VIDALIA, GA - What’s your inspiration? If consumers give the Vidalia Onion Committee (VOC) a great answer to that question, they may walk away with a big cash prize. Through its “V*Inspired,” promotional campaign, VOC is encouraging consumers to share inspirational thoughts, stories, recipes, cooking ideas and more for a chance to win $500, with an additional $500 being donated to a charity of the winner’s choice.  

Consumers can visit Facebook.com/Vidaliaonions.org for their chance to win and give back to the local community. Scheduled to end on July 14^th, in addition to the grand prize winner, there will also be two runner-up winners who will each receive $250, and an additional $250 will be donated. Weekly winners will be selected randomly to win a 5 lb. bag of Vidalia onions, according to a press release.

This year’s V*inspired campaign features two inspirational spokespersons:

• Cookbook author and Season 1 winner of MasterChef, Chef Whitney Miller 
• 13-year old cancer survivor and food truck charity proponent, Chef Lucas Hobbs

This season, the VOC and Chef Lucas will be taking the V*Inspired Campaign on the road, with food truck events in both Minneapolis and Nashville. These events will raise funds for Chef’s Lucas’ non-profit organization, “Doing Good with Food,” serving pediatric cancer patients and their families via restaurants and chef-designed meal kits for cooking at home.

“Chef Lucas has been such an inspiration that we’re proud to raise funds to support his non-profit organization,” explained Susan Waters, Executive Director of the Vidalia Onion Committee. “Our goal is to inspire a new generation of cooks and consumers, while educating them on the versatility and premium flavor of Vidalia onions.”  

For more information and to enter the V*Inspired contest visit Facebook.com/Vidaliaonions.org and click on the contest tab. The direct contest link is http://vinspiredcontest.pgtb.me/HGDHgs.

Vidalia Onion Committee