MacShares Community Meal Prep: Cupcakes

Get a free meal by helping dietetics students prepare 200 meals for vulnerable families of the Ville St-Pierre area.

Dr. Ryan Mailloux, Director of McGill's School of Human Nutrition, is looking for 10 to 12 colleagues and students to join him on February 9 and give 2 hours of their time (between 11:00 and 13:00). You will do and decorate cupcakes, the dessert part of the Valentine’s Day thematic meal prepared for Lachine’s Community pediatrics Center located in the Ville Saint-Pierre area, one of the poorest on Montreal island. Its mission is to to support vulnerable children and families of this area to ensure their well‐being and optimal development.

Those who will have volunteered, they will get to experience this Valentine’s Day thematic meal, a heartwarming lasagna and, of course, cupcakes. 

This entire operation has been planned, implemented and by Dietetics students as part of NUTR 345/346 courses. 

Schedule

11:00–10:15: Introduction (CC-212)

11:15–12:45: Cooking dessert in the Food Lab (CC-215)

12:45: Volunteer lunch is served (CC-212)

About MacShares

MacShares is a team-building group activity in which Mac faculty, staff and students volunteer a couple of hours of their time to contribute to creating 100+ meals which are then served by local community organizations to people in need. The event is part of a management activity for students in the Dietetics program.

This February, MacShares is looking for volunteers for three events:

• Friday, February 2: Pudding Chomeur
• Monday, February 5: Cornbread
• Friday, February 9: Cupcakes

Volunteers must RSVP by one week before the event.

Quick Facts

• In Québec, 1 in 10 people are turning to food banks for help in feeding their families.
• 33% of food bank users are children while representing only 20% of the population.
• 8% of Food Bank clients are postsecondary students, a significant increase from 5% in 2019.
• 8% of Food Bank clients are seniors, a significant increase from 6.8% in 2019.

This project was made possible thanks to the support from the School of Human Nutrition and Metro Plus Lachine.