Prepared Foods

The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, Inc., (NASFT) and Specialty Food Magazine have named their Outstanding Specialty Food Retailers of 2009: Straub’s of St. Louis, Mo; Taste Unlimited of Virginia Beach, Va; The Market and More of Casper, Wyo.; Tony Caputo’s Market & Deli of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Woodstock Farmers’ Market of Woodstock, Vt.

Walmart unveiled its first Supermercado de Walmart this week in Houston, featuring a new layout and product assortment designed to make it more relevant to local Hispanic customers.

Snacks have taken center stage in American eating, according to the "Snack Foods Culinary Trend Mapping Report" from the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) and Packaged Facts.

Cub Foods is launching several new programs aimed at keeping customers’ grocery bills low and savings at an all-time high.

Tesco-owned Fresh & Easy’s 40- to 45-ounce family-size prepared meals, introduced last month to help customers trying to feed their families on a budget, are now the six top-selling lines of the grocer’s more than 110 prepared food items.

Sea Star Seafood, one of the first seafood processors to embrace steam-cooking technology, has introduced the Beacon Light Steam Series line of microwavable seafoods.

AJ’s Fine Foods, a banner of Chandler, Ariz.-based regional independent Bashas’, will be featured on tonight’s “Dinner Impossible” show, scheduled to air on the Food Network at 10 p.m. MST.

These definitely aren’t your mother’s desserts: bursting with fresh flavor, new Reser’s ready-to-eat gelatins contain up to 50 percent fruit in each cup.