Macedonia Family Resource Center

Week 3 of Meals Without Limits was another delicious success! 🍽️🔥

This week's challenge featured a flavorful combination of Jambalaya and Dirty Rice, giving each team the opportunity to create their own unique version of this Southern classic—all completely from scratch!

🌽 Sides:
• Garlic Herb Corn on the Cob
• Homemade Cornbread

🥘 Protein Choices:
🤍 White Team: Andouille smoked sausage & ground beef
❤️ Red Team: Andouille smoked sausage, shrimp & ground turkey
🖤 Black Team: Ground beef & shrimp

To bring those bold Cajun flavors to life, our teams seasoned their dishes with Tony's Creole Seasoning and Zatarain's Blackened Seasoning.

🏆 Week 3 Results:
🥇 White Team – 108 points (taking home another prize—an Electric Griddle! 🎉)
🥈 Black Team – 106 points
🥉 Red Team – 99 points

Congratulations to all of our teams! Every week they continue to sharpen their cooking skills, work together, and create amazing meals with creativity and confidence. We are so proud of everyone's hard work and can't wait to see what they'll cook up next week!

A special thank you once again to the High Point Food Alliance Food Security Grant for making Meals Without Limits possible. Your support is helping us empower participants through hands-on cooking, teamwork, and life skills. We truly appreciate your investment in our community!

🍲🔥 Food Without Limits – Week 2 Challenge! 🔥🍲

This week kicked off the second week of our Food Without Limits Cooking Series, and the competition was heating up! Three teams faced off in a friendly crockpot cooking challenge featuring this week's menu item: Rotel.

Each week, our instructor prepares the featured meal while the teams create their own unique rendition. To complete the meal, the instructor also prepares side dishes. This week’s special side was a delicious Mexican Street Corn Dip that paired perfectly with the teams' creations!

Fresh ingredients, herbs, spices, and everything needed to create a winning dish were provided. Teams had their choice of ground beef, ground turkey, seasoned turkey, Italian sausage, cilantro, cream cheese, milk, fresh onions, multi-color bell peppers, jalapeños, and a variety of seasonings.

Here’s what each team created:
🌶️ Red Team – Spicy Rotel with cilantro
🍖 White Team – Half Italian sausage and half ground beef Rotel
🌮 Black Team – Taco Rotel

After cooking, everyone had the opportunity to sample each dish and score the competition. The results were incredibly close!

🏆 1st Place: White Team – 70 points
🥈 2nd Place: Red Team – 69 points
🥉 3rd Place: Black Team – 68 points

With only a two-point difference between first and third place, the competition was fierce this week!

Congratulations to Victoria and Ms. Barbara of the White Team for taking home this week's prize: a Cast Iron Combo Cooker! 🎉👏

We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to High Point Food Alliance for sponsoring the Food Without Limits Cooking Series through grant funding. Their investment in food education, nutrition, and hands-on culinary experiences is helping participants build confidence in the kitchen, explore new ingredients, and strengthen healthy cooking habits. We are incredibly thankful for their support and commitment to expanding food access and education in our community.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated and brought their creativity, teamwork, and cooking skills to the challenge. We can't wait to see what next week's competition brings!

📢 Community Announcement 📢

We currently have gallon-sized Member's Mark Low-Fat Milk available for anyone in need.

If you or someone you know could benefit from this resource, please stop by while supplies last. We are grateful for the opportunity to help support our community and encourage you to share this post with others who may need assistance.

❤️ Serving our community with care and compassion.



Pridell McCormick