With the growing number of families eating on the run instead of cooking at home, many young adults don’t receive needed basic cooking skills. In addition, approximately 4 out of 5 children do not consume the recommended fruits and vegetables each day. In an effort to encourage more youth to get into the kitchen and to improve their diets Knox County 4-H Agent and FCS Agent teamed up with University of Kentucky Student Interns to offer a three-day cooking camp. Fourteen youth participated in this 3-day camp. Youth were taught basic cooking skills such as food and equipment safety, knife safety, safe food handling, proper cutting techniques, reading a recipe, how to measure properly and basic nutrition. In the process, they used basic learning skills such as math, science, and reading. This was a hands-on program that taught youth life-long skills. Participants learned to make a variety of recipes. As a result of the program, approximately 93% of youth could demonstrate correct methods in guiding a knife, follow simple food safe methods, and could identify protein foods such as peanut butter. 100% of youth could identify healthy foods and 100% committed to drinking more water each day.  Furthermore, 92% noted that they would be more open to try new foods. Several parents have mentioned the benefit of the program saying that their child went home and used their cooking skills and prepared one of the recipes.