2009-2010 Kids' Recipe Contest Winners and Chef for a Day Events

  

The recipe contest is another Healthy Kids Challenge action activating tool... a simple solution to help kids learn to eat, move and enjoy a healthy balance. Students create or modify recipes to make them more healthy; and they also set individual healthy goals. From start to finish this is an interactive learning opportunity!
 

Stirring Up Health™
Middle School Recipe Contest Winners!

Healthy Kids Challenge and featured sponsor, Del Monte, along with educational partners, Johnson & Wales University and Home Baking Association are pleased to announce the winners of the Stirring Up Health™ National Middle School Recipe Contest!
 

Students learned important cooking skills and showed that healthy foods can look and taste terrific. For most Americans, adding more fruits and vegetables to their daily intake is a healthy goal; students were challenged to use Del Monte canned fruit, vegetable or tomato as a primary ingredient.

Entries were judged for originality, creativity, presentation, appearance and written essay. The four recipe contest winners are from New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon and Hawaii.

Recipe Contest Winners

Click on each winner’s name to see their story and award winning recipe!

Matt Bernards Fruity Quinoa Salad Yamhill-Carlton Intermediate School Yamhill, OR	Hannah Beh Healthy Breakfast Pita Pockets Ontario Middle School Ontario, OH
Christine Kim, Alexandra Scarangella, Shannon Herbert Fruity Snowballs Charles DeWolf Middle School Old Tappan, NJ	Kaleo Salazar  Spinach Spin-Wheels Pahoa High and Intermediate School Pahoa, HI
Joshua and Micah Davis Healthy Kid's Cocktail Pahoa High and Intermediate School Pahoa, HI

Honorable Mention Recipes

So many awesome recipes were submitted for the contest that many deserved honorable mention. Click to see who they are, their recipe name and school.
 

Chef for a Day Successes

Winners were treated to an awesome learning experience! Thanks to Johnson & Wales University and Del Monte, classrooms experienced an entertaining and educational visit from a professional Johnson & Wales University (JWU) chef! JWU is a recognized leader in career education. Industry-experienced faculty bring real life experience to undergraduate and graduate degree programs that include hospitality and culinary arts.  

Johnson and Wales University Chefs received "ohs" and "ahs" as they impressed students during their Chef for a Day visits. Fun culinary demonstrations were given, cooking and career questions answered, and the winning recipe was prepared with samples for the students to taste! See photos and hear what kids had to say!
 

Hannah Beh and Chef Lanuzza Serve Winning Recipe Samples

Chef Jaffe and Winners with a Culinary Creation

Chef Event Quotes

'Chef for the Day was very fun. I’m a teenage boy and I love food. Plus, I got to meet a “big time” chef. On a scale of 1 – 10, I would definitely rate it a 10. THANK YOU!' -- student, Yamhill-Carlton Intermediate School, Yamhill, OR  

"Thanks to Healthy Kids Challenge for all the great prizes! My classmates and I had so much fun with the Chef for a Day! We learned a lot of new cool fun things in the kitchen!”  -- Hannah Beh, Ontario Middle School, Ontario, OH

I thought the chef was the best thing that has come to this school in a long time. I thought the flowers out of food were the best part. I loved it! -- student, Yamhill-Carlton Intermediate School, Yamhill, OR

Congratulations to the Stirring Up Health™ Winners and Honorable Mentions who have joined in the Healthy Kids Challenge motto of “Eat, Move, Enjoy Healthy Balance”. 

For next year's 2010-2011 contest, check out the “Stirring Up Health™” contest details in the fall!

For additional information contact:
Vickie L. James, RD, LD, Healthy Kids Challenge Director
Vickie@healthykidschallenge.com
www.healthykidschallenge.com