Healthy Lunchtime Challenge

So, I don't think Obama was a perfect president, but those 2 elections were the only times in my adult lifetime that I felt good voting for a major party candidate for President. And I think Michelle Obama's efforts to promote healthy eating were very much cool, so much, that she is one of the few people that would make me feel star-struck, were we to meet in person.

Pterodactyl perched on Statue of Liberty Let's imagine every year she was First Lady, the Obamas held the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge (.pdf file), which invited young chefs to contribute their recipes in hopes of winning an invite to the White House. I went many years without home Internet so the pdf files of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge winners helped me through lean primary election years as I imagined traveling by pterodactyl around the country to campaign by sharing my impressions of each state as they appeared on the calendar.

Why not let us recreate this endeavor again here, for the enjoyment of our cherished readers, as another primary election season rolls in. I think my pterodactyl will land one or two weeks ahead of each electoral destination's big day, so you could realistically write me in, does that work in a primary?

I have faced several computer armageddons, so only one Healthy Lunchtime Challenge pdf has survived. This was not the only Healthy Lunchtime Challenge, but as we approach its 10th Anniversary, the 2014 edition stands out as an exemplary year for all the stupid jokes we made and will make again.

First on the primary/caucus schedule is, of course, Iowa: