EAT LOCAL – WINTER VEGGIE RECIPE CONTEST RULES
1. Who Is Eligible:
The contest is open to all individuals 19 years of age and older who live in the municipality of Saanich.
As much as we’d love to receive everyone’s Eat Local recipes, we’re a small volunteer contest crew. We encourage other climate action / food security groups to spread the word and host your own Eat Local contest. It’s fun!
CHUFF’S focus is to help reduce Saanich’s carbon and ecological footprint by encouraging our neighbours to reduce food waste, grow their own food, and eat locally year round. Why? Because our food systems contribute 30% of the world’s carbon, globally, and the best place to start reducing our climate impact is close to home.
2. What Is Eligible:
For the purposes of this contest, a “Veggie” dish is a hot or cold main dish, a side dish, or even a salad.
EACH ENTRY MUST INCLUDE:
- recipe
- 1 or 2 original photographs of the prepared dish in .jpg, .jpeg or .png format
- contact info including your name, street address (required to confirm Saanich residency), telephone number and email address.
Recipes will be posted on the QCHCA.org website, on CHUFF’s Facebook and Instagram throughout the 3 week contest. Only contestant’s first names will be released publicly with the recipe.
EACH RECIPE MUST GIVE:
- number of servings
- the ingredients and the quantity required (preferably by volume, e.g. cups/teaspoons)
- brief, step-by-step directions
- credit: recipes are to be attributed to their original source, if known. E.g. My Grandma Josie’s Favorite Veggie Casserole or Whitewater Cookbook 2021. Contestants are responsible for any infringement on third-party rights.
- (optional) any notes or comments about your recipe, e.g. why this is your favourite dish. This is where you would explain the ingredients you noted with asterisks which were home grown or preserved (see below).
Check sample recipes at QCHCA.org for format.
3. What Ingredients are Eligible:
Recipe ingredients must be vegetarian (no meat; eggs and local cheeses, though having a higher carbon footprint than vegetables, are acceptable).
Ingredients must be 75% “local” (by volume), and available locally at this time of year. The 75% local requirement allows for 25% of ingredients to be non-local e.g. olive oil, lemon, grains, seeds, etc.
For the purpose of this Contest “local” means BC grown. If an ingredient is BC grown and preserved for winter use, e.g. green beans you grew or purchased locally in the summer and froze for winter use, or tomatoes that you grew and dried, it is deemed “local”. Please identify ingredients you grew yourself with an * asterisk and local ingredients you preserved for winter use with two ** asterisks. Go ahead, inspire us!
For the purposes of this Contest purchased greenhouse produce labelled as grown in BC is not allowable.
The Contest’s intent is to share recipes that have a low carbon and ecological footprint. Some produce labelled as BC Hot House is, in winter months, sourced from Mexico or the southern US. And, surprise,a Canadian-grown winter hothouse tomato is said to have six times the carbon footprint of imported Mexican tomatoes in hothouses heated with natural gas.
4. How to Send Your Recipe to Us:
By email: qchca.chuff@gmail.com, subject: Winter Veggie Recipe Contest Entry
Or, submit via the form provided: (LINK to come)
5. Deadline:
All entries must be received by 11:59 pm Feb 10, 2024.
6. Winners :
Winner will be chosen in a random draw, on or about Feb 12, 2024. Winners will be contacted within 7 days of the contest close date via the means of communication provided in your entry e.g. email or telephone.
Winning contestants will be identified by full name on the QCHCA/ CHUFF website, and ON CHUFF Facebook and Instagram. Entry constitutes permission to use the winner’s name, and recipe, for editorial and promotional purposes by QCHCA/CHUFF.
7. Entries:
You may enter as often as you wish but each entry must be sent as a separate entry via email, titled: Winter Veggie Recipe Contest Entry, or via the contest form.
Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries become the property of QCHCA/CHUFF and may be edited, modified, adapted, published or otherwise used in any way without compensation. QCHCA/ CHUFF assumes no responsibility for entries that are lost, delayed, damaged, ineligible, or that cannot be processed for any reason.
8. Prizing:
Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are not redeemable for cash. Winners may be responsible for picking up prizes.
9. Legalese:
And now the legalese to protect our Contest partners – none of the participating sponsors, including QCHCA/CHUFF, their subsidiaries and affiliates, sponsors, prize donors, advisors or any of their representatives are responsible for or bear any liability whatsoever, in any way, attributable to any prize awarded, nor makes any warranties or representation in respect of any prize awarded except as specifically made by the participating sponsors in these Contest Rules, nor undertake any responsibility or liability for matters which may inhibit, reduce or prevent enjoyment of the prize.
Don’t delay! Get your entries in by 11:59 pm on February 10, 2024.
Send us your favourite, local ingredient Winter Veggie recipes today!
Watch for all the great Winter Veggie Recipes posted as they come in at QCHCA.org and on Facebook and Instagram.
