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What a crock

Traditional home-style fare needn't take a lot of effort, thanks to Marie Callender's Crock-Pot Meals and Soups. Made with fresh, high-quality ingredients and featuring large servings of meat and vegetables, the line offers four meals (Old-Fashioned Beef & Vegetables, Country Style Chicken and Dumplings,

Chunky Chicken and Noodles, Harvest Chicken and Vegetables) and two soups (Homestyle Chicken & Noodle and Hearty Beef Vegetable, with each 38.2- to 44-ounce package, which makes 60 ounces or more of a meal or soup, retailing for a suggested $7.99. Preparation is a snap: To prepare one of the meal selections, for instance, all that a home cook has to do is empty the package into a Crock-Pot, add water, and set the temperature and time, according to Marie Callender's, a brand of Omaha-based ConAgra. Learn more by calling Mark Ahrens, director of trade marketing for Marie Callender's, at (402) 595-6779 or visiting www.conagrafoods.com.

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