Here are October Food Holidays & Events.
Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there.
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Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month:
- Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Easy Nutrition & Health Guidelines
- Browse Healthy shows, Healthy recipes
- Browse Organic shows, Organic recipes
- Browse Vegetarian + Vegan shows, Vegetarian recipes, Vegan recipes
Playlist: Healthy Recipes + Reviews
Playlist: Organic Recipes + Reviews
Playlist: Vegetarian + Vegan
Eat Country Ham Month:
Playlist: Ham Recipes + Reviews
National Apple Month:
- How to Make Great Applesauce: National Apple Month
- Baked Apples in National Apple Month
- Browse Apple shows, Apple recipes
- How to Cook Pan Sauteed Spicy Caramelized Apples
- Amazing Apple Turnovers
Playlist: Apple Recipes + Reviews
National Applejack Month:
- How to Use This Liquor in Cooking: National Applejack Month
- Browse Apple shows, Apple recipes, Brandy shows, Brandy recipes
- Need brandy snifters?
Playlist: Apple Recipes + Reviews
Playlist: Brandy Recipes + Reviews
National Caramel Month:
- National Caramel Month: How to Make Cream Caramels
- Decadent Caramel Custard Recipe
- Browse Caramel shows, Caramel recipes
Playlist: Caramel Recipes + Reviews
National Chili Month:
- National Chili Month Brings a Recipe You’ll Love
- Grandmother’s Favorite Southwest Chili Recipe
- Browse Soups, Stews & Chilis shows, Soups, Stews & Chili recipes
- Vegetarian Chili in a Bare-Bones Kitchen
- Veggie Chili Challenge
Playlist: Soups, Stews & Chilis
National Cookie Month:
- How to Bake Ingrid’s Peanut Butter Cookies: National Cookie Month
- Browse Cookie shows, Cookie recipes
- Kahlua Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- How to Make Peanut Butter Snowballs
- Need Cookie Sheets & Cooling Racks?
Playlist: Cookie Recipes + Reviews
National Dessert Month:
- Meal & Dessert Pairings for National Dessert Month
- Browse Desserts & Sweets shows, Dessert recipes, Sweets recipes
- Easy Bread Rhubarb Apple Cobbler
- Chili Cinnamon Chee Cha Drop Cookies
Playlist: Desserts & Sweets Recipes + Reviews
National Pickled Peppers Month:
- How to Pickle Hot Peppers: National Pickled Peppers Month
- Browse Peppers shows, Peppers recipes, Canning shows, Canning recipes
- Quick Pickling Facts & Guidelines
Playlist: Pepper Recipes + Reviews
Playlist: Canning & Preserves Recipes + Reviews
National Pasta Month:
- Facts on Pastas & Noodles: National Pasta Month
- Browse Pasta shows, Pasta recipes
- Pasta Primavera with Shrimp
- Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli
- How to Form Gnocchi Pasta
- Buy Baronia Fettuccine Pasta
Playlist: Pasta Recipes + Reviews
National Pizza Festival Month:
- 6 Tasty Pizza Ideas for National Pizza Festival Month
- Browse Pizza shows, Pizza recipes
- Crab Melt Pita Pizzas
- Need a Pizza Stone or Pizza Pan?
- Buy Wolfgang Puck All-Natural Pizza Dough Mix
Playlist: Pizza Recipes + Reviews
National Popcorn Poppin’ Month:
- How to Make Caramel Corn: National Popcorn Poppin’ Month
- Browse Popcorn shows, Popcorn posts
- Web Chef Review: Just Honest Popcorn from Rocky Mountain Popcorn Co.
Playlist: Popcorn Recipes + Reviews
National Pork Month:
- It’s National Pork Month: Crown Roast of Pork Recipe
- Browse Pork, Ham & Bacon shows, Pork recipes
- Honey Garlic Pork Ribs in the Oven
- Chipotle, Smoked Paprika & Pistachio Crusted Pork Tenderloin
Playlist: Pork, Ham & Bacon Recipes + Reviews
National Pretzel Month:
- Tasty Tidbits Beckon You: National Pretzel Month
- Browse Pretzel shows, Pretzel recipes
- How to Make Pretzels from Scratch: National Pretzel Day (October 26)
- How to Bake Aunt Mary’s Chex Mix
Playlist: Pretzel Recipes + Reviews
National Seafood Month:
- October is National Seafood Month: Celebrate with Gumbo
- Browse Seafood shows, Seafood recipes
- How to Cook Curried Mussels
- How to Cook Shrimp Chowder in Stoneware Ramekins
Playlist: Seafood Recipes + Reviews
National Spinach Month:
- Creamy Spinach Dip in Pumpernickel Loaf: National Spinach Month
- Browse Spinach shows, Spinach recipes
- How to Cook Healthier Cream of Spinach Soup
- Chevre & Pickled Beets on a Bed of Spinach
Playlist: Spinach Recipes + Reviews
National Tomato Month:
- How to Cook Stewed Tomatoes: National Tomato Month
- Browse Tomato shows, Tomato recipes
- How to Make Gazpacho Andaluz
- How to Cook Fried Green Tomatoes – The Breakfast Series
- How to Make Killer Chimichurri – aka Pico de Gallo
Playlist: Tomato Recipes + Reviews
Vegetarian Awareness Month:
- Vegetarian Awareness Month: Different Types of Vegetarianism
- Browse Vegetarian + Vegan shows, Vegetarian recipes
- Smoked Paprika Mushroom Rice
- Moroccan Chickpea Soup
Playlist: Vegetarian + Vegan
1st Week – No Salt Week:
1st Week – National Chili Week:
- A Chili Recipe You’ll Love
- Browse Soups, Stews & Chilis shows, Soups, Stews & Chilis recipes
- Grandmother’s Favorite Southwest Chili
- Vegetarian Chili in a Bare-Bones Kitchen
Playlist: Soups, Stews & Chilis
1st Week – American Beer Week:
- American Beer Week is Here!
- Browse Beer shows, Beer recipes
- Epic: Bud Light Presents…Sensation
- Web Chef Review: Jimmy Buffet’s Land Shark Island Lager
- Buy Highball Beer Glasses
Playlist: Beer Recipes + Reviews
2nd Week – National Food Bank Week:
2nd Week – National School Lunch Week:
- Fresh Ideas for Brown Bagging: National School Lunch Week
- School Lunches Do Not Have to be a Challenge
- Browse School Lunch shows, School Lunch recipes
- Healthy School Lunches – Be Ready for Back to School
Playlist: School Lunch Recipes + Reviews
2nd Thursday – National Dessert Day:
- National Dessert Day: How to Bake Fudge Chiffon Cake
- Browse Desserts & Sweets shows, Dessert recipes
- Smores Bread Pudding
- Bread Crust Date Butter Tartlets
- Buy Fluted Tube Cake Pan
Playlist: Desserts & Sweets Recipes + Reviews
2nd Friday – World Egg Day:
- How to Poach Eggs: It’s World Egg Day
- Browse Egg shows, Egg recipes
- Kimberly’s Canadian Homemade Holiday Eggnog
- How to Boil Eggs: Soft Boiled & Hard Boiled
Playlist: Egg Recipes + Reviews
3rd Week – National Kraut Sandwich Week:
Playlist: Sandwich Recipes + Reviews
3rd Week – Pickled Peppers Week:
- Quick Pickling Facts & Guidelines: Pickled Peppers Week
- Browse Pepper recipes, Preserves & Canning recipes
3rd Saturday – Sweetest Day:
- How to Make Silky Chocolate Fondue Sauce: Sweetest Day
- Browse Sweets recipes
- How to Make Marshmallow Squares
- Buy Nonstick Angel Food Cake Pan, Candy Thermometer
4th Week – Chicken Soup for the Soul Week:
- Comfort Food At Its Best: Chicken Soup for the Soul Week
- Chicken Broth for the Sore Throat
- Spicy Thai Ginger Coconut Chicken Soup
- Chickpea, Piquillo Pepper & Shredded Chicken Soup
- Buy a large Stock Pot
October 1 – World Vegetarian Day:
- World Vegetarian Day: Eat Your Veggies
- Browse Vegetarian recipes
- How to Make Cucumber & Nasturtium Flower Salad
- How to Cook Rhubarb Moos in Stoneware Ramekins
October 1 – Pudding Season Begins:
- Pudding Season Begins: Try Smores Bread Pudding
- Browse Pudding recipes
- Tempting Chocolate Pudding Recipe
- Banana Rum Pudding with Toasted Coconut
October 1 – Homemade Cookies Day:
- National Homemade Cookies Day: A Spicy Cookie Recipe
- Browse Cookie recipes
- Apricot Sesame Breadcrumb Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Muffins: Kapow Cooking (Kapow News)
- Buy Cookie Sheets with Cooling Racks
October 2 – National Fried Scallops Day:
October 3 – National Caramel Custard Day:
October 4 – National Taco Day:
October 4 – National Vodka Day:
- National Vodka Day & How to Make Black Pepper Vodka
- Browse Vodka recipes
- Kimberly’s Hot Lemonade
- How to Make Your Own Perfume
October 4 – Cinnamon Roll Day (Sweden):
October 5 – National Apple Betty Day:
October 6 – National Noodle Day:
- National Noodle Day: Oodles of Noodles
- Browse Pasta recipes
- Impromptu Linguine with Meatballs: Cupboard Cooking
- Brown Rice Spaghetti with Mushrooms, Cherry Tomatoes, Bacon & Basil
- Buy Baronia Fettuccine Pasta
October 7 – National Frappe Day:
October 8 – National Fluffernutter Day:
October 8 – National Pierogi Day:
- How to Make Cottage Cheese Perogies: National Pierogi Day
- Browse Perogi recipes, Eastern European recipes
- How to Make Pierogi Dough
- How to Make Sauerkraut
October 9 – Moldy Cheese Day (Blue Cheese):
October 9 – Submarine-Hero-Hoagie-Grinder Day:
October 10 – National Angel Food Cake Day:
October 11 – National Sausage Pizza Day:
- National Sausage Pizza Day: An All-Time Favorite
- Need a Pizza Stone or Blade Pizza Cutter?
- Try Wolfgang Puck All-Natural Pizza Dough Mix
October 12 – National Gumbo Day:
- A National Gumbo Day Recipe: Ooh Wee!
- Browse Gumbo recipes
- Kimberly’s Louisiana Seafood Gumbo
- Buy a large Stock Pot & a Wooden Spoon
October 13 – National Yorkshire Pudding Day:
October 14 – Chocolate Covered Insect Day:
October 15 – National Chicken Cacciatore Day:
October 15 – National Roast Pheasant Day:
October 16 – National Liqueur Day:
October 16 – World Food Day:
October 17 – National Pasta Day:
- It’s National Pasta Day: Try Fettuccini with Cream Sauce
- Browse Pasta recipes
- How to Cook Dry Pasta
- Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli
- Buy a Stainless Steel Colander
October 17 – Four Prunes Day:
October 18 – National Chocolate Cupcake Day:
October 19 – National Seafood Bisque Day:
October 19 – Oatmeal Muffin Day:
October 20 – National Brandied Fruit Day:
- How to Brandy Peaches: National Brandied Fruit Day
- How to Make Brandied Cherries
- How to Cook Brandied Apricots
October 21 – Apple Day:
- How to Bake Apples: Apple Day
- Browse Apple recipes
- Feijoa & Apple Crumble New Zealand Style
- “An Apple a Day” Bread for the Bread Machine
October 21 – National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day:
October 21 – Caramel Apple Day:
- How to Make Caramel Apples: Caramel Apple Day
- Browse Apple recipes, Caramel recipes
- How to Cook Pan Sauteed Spicy Caramelized Apples
- How to Make Cream Caramels
October 21 – International Nacho Day:
- How to Cook Ground Beef Nachos: International Nacho Day
- Superbowl Nacho Dip for Tailgating
- Web Chef Review: Blue Goose Mexican Cantina – Steak Nachos
October 22 – National Nut Day:
- Are You a Little Nutty? It’s National Nut Day
- Browse recipes using Nuts
- Spicy Fig & Pistachio Tapenade with Cream Cheese
- Finding Quality Nuts & Info on Nut Storage
October 23 – National Boston Cream Pie Day:
- How to Bake Sponge Cake: National Boston Cream Pie Day
- Browse Pie recipes, Cake recipes, Chocolate recipes
- Buy a Pie Plate
October 23 – National Canning Day:
- Some Basic Rules of Canning for this National Day
- How to Make Strawberry Freezer Jam
- How to Make Quick Watermelon Rind Pickles
October 24 – National Bologna Day:
October 24 – Good & Plenty Day:
October 25 – National Greasy Foods Day:
- Enjoy Within Limits: National Greasy Foods Day
- How to Cook Bubble & Squeak
- Mom’s Canadian Fried Chicken
- Buy a Deep Fryer
October 26 – Mincemeat Pie Day:
- What the Heck is Mincemeat?: National Mincemeat Pie Day
- Buy a Pie Plate
- How to Cook Mincemeat for the Holidays
October 26 – Pretzel Day:
- How to Make Pretzels from Scratch: National Pretzel Day
- Browse Pretzel recipes
- Tasty Tidbits Beckon You: National Pretzel Month (October)
October 26 – Pumpkin Day:
- How to Make Pumpkin Pie: National Pumpkin Day
- Browse Pumpkin recipes
- Brandy Cardamom Pumpkin Custard
- Perfect Pumpkin Pie Filling
October 27 – American Beer Day:
- American Beer Day: How Is It Made?
- Browse Beer shows, Beer posts
- Epic: Bud Light Presents…Sensation
- Web Chef Review: Jimmy Buffet’s Land Shark Island Lager
- Buy High Ball Beer Glasses
Cooking Shows: Beer Recipes + Reviews
October 27 – National Potato Day:
- How to Cook Linda’s Au Gratin Potatoes: National Potato Day
- Browse Potato shows, Potato recipes
- Creamy Whipped Mashed Potatoes from Scratch
- How to Cook Quick Baked Potatoes in the Microwave
- Buy a new Potato Peeler
Cooking Shows: Potato & Sweet Potato Recipes
October 28 – National Chocolate Day:
- How to Bake Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: National Chocolate Day
- Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing
- Browse Chocolate shows, Chocolate recipes
- Chocolate Macadamia Rum Balls
- Breadcrumb Chocolate Chip Cookies
- How to Make Cardamom Hot Chocolate
Cooking Shows: Chocolate Recipes & Reviews
October 28 – Wild Foods Day:
- Calling Hunters & Gatherers: Wild Foods Day
- Roasted Jalapeño Haskap Glazed Cornish Hens
- How to Grill a Whole Mackerel: Lemon Cedar Leaf Grilled Mackerel
- How to Brew Wild Blueberry Tea from P.E.I.
- How to Make Wild Mushroom Tassies
- Clipper Wild Berry Infusion Tea: What I Say About Food
October 29 – National Oatmeal Day:
- How to Make Granola: National Oatmeal Day
- How to Bake Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Browse Oatmeal shows, Oatmeal recipes
- Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread for the Bread Machine
- How to Cook Steel Cut Oats: The Breakfast Series
- Haskap Oatmeal Cookies
Cooking Shows: Oats & Oatmeal Recipes
October 30 – Buy a Doughnut Day:
- How to Make Sour Cream Donuts: Buy a Doughnut Day
- Browse Donut posts
- Sure to Cure a Sweet Tooth: National Cream-Filled Donut Day (September 14)
- It’s National Chocolate Eclair Day – Grab Yours! (June 22)
October 30 – Haunted Refrigerator Day:
October 30 – National Candy Corn Day:
Cooking Shows: Candy Recipes & Reviews
October 31 – National Candy Apple Day:
- How to Make Blood Orange Candy Apples
- Browse Apple recipes or Dessert recipes
- Chardonnay Peach Caramel Apples
Cooking Shows: Candy Recipes & Reviews
October 31 – Halloween:
- Haskapa Witchy Finger Cookies
- Browse Halloween shows, Halloween recipes
- Old Fashioned Turner Family Fudge
- How to Make Caramel Corn
- How to Make Cream Caramels
- Podcast: Homemade Halloween Treats with Web Chef Kimberly Turner on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’
Cooking Shows: Halloween Recipes + Reviews
October 31 – Trick or Treat for UNICEF Day:
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