Through the Progressive Processing Hormel Compleats Complete Game Challenge, the Saints and Progressive Processing donated 3,300 meals to St. Stephen’s Food Bank.

And there are four Compleats Kids meals, which are smaller (7 ounces instead of the 9 or 10 of regular Compleats). Not all 36 varieties are at every store.

Del Monte Foods Co and ConAgra Foods Inc have introduced microwaveable meals, but Ettinger said that is not the main reason consumers are less often buying Hormel's Compleats.

Hormel Foods Corp. was to break ground today on its estimated $89 million plant in Dubuque, Iowa, in a major effort to meet growing demand for its Hormel Compleats microwave meals.