The upcoming Sugar and Seafood Contest will be held on November 7th at Galliano Elementary School, 148 W. 158^th St., Galliano, LA, with registration from 9:00-10:00 a.m.Cooking can be a great opportunity to teach life skills such as kitchen and food safety, nutrition, and even math.It can give a sense of accomplishment, and you get to enjoy the reward of eating the delicious, finished product! Your dishes can be brought to the contest by another person.Elementary, Middle, and Senior High school members will compete separately for purple (1^st), blue (2^nd) and red (3^rd) ribbons.Overall Champion dishes will receive trophies.Members may enter one seafood and/or one sugar dish.Categories for Seafood are Oyster, Crab, Shrimp, Fish/Other Seafood and Crawfish.Sugar categories are Cakes (homemade or mixes), Candies, Cookies, Pies, and Other Sugar Dish.

***Reminder: Safety Rules for Sugar and Seafood Cookery***

Food Safety – Food safety is an important consideration.The risk of food-borne illness is greatly increased when foods are held at room temperature for extended periods.Therefore, the dish should be prepared and chilled to refrigerator temperature and transported on ice in an ice chest to the contest.Dishes not chilled and transported in this way will be disqualified by contest officials.Dishes intended to be served hot will be warmed before the tasting. Thank you for adhering to these food safety guidelines.

Rules for this contest are:

1. Sugar dishes must use at least one-half (1/2) cup of sugar. May be granulated, brown, powdered, or any combination. Mixes are permitted as long as 1/2 cup of additional sugar is added to the recipe.Seafood dishes must use at least one (1) cup of seafood.The seafood must be fresh, frozen, pasteurized, or dried.Canned seafood is not acceptable.Surimi, an artificial crab made from fish, cannot be used.There can be no raw seafood in the final dish.Entries may contain a small amount of a second seafood but not more than ½ the amount of the primary seafood.All seafood used in the contest must be Louisiana Seafood.It is not necessary to send the entire dish.Only a couple of servings are needed for judging.

2. A copy of the recipe must be submitted with the dish on an index card.

3. Print name, grade, and school on the back of the recipe on an index card.

4. The food should be sent in a disposable container that will be thrown away after the judging is complete.

Healthy Living Illustrated Talk

The Healthy Living Illustrated Talk contest allows youth to present an illustrated talk on an area within child development, food & nutrition and health.Illustrated Talks will also be held that day beginning at 10:00 a.m.There will be three divisions in this contest:

Division I– (Grades 4-5) Contestant designs (a) standard poster 22” x 28” or PowerPoint, (b) presents a 2–3-minute explanation of poster subject or PowerPoint relating to healthy living and (c) responds to questions from the judge.

Division II – (Grades 6-8) Contestant designs (a) standard poster 22” x 28” or PowerPoint relating to healthy living, (b) presents a 2–3-minute explanation of poster subject or PowerPoint and (c) responds to questions from the judge.

Division III – (Grades 9-12) Contestant designs (a) standard poster 22” x 28” or PowerPoint relating to healthy living, (b) presents a 5-8 minute explanation of poster subject, or PowerPoint and (c) responds to questions from the judge.