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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Stella Jones is a name you might want to get to know. She could be a future chef cooking up your supper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But for now, the eight-year-old who lives in the Schwarzwald subdivision in Fall River, will settle for creating her Wild blueberry smoothies for all, a recipe that earned her to be selected among 26 winners from across Canada in the Kid Food Nation recipe contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stella and the 25 others across Canada won a prize pack and were exclusive guests to a Kid Food Nation virtual cooking lesson with celebrity chef Marysol Foucault, hosted by YTV\u2019s Spencer Litzinger and Tyra Sweet on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The prize pack included a tablet, culinary tools, and a custom Kid Food Nation chef jacket and apron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n An added bonus this year saw each winner receive a $5,000 grant from President\u2019s Choice Children\u2019s Charity for an in-class food growing system, plus tools and supplies for the winners and their classmates to cultivate their own kitchen gardens at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stella was very excited about winning. She smiled ear-to-ear when she mentioned about winning the growing system for her Holland Road Elementary School classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI like cooking a lot,\u201d she said. \u201cI find it fun. I love cooking with my mom. I find it is relaxing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said she began doing some cooking under her mom\u2019s supervision around when she was four years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stella learned about the Kid Food Nation contest when she was watching YTV one day and an ad for it came on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She spoke about why she made her recipe on a smoothie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI make a lot of smoothies because I like them,\u201d said Stella. \u201cI did wild blueberry smoothies because my grandfather has this wild blueberry field in Pictou County, so I wanted to make them with those.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stella said she was surprised when she learned she was one of the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was shocked,\u201d Stella said. \u201cI was excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt makes me feel kind of special to be a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The virtual cooking lesson with Foucault was pretty cool too, Stella said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe made Scones,\u201d said Stella. \u201cThey were really good. It was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The national recipe contest is designed to bring awareness to the Kid Food Nation program that runs at BGC Clubs across the country. Generously supported by President\u2019s Choice Children\u2019s Charity, the eight-week Kid Food Nation curriculum has four main goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n