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MARCH: Today in Food History

See FOOD FESTIVALS & SHOWS for March Food & Beverage Festivals

MARCH IS:

• National Caffeine Awareness Month
• National Flour Month
• National Frozen Food Month
• National Noodle Month
• National Nutrition Month
• National Peanut Month
• National Sauce Month
• Canada: Nutrition Month
• UK: National Veggie Month
   

Variable Date Events

• American Chocolate Week (3rd week)
• Bubble Gum Week (2nd week in March)
• Easter Sunday [March 31, 2013]    (March or April)
• Egg Salad Week (week after Easter, March or April)
  Dedicated to the many delicious uses for all of the Easter eggs that have been cooked, colored, hidden and found.
• Garden Book Week
• Great American Meatout - Don’t eat meat today.
• Shrove Tuesday - International Pancake Day (can be in Feb or March)
• National ‘Ag’ Day (March 19, 2013)
• National Agriculture Week (March 17-23, 2013)
• National FFA Week (Future Farmers of America) March 15-22, 2014 (Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encomposing February 22)
• National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (2/24-3/2, 2013)
• National Horse Protection Day (March 1, 2013)
• National Poison Prevention Week (March 17-23, 2013)
       [3rd week in March]
• National School Breakfast Week (March 4-8, 2013)
• National Week of the Ocean - March 31, April 6, 2013
  (Can be in March, April or May)
• Pancake Week
• Registered Dietitian Day (March 13, 2013)
• UK: SPAM Appreciation Week (March 4-10, 2013)
• World Salt Awareness Week (March 11-17, 2013)
       (see also March 12, 1930)
• U.S., Canada & Mexico Daylight Savings Time begins 2nd Sunday in March and ends 1st Sunday in November
• EU Daylight Savings Time begins on the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday of October