Seasonal Eating: Calendar and Guide

Seasonal eating lets you celebrate your best fresh, local foods all year.
Even holidays don't need to ruin your diet or sabotage your health, if you approach them with a litte creativity.

January
New Year's Day . . . .

Black-eyed peas and collard greens (vegetarian version)

February

• Tet: Vietnamese New Year
• Chinese New Year
• Valentines Day
• Northwest Flower and Garden Show (Seattle)

March
National Nutrition Month . . . Learn about Power Foods, and 10-minute recipes to use them
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
Purim
Spring Equinox

April
Easter . . . Egg salad variations
Passover . . . Host a vegetarian Seder

May
May Day
Slow Food Nation 2008
Cinco de Mayo . . . Creamy guacomole

June
Arbor Day . . . . Drink shade grown coffee
Sunset Celebration Weekend
Summer Solstice: the longest day of the year

July
Independence Day (US, aka Fourth of July)

August
Tomato sandwiches

September
Labor Day . . . End-of-summer healthy cookout
Ramadan
Autumn Equinox

October
Sukkot . . . Celebrate the harvest with Jewish vegetarian meals
Halloween . . .Jack o'lantern pie and roasted pumpkin seeds

November
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertes)
Thanksgiving (US). . . Roast a heritage turkey
December
Channukah
Winter Solstice . . . solstice soup
Noche Buena . . . Vegetarian Noche Buena dinner with black beans and rice, yucca, and fried plantains

Christmas
Kwanzaa

Find easy vegetarian recipes for your seasonal eating adventures