MacShares Community Meal Prep: Pudding Chomeur

Get a free meal by helping dietetics students prepare 200 meals for disadvantaged people living in Lachine.

Professor Linda Wykes is looking to recruit 10 to 12 colleagues and students to join her on February 2 and give two hours of their time (between 11:00 and 13:00). Participants will make “Pudding Chomeur,” the dessert part of the meal prepared for L’Oeuvre Soupe Maison, a Lachine-based organization helping the homeless and low-income population by providing food and clothing.

Once the dessert is done, those who will have volunteered will get to experience the meal prepared for l’Oeuvre Soupe maison, a hearty beef stew and, of course, “Pudding Chomeur.”

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.