Home for Dinner

Give a Feeling of Home with One Meal. One meal. By providing just one meal to our families, you’ve given one of the best feelings during difficult times – a feeling of home.

Ready to Provide a Meal?

Create a casserole supper, cook on our gas grill, order in a pizza or prepare a breakfast, stew, soup, or chili. Our Home for Dinner program relies on the generosity of community organizations to provide a meal for our families once a month.

Home for Dinner is a flexible program: Donors are welcome to prepare a meal for our House volunteers to set up and serve that evening or they can come in and prepare a meal to be frozen and used in the future.

Thank you to our local partners who make Home
for Dinner a success:

Frequently Asked Questions

Food Safety

The safety, health, and wellbeing of House guests have always been our highest priorities. To ensure Ronald McDonald Houses around the world are consistent with their food safety provisions, Ronald McDonald House Global Office has updated its food safety standards. Due to these changes, Ronald McDonald House of North Central Wisconsin has instituted the following guidelines:

We no longer accept donations of foods prepared or cooked off-site by a volunteer or other groups or individuals (this includes baked goods, casseroles, etc.). Volunteers are welcome to prepare meals in our kitchen if they would like to donate.
Food prepared at a licensed retail food establishment can only be accepted for donation if it has been protected from contamination and has been delivered directly from the licensed establishment within a short period of time.
Only packaged foods purchased from retail grocery stores in unopened and original containers or whole fruits or vegetables can be accepted for donation.

Guest Chef FAQs

Guidelines

THANK YOU FOR BEING A RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE GUEST CHEF!

Ronald McDonald House for Dinner Program
Please note the following guidelines and share this information with your group prior
to your meal.

All food must be prepared on-site at the Ronald McDonald House. We may not accept any food prepared off-site by a volunteer, group or individual (including baked goods, casseroles, desserts, snacks, etc).
Exceptions: Food prepared by a licensed retail food establishment can be accepted if the food has been protected from contamination and has been delivered directly from the licensed establishment to the Ronald McDonald House.
Packaged foods purchased from retail grocery stores in unopened containers or whole fruits and vegetables can also be accepted.
Cooking groups can plan their own menus with no restrictions, understanding there is no alcohol of any kind. We can help suggest menu ideas if needed!
Please have a list of ingredients available to help families with food allergies or dietary restrictions make appropriate choices, if needed.
Guest Chefs are kindly asked to wash all dishes and clean all areas used for the meal preparation.
Please remember, volunteers with communicable diseases (common cold, recent exposure to chicken pox, flu-like symptoms, etc) may not enter the Ronald McDonald House, due to the compromised immune system of our children and safety of families.
We’d be more than happy to give your group a tour of the House when volunteers are available!
If you must cancel your meal, please notify RMHC as soon as possible at 715.387.5899.

Please be aware, not all families will be able to make it to the House when your meal is ready to be served, but they will be searching for leftovers when they return. Some families will prepare to-go plates for children and themselves. Be assured, whether the food is eaten in the kitchen at the time of your meal, carried away to the hospital or warmed up as leftovers late in the night, it will be eaten with much gratitude and heart-felt appreciation!

Menu Ideas

Main Dishes: Meatball subs (BBQ or marinara), spaghetti, fettuccine Alfredo (with chicken or shrimp), hot dogs or a hot dog bar, hot sandwiches or sliders (ham and cheese or turkey and cheese), mac & cheese bar, pasta bar, baked potato bar, chili or chili bar, soup, fried chicken, pork, creamy baked chicken taquitos with Spanish rice, pea and ham pasta, grilled cheese (add tomatoes, chicken, spinach, etc.) with tomato soup, cheesesteaks, breakfast for lunch or dinner, omelets in a bag (using freezer bags), sloppy joes, taco soup, store-bought cooked ham, burrito or taco casserole, stir-fry, tater tot casserole, chicken Parmesan bites (using frozen breaded chicken strips), cheeseburger sliders (bake beef on a sheet pan), chicken, tuna or egg salad bar, salad bar, pizzas or mini pizzas (English muffins or pita), pizza pasta, ravioli or tortellini, bacon-wrapped smokies, roasted vegetables and sausage, casseroles, chicken noodle pie, mashed potato bowls, grilled chicken, pork chops, pigs in a blanket, appetizer bar, mini pot pies, meatloaf and potatoes, chicken casseroles, panini sandwiches, tuna casserole, turkey tetrazzini, roast and potatoes, chicken and wild rice, chicken and dumplings, goulash, baked fish or fish sticks, lasagna, Polish sausage, wings, Chinese food, roast beef sandwiches, chicken rice casserole, sausage casserole, beef stew, soups with bread bowls, and cheeseburger casserole.

Sides: Vegetables, fruit, salad, mashed potatoes, rice, noodles, bread or rolls, pasta salad, baked potatoes, sautéed potatoes, corn casserole, corn on the cob, sweet potatoes, squash, au gratin potatoes, cornbread, baked fries and stuffing.

Desserts: Angel food cake with pie filling, cookies, cake, brownies, fudge, fruit, ice cream, pie, pastries and s’mores.

Breakfast: Pancakes, French toast, breakfast casseroles, eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins, bagels, pastries and fruit.

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