The Whole Grains Council

Grand Prize
Win a Whole Grains Cooking Spree!

We’ll send an award-winning chef (or two!) to your home to spend a day preparing a week’s worth of dinners for you and your family.* Menus will be custom-tailored to your personal preferences – and will introduce you to a wide range of delicious dishes. You get a week off from cooking – and learn even more ways to love whole grains, from one of our WGC Culinary Advisors. The Grand Prize winner will also receive a selection of delicious whole grain foods.

* 7 dinners for up to 4 people, at a mutually-agreed date

Chefs Joel and Mary Schaefer
Teamwork comes to your kitchen with Mary Schaefer, a certified Executive Pastry Chef, and her husband Joel Schaefer, certified Chef de Cuisine. Joel and Mary met in Hawaii, and have been cooking together ever since, including several years at Walt Disney World® in Orlando, where Mary has worked as Pastry Chef of Walt Disney World’s Coronado Springs Resort, and Joel has worked in Culinary Development and as Manager of Special Dietary Needs. Joel’s love of teaching regularly puts him center stage at culinary schools and conferences, while Mary has demonstrated cake decorating on the Do It Yourself Network and has appeared in several Food Network TV specials. Their new joint venture, Allergy Chefs, advises restaurants on safe and delicious ways to create recipes that eliminate common allergens.

Chef Paul Lynch
Chef Paul Lynch is Executive Chef at FireLake Grill House and Cocktail Bar at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis. A native Texan, he received his degree from New England Culinary Institute. Chef Paul has enjoyed an around-the-world career with Four Seasons Hotels, and then Westin Hotels, and has been the Executive Chef at the landmark Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis since 1999. As Chef de Cuisine of FireLake Grill House and Cocktail Bar, Chef Paul has received many awards and accolades including: Restaurateur of the Year, Taste of Elegance competition, and the Beefbacker Award, and is a founding member of the Heartland Food Network. He has been recognized in scores of publications including Bob Appétit, Minnesota Monthly, Midwestern Living and Minneapolis St Paul magazine.

(2) First Prize winners will receive…
an entire library of whole grain cookbooks, to help you explore all the possibilities of whole grains, along with a selection of delicious whole grain foods.

(45) Second Prize winners will receive…
a selection of delicious whole grain foods, to help you discover some favorite new ways to enjoy 48g or more of whole grains, every day.

a box of 5-Grain Elbows and Cheddar (Annie's), a package of multi-grain pancake and waffle mix and a discount coupon (Arrowhead Mills), a box of Shredded Oats cereal (Barbara's Bakery), a box of Whole Grain Penne (Barilla), discount coupons for Arnold's Bread and Thomas' English muffins (BimboUSA), a bag of steel cut oats (Bob's Red Mill), a bag of Eagle Mills All Purpose Flour made with Ultragrain (ConAgra Mills), Two bags of Whole Grain Tortilla Chips (Corazonas Heart-Healthy Snacks) , a free coupon for any one of nine waffles, pancakes and French toast (De Wafelbakkers), a tin of Klassic 3 Seed Krackers (Dr. Kracker), a bag of sprouted 100% whole grain pretzels (Essential Eating), 2 coupons for free loaves of Nature's Own 100% whole wheat bread (Flowers), a 1-oz. bag of SunChips (FritoLay), a package of Montana High Plains Wheat Berry Chili mix (Frontier Soups), a free coupon for any Kashi product (Kashi), a bag of brown rice (Mahatma), a collector canister of whole grain rye bread (Mestemacher), a box of instant brown rice (Minute Rice), two boxes of cereal - Optimum Slim and Pumpkin Flax Granola - and a tote bag (Nature's Path), a package of boil-in-bag brown rice (Success), a free coupon for a two-pack of Lean Pockets (Nestlé), a one-pound bag of sorghum grain (Shiloh Farms), a box of Flavor Variety Instant Oatmeal (Quaker Oats), 1 package Blueberry Premium Moist Granola (Anderson Trails)






Actual prizes may differ, but will be similar.