Windsor’s Macro Foods donates 1,000 meals to help feed those in need [Video]

Picture a customer placing an order for 1,000 meals at a local eatery and they have to be ready in an hour.

That was a task presented to a Windsor business, Macro Foods, on July 18.

The challenge was initiated by Windsorite and social media influencer, Zachery Dereniowski. He’s more commonly known as MDMotivator via TikTok and Instagram. The latter has a count of 5.5 million followers. The aim with the large order of meals was to donate the food back to the Windsor community.

Prepped meals by Macro Foods. (Gary Archibald/CTV News Windsor)

Co-owner of Macro Foods in Windsor, Ont., Omar Abou-Said, said that he was caught off guard by the request. Nonetheless, he and his team worked hard to fill that order, travelling to multiple stores to get more meals.

In the end, all the meals were donated, free of charge.

For Abou-Said, lessons learned as a child about humility, empathy, and helping others have been ingrained in his mind and heart. …