It may have been just luck or perfect timing in finding more ways to help “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
Cheri Semple of Pendleton volunteered to help out at the Indianapolis “Extreme Makeover” earlier in the year. She is employed as a consultant for Homemade Gourmet, a company that helps people with ideas and recipes on how to make cooking easy again.
During her time as a volunteer, she said, the Homemade Gourmet main office in Canton, Texas was in talks with “Extreme Makeover” on how the company could donate food to the families selected by the show.
From the Indianapolis site on, Homemade Gourmet has been sponsoring families by donating food.
On Monday, Semple, along with fellow consultant Mikki Perrine of Noblesville, returned to “Extreme Makeover,” but this time not as a volunteer.
“A lot of families want to spend more time at the dinner table but they just don’t have time,” Semple said. “The focus of our company is to bring families back to the dinner table and obviously with today’s society it’s busy.”
Homemade Gourmet is donating nearly $200 in food products to the Cowan-Brown family. The company provides dry mixes, microwave meals and how to turn leftovers into a second meal by turning them into “planned-overs” where the meal may be totally different than what it originally was. These meal preparation times are about 10 to 15 minutes.
“We just try to provide families with easy meal solutions to get them back to the dinner table,” Perrine said. “We’re helping families and that’s our focus and ‘Extreme Makeover’s’ focus, so it’s a match made in heaven.”
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