More Meals With A Mission

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Hiller’s Markets is staying the course of helping charities through these tough times. Tomorrow, two new dishes will appear in the prepared foods cases at all seven Hiller’s grocery stores, offering shoppers good food for good causes.

One dish – apricot salad – meets the health needs of Janice Cherkasky’s constituency. Janice is former Vice-President and a current board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The second dish – a delectable bowtie pasta recipe created by Jeff Loeb M.D. PhD – will support the Hiller ALS Center at Wayne State University, which he heads with Dr. Richard Lewis.

These two dishes will be available at all seven Hiller’s Markets from Nov. 16-30th.

In an economy where prepared foods are garnering more attention than restaurant meals, Good Deeds in the Making was created by Hiller’s Markets as a way to inspire consumers to purchase high-quality, ready-to-eat meals while feeling good about contributing to worthy local causes.

All profits from sales of these dishes go to local charities chosen by the dish honorees. 100% of profits from apricot salad sales will go to JDRF, and 100% of profits from Dr. Loeb’s pasta will go to endow the Hiller ALS Center at WSU, which offers treatment and cutting-edge research in the fight to cure ALS, the disease which took the life of Harriet Hiller, mother of Hiller’s CEO, Jim Hiller.

The two most recent dishes – Lisa Diggs’ smoked whitefish and corn fritters and Danialle Karmanos’ tuna pasta – will continue to be sold at Hiller’s. Diggs, of Buy Michigan Now, requested a dish that uses only Michigan ingredients. The tuna pasta is Mrs. Karmanos’ own recipe. Both have been huge hits among Hiller’s shoppers.

Into the new year, additional dishes will be introduced with accompanying causes. After the following schedule ends, some dishes from the first half of the program will be reintroduced.

Dec. 1-14: Deena Lisak’s corned beef and cabbage and macaroni and cheese
Cause: the Achievement Center at the Multiple Sclerosis Society

Dec. 15- Jan. 1, 2010: Robbie Timmons’ turkey meatloaf and Paula Tutman’s shepherd’s pie
Cause: CANTER and Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation

Good Deeds dishes:
- Jill Syme’s stuffed cabbage and Lila Lazarus’ quinoa with roasted vegetables - Cause: Kids Kicking Cancer
- Rabbi Paul Yedwab’s petite quiche with spinach, mushroom and Jarlsburg and dietitian Gail Posner’s no-fat black bean salad - Causes: Forgotten Harvest and Ministrelli Women's Heart Center
- Tony Fayne’s Buffalo chili and Samira Cholagh’s eggplant salad - Causes: the Agree Foundation at Temple Israel and the Chaldean Federation’s Adopt A Refugee Family Program
- Lisa Diggs’ smoked whitefish and corn fritters and Danialle Karmanos’ tuna pasta – Causes: Gleaners Food Bank and DKWIO

Founded in 1941, Hiller’s Markets is dedicated to local businesses and causes. Hiller’s indicates Michigan products with special shelf tags and partners with thousands of charities and organizations through cash register campaigns, Scrip partnerships and other supportive collaborations.

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