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See also: FOOD FESTIVALS for February

FEBRUARY IS:

• [Black 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 - In February 1912, 3,000 cherry trees were shipped from Japan to Washington. D.C. and planted along the Potomac Tidal Basin, a gift of friendship to the People of the United States from the People of Japan.
  (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 6, 2026 - 1st Friday)  Bubble Gum Day offers schools a fun way to raise money without kids having to sell stuff.
  (Gum Trivia)
   
• Fritter Thursday: Feb 19, 2026 (Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)  (National Fritters Day is Dec 2)
   
• [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 7, 2026 -1st Sat)
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
   
• National 30 Hour Famine - This event has been discontinued as of 2026.
   
• National Chili Day (Feb 26, 2026 - 4th Thurs)
  (Chili Recipes  ---  Chili Quotes)
   
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend (Feb 20-22, 2026) [Girl Scouts of America]
   
• [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 8, 2026 - Super Bowl Sunday)
   
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 16, 2026 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
   
• Shrove Tuesday (Feb 17, 2026) - can be Feb or March) Also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras Day. Tommorrow is Ash Wednesday, beginning 6 weeks of fasting for Christians, leading up to Easter.
   
• International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; Feb 17, 2026 - Can be Feb or March)  [Day of the International Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas] (Pancake Trivia  ---  Pancake Recipes)
   
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 17, 2026 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries.
   
• Super Bowl Sunday (Feb 8, 2026) Almost 1.5 billion Chicken Wings are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. (Chicken Wing Recipes)
   
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 28, 2026 - last Sat)
   
• Iceland: Bun Day: Feb 16, 2026 (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.
   
• Iceland: Bursting Day: (Feb 17, 2026) - Feast on mutton and pea soup. (Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 1, 2026 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
   
• UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Feb 14, 2026)
   
• UK: National Toast Day (Feb 26, 2026, last Thurs) Founded in 2014 by the Tiptree World Bread Awards.
   
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday: (Feb 9, 2026 - 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 9-15, 2026 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 8-14, 2026)
   
• National CSA Week (Feb 15-21, 2026) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 23-March 1, 2026)
   
• National FFA Week: Feb 21-28, 2026 [Future Farmers of America]
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 23-27, 2026) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
   
• Pancake Week: Feb 16-22, 2026 (Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   
• Pride in Foodservice Week (Feb 2-6, 2026)  [Assoc. of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals]
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] has been moved to September permanently.
   
• UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 21-March 1, 2026) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.