May 2026 | Buc Days Festival Grounds
Nutrition is the key!
Students from all around Texas are invited to participate in the third annual Buc Days Food Challenge presented by H-E-B Helping Here in May of 2026.
More than 100,000 youth participate in the 4-H Food & Nutrition Project, learning how to prepare nutritious and safe meals and snacks and adopt behaviors that can help reduce their risk for chronic disease. This contest challenges teams of students to create a dish using only a predetermined set of ingredients. From these ingredients, team members must identify and prepare the dish, then make a presentation about it to the judges.
Timeline of events:
| Round 1 Check In | 12:30 p.m. |
| Round 1 Contest Begins | 1:10 p.m. |
| Round 2 Check In | 2:00 p.m. |
| Round 2 Contest Begins | 2:40 p.m. |
| Round 3 Check In | 3:10 p.m. |
| Round 3 Contest Begins | 3:50 p.m. |
| Award Ceremony | 5:00pm |
