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Best Buddies to be Featured on Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games”

Best Buddies to be Featured on Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games”

Best Buddies to be Featured on Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games”

Dec 12, 2023 | News, News Archive, News Front Page, News Sidebar |

Miami, FL, Dec. 12, 2023 — This Wednesday, Dec. 13, Best Buddies participants will be featured in a special holiday episode of “Guy’s Grocery Games” at 9/8c on Food Network. The show is hosted by longtime Best Buddies Global Ambassador Guy Fieri.

In this holiday episode, Best Buddies participants will be split into teams with all-star chefs to “make a holiday entrée and dessert featuring ingredients chosen from Guy’s holiday sample tables plus whatever other ingredient they can fit in their holiday stockings.” The Best Buddies participant from the winning team will walk home with a $15,000 prize.

About Best Buddies
Best Buddies® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver, Best Buddies is a vibrant organization that has grown from one original chapter to nearly 3,000 middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. Today, Best Buddies’ 11 formal programs — Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges, Citizens, e-Buddies®, Jobs, Ambassadors, Promoters, Transitions and Inclusive Living— engage participants in each of the 50 states and in 49 countries, positively impacting the lives of nearly one million people with and without disabilities around the world. In many cases, as a result of their involvement with Best Buddies, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders, and make lifelong friendships. For more information, please visit www.bestbuddies.org or connect with us via Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

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