This contest challenges teams of youth and adults to create a dish using a predetermined set of ingredients. From these ingredients, team members must identify and prepare a dish, then describe their dish, cooking techniques, food safety measures taken, and nutritional content in a video (5 minutes or less).
OBJECTIVES
• Provide opportunities for participants to exhibit their knowledge and skill when preparing and presenting a dish
• Provide an opportunity to teach youth about healthy eating
• Provide an opportunity to teach youth about communication and public speaking
• Promote a fun opportunity for family bonding and teamwork
RULES
This is an amateur competition. All participants must be at least 5 years of age by 9/30/21 and at least one team member must be over the age of 19.
Each team will have at least two and no more than five members. For this contest (and in accordance with 4-H COVID guidelines) family is defined as a group of people living together in a household (or providing daily supervision of youth participants).
Each team will have the option of wearing coordinated clothing, aprons or hair coverings.
Each team will supply their own equipment and food ingredients for the contest. If help is needed with supplies or ingredients please contact your local Extension Office.
Each team will be provided an ingredient list containing three ingredients on March 5th. These ingredients should be readily available at most grocery stores. These predetermined ingredients must be included in the preparation of the challenge dish, although the team may determine the amounts of each ingredient that they would like to include in their dish.
On March 13th, teams will be e-mailed their challenge. The challenge will tell the family what kind of dish they are to prepare (i.e. a breakfast dish or a dinner main course). Teams must use the predetermined ingredients sent to them on March 5th and two to five additional ingredients from their kitchen to prepare their challenge dish. Teams are encouraged to use their own creativity in preparing a dish rather than preparing a dish from a recipe.
Each team may use whatever kitchen implements they have at their disposal, but it is recommended that they not spend more than an hour preparing their dish.
After preparing the challenge dish each team must make a short video presentation (5 minutes or less) explaining what their dish is, the steps taken to prepare the dish, the nutritional content of the dish, and food safety considerations for their dish. Each team member must have a speaking role in the presentation and a close up of the dish should be included in the video. Please take your video in one cut with no editing. Note cards are allowed in presentations, but please no cue cards.
Teams are encouraged to consult research-based information sources in preparing their video presentations. Recommended information sources and sample presentation videos can be found here: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/projects/food-nutrition/ . Here are some recommended Food Challenge Resource Links:
Please consult the 4-H Family Food Challenge Scorecard to fully understand how your video presentation will be judged.
Ribbons and awards will be awarded to the top three teams.
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