Better Than Homemade Paperback - 2004

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What's for dinner? For those who must answer that question long about 5 P.M. every day, no foods have been more prized than those in this chapter.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Homemaker Helpers: Foods that revolutionized the kitchen—freeing Mom from the role of kitchen slave
     Birds Eye Frozen Vegetables
     Minute Rice
     On-Cor Family-Size Entrees
     Hamburger Helper
     Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
     Potato Buds Instant Mashed Potatoes
     Marshmallow Fluff
     Shake ’n Bake
     Kool-Aid
     Dinty Moore Beef Stew
Powerful Packages: Foods with innovative product delivery systems
     Pillsbury Poppin’ Fresh Dough
     Easy Cheese Aerosol (a.k.a. Snack Mate)
     Jiffy Pop Popcorn
     Pringles Potato Chips
     I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! Spray
     Reddi-wip
     PAM
     Lipton Cup-a-Soup
Triumphs of Technology: Foods that improve on Mother Nature
     Coffee-mate Non-Dairy Creamer
     Cool Whip
     Sweet ’N Low
     Tang
     Sanka
     Wonder Bread
     Minute Maid Orange Juice
     Bac-Os
     Beer Nuts
     Philadelphia Cream Cheese
     Carnation Instant Breakfast
Indestructibles and Recyclables: Foods for the long haul—plus recycled food-factory
scraps
     Carnation Instant Nonfat Dry Milk
     Twinkies
     SPAM
     Velveeta
     Slim Jim
     Cheez Whiz
     Mrs.Paul’s Fish Sticks
     Ore-Ida Tater Tots
Marketing Marvels: Advertising has made these must-eats
     Jell-O
     Parkay
     Clamato
     Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts
     SpaghettiOs
     Little Debbie Snack Cakes
     Green Giant Canned Peas
     Swanson TV Dinners
     Hawaiian Punch
Permissions and Trademarks
Index
Acknowledgments
Table of Equivalents