Frozen Foods

Community-based independent McQuade’s Marketplace has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill Gold level certification for its Westerly, R.I., store by reducing its refrigerant emissions by 95 percent vs. standard supermarket refrigeration systems.

Consumers now have a deliciously simple way to get their required servings of fruit, thanks to Yoplait Frozen Fruit and Yogurt Smoothies from Minneapolis-based General Mills.

During this season’s Idaho potato harvest, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) is offering an interactive educational video game that offers shoppers a chance to win $10,000. Through Oct. 31, consumers who visit www.idahopotato.com and play the “Idaho Potato Harvest Game” can enter a sweepstakes for a chance to win $10,000: $5,000 for the winner and $5,000 to be donated to a school selected by the winner.

Once available to most American consumers only in Indian restaurants, samosas are now available in supermarket freezer cases, thanks to Los Angeles-based Crave Foods, a USDA and Halal-certified producer of all-natural ethnic foods.

Football season is off and running, and in the countdown to its culminating event, the Super Bowl -- scheduled to take place Feb. 7, 2010, in Miami’s Land Shark Stadium -- a spate of football-related promotions has charged into the grocery aisle.

The Frozen Food Foundation is sponsoring the first Frozen Food Foundation Freezing Research Award, which will recognize individuals or organizations whose research contributes to the continued enhancement of food quality and safety through freezing. The award will be presented in partnership with the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP).

I won’t vouch for my German grammar in the title above, but if you “speak food,” then you'll find a great deal to talk about this October at Anuga 2009, the global food and beverage fair, which will take place in Cologne (Köln), Germany, from Oct. 10 to Oct. 14.

Newman’s Own, Inc. has rolled out its “Pizza and a Movie” promotion featuring a double bill of Netflix-delivered movies and home-baked Newman’s Own® Thin & Crispy frozen pizzas.