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 See also FOOD FESTIVALS for March

MARCH IS:

• American Red Cross Month - [www.redcross.org]
  (Annual Presidential Proclamation since 1943)
   
• Caffeine Awareness Month (Caffeine Facts)
   
• Grain of the Month: Quinoa [Whole Grains Council]
  (Quinoa Trivia & Facts)
   
• National Flour Month
  (Flour Facts and Trivia ·  Flour Kitchen Tips)
   
• National Frozen Food Month
  [Nat’l Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Assoc]
  (Frozen Food Facts & Trivia)
  (Frozen Food Tips  ·  What Not to Freeze)
   
• National Kidney Month - [Nat’l Kidney Foundation]
   
• National Noodle Month (Pasta & Noodle Recipes)
  (Noodle Trivia)
   
• National Nutrition Month  (A nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the [Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics].
  (Nutrition Articles)
   
• National Peanut Month - [National Peanut Board]
  National Peanut Month had its beginnings as National Peanut Week in 1941. It was expanded to a month-long celebration in 1974.
  (Peanut Facts & Trivia  ·  Peanut Taste Tests)
   
• National Sauce Month (Sauce Recipes)
  (Sauce Making Articles  ---  Sauce Quotes)
   
• Canada: Nutrition Month [Dietitians of Canada]
   

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

VARIABLE DAYS

• First Day of Spring: Vernal Equinox (March 20, 2022 - can be March 19, 20 or 21)
   
• U.S., Canada & Mexico Daylight Saving Time begins 2nd Sunday in March and ends 1st Sunday in November (2022 March 13 to November 6)
   
• EU Daylight Saving Time begins (March 27, 2022 - begins  last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in Oct)
   
• [American Diabetes Association Alert Day] (4th Tues - March 22, 2022)
   
• Easter Sunday in 2021 is April 4 (can be March or April)
   
• Fritter Thursday: March 3, 2022 (Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Apple Fritter Recipe Video)
   
• International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; March 1, 2022 - Can be Feb or March)  [Day of the International Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas] (Pancake Trivia  ---  Pancake Recipes)
   
• [IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day] March 1, 2022 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Annual Charity Fundraising Event - can be Feb or March)
   
• [International School Meals Day] (March 10, 2022)
   
• National ‘Ag’ Day (March 22, 2022)
  [Agricultural Council of America]
   
• National Corn Dog Day (March 19, 2022) 1st Sat of the collegiate basketball tournament
   
• National Tartar Sauce Day (March 4, 2022 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
   
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - March 1, 2022 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries.
   
• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day (March 9, 2022) [Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics]
   
• Shrove Tuesday (March 1, 2022) - 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.
   
• Whole Grain Sampling Day (March 30, 2022 last Wed in March)  [Whole Grains Council]
   
• World Kidney Day (March 10, 2022 - 2nd Thurs) [WorldKidneyDay.org]
   
• Iceland: Bursting Day: March 1, 2022 - Feast on mutton and pea soup. (Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   

VARIABLE WEEKS

• American Chocolate Week ( March 20-26, 2022 - 3rd week)   (Chocolate Trivia and Facts)
  (Chocolate Quotes)
   
• Ag Appreciation Week: March 20-27, 2022 [Community Agriculture Alliance]  A time to recognize and celebrate the importance of agriculture.  (Farms & Farmers Trivia)
   
• Groundwater Awareness Week (March 6-12, 2022) [National Ground Water Association]
   
• [National ‘Ag’ Week] March 20-26, 2022 - A time to celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture
   
• [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.
   
• [National Poison Prevention Week]  (March 20-26, 2022 - 3rd wk March) Established by Congress on September 16, 1961 [PL 87-319]
   
• National School Breakfast Week (March 7-11, 2022 - 1st full week in March) [School Nutrition Assoc]
   
• Pancake Week (Feb 28-March 6, 2022 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Trivia)
   
• UK: [British Pie Week] (March 7-13, 2022)
   
• 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: [SPAM Appreciation Week] (March 8-14, 2021)
  NO UPDATE FOR 2022 YET - 2-27-22.
   
• World Salt Awareness Week March 14-20, 2022)
  [World Action on Salt & Health]  [On March 12, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his march to the coastal village of Dandi, to protest the British salt monopoly.  (Salt Trivia  ·  Salt Kitchen Tips)
  (Salt Quotes)
  (Articles: Salt of the Earth 1 · Salt of the Earth 2)