Whether you are looking for new healthy tips and tricks or revamping your lifestyle, everyone could use a little inspiration in the kitchen. The Clinton Health Matters Initiative’s newest project, America Cooks With Chefs, a chef-inspired healthy cooking movement, is aiming to provide just that.

Enter to win!

Six contestants will be chosen for an all-expense-paid trip to team up with James Beard Award-winning chefs for a Kitchen Camp in the chef’s kitchen. The chefs will teach their teammates how to take raw ingredients and cook fast, healthy meals. Apply now by uploading a two minute video.

Along the way, Americans across the country will be inspired by the contestants’ progress through an online video series that captures the action. With their new skills in hand, the contestants will meet again for a Live Cooking Challenge at the Clinton Health Matters Initiative Conference in Palm Springs. A judging panel made up of the chef teammates, experts, and celebrities will select the best dish and crown the winner in front of a live audience.

About America Cooks With Chefs:

America Cooks With Chefs is a health and wellness movement that demonstrates the benefits of healthy cooking by connecting Americans to celebrity chefs and partners including The Clinton Foundation, James Beard Foundation, Weight Watchers, Deloitte, and Good Housekeeping. Through an educational and entertaining next-generation cooking competition, the initiative provides content and resources to inspire people to make healthier choices in their daily lives.

Apply now to be a contestant by uploading a two minute video.

About the Clinton Foundation:

The Clinton Foundation convenes businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for women and girls, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change.

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

Get back-to-school lunchbox inspiration with Harvest Snaps latest campaign, Lunchspiration! Create your own healthy and fun bento box by scrolling through the photos. Once you’ve selected the perfect bento box, share it on Pinterest, Facebook or Twitter to be entered to win one of three prizes up to $1,000 for school.

The bento box theme comes just in time for back-to-school lunch ideas and better-for-you snack options, including Harvest Snaps! Harvest Snaps are great for the whole family; they’re:

• Gluten-free
• Baked, not fried
• Snapea crisps are made from 70% pea
• Lentil snaps are made from 65% lentil
• High in protein and fiber
• Low in sodium and fat
• 40% less fat than regular potato chips

For more information on Harvest Snaps, plus where to buy them, visit www.HarvestSnaps.com!

Make this delicious old family recipe for your family this holiday season! Organic Valley offers this recipe from part of their dairy farm family as a nutritious and scrumptious way to start the day off right for you and your family.

And make sure to enter for a chance to spice up your kitchen from our friends at Organic Valley!

Enter the Organic Valley Pasture Perfect Holidays Sweepstakes and you could win up to $12,000 for kitchen appliances, one of five $1,000 gift certificates for cookware, or a weekly drawing for a year of free Organic Valley products. Click here to enter!

 Apple Oatmeal Muffin

This recipe came from my dad’s Aunt Florence, a woman whose love shined through her cooking. She would bring out a woven basket with a lovely tea cloth and my dad would practically clap with delight. Years later, I started making them on Christmas Eve after everyone went to sleep, to leave under the tree: a piece of the magic from the Christmas elves. – Abbie Corse, Organic Valley Farmer-Owner

Ingredients

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 Blueberry Pumpkin Bread

Also make sure to try this nutrient packed scrumptious winter breakfast that will surely make tummies smile, from our friends at The Highbush Blueberry Council!

Ingredients

• 1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 2 large eggs
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries, not thawed
• White icing, optional (recipe follows)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Butter an 8-½ x 4-½ inch loaf pan
3. In large bowl with electric mixer, beat pumpkin, sugar, orange juice, eggs and oil until smooth, about 1 minute
4. In small bowl, stir flour, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice
5. Add to pumpkin mixture
6. Stir just until combined
7. Spoon ¹⁄₃ of batter into pan
8. spread evenly
9. Stir blueberries into remaining batter in bowl and spoon over batter in pan, spread evenly
10. Bake until a wooden skewer or toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes
11. Cool in pan on a rack for 10 minutes
12. Turn out onto rack
13. Cool completely
14. May be wrapped and refrigerated for up to 4 days, or frozen for up to 1 month
15. If desired, drizzle with White Icing (recipe follows)

White Icing

1. In bowl, combine 1 cup sifted confectioners ugar and 2 tablespoons softened butter
2. Add 1-½ to 2 tablespoons milk and ½ teaspoon vanilla
3. Beat until smooth
4. Drizzle over cake
5. Makes about ½ cup

Yield: 1 loaf

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner.  Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children.  She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.