All Marie Callender's Corn Bread Mixes products are made at the Custom Bakehouse manufacturing facility in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Custom Bakehouse is an OU Kosher facility, Organic Certified facility, Certified Gluten Free Protocol, and a Licensed Milk Products Dairy plant.

The Recipe That Became A Family Legacy. The story begins in the early 1940s in Orange County, California, when Marie Callender started her lucrative home-based bakery. Marie, a wife, mother and accomplished baker, would bake pies at home and her son would deliver them to area restaurants on his bicycle.

From savory pot pies and homestyle favorites to fresh salads and grilled burgers, we're serving up dishes the whole family will love. Each location's menu is a little different, so find your Marie's to check out the menu.

Marie Callender's is a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG), one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households.

FEATURED RECIPE: Marie Callender Apple and Cherry Pie Trifle Although Marie passed away in 1995 at age 88 from cancer, her name and face will live on in perpetuity as one of the most influential and comforting characters to ever bring her baked goods into our homes.

If you're watching your waist, read labels carefully. Of those tested, the Marie Callender's meals were highest in calories and fat. Roasted garlic chicken weighs in with 17 grams of fat per serving!

Marie and Cal continued their operation with marginal financial success for 16 years, making over 200 cream and fruit pies every day, before Don, Marie's only child, convinced his parents to open their own restaurant called Marie Callender's Pie Shop.

Steered by hard work, persistence, and some luck, Marie Callender's life is a classic American rags-to-riches story. Born in South Dakota in 1907, as a young girl she accompanied her poor but hardworking family when they moved to California in search of a better life.

While frozen meals are a convenient way to eat a balanced meal, it's easy to be led astray–they're also known for being packed with sodium, calories, and saturated fat, making moderation important.

10 Healthy and Affordable Frozen Foods

1. 1. Fruits and vegetables. Frozen vegetables and fruits are common go-tos for stocking the freezer - and for good reason.
2. Falafel.
3. Edamame.
4. Turkey meatballs.
5. Chicken or fish patties.
6. Cauliflower rice.
7. Brown rice.
8. Veggie pizza crust.

One word: plastic. The USDA-Food Safety Inspection Service's notice of this not-food-in-your recall said Conagra, “received consumer complaints reporting pieces of clear, flexible plastic in the product, and notified FSIS of the situation.”

If you're watching your waist, read labels carefully. Of those tested, the Marie Callender's meals were highest in calories and fat. Roasted garlic chicken weighs in with 17 grams of fat per serving!

10 Healthy and Affordable Frozen Foods

1. 1. Fruits and vegetables. Frozen vegetables and fruits are common go-tos for stocking the freezer - and for good reason.
2. Falafel.
3. Edamame.
4. Turkey meatballs.
5. Chicken or fish patties.
6. Cauliflower rice.
7. Brown rice.
8. Veggie pizza crust.

"Cooking with steam can be healthy, but we found that these meals weren't very different from frozen meals that have been around for years," said Linda Greene with Consumer Reports. If you're watching your waist, read labels carefully. Of those tested, the Marie Callender's meals were highest in calories and fat.

One solution: buying frozen, which is just as healthy and much cheaper than fresh. In fact, studies have found that the nutritional value of many frozen foods (especially the amounts of vitamin A and C and folic acid) of some frozen fruits and vegetables is greater than fresh-stored options.

apple pie The clear winner for the United States as a whole was (not surprisingly) apple pie with more than 27% of sales going to the traditional flavor.