How to Throw a Chili Cook Off

A fun end of February activity to get friends and family together on the weekends is a chili cook off! These get togethers can be a casual, yearly event that becomes a tradition of sharing recipes and food. They are easy to coordinate and are really fun when centered around a sporting event like your favorite team’s basketball game. First reach out to your friends and family and let them know you’ll be hosting a chili cook off competition. You may be surprised how many cooks show up to compete. If you have a lot of interested cooks, have them invite their friends and families so there will be enough people to eat all of the chili and to judge the competition. You can incentivize the event to your participants by making prize categories and awarding them with gag gifts or other memorabilia to commemorate your first annual chili cook off. You can even make different prize categories like Best Vegetarian Chili and Best Spicy Chili depending on the number of contestants you’ll be hosting. Have fun!