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 Excerpted from Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods That Changed the Way We Eat by Carolyn Wyman All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.