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See also: FOOD FESTIVALS for February

FEBRUARY IS:

• [African American History Month]
   
• [American Heart Month]
• National Heart Health Month
   
• Bake for Family Fun Month [Home Baking Association]
  (Baking Articles and Tips)
   
• Canned Food Month [Canned Food Alliance]
  (Can Trivia & Facts  -  Canned Food History)
   
• Chocolate Lovers Month
  (Chocolate Trivia  ---  Chocolate Quotes)
   
• Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month (The Florida Strawberry Growers Assn was founded in February 1982)
  (Strawberry Trivia  ---  Strawberry Quotes)
   
• Grain of the Month: Barley [Whole Grains Council]
   
• Great American Pies Month
  (Pie Recipes  ---  Pie Trivia  ---  Pie Quotes)
   
• National Bird Feeding Month - In January 1994, Illinois 10th District Congressman John Porter read a resolution in the Congressional Record making February National Bird Feeding Month. The observance was established because it's one of the most difficult months in much of the U.S. for birds to survive in the wild.
   
• National Cherry Month [Cherry Marketing Inst]
  (Cherry Facts & Trivia)
   
• National Children's Dental Health Month
  [American Dental Association]
   
• National Grapefruit Month
  (Grapefruit Trivia  ---  Grapefruit Quotes)
   
• National Hot Breakfast Month (Breakfast Recipes)
  (Breakfast Trivia  ---  Breakfast Quotes)
   
• National Potato Lover's Month (Potato Recipes)
  Potato Trivia --- Potato History --- Potato Quotes)
   
• National Snack Food Month
   
• Sweet Potato Month [N.C. Sweet Potato Comm.]
  (Sweet Potato Trivia  --  Sweet Potato Recipes)
   
• Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
  (Shopping Cart Inventor Sylvan Goldman)

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

DAYS

• Bubble Gum Day (Feb 4, 2022 1st Fri) (Gum Trivia)
   
• [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 5, 2022 -1st Sat)
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
   
• [National 30 Hour Famine] (Feb 25-26, 2022) Students in the U.S. and around the world unite to learn about hunger, raise funds to help the hungry, and then go hungry themselves for 30 hours!
   
• National Chili Day (Feb 24, 2022 - 4th Thurs)
  (Chili Recipes  ---  Chili Quotes)
   
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend:
  [Girl Scouts of America] (Feb 18-20, 2022)
   
• [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 13, 2022 - Super Bowl Sunday)
   
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 21, 2022 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
   
• Super Bowl Sunday (February 13, 2022)
   
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 26, 2022 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
   
• Iceland: Bun Day: Feb 28, 2022 (Mon before Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or Mar). Children invade homes in the morning with colorful sticks and recieve gifts of whipped cream buns.
   
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 6, 2022 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
   
• UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Cancelled for 2022 due to Coronavirus)
   
• UK: [National Toast Day] (Feb 24, 2022)
   
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday: (Feb 14, 2022 - 2nd Mon in February: Scottish Universities)
   

WEEKS

• [African Heritage & Health Week] (Feb 1-7) (commemorates the foods, flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of African ancestors from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the American South.)
   
• Jell-O Week (Feb 13-19, 2022 2nd full week in Feb)  in 2001 Jell-O was declared Official State Snack of Utah and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt declared an annual "Jell-O Week."
  (Jello Trivia  ---  Jello Quotes)
   
• Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 13-19, 2022)
   
• National CSA Week (Feb 20-26, 2022) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 21-27, 2022)
   
• National FFA Week: Feb 19-26, 2022 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 28-March 4, 2022) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
   
• Pancake Week (Feb 28-March 6, 2022 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Trivia)
   
• Pride in Foodservice Week (Feb 7-11, 2022)  [Assoc. of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals]
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] (Feb 21-March 6, 2022) Celebrate the people who grow our food, people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and who are often exploited and badly paid.
   
• UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 19-27, 2022) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.