Win cash for your recipe

Choose a recipe, grab a partner, and film a cooking video for your chance to win

Cooking brings people together; it fosters creativity, teaches patience and helps us better appreciate the food we eat.

Cooking can be incredibly rewarding; it can build communities and inspire passion in people young and old. 

And now, thanks to Better Together BC, cooking can also win you some serious cash.

The group’s highly-anticipated Hands-on Cook-off challenge launches across the province April 18.

The challenge seeks to help families celebrate the joy of cooking and eating together by asking a multi-generational pair, or two young people, to submit a video demonstrating how to prepare their favourite recipe.

Breakfast, BBQ, pizza, salad, dinner, snacks: recipes of any flavour are on the table. Simply share one of your favourites and show everyone why the dish is better made together.

This year’s theme is “celebrating and redefining family,” because here in B.C. family means something different to everyone. 

Cooking together is a grounding and deeply bonding tradition for individuals, families, and for communities, and the Hands-on Cook-off challenge continues to inspire more people to enjoy family meals. 

Cooking and eating together is linked to all kinds of benefits for children, youth and families –  including better grades in school, better physical and mental health, and better overall social adaptability.

To enter the challenge, any B.C. resident can simply submit a video to Better Together BC between April 18 and May 18. Videos must be no longer than three minutes, and can be entered online here.

A bounty of $1,000 and $500 cash prizes are up for grabs in several different categories, with more than $4,000 on the table.

This year, for the first time ever, families of foodies can also enter a video on Instagram. Follow and tag @bettertogetherbc and include the hashtag #handsoncookoff on a one-minute video featuring two generations cooking together and you can win a $250 Amazon gift card.

This year’s panel of judges feature the likes to TV personality and cook, Art Napoleon; the co-founder of Foodie Kids Inc. Michelle Tang; Chef Paul Cecconi of Brodo Kitchen; Rebecca Coleman of Cooking By Laptop; and award-winning cooking instructor, Chef Heidi Fink.

That means if you get chosen, it was by some seriously sensational culinary minds.

To enter, for more information on the challenge or for complete contest rules visit Better Together BC online.

You can also check out Better Together BC on social media through the #handsoncookoff hashtag. They’re on Facebook @bettertogetherbc, Twitter @bettertogether and Instagram @bettertogetherbc.