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Conagra Brands has introduced a significant expansion of its product portfolio, with a wide range of new offerings across its frozen, grocery, and snack categories for 2026. The new items are designed to address consumer requirements for convenience, protein-rich meal solutions, and restaurant-inspired flavours.

The company is leveraging its existing brand presence to provide scalable solutions across breakfast, lunch, and dinner, while also introducing new pantry and snack items to the market.

Breakfast Portfolio

As consumers seek protein-rich options for morning routines, Conagra has updated its breakfast portfolio with several new additions.

The Banquet brand is introducing Brown 'N Serve Sausage Sandwich Size Patties, designed to fit English muffins. This launch is supported by the Banquet MEGA breakfast bowl line, which offers 30 grams of protein per bowl.

New additions from Odom's Tennessee Pride and Sandwich Bros include:

• Odom's Tennessee Pride: 🍗 Chicken Sandwich and 🥞 Maple Pancake Sausage Sandwich

• Sandwich Bros: 🌭 Sausage, Egg and Cheese and 🥚 Egg White, Turkey Sausage and Cheese breakfast pitas

Frozen Meals and Entree Ranges

The company is extending its frozen meal offerings with a focus on both single-serve and multi-serve formats. Banquet MEGA is introducing new chicken tenders and a Vlasic Dill Pickle chicken filet. Additionally, the brand is launching three multi-serve Banquet MEGA XL meals and two single-serve options.

Other major brand updates include:

• Bertolli: Beef Bolognese Skillet Meal

• Dolly Parton: 🥩 Homestyle Meatloaf and 🍗 Fried Chicken Mac and Cheese

• evol: Four new protein bowls and Blackened Chicken Alfredo

• Healthy Choice: Six new meals across the Café, Café Steamers, and Simply Steamers lines, featuring GLP-1 "On Track" labelling

• Hungry-Man: Chicken Alfredo with a king-size brownie

• Marie Callender's: New family-size meals including Meat Lasagna, Baked Ziti, and Garlic Chicken Pasta, plus single-serve options like Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Chicken Bacon Ranch bowl, and Chicken Lo Mein bowl

• P.F. Chang's Home Menu: Japanese Style BBQ Crispy Chicken, Mini Pork Egg Rolls, and a Korean BBQ Style Bowl

Frozen Vegetable

Birds Eye is expanding its vegetable portfolio to include steakhouse-inspired sides and items designed for microwave preparation. New additions include Green Beans with Bacon, Creamed Spinach, and additions to the ULTIMATE Vegetables collection:

• Birds Eye ULTIMATE: 🥦 Cheesy Broccoli Mac and Cheese and 🥔 Creamy Parmesan Scalloped Potatoes

• Birds Eye Steamfresh: 🌽 Fire-Roasted Super Sweet Corn, Quinoa, Shelled Edamame, 🍚 Vegetable Fried Rice, and 🌶️ Mexican Street Corn

Plant Based

The plant-based sector continues to see activity from Gardein and Purple Carrot. Gardein is introducing ULTIMATE Plant-Based Extra Crispy Chick'n Nuggets and a Chick'n Alfredo bowl. Purple Carrot is launching a Spring Vegetable Alfredo-Style Bowl and a Vegetable Basil Pesto Bowl.

Pantry and Snacks

The pantry and snack segments include new licensed partnerships and product variations:

• Wendy's: Baconator Chili

• Stubb's: 🍖 Original and 🍯 Sticky Sweet Baked Beans

• Snack Pack: Dr Pepper Juicy Gels and 🍓 🍊 Snack Pack Splash Juicy Gels

• Glutino: 🍫 Dark Chocolate Strawberry Wafer Bites, Frosted Animal Crackers, and 🧀 Garlic Parmesan Pretzel Twists