ConAgra Foods Donates Chicken Nuggets, Turkeys, Corn Dogs, Granola Bars, French Fries, Pudding to Hungry Kids in the Summer

ConAgra Foods' nine million pounds of food will help fight childhood hunger in America on June 5 and beyond

Chicago, IL -- May 20, 2002 -- ConAgra Foods, North America's second -largest food company, is stepping to the plate to make sure hungry children get a nutritious meal this summer. Since America's Second Harvest issued its urgent Call to Action in February, ConAgra's well-known consumer brands such as Act II, Armour, Butterball, Chef Boyardee, Eckrich, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, and Peter Pan have donated more than 6 million pounds of chicken, pork, beef, prepared meals, groceries and snacks. During the next three months, they expect 3 million more pounds of wholesome foods to be distributed from their warehouses.

They are loading up their trucks to deliver goods to kid-friendly feeding sites of America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest hunger-relief charity.

"School may be out for the summer, but millions of low-income children won't know where there next meal will come from," said Lynn Phares, president of ConAgra Foods' Feeding Children Better Foundation. "Our operating companies know that, and have generously agreed to meet the challenge of providing healthy foods that kids love."

As the national sponsor of America's Second Harvest children's feeding program - Kids Cafe - ConAgra has funded 89 new sites that provide hearty snacks and meals to children who miss school meals during summer vacation.

"ConAgra Foods' commitment is an investment in the future. Hunger is a critical issue in the United States and steps such as these will ensure that no child grows up hungry," says Robert H. Forney, president and chief executive officer of America's Second Harvest.

For the past two years, the following menus featuring ConAgra foods have been refined by some of the most discriminating taste-testers in America - hungry children. Some of the most popular kid-tested menu choices include:

Doggone Good

Eckrich, Armour or Hebrew National Hot Dogs topped with Gulden's Mustard and Hunt's Ketchup
Van Camp's Baked Beans
Tossed Salad with Home-Made French Dressing Featuring Wesson Oil
Hunt's Snack Pack Puddings and/or Jolly Rancher Gels
"Fowl" Ball

Grilled Butterball Turkey, or Fried Country Pride Chicken with Hunt's Barbecue Sauce
Inland Valley or Lamb Weston Mashed Potatoes
String Green Beans with Parkay or Blue Bonnet Margarine
Marie Callender's Pies with Healthy Choice Ice Cream
It's Italian

Spaghetti with Hunt's or Healthy Choice Spaghetti Sauce or MaMa Rosa's Pizza or Chef Boyarde) Pasta
Garlic Bread with Parkay Margarine
Healthy Choice String Cheese
Tossed Salad with Knott's Berry Farm Salad Dressings
Home-made Peanut Butter Cookies or Biscotti with Peter Pan Peanut Butter
ConAgra Foods' Feeding Children Better initiative is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar commitment that will open at least 100 Kids Cafes by the end of 2002. ConAgra Foods will open a new Kids Cafe in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 5, the first-ever "National Hunger Awareness Day." Also, America's Second Harvest, the Ad Council and ConAgra Foods will debut a national public service advertising campaign aimed at raising awareness of childhood hunger.

ConAgra Foods' Feeding Children Better initiative, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar commitment to attack childhood hunger, is the largest corporate initiative dedicated solely to fighting childhood hunger. ConAgra Foods, Inc., based in Omaha, Neb., is North America's second-largest food company. With more than $27 billion in sales, ConAgra Foods is the leading North American supplier of food products to restaurants and other foodservice customers, and the second-largest supplier of branded food products to grocery stores. ConAgra Foods' well-known consumer brands include Act II, Armour, Banquet, Blue Bonnet, Butterball, Chef Boyardee, Country Pride, Cook's, County Line, Decker, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, Parkay, Peter Pan, Reddi-Wip, Slim Jim, Swift Premium, Swiss Miss, Van Camp's and Wesson. For more information, visit www.conagrafoods.com or www.feedingchildrenbetter.org.

America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a national network of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue programs, serving all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It distributes 1.4 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. America's Second Harvest's network supports approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies, operating more than 94,000 food programs, including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes, Community Kitchens. These local organizations provide emergency food assistance to 23 million hungry Americans, including more than nine million children and almost three million seniors each year.