Sorry to keep you all waiting with baited breath for the results of this Prepper Cook-Off Challenge. I thought I was impressed with the quality of entries last time but this rounds contestants took things to a whole new level! There was more than one entry with multiple recipes and the story telling was great too!

Part of homesteading is the ability to maximize your available resources and, even though this challenge was for fun, the winning entries are all excellent examples of how to make tasty food with limited ingredients. The creativity used to come up with these meals would even be well served in anyone's day-to-day cooking. Many of these recipes, with a few tweaks, would be perfectly acceptable meals even before the apocalypse.

Results

Once again, I have decided to up the rewards slightly due to the quality of the entries. I found judging the entries to be very difficult and some were only out of the running for top 3 by a point or two.

Prizes

• 1st Prize - 10 STEEM + 15 SBI
• 2nd Prize - 5 STEEM + 10 SBI
• 3rd Prize - 3 STEEM + 5 SBI
• Most Gag Worthy - 2 STEEM + 3 SBI
• Most Creative - 2 STEEM + 3 SBI
• All other qualified entries - 3 SBI

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First Place

Hive account@riverflows - https://steemit.com/preppercookoff/@riverflows/making-something-out-of-nothing-cooking-post-apocalypse

What can I say other than wow! This post features an amazing story well worth the read and four recipes made from one of the blandest ingredient combinations; Oats and Potatoes. It really is worth the read and I highly recommend that you go check it out!

Second Place

** Warning contains some explicit language **

Hive account@revisesociology - https://steemit.com/dlive/@revisesociology/4926eb10-759e-11e8-827c-49f76fdbeab3

I did not expect to receive any videos in this contest so this was a pleasant surprise. I found the video to be highly entertaining and Hive account@revisesociology did a good job of of staying in character by cooking the meal with camping gear and eating it in a bush-crafted shelter. Also, I am giving him a Steemit quote of the year award for this little gem spoken while grating a carrot into a hat in the woods by himself....

If anyone walks along here they are going to think I'm a fucking lunatic..... I could just say welcome to Steemit, we're a bunch of fucking lunatics!

Third Place

Hive account@senorcoconut - https://steemit.com/food/@senorcoconut/a-prepper-cook-off-challenge-i-m-making-smoked-oysters-in-rice-with-seet-potato

This entry featured more good Prepper Cook-Off story building as well as being cooked and prepared in an off-the-grid fashion. I think Hive account@senorcoconut has a bit of an unfair advantage since he lives this way already! He also rolled a fairly hard ingredient combination with rice and sweet potato and then added oysters that were a year past their best before date! Seems like an almost gag worthy combination but he claims it tasted good and the final presentation was also well done.

Most Gag Worthy

Hive account@girthbomb - https://steemit.com/preppercookoff/@girthbomb/acorn-squash-rice-and-spam-preppercookoff-2-entry

This little gem appears to be some sort of rice, spam, and acorn squash slurry. His kids were not impressed!

Most Creative

Hive account@el-nailul - https://steemit.com/esteem/@el-nailul/preppercookoff-challenge-delicious-survival-food-billingual-b4ba2f2af7c9e

This Entry Features three different treats that use the same base dough but are then cooked in entirely different ways. I thought it really showed what could be done with just a few basic ingredients and you can tell a lot of effort went into this post. There is a good chance it would have made the top three if there had been more story building and survival/prepping elements.

Honorable Mention

Hive account@webbie - https://steemit.com/preppercookoff/@webbie/prepper-cook-off-challenge-entry-oats-and-appples

This early entry very well could have cracked the top three in the first Prepper Cook-Off Challenge. Unfortunately, due to the relatively easy ingredients and extremely stiff competition it didn't qualify for a specific prize. Hive account@webbie does a good job of staying in character and delivering a simple but tasty looking dish.

Conclusion and Feedback

While I had hoped for a few more entries I am really happy with level of competition this time. It is very hard to judge the challenge when the entries are so creative and of such high quality.

For Prepper Cook-Off Challenge #3 I will be doing a foraging based theme with slightly different rules. I will probably only allow one added ingredient of your choice, plus what can be foraged and of course some spices and whatnot. There would be no random dice roll. Instead, it would be up to nature and your resourcefulness to decide what ingredients you could use.

I would like to ask for your feedback and ideas on how I could improve this challenge or if you like it the way it's currently set up. There will be more rolled item challenges in the future after the foraging edition. Also, if you have any ideas for the foraging edition they are welcome also.

Thanks for participating and reading. I hope everyone had fun.

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