Paella is the ultimate party dish. With its infinite ingredient possibilities, Recipe for Success and Mahatma Rice are looking for the best veggie centric paella recipe. We will notify winners by email and announce the winning recipes online and at our Veggie Riot Wrap Up on April 18. Prizes include Mahatma Rice gift basket including a Rice Cooker for 1st, 1 2nd & 3rd place recipes plus $100 cash to the First Place Winner. Enter your original recipe with a photo by April 8, 2015. You must be registered to VegOut! to win. Entries will be judged for the creative use of the most vegetables, appearance, originality, flavor and technique. Read the full rules and directions to enter HERE.
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It only takes a few days and a few strategic meals to score 30 veggies. Want proof? Just look at Veg Out! Superstar Leisa Holland-Nelson who completed her 30-vegetable tally in just 2 days!
On the first day Leisa Holland-Nelson ate a salad for lunch that contained 14 vegetables – kale, bok choy, spinach, romaine, tomato, celery, carrots, mushrooms, artichokes, edamame, chickpeas, radish, Brussels sprouts and cucumber. “I eat this salad almost every day,” says Holland-Nelson, who owns a web and mobile development company.
“Sometimes I just run by the grocery store and put together all these veggies from the salad bar.” She says at-home meals such as a pasta dinner made with three types of squash and a steamed veggie combo containing broccoli, cauliflower and beets also helped her tackle the Veg Out! Challenge quickly. Your take away: Do a major a salad bar sweep and look for recipes or restaurant menu items that contain several vegetables on one plate! Continue reading…
The Kinkaid School Embraces VegOut!
When a high school has a foodie club, a campaign like the VegOut! Challenge can really take root – we’re talkin’ beets, turnips, radish and more! Bradlee Few, a junior at Kinkaid and member of the Bite of Kinkaid foodie club, tells us just how much VegOut! 2015 has caught on at her school. Continue reading…
VegOut! Helps Build Smart Habits for Teachers and Students
Over 50 Houston-area schools are getting into the groove of VegOut! 2015. This week we want to share two stand-outs: VegOut-inspired meals for teachers were held at Lyons Elementary (Houston ISD) and Pine Shadows Elementary (Spring Branch ISD), which has also conducted VegOut!-themed classes for students. Our Recipe for Success Foundation Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ instructor Emilie Bell gave us the scoop on some of her VegOut! programming at these two schools so far this month. Continue reading…
Soccer Star Brian Ching Launches VegOut! 2015
Nearly 100 gathered for breakfast at Canopy restaurant in Houston on Wednesday morning, February 25 to celebrate the launch of VegOut!Challenge 2015. Celebrity emcee, Brian Ching talked about his experience with Recipe for Success Foundation at Rodriguez Elementary School where he was impressed by the children’s enthusiasm for and knowledge of fresh produce. He shared that he was personally looking forward to the challenge as a way to expand his vegetable repertoire and that especially after retiring as Captain of the Houston Dynamo, he has to be particularly mindful of his diet. Ching introduced Gracie Cavnar, founder of Recipe for Success Foundation, who talked about the origins of their VegOut! Challenge. Continue reading…
