As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2011

Registration Statement No. 333-108625

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

DEL MONTE FOODS COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

One Maritime Plaza

San Francisco, California  94111

(415) 247-3000

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,

of Registrant’s Principal Executive Office)

James Potter, Esq.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

One Maritime Plaza

San Francisco, California 94111

(415) 247-3000

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,

Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box:  ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box:  ¨

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is an amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333-108625) (the “Registration Statement”) of Del Monte Foods Company (the “Company”). Effective as of March 8, 2011 (the “Effective Time”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 24, 2010, among the Company, Blue Acquisition Group, Inc. and Blue Merger Sub Inc. (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company with the Company being the surviving corporation (the “Merger”) and all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, other than certain excluded shares, converted into the right to receive cash. As a result of the Merger, the offerings under the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statement which remained unsold as of the Effective Time. There are zero unsold shares under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, and Rule 478 thereunder, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Francisco, State of California on this 9^th day of March, 2011.

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933.