ALEXANDRIA, MN - Samantha Hagen and Kathy Kreuscher, both of Lake Mills, IA and local consultants for gourmet food company Tastefully Simple, are helping an area family set to be featured on ABC-TV's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" feel right at home. Hagen and Kreuscher represented Tastefully Simple in a donation of products to the DeVries family when the highly rated program recently filmed in rural Hayward, MN.

"I'm very happy to make the DeVries' experience with 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' a little sweeter with this gift from Tastefully Simple," says Hagen. Kreuscher adds, "The family is very deserving and I hope these quick and delicious products will help make their lives a little easier as they settle into their new home."

Tastefully Simple's contribution consists of some of its most popular items, including Bountiful Beer Bread Mix^®; Perfectly Potato Cheddar Soup Mix; Spinach & Herb Dip Mix and Absolutely Almond Pound Cake Mix^™. "These deserving families are role models for all of us, and so are Samantha and Kathy," says Tastefully SImple Founder and CEO Jill Blashack Strahan. She adds, "We're incredibly proud that they're living out one of our company's core values - nurturing the community in which we live."

About Tastefully Simple 
Tastefully Simple is the original national home taste-testing company featuring easy-to-prepare gourmet foods. The company's unique, high-quality products are offered through independent business consultants across the United States. For more information about Tastefully Simple, visit tastefullysimple.com.

About ABC-TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 
"Extreme Makover: Home Edition" is in its 6th season on ABC. The program is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. Anthony Dominici is the executive producer, and David Goldberg is the president of Endemol USA.