Whether you’re not sure what to serve to surprise guests or you just want a convenient food option after a night of shopping that doesn’t involve dialing out or driving through, there is reason to rejoice this holiday season. A new partnership between DC Central Kitchen, Alexandria-based Cuisine Solutions, and six of the D.C. area’s most celebrated chefs is bringing gourmet holiday meals to the frozen food section of a store near you. The meals will be produced with all local ingredients and all proceeds will benefit DC Central Kitchen, which provides hunger relief and training programs for the D.C. community.

The new initiative, dubbed “Eating Local, Doing Good”, was the brainchild of Cuisine Solutions CEO Stanislas Vilgrain and project manager Mark Bucher (who also owns Burger Joint in Bethesda) and grew out of what Bucher describes as a desire to find the next way to “be exceptional at what we do.” Cuisine Solutions already has a line of frozen meals by celebrity chefs, including The French Laundry’s Thomas Keller, that are sold under its Five Leaf label but, according to Bucher, they felt that D.C. chefs are an often under-appreciated group and that the rich pool of area talent would be perfect to launch a new line of Five Leaf products.

Bucher says that the project started out with a list of 22 chefs and eventually narrowed it down to six: Michel Richard of Citronelle and Central; Jose Andres of Café Atlantico, Jaleo, Oyamel, and Minibar; Nora Pouillon of Restaurant Nora; Jeff Buben of Vidalia; Kaz Okochi of Kaz Sushi Bistro; and Roberto Donna of Bebo Trattoria.