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  One-hour Thanksgiving dinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The development of convenience foods incorporated into the North American diet and supermarket shelves became so wide spread that by the late 1990s they could be used to convincingly replace entirely the Thanksgiving dinner.
In 2003, at least one national fast food chain was selling deep fried whole turkey in November, or use even easier to prepare convenience foods such as TV dinners for Thanksgiving dinners.
Convenience foods created the situation and can be used to correct this to some extent by creating the image of a home-cooked meal, which normally would take hours to prepare.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One-hour_Thanksgiving_dinner   (646 words)

  
 Convenience store - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Convenience stores may be combined with other services, such as a train station ticket counter or a post office counter.
Convenience stores in the US Many of these stores in the United States are owned by ethnic Indians, to the degree that an Indian owner of a convenience store has become a stock (and often, stereotypical) character (see Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a character in The Simpsons).
Convenience stores are similar but not identical to Australian milk bars.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /convenience_store.htm   (749 words)

  
 Convenience food -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Convenience foods or tertiary processed foods are foods which are designed to save consumers time in the kitchen, reduce costs due to spoilage, and reduce costs using (Click link for more info and facts about economies of scale) economies of scale.
By the (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s, convenience foods in the US and UK comprised a large portion of the average diet.
The (A meal that is prepared in advance and frozen; can be heated and served) TV dinner is a good example of a convenience food.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/convenience_food.htm   (380 words)

  
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Convenience foods are to suit the changing needs of the consumer which give rise to a number of new products.
Convenience food is relatively a recent term in food science with all new broad based terms and the meaning is not always specific.
Convenience foods are aimed at catering to the requirements of civil as well as defence sectors due to easy rehydration / ready—to—serve nature and use of appropriate packaging films.
www.tnau.ac.in /spl/hbroch.doc   (597 words)

  
 Convenience food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the 1990s, convenience foods in the US and UK comprised a large portion of the average diet.
These food items take many forms, from Kraft Dinner, to whole turkey breasts.
Convenience Foods: Factors Affecting Their Use Where Household Diets are Poor
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Convenience_food   (408 words)

  
 Fertiggericht - Wikipedia
Der Anglizismus Convenience Food bedeutet "bequemes Essen" und weist auf die zeit- und arbeitssparende Zubereitungsweise dieser Produkte hin.
Neben der gleichbleibenden Qualität dieser Convenience-Produkte spricht vor allem eine erhebliche Verringerung der Personalkosten bei einer hohen Sortimentstiefe für den Einsatz solcher Halbfertigprodukte.
Convenience-Produkten geht deshalb seit den 1990er Jahren in Richtung des sogenannten Functional Food: Lebensmittel, denen vermeintlich fehlende oder in zu geringem Umfang vorhandene Stoffe wie Vitamine, Mineralien, vorteilhafte Fette, Ballaststoffe oder auch kalorienreduzierte Bestandteile zugesetzt werden.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Convenience_Food   (822 words)

  
 The real cost of convenience food - - MSNBC.com
A new study says the wide availability of such prepared foods is behind a sharp rise in U.S. obesity rates.
A new study by economists from Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that the increasingly convenient availability of prepared foods — described in economic terms as the declining “time cost” of food — is largely responsible for the rise in obesity.
Food companies, seeking an outlet for the glut of cereals and other raw foodstuffs, developed hundreds of new products in the 1980s and 1990s that increased the demand for food beyond previously presumed levels of satiation.
msnbc.msn.com /id/3073326   (1057 words)

  
 Nation's Restaurant News: Convenience store food sales up 23% in '86
Convenience store non-gas sales, which include all fresh and frozen foods, were more than twice that of convenience store gas sales last year.
The overall investment required to open a new urban convenience store last year was $668,600 and "the sharp trend in the investment required for new stores continues unabated,' concluded the report.
The typical urban convenience store was 2,845 square feet last year, compared to 2,558 square feet in the prior year.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v21/ai_5185916   (863 words)

  
 Touch-ups make convenience food tastier
But while the craving for quick, convenient meals is stronger than ever, a slew of new cookbooks promise to deliver sophisticated taste without requiring hours in the kitchen.
Decades ago, convenience foods were limited to chemical-laden, over-processed foods that were a shadow of their original selves.
In fact, a 2002 Gallup study showed that the percentage of people using convenience food for the previous night's dinner jumped from 21 percent in 1998 to 33 percent in 2002.
www.freep.com /features/food/con20_20030520.htm   (614 words)

  
 Food and Pharma Website: Convenience Food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With a wide choice of all the necessary equipment, commercial dry food manufacture (e.g., dehydrated soups and sauces, pudding powders) can be effectively simulated.
Spray-dried maltodextrin, alone or together with pregelatinised or cold water swelling starches can be evaluated in instant food powders designed for a wide range of end applications (industrial scales, catering, household use, etc.).
A powder testing unit is used to evaluate the physical properties of starch-based powdered ingredients and food powders.
www.cerestarfoodandpharma.com /convenience0.html   (182 words)

  
 July 15, 2004 - Food and Convenience: A Package Deal
LAS VEGAS — As food evolves to accommodate the demands of an increasingly on-the-go world, in many cases it's the packaging that drives the change according to experts gathered at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo.
Time-honored food products whose designs have been modified in response to the portable trend include everything from single serving size cheeses, to hand-held flexible tubes, to miniature cookies in re-sealable cups.
The Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo is the world's largest annual food science and ingredient conference, delivering comprehensive, cutting-edge research and opinion from food science-, technology-, marketing- and business-leaders.
www.ift.org /cms?pid=1001057   (457 words)

  
 Mega-trends: convenience food and health to double in ten years
A clear perception of the diverse slices of consumer populations are key to the success of food firms operating in the €3.2 trillion global food industry.
Confirming growing sales for food firms operating in the functional food domain, the researchers claim that in 2003-04 64 per cent of Europeans and US consumers actually took "steps" to improve their health.
Consumers, apparently, are increasingly on the hunt for 'comfort food', with 55 per cent of European and US consumers in 2003-04 admitting to enjoying 'small indulgences to escape the pressures of everyday life'.
www.nutraingredients.com /news/news-ng.asp?n=61970-food-convenience-trends   (1068 words)

  
 SpecialtyFood.com
When most Americans think of “convenience foods,” they think of fast food restaurants, breaded chicken fingers from the supermarket or reheating frozen prepared dinners in the microwave.
The best convenience foods are the wonderful things we sell in the specialty food world: artisan cheeses, cured hams, smoked salmon—all those traditional “fast” foods people have enjoyed for generations and continue to appreciate today.
Remember that convenience is a workable marketing angle—one we can use to educate our staff on the value of what they sell.
www.specialtyfood.com /do/news/ViewNewsArticle?id=842   (1139 words)

  
 FOOD COSTS, CONVENIENCE PREDICT OBESE WOMEN’S FAT INTAKE
The report also concludes that women who pay more attention to food’s appealing tastes and who eat according to mood, rather than concerning themselves with weight loss, are more likely to consume more fat, regardless of their body size.
Chang and colleagues surveyed the women about their rationales for eating certain foods, “enabling” factors like the cost and convenience of food, and other factors like the desire to control weight and the sensory pleasure the women found in eating.
Rationales like eating low-fat foods to be healthy or look good were not good predictors of fat intake in either normal-weight or obese women, the researchers found.
www.hbns.org /news/obese02-28-05.cfm   (371 words)

  
 Next Generation Convenience Food And Drinks Volume One: Growth strategies, market drivers and NPD
Convenience is no longer a special benefit, instead it is becoming the minimum consumers expect from a product.
Next Generation Convenience Food and Drinks, Volume 1: Growth Strategies, Market Drivers and NPD evaluates the dynamic nature of the convenience industry with a comprehensive analysis of current hot issues and how to capitalise on them.
NPD activity for the convenience industry is broken down by country and product category, whilst a future outlook provides an invaluable basis for developing successful strategies to ensure long term survival.
www.marketresearch.com /researchindex/779389.html   (173 words)

  
 Convenience food habit influences girls eating patterns
Convenience foods eaten on the run continue to experience strong growth as individuals skip the union meal for a solitary event but new findings from the US suggest that the security of a family meal could help steer adolescent girls from eating disorders.
In 2003, out-of-home consumption accounted for 31.6 per cent of all eating occasions in Britain, according to a Datamonitor report, and this figure is set to rise to over 35 per cent by 2008, meaning an additional 3 billion breakfast, lunch and evening meals eaten out-of-home.
Market data would suggest that society is hurtling towards the convenience culture, at the expense of the family table phenomenon.
www.nutraingredients-usa.com /news/news-NG.asp?id=56039   (534 words)

  
 [Report] Next Generation Convenience Food And Drinks Volume
On-the-move food and drinks - the growing sub sector of on-the-go, is predicted to have a combined market value in Europe of a staggering.67,415 million in 2006.
Next Generation Convenience Food and Drinks, Volume 2: Occasion, Location and On-The-Go will provide you with a complete analysis of the convenience industry by consumption occasion, manufacturer distribution strategies and, more specifically, on-the-move consumption, identified by many as the key industry sector over the next five years.
France is second only to the UK in its consumption of food on-the-move with predicted value in 2006 of.10,665 million, despite apparent cultural bias against eating on public transport.
www.the-infoshop.com /study/rb10418_food_drinks_two.html   (347 words)

  
 get the point? | food for thought | weekly articles by Mark R. Vogel
His column "Food For Thought" is published in a number of NJ and Philadelphia newspapers and food related websites.
And a ponderous reputation it is. Garlic has been alleged to perform everything from curing countless illnesses to warding off evil spirits and vampires.
Pass the cooked potatoes through a food mill or a ricer.
www.thatsmyhome.com /food-for-thought/index.htm   (839 words)

  
 Drug Store News: Convenience drives food buys - News
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- When it comes to food and beverage, drug stores are rising to the challenge, but there still is tremendous potential as many U.S. households continue to turn to mass and grocery outlets for convenience food items.
During the educational session "Convenience Food: 'Maximizing Your Opportunities'" at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Regional Conference held here earlier this month, Jeff Gregori, Consumer Insights director for AC-Nielsen, helped community pharmacy executives understand how to drive a profitable-convenience food business.
Despite this growth in food, the average purchase frequency in drug stores has remained, flat for the past four years.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3374/is_2_26/ai_113640387   (472 words)

  
 DSN Retailing Today: Show remains upbeat: product showcase added to roster, convenience food still hot trend - Fmi 2003 ...
Another variation this year is the movement of the Fancy Food Show to the South Hall, which houses the majority of exhibiting food companies.
A sampling of food items launched at the show confirms the trends of convenience, variety and nutrition as uppermost in consumers' minds this year.
Source: Food Marketing Institute * Real dollars are computed using the CPI for food-at-home to 1982 to 1984 dollars as a base.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_9_42/ai_101656415   (764 words)

  
 Convenience (Food) Comes with a Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In order to get a good handle on the additional costs of convenience foods, Vaughan and her students assessed the time it took to prepare dishes traditionally and to prepare their convenience counterparts.
"Rather than selecting bulk or frozen dinners that are supposedly convenient, use raw foods like chicken breasts, or loin of pork that are inherently quick and easy to prepare," she said.
You will lower the fat and the sodium levels compared to what is found in convenience foods and you get higher quality.
vanderbiltowc.wellsource.com /dh/Content.asp?ID=1667   (434 words)

  
 HUBBARD FEEDS INC : MSF-Consumers Value Taste, Health, Convenience in Food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Food is a lot more than nutrients; it has to make you feel good and perform well.”
It is important that healthy food products label their benefits, fight disease and provide customized nutritional needs.
While health, convenience and taste remain constant, trends are always developing.
www.hubbardfeeds.com /swine/MSF_ConsumersValue.shtml   (815 words)

  
 17.06.170 Convenience-food restaurant.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"Convenience-food restaurant" means an establishment whose business is the sale of foods, frozen desserts, or beverages to the customer in a ready-to-eat state for immediate consumption either on or off the premises, whose design or principal method of operation includes both of the following characteristics:
Foods, frozen desserts, or beverages are usually served in edible containers or in paper, plastic, or other disposable containers.
The customer is not served food at his/her table by an employee but receives it at a counter, window, or similar facility for carrying to another location on or off the premises for consumption.
www.ci.ankeny.ia.us /code_online/_DATA/TITLE17/Chapter_17_06_DEFINITIONS/_17_06_170_Convenience_food_re.html   (98 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The onslaught
As it happens, food spending on TV ads is in overall decline, but in 2003 the industry still managed to shell out £522m, on promoting food, soft drinks or chain restaurants on television.
The food itself can be designed to appeal to a child's sense of fun, with items to unfold or unwind like Kellogg's Fruit Winders, or to dip like Dairylea Dunkers, or to assemble like Dairylea Lunchables.
Yes, it is true that the more time a child spends in front of the box, the likelier it is that he or she will have a bad diet, bad health and even be obese - but that could be because watching TV is itself a sedentary activity.
www.guardian.co.uk /Media/site/story/0,14173,1600020,00.html?gusrc=rss   (3806 words)

  
 The Independent (London, England) : Food & Drink: Tom tom club; Plum, green, beefsteak or cherry ... Mark Hix takes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mark Hix takes his pick from nature's most versatile convenience food.
Start / T / The Independent (London, England) / July 19, 2003 / Food and Drink: Tom tom club; Plum, green, beefsteak or cherry...
Food and Drink: Tom tom club; Plum, green, beefsteak or cherry...
static.highbeam.com /t/theindependentlondonengland/july192003/foodampdrinktomtomclubplumgreenbeefsteakorcherryma/index.html   (312 words)

  
 Mealtime.org :: Healthy, Easy & Free Recipes, Online Cooking Tips, Canned Food Information
On Mealtime.org you'll find many new and exciting canned food recipes, health and nutrition facts and creative mealtime solutions for your entire family.
Lean, yet protein-rich, canned chicken is a versatile and convenient ingredient to keep on your pantry shelf for all kinds of quick-to-fix meals.
MyPyramid, the new food guidance system created by the USDA is designed to help Americans follow a plan that matches their individual needs for healthy eating and an active lifestyle.
www.mealtime.org   (437 words)

  
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Raw milk, on the other hand, is truly one of the most profoundly healthy foods you can consume, which is why Whey Healthier never uses cross-flow filtration, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, hydrolyzation, ion exchange, or any process that would denature the original proteins.
CLA cannot be produced by the human body, but instead is obtained through foods such as whole milk, butter, beef, and lamb.
Convenience - Just mix Whey Healthier with pure water for a immune boosting snack, or if you are on-the-go, it makes a perfect healthy alternative to a quick meal.
www.mercola.com /forms/livingfuel.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Convenience Food Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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