42K meals and $420K given to Jackson-area restaurants through Consumers Energy, city program Updated Apr 09, 2021; Facebook Share JACKSON, MI -- Friday is the last night to pick up a free meal from one of 11 Jackson-area restaurants through a city of Jackson and Consumers Energy program. The Our Town meal distribution program began passing out free meals three days a week at the beginning of February and ends on April 9. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, volunteers distributed about 1,450 pre-packaged dinners from Jackson-area restaurants at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, 1107 Adrian St. The program was successful in helping those in food insecure positions, Roger Curtis, Consumers Energy’s vice president for public affairs, said.