Attention Business/Financial Editors:

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TORONTO, February 8 /CNW/ - (TSX: MEW.UN): Menu Foods Income Fund announced today that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2005 on Wednesday, February 15, 2006.

A conference call to review those results will take place the next day on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. EST (Toronto time). The conference call will be chaired by Paul Henderson, Menu's President and Chief Executive Officer. Paul will be joined on the call by Mark Wiens, Menu's Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.

To access the conference call in real time, please call 416-644-3414 or 1-866-250-4910. A replay will be available from approximately one hour after the end of the conference call until March 2, 2006 by dialing 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525, using passcode 21170560 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 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 currently produces more than one billion containers per year

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