Attention Business/Financial Editors:

/Not for release over US newswire services/

TORONTO, February 2 /CNW/ - (TSX: MEW.UN): Menu Foods Income Fund announced today that it will release its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2004 on Wednesday, February 9, 2005.

A conference call to review those results will take place the next morning on Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 8:30 a.m. EST (Toronto time). The conference call will be chaired by Serge Darkazanli, Menu's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Serge will be joined on the call by Paul Henderson, Menu's President and Chief Operating Officer and Mark Wiens, Menu's Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.

To access the conference call in real time, please call 416-640-4127 or 1-800-814-4861. A replay will be available from approximately one hour after the end of the conference call until February 24, 2005 by dialing 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525, using passcode 21111835 followed by the number sign. A live audio webcast of the conference call is also available, it can be accessed by entering www.newswire.ca/webcast on an Internet browser. A replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days, it can be accessed by entering www.newswire.ca/webcast on an Internet browser.

Menu Foods is the leading North American private-label/contract manufacturer of wet pet food products sold by supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers and other retail and wholesale outlets. Menu Foods currently produces more than one billion containers per year.

For further information: please contact: Mark Wiens, Chief Financial Officer, Menu Foods GenPar Limited, (905) 826-3870

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