Article: Healthy Choice meals ready to be steamed.

Byline: Joe Ruff

Mar. 29--ConAgra Foods' promised product innovation includes frozen microwave dinners designed to use steam for added taste and freshness.

The company said it plans to launch a Healthy Choice line of 12 frozen dinners this summer called Cafe Steamers. The meals will have special trays to steam-cook in a microwave oven.

One goal is crisper, tastier vegetables, ConAgra spokeswoman Stephanie Moritz said Wednesday.

ConAgra Chief Executive Gary Rodkin took over the Omaha-based branded foods company in October 2005. He has closed manufacturing plants and simplified ConAgra's supply line to cut costs, and he vowed to ...

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