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British Food Fortnight School Challenge

Date: 11 Jun 2011

Invite your schools to design a dish for the Olympic Athletes Village in this year’s British Food Fortnight School Challenge

A wonderful opportunity for schools to be part of the Olympics and to put the ‘Great’ into British food!

This year's British Food Fortnight's School Challenge is the biggest yet! All primary, secondary and special needs schools and further education colleges in the UK are invited to take part in this year’s British Food Fortnight (17th September to 2nd October 2011) by designing the perfect dish to help athletes go for gold in 2012.  The winning menus will be served to athletes in the Olympic Village.  Athletes will be photographed commenting on the dishes and their feedback will be sent to the winning schools so they can see how their menus were received! 

Taking part is easy.  All schools have to do is to create the definitive British recipe that is perfect for Olympic athletes and at the same time showcases the best of British food.  Perhaps add some runner beans to help Usain Bolt run faster? Some Scottish salmon to help Michael Phelps glide through the pool like a fish? Rabbit to help Jana Rawlinson hop over those hurdles? Or British beef, full of iron, to help Rebecca Romero muscles stay strong when pedalling to victory? Anything to help the athletes win gold and go home thinking that British food is the best!  Schools are invited to use this as a theme for their British Food Fortnight activities this year and to submit their Olympic menu by Friday 4 November.  The organisers hope to accommodate as many school suggestions for dishes as possible.

The competition is being run as a prelude to British Food Fortnight’s Olympic activities next year when the national food promotion takes place at the same time as London 2012.  Food and sport go hand in hand and plans are afoot to stage the biggest showcase of British food the world has ever seen. London 2012 will be the largest peace-time catering operation in the world and in the Olympic Village alone they will be using 25,000 loaves of bread; 232 tonnes of potatoes; 82 tonnes of seafood; 31 tonnes of poultry items; 100 tonnes of meat; 75,000 litres of milk; 19 tonnes of eggs; 21 tonnes of cheese; 330 tonnes of fruit and vegetables. 

Competition details and entry forms are on http://lovebritishfood.co.uk/teacher-zone/teachers-take-part/. The site also offers a downloadable resource, 'Putting the Ooo back into food - The Case Studies': 100 inspiring case studies of how schools have taken part in British Food Fortnight in previous years, plus lots of other classroom resources and details of organisations representing 9,000 chefs who can come to your school and help you teach children how to cook.

We so look forward to hearing how your school takes part!

 

Alexia & Danielle

 

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