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WO1988001248A1 - Food packaging attractive to children and nutritionally balanced - Google Patents

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WO1988001248A1
WO1988001248A1 PCT/US1986/001675 US8601675W WO8801248A1 WO 1988001248 A1 WO1988001248 A1 WO 1988001248A1 US 8601675 W US8601675 W US 8601675W WO 8801248 A1 WO8801248 A1 WO 8801248A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23LFOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL
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    • A23L33/40Complete food formulations for specific consumer groups or specific purposes, e.g. infant formula
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23LFOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D81/343Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents for packaging foodstuffs or other articles intended to be cooked or heated within the package specially adapted to be heated in a conventional oven, e.g. a gas or electric resistance oven
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D81/34Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents for packaging foodstuffs or other articles intended to be cooked or heated within the package
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    • B65D81/3453Rigid containers, e.g. trays, bottles, boxes, cups

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  • the latch key child With the growing numbers of working mothers swelling to 60 -70 % of the mothers of young children , a unique societal phenomenon has resulted, the latch key child.
  • the latch key child will come home to an empty home or apartment , let him/herself in and spend the remaining hours unsupervised until a parent or guardian arrives home. Oftentimes this will happen several hours after the dinner time.
  • Frozen food and freeze dried dinners have been prepared in the past with a sampling of a meat or protein dish, a vegetable, a bread or carbohydrate dish and a dessert. These have not been designed particularly for attractiveness to the youngster and their nutritional content appears to be directed toward that of an adult and, more important, not well balanced for the child.
  • Typical frozen food dinners will have a net weight in the order of ten to twelve ounces for a normal dinner and the heavy weight dinners even more. This total weight of food may be in excess of that which a child can comfortably consume in one sitting. At the same time these adult type packages are often lower in calorie count than that which is desired for a growing child.
  • An objective for a suitable child's frozen food dinner is in the order of 500-600 calories or one-quarter of the recommended daily calories for a child of age 7 to 14 accordance with the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. (1973) It should be noted that the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for males 11-14 years is even higher, e.g. 2800 calories per day thus these dinners would be one-fifth of the RDA for that age group.
  • RDA Recommended Daily Allowance
  • Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a child ' s dinner package in accordance with this invention incorporating the food and the package into a visual presentation of a known cartoon character;
  • Fig . 2 is a perspective view of a child' s food package in accordance with this invention incorporating the balanced main course in the form of a whale plus a beverage mix and a frozen dessert , the latter two of which are preferably in separable side compartments;
  • Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a drum and drumsticks;
  • Fig . 4 is a top plan view of a child' s f resh dinner in the form of a fish;
  • Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a clown' s face
  • Fig . 6 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a jack-o-lantern.
  • a plan view of a frozen food package 10 including a tray 11 with recesses 12 and 15, a portion of corn-on-the-cob in recess 12, a turkey pot pie in recess 13, zucchini in recess 14 and a brownie in recess 15. As shown, these are arranged as a popular cartoon character. illustrating that this invention is desirably presented using famous cartoon characters under proper licensing.
  • the many kernels of corn define the teeth in the cat's mouth.
  • the pot pie defines the cat's bib, and zucchini and a dessert make up the cats paws.
  • the nutritional content of this package is found in table 2.
  • Fig. 2 shows a variation of this invention in which a fully balanced meal for a child 6-12 years of age is present in a container 20 having a central recess 21 in a comical form of a whale and containing two fish fillets, spinach or peas, potatoes and a carrot eye.
  • the container 20 includes two separable sections, 22 and 23, each having a respective perforated tear line 24-25.
  • the top of the package 20 may be sealed with transparent sheeting 26, also perforated.
  • Section 22 has a recess filled with a nutritious beverage mix as described below to be mixed with either milk or water.
  • Section 23 includes a recess which is filled with a dessert which may be ice cream.
  • the package 20 is stored frozen and then when ready to be used, is separated into the three sections. Section 23 is retained in the freezer.
  • the main section of 20 is placed in an oven, conventional or microwave; section 22 is separated, opened and the beverage mixed while the main course heats. After consuming the dinner from the tray and the mixed beverage, the child has his dessert from section 23. If fully consumed, he will have 25% of the Recommended Daily Allowance from each of the main food groups.
  • a plan view of a frozen food package includes recesses 31 and 32 containing chicken drumsticks, and recess 33 containing mixed vegetables, recess 34 containing mashed potatoes, recess 35 containing two biscuits, recesses 36 and 37 containing spiral pasta and recess 38 holding a dessert, arranged as a drum with a pair of drumsticks.
  • the nutritional content of this package is shown in Table 3.
  • This frozen food dinner of Fig. 3 is in the order of 600 calories with contribution to the minimum daily requirement in each of the 9 recommended categories of food nutrients. These 600 calories constitute approximately one-quarter of the recommended daily allowances for a youngster in the 10-14 age group, which are the most likely candidates consuming this meal. This age group is particularly significant since they are old enough to make nutritional decisions on their own which may not be well advised.
  • a highly nutritious, flavored milk drink which can be either dried milk solids with only water required, or a flavored drink to which milk is added. They may be contained in side recesses as illustrated in Fig. 2 or in separate pockets. In the case of an "only add water" milk beverage, as an example, the nutritional contribution found in Table 4.
  • beverage mix is added to dinner.
  • Two types of such beverage mixes are sold under the trademarks, QUIK, produced by the Nestle Food Corp. of White Plains, New York, using a 0.2 oz. envelope, and OVALTINE produced by the Sandoz Nutrition, of Minneapolis, Minn using a 0.2 oz. envelope of a sugar free mix.
  • a fish stick dinner is illustrated in which the image presented is that of a fish.
  • the tray 40 defines a general fish shaped recess 4, in which the main body of the fish includes three fish sticks, mixed vegetables, cherry pie and a tail, fried potatoes. This arrangement provides not only the appearance of a fish, but color contrast in both the head and tail.
  • the nutritional elements present appear in table 6.
  • the use of milk flavoring can add an additional 100 to 150 calories as indicated above for Figs. 1 and 2, either by the addition of water to the dry flavor mix which includes dry milk, or fresh milk.
  • a plan view of a frozen food package 50 including a recess 51 filled with macaroni and cheese, a hat brim recess 52 containing zucchini, mixed vegetables and peach cobbler arranged as a clown wearing a hat, while the zucchini forms the forms the brim of the hat.
  • Three small recesses 53, 54 and 55 are filled with mixed vegetables and form the clown's eyes and nose.
  • a sector of a circle recess 56 comprising peach cobbler shapes the clown's mouth.
  • the nutritional content of this package is found in Table 7.
  • the image provided by the food in package 60 is a jack-o-lantern, in which the tray defines the general orange color with recesses 61, 62, 63, and 64 respectively for the mouth, nose, eyes and stem.
  • the mouth is provided by a pair of hot dogs or a hamburger patty shaped in the curve of a smiling mouth.
  • the eyes and nose are each defined by triangular recesses in the tray similar to the traditional shape of the eyes of a jack-o-lantern.
  • the eye recesses 63 are filled with potatoes, either mashed with a spot of butter or margarine defining the pupil, or fried diced potatoes.
  • the nose recess 62 is a similarly shaped triangle but filled with corn.
  • the stem recess 64 of the jack-o-lantern may be a sprig of broccoli for the adventurous or a brown dessert such as chocolate pudding or a shaped brownie.
  • a variety of meals, breakfast, lunch and dinners may be prepared, all providing an attractive presentation of food for a youngster which encourages his enjoyment of the meal.
  • the parent can rest assured that the meal is adequate in calorie count and balanced in nutritional elements.
  • the meals are preferably frozen, however freeze dried meals may be substituted with the attendant requirement of reconstituting with water prior to heating.

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Abstract

Food package (10) for children providing a nutritionally balanced meal arranged so that the food provides a recognizable and attractive arrangement or depiction of a person or toy. The food items provide the appropriate color and texture to make up the depiction. In one embodiment comprising a food tray (20), separable side recesses (22 and 23) contain a beverage concentrate and a frozen dessert. The side recesses are separable from the main body of the container (20). Preferably the food items are preserved by freezing and served after heating while separated from the frozen dessert.

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FOOD PACKAGING ATTRACTIVE TO CHILDREN & NUTRITIONALLY BALANCED
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
With the growing numbers of working mothers swelling to 60 -70 % of the mothers of young children , a unique societal phenomenon has resulted, the latch key child. The latch key child will come home to an empty home or apartment , let him/herself in and spend the remaining hours unsupervised until a parent or guardian arrives home. Oftentimes this will happen several hours after the dinner time.
Many parents l ive in thi s situation due t o diff icult economic pressures that dictate the mother ' s working. These parents are concerned for the safety as well as the nutritional well being of the child. This is very difficult to supervise when they are not there.
Because of this situation there is a need for meals which are nutritionally balanced for children and which have the attractive appeal to induce children to eat them. These meals should be simple and easy to prepare by the parent or the child.
In addition to the latch key child , the growing youngster between the ages of 6-12 has many occasions when the parents desire that they have a well balanced meal , either supervised in preparation by the parent or by another , but one which has the convenience of being preprepared and f rozen and merely heated prior to being served. In this latter s ituation , the same problem exists of having a nutritionally balanced meal which is attractive to the child. In the past, ornamentally shaped foods have been developed and containers for food and confection items have been developed in which they portray a character or present some visual image attractive to a child. These are represented by the following patents:
Des. 31,016 T.P. Drown 6/13/1899
Des.216,660 T.E. Corn et al.. 3/3/70
Des.216,661 T.E. Corn et al.. 3/3/70
Des.217,109 T.E. Corn et al.. 4/14/70
Des.234,941 M. Gottsegen 4/22/75
Des.234,942 M. Gottsegen 4/22/75
Des.264,390 T.H. Long et al.. 5/18/82
None of the above show any recognition of the nutritional content of the food item or food container and are directed solely toward attractiveness. Moreover, none are directed toward the nutritional requirements of youngsters which differ significantly in many respects from that of adults. Multiple component packages are illustrated in U.S. Patent 4,241,863 issued to R.A. Faller on 12/30/80.
There is a growing concern among nutritionists about the lack of regard for these nutritional differences. This is succinctly expressed in the article "Nutritionists Express Worries About Children Following Adult Diets" Guidelines For Grown Ups Harmful To Young? Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1986; Part IX, Page 6. This article cites an accompanying article found on page 10 where these same concerns are cited in the results of a 1983 study by Dr. Fima Lifshitz, professor of pediatrics at Cornell University Medical College. Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1986; Part IX, Page 10.
Frozen food and freeze dried dinners have been prepared in the past with a sampling of a meat or protein dish, a vegetable, a bread or carbohydrate dish and a dessert. These have not been designed particularly for attractiveness to the youngster and their nutritional content appears to be directed toward that of an adult and, more important, not well balanced for the child.
Whether eating a pre-prepared frozen dinner or a meal prepared by a parent, youngsters often shy away from certain food items which contain valuable nutritional elements, for example vegetables, particularly carrots, zucchini, squash, broccoli, cauliflower and the classic, spinach. Many of these vegetables are recognized by parents as valuable in their child's diet but they have difficulty getting them to accept onto their plate and eat such vegetables.
Typical frozen food dinners will have a net weight in the order of ten to twelve ounces for a normal dinner and the heavy weight dinners even more. This total weight of food may be in excess of that which a child can comfortably consume in one sitting. At the same time these adult type packages are often lower in calorie count than that which is desired for a growing child. An objective for a suitable child's frozen food dinner is in the order of 500-600 calories or one-quarter of the recommended daily calories for a child of age 7 to 14 accordance with the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. (1973) It should be noted that the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for males 11-14 years is even higher, e.g. 2800 calories per day thus these dinners would be one-fifth of the RDA for that age group. A schedule of Recommended Daily Allowances for various age groups appears as Table 1.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Faced with the foregoing state of the art, I have invented a new food package of a nutritionally balanced meal which itself is attractive for children's dietary needs. I have selected the frozen food package as an ideal method for preservation and serving of the nutritionally balanced meal. I have included in the package appropriate amounts from the meat and milk group, vegetable and fruit group and bread and grain group to provide a balanced meal.
I have invented an attractive frozen food package in which the various food components are selected from the four food groups in appropriate quantities and with an overall calorie count approaching 25% of the daily recommended allowance. I have also selected foods from those presenting not only nutritionally desirable varieties but of attractive appearance and have arranged them in the tray to provide a recognizable positive image for the child to encourage his consumption of the foods on the tray. Also, the visual image is one for ease of identification by the parent or the child in the selection process, either when purchasing the product, or more importantly, in removing them from the freezer or storage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
This invention may be more clearly understood from the following detailed description and by reference to the drawing in which:
Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a child ' s dinner package in accordance with this invention incorporating the food and the package into a visual presentation of a known cartoon character;
Fig . 2 is a perspective view of a child' s food package in accordance with this invention incorporating the balanced main course in the form of a whale plus a beverage mix and a frozen dessert , the latter two of which are preferably in separable side compartments;
Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a drum and drumsticks;
Fig . 4 is a top plan view of a child' s f resh dinner in the form of a fish;
Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a clown' s face; and
Fig . 6 is a top plan view of a child' s food package in the form of a jack-o-lantern.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present dietary steps taken by parents with regard to children's nutrition despite good intentions, coupled with the age old resistance of youngsters to eating unfamiliar food or vegetables of any type, have been recognized by me as constituting a major need. I have invented a self-contained package of nutritionally balanced food which has an appearance appealing to youngsters. The appearance appeal is the nutritionally balanced food which is the result of the selection and arrangement of food in an identifiable image in the serving tray or plate. This concept turns an otherwise unacceptable portion of zucchini into the brim of a clown's hat, or spiral pasta into the rim of a drum, or sliced carrots into the bright eye of a whale.
Although food items have been made in the past to depict various animate or inanimate objects, this has been done without regard to the nutritional content. I have developed a frozen food package which is designed particularly to provide one-quarter of the recommended daily allowance of the nutritional requirements for youngsters in various age groups, coupled with an identifiable image to please the child. These are illustrated in the drawings.
Now referring to Fig. 1, a plan view of a frozen food package 10 is shown including a tray 11 with recesses 12 and 15, a portion of corn-on-the-cob in recess 12, a turkey pot pie in recess 13, zucchini in recess 14 and a brownie in recess 15. As shown, these are arranged as a popular cartoon character. illustrating that this invention is desirably presented using famous cartoon characters under proper licensing. In Fig. 1, the many kernels of corn define the teeth in the cat's mouth. The pot pie defines the cat's bib, and zucchini and a dessert make up the cats paws. The nutritional content of this package is found in table 2.
Fig. 2 shows a variation of this invention in which a fully balanced meal for a child 6-12 years of age is present in a container 20 having a central recess 21 in a comical form of a whale and containing two fish fillets, spinach or peas, potatoes and a carrot eye. The container 20 includes two separable sections, 22 and 23, each having a respective perforated tear line 24-25. The top of the package 20 may be sealed with transparent sheeting 26, also perforated. Section 22 has a recess filled with a nutritious beverage mix as described below to be mixed with either milk or water. Section 23 includes a recess which is filled with a dessert which may be ice cream.
The package 20 is stored frozen and then when ready to be used, is separated into the three sections. Section 23 is retained in the freezer. The main section of 20 is placed in an oven, conventional or microwave; section 22 is separated, opened and the beverage mixed while the main course heats. After consuming the dinner from the tray and the mixed beverage, the child has his dessert from section 23. If fully consumed, he will have 25% of the Recommended Daily Allowance from each of the main food groups.
Now referring to Fig. 3, a plan view of a frozen food package includes recesses 31 and 32 containing chicken drumsticks, and recess 33 containing mixed vegetables, recess 34 containing mashed potatoes, recess 35 containing two biscuits, recesses 36 and 37 containing spiral pasta and recess 38 holding a dessert, arranged as a drum with a pair of drumsticks. The nutritional content of this package is shown in Table 3.
This frozen food dinner of Fig. 3 is in the order of 600 calories with contribution to the minimum daily requirement in each of the 9 recommended categories of food nutrients. These 600 calories constitute approximately one-quarter of the recommended daily allowances for a youngster in the 10-14 age group, which are the most likely candidates consuming this meal. This age group is particularly significant since they are old enough to make nutritional decisions on their own which may not be well advised. Preferably included with this dinner is a highly nutritious, flavored milk drink, which can be either dried milk solids with only water required, or a flavored drink to which milk is added. They may be contained in side recesses as illustrated in Fig. 2 or in separate pockets. In the case of an "only add water" milk beverage, as an example, the nutritional contribution found in Table 4.
In the case of a flavored milk additive, the following is an example of the nutritional contribution. See Table 5. In either case, approximately 100-150 calories are added as well as the additions to the nine nutrient categories.
This latter contribution to the child's nutritional needs occurs when the beverage mix is added to dinner. Two types of such beverage mixes are sold under the trademarks, QUIK, produced by the Nestle Food Corp. of White Plains, New York, using a 0.2 oz. envelope, and OVALTINE produced by the Sandoz Nutrition, of Minneapolis, Minn using a 0.2 oz. envelope of a sugar free mix.
Now referring to Fig. 4, a fish stick dinner is illustrated in which the image presented is that of a fish. In this embodiment, the tray 40 defines a general fish shaped recess 4, in which the main body of the fish includes three fish sticks, mixed vegetables, cherry pie and a tail, fried potatoes. This arrangement provides not only the appearance of a fish, but color contrast in both the head and tail. In the embodiment of Fig. 4, the nutritional elements present appear in table 6.
Again, an approximately 600 calorie balanced meal is provided.
When a beverage is desired, the use of milk flavoring can add an additional 100 to 150 calories as indicated above for Figs. 1 and 2, either by the addition of water to the dry flavor mix which includes dry milk, or fresh milk.
Now referring to Fig.5, a plan view of a frozen food package 50 is shown including a recess 51 filled with macaroni and cheese, a hat brim recess 52 containing zucchini, mixed vegetables and peach cobbler arranged as a clown wearing a hat, while the zucchini forms the forms the brim of the hat. Three small recesses 53, 54 and 55 are filled with mixed vegetables and form the clown's eyes and nose. A sector of a circle recess 56 comprising peach cobbler shapes the clown's mouth. The nutritional content of this package is found in Table 7. Now referring to Fig. 6, the image provided by the food in package 60 is a jack-o-lantern, in which the tray defines the general orange color with recesses 61, 62, 63, and 64 respectively for the mouth, nose, eyes and stem. In this case the mouth is provided by a pair of hot dogs or a hamburger patty shaped in the curve of a smiling mouth. The eyes and nose are each defined by triangular recesses in the tray similar to the traditional shape of the eyes of a jack-o-lantern. The eye recesses 63 are filled with potatoes, either mashed with a spot of butter or margarine defining the pupil, or fried diced potatoes. The nose recess 62 is a similarly shaped triangle but filled with corn. The stem recess 64 of the jack-o-lantern may be a sprig of broccoli for the adventurous or a brown dessert such as chocolate pudding or a shaped brownie.
The nutritional contents of the embodiment of Fig. 6 is set forth in Table 8.
In accordance with this invention a variety of meals, breakfast, lunch and dinners may be prepared, all providing an attractive presentation of food for a youngster which encourages his enjoyment of the meal. The parent can rest assured that the meal is adequate in calorie count and balanced in nutritional elements. The meals are preferably frozen, however freeze dried meals may be substituted with the attendant requirement of reconstituting with water prior to heating.
The foregoing embodiment is merely representative of this invention and is not to be considered as limiting. It is recognized that those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains are capable of producing embodiments which may appear different but do not depart from the spirit and scope of this invention. Therefore this invention shall not be limited to the illustrative embodiment but rather to the claims as set forth below which constitute definitions of this invention including the protection afforded by the doctrine of equivalents
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WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A food package for youngsters comprising: a heatable tray usable as a plate, a plurality of prepared food items arranged on said tray; said food items selected from the recommended daily allowances (RDA) to provide a balanced nutritional meal for a youngster; said food items selected in color, texture and shape and arranged to depict an identifiable overall image to the youngster.
2. The combination in accordance with Claim 1 wherein said tray includes dividers which serve to arrange the food items consistent with the identifiable image.
3. The combination in accordance with Claim 1 including transparent cover means for said tray to allow the image to be visible during preparation for service.
4. The combination in accordance with Claim 1 wherein said identifiable image is a face.
5. The combination in accordance with Claim 4 wherein said tray defines the mouth, nose and eyes.
6. The combination in accordance with Claim 5 wherein said tray includes recesses corresponding to the nose, mouth and eyes, and said recesses are filled with food.
7. The combination in accordance with Claim 1 wherein said prepared food items are frozen.
8. The combination in accordance with Claim 1 wherein said prepared food items are freeze dried.
9. The combination in accordance with Claim I in which said tray includes a recess for a frozen dessert, the portion of the tray defining said recess is separable from the remainder of said tray whereby said remainder of said tray may be heated for service while a frozen dessert is held in said recess for consumption frozen.
10. The combination in accordance with claim 1 wherein said tray is consumable.
11. An individual food service for children comprising: a tray providing storage, preparation for service and for serving substantially an entire meal for a child of the age of 6 to 12; a plurality of food items selected for nutritional value and appearance, prepared, frozen and located in said tray; said food items having a total nutritional value approximating at least one fourth of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for a child in the age group of 6 to 12 years; said food items selected and arranged in said tray to produce an image recognizable by children in said age group.
12. The combination in accordance with claim 11 wherein said food items are precooked and frozen.
13. The combination in accordance with claim 11 in which said tray includes a portion of the visual image and the food items complete the recognizable form of the image.
14. The combination in accordance with claim 11 in which said tray includes an additional recess portion from the main body of the tray and contents while allowing the additional recess portion to be retained temporarily with the contents remaining in the frozen state.
15. The combination in accordance with claim 12 including one further additional recess for holding the constituents of a beverage mix; the portion of said tray forming said further additional recess is separable from the main body of said tray.
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