Browsing: Healthy Recipe Challenge

Call it perfect timing. Within days of my story about Challenge.gov running in the paper, the Obama administration announced the site’s launch today. I’ve browsed challenge.gov, and it really is user-friendly. Using the browse government challenge link, you can see the featured challenges, submission deadlines and the number of supporters. Already, there are 36 challenges up for the public to view, and results are searchable by category or organization. You can even follow the website on Twitter. Here’s a look at some of the newest challenges: Game Day Challenge- Reduce waste at your college’s football games. Reciepes for Healthy Kids: $12,000 in prizes to…

The five healthiest federal chefs in the Washington area will square off Wednesday afternoon at the Office of Personnel Management’s headquarters. The finalists in OPM’s Feds Get Fit Healthy Recipe Challenge will cook their original, tasty meals for judges, and the winner will be published in a special Feds Get Fit cookbook. Recipes will be judged by OPM Director John Berry, nutritionist and chef Robyn Webb, Top Chef finalist Carla Hall, and former New England Patriot Darryl Haley. Berry has made encouraging federal employee wellness a top priority at OPM. The finalists come from the Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development and…