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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)
   
• 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)
  
  (Pasta Cooking Tips  ·  Pasta Facts & Trivia)
   
• National Nutrition Month  (A nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the [Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics].
  
  (Nutrition Articles  -  Healthy Food Choice Videos)
   
• 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 Making  ·  Sauce Recipes)
   
• Canada: Nutrition Month [Dietitians of Canada]
   
• UK: National Veggie Month [veggies.org.uk]
  
  (Vegetable Recipes  ·  Vegetable Articles)
   

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

VARIABLE DAYS

• First Day of Spring: Vernal Equinox (March 20, 2019 - can be March 20 or 21)
   
• U.S., Canada & Mexico Daylight Saving Time begins 2nd Sunday in March and ends 1st Sunday in November (2019 March 10 to November 3)
   
• EU Daylight Saving Time begins on the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday of October (2019: March 31 to Oct 27)
   
• [American Diabetes Association Alert Day] (4th Tues - March 26, 2019)
   
• Easter Sunday in 2019 is April 21 (can be March or April)
   
• Fritter Thursday: March 7, 2019 (Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  Apple Fritter Recipe Video
   
• [Great American Meatout] - (March 20, 2019 - 1st day of Spring) Eat Vegan for a Day
   
• [IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day] March 12, 2019 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Annual Charity Fundraising Event - can be Feb or March)
   
• International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; March 5, 2019 - Can be Feb or March)  [Day of the [International Pancake Race], Liberal, Kansas]
   
• [International School Meals Day] (March 14, 2019)
   
• National ‘Ag’ Day (March 14, 2019)
  [Agricultural Council of America]
   
• National Corn Dog Day (March 16, 2019) 1st Sat of the collegiate basketball tournament
   
• National Tartar Sauce Day (March 8, 2019 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
   
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - March 5, 2019 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
   
• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day (March 13, 2019) [Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics]
   
• Shrove Tuesday (March 5, 2019 - can be Feb or March) Also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras Day. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, beginning 6 weeks of fasting for Christians, leading up to Easter.
   
• Whole Grain Sampling Day (March 27, 2019)
  [Whole Grains Council]
   
• World Kidney Day (March 14, 2019 - 2nd Thurs) [WorldKidneyDay.org]
   
• Iceland: Bun Day (March 4, 2019 - Mon before Shrove Tuesday) Children invade homes in the morning with colorful sticks and receive gifts of whipped cream buns.
   
• Iceland: Bursting Day (March 5, 2019) Feast on mutton and pea soup.
   

VARIABLE WEEKS

• American Chocolate Week ( March 17-23, 2019 - 3rd week) [American Confectioners Association]
   
• Ag Appreciation Week: March 17-24, 2019 [Community Agriculture Alliance]  A time to recognize and celebrate the importance of agriculture.
   
• Egg Salad Week in 2019 is April 22-28 (week after Easter, March or April) [American Egg Board]
  Dedicated to the many delicious uses for all of the Easter eggs that have been cooked, colored, hidden and found.
   
• Groundwater Awareness Week (March 10-16, 2019) [National Ground Water Association]
   
• National ‘Ag’ Week: March 10-16, 2019 [Agriculture Council of America] A time to recognize and celebrate the importance of agriculture.
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 25-March 3, 2019)
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 25-March 3, 2019) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels
   
• [National Poison Prevention Week]  (March 17-23, 2019 - 3rd wk March) Established by Congress on September 16, 1961 [PL 87-319]
   
• National School Breakfast Week (March 4-8, 2019 - 1st full week in March) [School Nutrition Assoc.]
   
• Pancake Week (March 4-10, 2019 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  · Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Facts & Trivia
   
• UK: [British Pie Week] (March 4-10, 2019)
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] (Feb 25-March 10, 2019) 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 23-March 3, 2019) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• UK: [SPAM Appreciation Week] (March 5-11, 2018)
   
• World Salt Awareness Week March 4-10, 2019)
  [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 Facts and Trivia  ·  Salt Kitchen Tips)
  
  (Articles: Salt of the Earth 1 · Salt of the Earth 2)