Attention Business/Financial Editors:

/Not for release over US newswire services/

TORONTO, February 9 /CNW/ - (TSX:MEW.UN): Menu Foods Income Fund (“Menu” or the “Fund”) announced today that Menu Foods GenPar Limited (the general partner of Menu Foods Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of the Fund (“MFLP”)) declared a distribution of 10.50 cents per unit to holders of Class B Exchangeable Units in MFLP for the month of January 2005, payable on or before February 15, 2005 to unitholders of record on January 31, 2005.

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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