Great sporting events mean a great excuse for a BBQ! The AFL Grand Final this weekend and the NRL Grand Final and Bathurst 1000 just around the corner. Fire up the barbie and enjoy the fun with family and friends. While you’re at it, why not make a video and enter our spring competition?

To celebrate the launch of the new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, to be released in Australia in November 2008, the Heat Beads® team is giving you a special opportunity to win one of these great units, just in time for Summer!

Simply upload a four minute video of you or your friends BBQ’ing your favourite recipe on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes to YouTube - we’ll be looking for the best footage of your delicious recipes actually cooking over the Heat Beads® briquette’s, lots of fun and good humour, and of course your comment about why you love to cook over Heat Beads®! Then you’ll be in the running to be one of three winners of a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ valued at $499.

There will also be three Heat Beads® Prize Packs on offer for the close runners up containing Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney and Heat Beads® Drip Trays!

What you need to do:
Include footage of a bag of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in your video. MAKE SURE you tag your video with these keywords so we can find it on YouTube:
* How to BBQ
* BBQ
* Barbecue
* Barbeque
* Grill
* Heat Beads® briquettes

The deadline for entries is Monday October 13. Winners will be notified via their YouTube profiles and the winning entries will be posted to the Heat Beads® Blog, Sizzle.

To be eligible for this competition, you must be a Heat Beads® BBQ News subscriber. Click here to subscribe.

The National Packaging Covenant has been working towards decreasing the impact of consumer packaging on the environment since its inception in 1999.

According to its website, the National Packaging Covenant is an:
‘initiative by Government and Industry, to reduce the environmental effects of packaging on the Environment. It is designed to minimise the environmental impacts arising from the disposal of used packaging, conserve resources through better design and production processes and facilitate the re-use and recycling of used packaging materials.’

As a current signatory, we are committed to the work of the National Packaging Covenant. The Covenant is achieving some great results with the consumer packaging that was recycled with their help in 2007 being equivalent to:

Camp-oven cooking was taken to another level last weekend with 30-odd teams competing in the Redesdale Tavern Camp Oven Cook-Off, producing dishes that could put gourmet cooking from a professional kitchen to shame.

At 9am the contestants queued to collect the four compulsory ingredients: meat (beef or lamb), carrots, onions and potatoes. Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes ensured the camp ovens were the perfect temperature and the cooking creations began at 11am - with contestants vying for prizes such as $700 cash and hampers.At 3pm the first round of judging began, based on the categories of taste, aroma, texture, presentation, innovation and imagination.

When it came time to announce the winners, the tension in the air was palpable. The $700 prize for first place ‘best beef’ went to ‘The Old Manse’ and first place ‘best lamb’ went to ‘The Three Stooges’. The best-decorated campsite went to ‘Cast Iron Chefs’, best damper went to ‘The Black Sheep’ and the best cake went to ‘The Delectable Dames and the Dandy’.