Recipes and menu suggestions call for a lot of convenience products, which is realistic for guys who don't like to cook.

Macaroni and cheese in a box is a convenience product requiring several inconvenient steps.

This is a convenience product with limited functionality, but also at an extremely reasonable price.

Eighty-one percent of working mothers surveyed in January 1991 said such convenience products merit a higher price tag.

Her idea of a convenience product is Chinese barbecued pork or duck.

But now there is a new worry about exactly how safe this ubiquitous convenience product may be.

Another popular convenience product under scrutiny is the juice box, ubiquitous in school lunch boxes.

"But it's 2004 and people are on the go and there's a real need for convenience products."

They will turn to convenience products that may not be as nourishing.

Ms. Crawford now has more options, thanks to the 145 convenience products that manufacturers have introduced so far this year.