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.

What do you do when consumers won’t go out to eat? You bring the restaurant to their kitchens. Actually, Pittsburgh’s H.J. Heinz Co. is the one putting the T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant meal experience in the freezercase.

Savory, moist, flavorful, succulent. The preceding adjectives could have been pulled from reviews of the hottest gourmet restaurant in town, or they could describe the latest refrigerated and frozen prepared entrees and side dishes.

Ready-to-serve in 10 minutes or less, Putney Pasta’s All-Natural Skillet Meals are a fast and healthy option for small households.