fiscal 2008.

Branching further into entrees and appetizers, Blue Horizon Organic Seafood Co., Aptos, Calif., used this year's Natural Products Expo West convention in Anaheim, Calif., to launch four Blue Horizon Natural Vegetarian Skillet Meals.