Food package containing separate trays connected together by a single

Abstract

A food package comprising a plurality of separate portions of food and a carton assembly. The carton assembly comprises a plurality of separate open top trays corresponding in number to the number of separate portions of food and a lid structure. The separate relation of the open top trays enabling each of the separate portions of food to be separately disposed within a corresponding separate open top tray. The open top trays are erected from blanks and each includes a bottom surrounded by sides with liquid tight corner constructions and at least one outwardly extending flange. The lid structure includes a top wall panel and two top flaps. The trays, in side by side relation, are covered by the lid structure in an assembled relation and secured therein by adhesive so as to form a food package suitable for convenient transportation and handling. In assembled relation the tray flanges are disposed in side by side relation and adhesively adhered to the top wall panel between the top flaps which are folded down to form exterior sides of the package. The lid structure has cuts formed therein for facilitating the manual movement of at least a portion of the lid structure extending in enclosing relation over the open top of each tray into an open condition with respect to each tray enabling the portion of food in each tray to be heated in an oven and thereafter consumed while in the respective tray.