Cooking for cash

Cooking for cash

Get the kids in the kitchen, last days to enter the Just Cook challenge

Budding young cooks have just days left to be in to win a share of $2,000 in the Just Cook Challenge.

The Just Cook Challenge is run by the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation and aims to inspire all young to cook, to build life skills.

Kids aged 11 to 18 are asked to put their own spin on family meals – with $2,000 in cash prizes awarded for the best creations. The overall individual prize-winner also gets to win a day in the kitchen with well-known New Zealand chef, Martin Bosley.

Enter as an individual, with a friend or as a class by uploading a photo of your dish online at justcook.co.nz.

Sarah Hanrahan, Dietitian for the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation says that with busier than ever lives, and an increasing spread of fast food outlets, New Zealand kids risk entering adulthood as strangers to the kitchen.

“It’s clear that there’s a link between knowing how to cook and making healthier food choices. If you can cook, you’ll choose and eat healthier food.”

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