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To support public sector cooks, Food for Life Scotland’s sponsored competition class will be free to enter and Food for Life Scotland can arrange for ingredient costs to be covered up to £25. The Food for Life Challenge will take place on Wednesday 26th February and the deadline for entries will be Friday 31st January.

The Food for Life Scotland Challenge will showcase and celebrate the chefs working in Scotland’s public sector and shine a light on some of the great food being served across Scotland’s public sector; in schools, hospitals, care homes, visitor attractions, public sector workplaces, colleges, universities and prisons. 

The brief is to create and serve a main course dish (two portions) which would be appropriate for a public sector establishment in 40 minutes. Food for Life are looking for up to eight cooks to take part in the live cooking competition.

On the day judges will be awarding points for taste, appearance, texture and following the brief. Judges will award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and the winner will receive a £100 voucher. Food for Life would like caterers to include the following in this challenge, inspired by the Food for Life Served Here certification standards:

• Freshly prepared, healthy and sustainable ingredients.
• Highlight seasonal and local products.
• If including animal products, use farm-assured meat (Red Tractor, QMS, RSCPA, etc), sustainable fish, (MSC, MCS ‘Fish to Eat’) and free-range eggs.
• Competitors should also indicate how this dish minimises food waste in preparation and consumption.

To enter applicants should register their interest through the online entry form and then email Cora on cora@365-events.co.uk 200 words describing how the dish meets the brief.