Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.

Amy L Gosselin

Christopher P Guzowski

Steven Paul Greiner

Barbara Sue Schwab

Frank Arthur Cole

Amy Lynne Zettlemeyer

Panagiotis Kinigakis

Kenneth C Pokusa

Kelly Elizabeth Arnold

Kenneth Radakovits

Trisha Ann Wood

Hal Marvin Howell

Richard William Livezey

Jim Kyung Sung

A shrouded flexible package is provided with an improved continuous laser score line. The score line has end portions adjacent the side seals of the package, which are located above fastener tracks which are enclosed by a shroud portion of the package. The score line contains downwardly and inwardly converging segments joined to a medial score line segment extending along side and generally below the fastener tracks. The score line is preferably formed with a laser energy source.

Shrouded flexible packages

A one-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring is provided. A method for making a one-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring is also provided. The one-dish frozen dinner product preferably includes a receptacle containing the one-dish frozen dinner product, a baking shield upstanding above the receptacle, and a shipping carton. Even more preferably, the baking shield is placed at the bottom of the receptacle containing the one-dish frozen dinner product and is configured for a nesting fit. The baking shield may have either a frustoconical sidewall or a concave trough-like sidewall.

One-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring and apparatus for shipping and preparing same

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Westchester, IL, United States of America

Amy L Gosselin