The Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College has already logged over 2,142 volunteer hours, driven over 3,156 miles to collect food donations, acquired 20,000 pounds of food and served over 10,000 meals.

It comes as no surprise, then that this group spent time and funds on a day-long Earth Day campus event to celebrate their Ten Ton meal mark while providing some hilarious activities for the campus population.

Following opening announcements and disbursing free tickets for the raffle, Campus Kitchen coordinators lined up teams of four for an original, Campus Kitchen-style relay race. About 20 teams competed, two at a time, to take home the grand prize of dinner for eight at a local restaurant.

Teams lined up to compete at the starting line

What were teams up against? Groups like “Get Down with Your Funky Shelf” (University Librarians) and “BloodBath and Beyond” lined up behind a series of tables. The first challenge saw them furiously throwing on aprons, hairnets, and plastic gloves, the typical garb of the Campus Kitchen.

Students work with hairnets

Next, teams were told to stack cans of back up ingredients for Campus Kitchen meals into a “food pyramid”.

Once the pyramid could stand on its own, teams raced to the next table and began matching five Tupperware of all shapes and sizes to different lids. At the following table, contestants were given five pictures of fast food and told to line them up from most caloric to least.

Next up: make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, divide it into five, feed an innocent bystander, and gobble the rest using everyone on the team.

Making a PB&J and eating it isn't as easy as you think

Teams then sprinted to the home stretch, where they slid Gettysburg’s signature, plastic containers into insulated delivery bags, zipped it up, and raced across the finish line.

Following the relay, raffle, barbecue, and free ice cream, Campus Kitchen partners, volunteers, students, and food policy advocates retreated to a room for discussion and presentations by D.C. Central Kitchen staff. Attendees learned of national Campus Kitchen efforts, exemplified by the stellar achievements of the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College.

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