A non-round, preportioned dough intermediate used to reduce wasted space in shipping materials and to provide increased handling abilities. The non-round, preportioned dough intermediate has at least four sides being connected by at least four non-corner members. When placed in abutting, adjacent relation, a plurality of non-round, preportioned dough intermediates occupies about 80% to about 99.9% of a definable perimeter bounding the plurality of non-round, preportioned dough intermediates. By having less open space, less packaging materials are required and there is reduced opportunity for topical particulates to fall off of the dough intermediates and into unused space.