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If you want to be a star in the kitchen, try the food & nutrition project! You’ll learn kitchen and cooking safety, how to prepare nutritious meals and snacks, and meal ideas to reduce your risk of disease. Learning experiences focus on nutrition, food purchasing, food preparation, food safety, and related careers.


Resources

  • Altering Recipes for Good Health
  • Calorie Dense vs. Nutrient Dense
  • Cooking up Healthy Choices
  • Dietary Guidelines For Americans
  • Dinner Tonight: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
  • Easy, Tasty, Healthy: Simple Ingredient Substitutions for Your Recipes
  • Explore Guide Food & Nutrition – Cooking in the Kitchen
  • Explore Guide Food & Nutrition – Dollars and Sense
  • Explore Guide Food & Nutrition – Food Challenge
  • Explore Guide Food & Nutrition – Keeping Food Safe
  • FightBac – Fight Foodborne Bacteria Brochure
  • Food Safety
  • Food Safety Fact Sheet
  • Healthy Texas Youth Ambassador Program
  • Know Your Nutrients
  • Modifying a Recipe to be Healthier
  • My Plate
  • MyPlate Mini Poster
  • National 4-H Curriculumn
  • National Food Challenge Website
  • Now Serving: Recipe Makeovers!
  • Nutrition Guide for Athletes
  • Nutritional Concepts
  • Pantry Power
  • Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
  • Preparation Principles & Function of Ingredients
  • Winning with Nutrition (Sports Nutrition) Curriculum
  • Agent Resource: Texas 4-H Food and Nutrition Project Survey | Instructions

Videos Resources

  • Cost Analysis Video
  • Example presentation #1
  • Example presentation #2
  • Example presentation #3
  • Food Challenge introduction
  • Food product bag
  • Organizing your team
  • Pantry visit
  • Preparing your dish

Contests

Food Challenge
At the Food Challenge, teams of 3-4 students receive a list of ingredients and have 40 minutes to create a dish. The teams then present their dish to judges are scored on preparation, serving size, food safety concerns, nutritional value and cost. Students qualify at the country and district level to compete at the state contest. Review all the rules in the Food Challenge Manual.

  • Rules and Guidelines 2019-20
  • Scorecard Preparation | Presentation
  • Worksheet
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Food Safety Fact Sheet
  • FightBac – Fight Foodborne Bacteria Brochure
  • Know Your Nutrients
  • MyPlate Mini Poster

Family & Community Health (FCH) Quiz Bowl

A “Quiz Bowl” is a quiz game that tests teams of 4 on their knowledge of basic nutrition, consumer information, food and kitchen safety, food preparation skills and storage, and health. Up against the clock, the 4-Hers buzz in to answer a question and earn points for correct answers. Teams advance in a tournament-system bracket to win the competition.

The contest will cover materials found in Food & Nutrition Healthy Lifestyles Invitational Consumer Decision Making.

  • Texas 4-H Quiz Bowl Resources

Food Show

At the Food Show you choose a recipe from the contest categories and then prepare and present it to a panel of judges. During your interview with the judges, you will show how you prepared it, the nutrients and ingredients, personal dietary needs, healthy substitutions, and a cost analysis.

  • 2020 Guidelines
  • 2020 Recipe Submission Paperwork
  • 2020 Scorecard

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