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
- Cost Analysis Video
- Dietary Guidelines For Americans
- Dinner Tonight: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
- FightBac – Fight Foodborne Bacteria Brochure
- Food & Nutrition – Cooking in the Kitchen Explore Guide
- Food & Nutrition – Food Challenge Explore Guide
- Food Safety
- Food Safety Fact Sheet
- Healthy Texas Youth Ambassador Program
- Know Your Nutrients
- My Plate
- MyPlate Mini Poster
- National Food Challenge Website
- Nutritional Concepts
- Preparation Principles & Function of Ingredients
- Agent Resource: Texas 4-H Food and Nutrition Project Survey | Instructions
Videos
- 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 2018-19
- Scorecard | Preparation | Presentation
- Worksheet
- FightBac – Fight Foodborne Bacteria Brochure
- Know Your Nutrients
- MyPlate Mini Poster
Food and Nutrition Quiz Bowl
A “Quiz Bowl” is a quiz game that tests teams of 3-4 on their knowledge of food and nutrition. 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.
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.
Food Show Theme Resources
- 10 Tips: Eating Foods Away from Home / Choose MyPlate
- Altering Recipes for Good Health
- Easy, Tasty, Healthy: Simple Ingredient Substitutions for Your Recipes
- Modifying a Recipe to be Healthier
- Now Serving: Recipe Makeovers!
- Restaurant meals: How to make them healthier – Harvard Health
Volunteer Resources
- Balancing Food & Play curriculum
- Choose Health: Food, Fun, and Fitness Youth Curriculum
- Food & Nutrition – Cooking in the Kitchen
- Food Challenge Coaching Tips
- Food Challenge Planning Checklist
- Foodie Fanatics Food Challenge Resource
- Nutrition Voyage: the Quest to Be Our Best
- Sample Food Challenge Practice Schedule
- Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum
- Winning with Nutrition (Sports Nutrition) Curriculum
