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Food Holidays That You Won’t Want to Miss

By Jessica Chu at New York University

Has it ever been, let’s say, National Pizza Day and you didn’t find out until that night when you’re scrolling through Instagram? And you think to yourself, “argh I should have stopped by 2 Bros and Snapchatted that slice of pizza.” With the list below, we’ve got you covered. Filtering out the unnecessarily specific ones, such as National Stuffed Mushroom Day, Cream Cheese Brownie Day and National Glazed-spiral ham, here are food holidays that you should keep in mind:

National Jelly Bean Day – Apr 22 (Makes a great Instagram photo!)

National Picnic Day – Apr 23 (Time to get out your basket and the red and white picnic blanket!)

National Pretzel Day – Apr 26

International No Diet Day – May 6 (Hallelujah!)

National Apple Pie Day – May 13 (Pie heaven exists, and it’s in Manhattan.)

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day – May 15

National Burger Day – May 28

National Macaroon Day – May 31

National Cheese Day – June 4 (We know where we’ll be getting ours.)

National Doughnut Day – June 5 (Check out picturesque Dough!)

National Caesar Salad Day, National Spareribs Day & National Barbecue Day – July 4 (Why am I not surprised?)

National Fried Chicken Day – July 6 (Some of the best in town is right around the corner.)

National Mac & Cheese Day – July 14 (Celebrate with five easy and new ways to make macaroni and cheese.)

National Tequila Day – July 24

National Cheesecake Day – July 30 (Feeling inspired? Make it yourself.)

Also, if you’re interested in what national food day is on your own birthday, check out this website.

Mine is English Toffee Day. What’s yours?