Patent ID: 8651276

Claim:
A food package comprising: a bakeable tray including a plurality of serving containers and a support matrix attached to the plurality of serving containers, wherein the support matrix is detachable from said plurality of serving containers, said support matrix detachably connected to said plurality of serving containers by one or more connection arrangements that include an arrangement selected from the group consisting of a plurality of perforations formed in a top surface of said support matrix and positioned beneath a flange of at least one of said serving containers and encircle at least one of said serving containers, and a plurality of slots formed in a top surface of said support matrix and encircle at least one of said serving containers and said top surface of said support matrix that includes said plurality of slots and a top surface of said serving containers lying in a same plane; and a plurality of food portions each received in a respective one of said plurality of serving containers; whereby said tray and said plurality of food portions are loadable as a unit into a cooking appliance and said support matrix is designed to be detached from said plurality of serving containers after such loading to provide a plurality of separate serving containers, a plurality of said separate serving containers containing prepared food.