Fresh Veggies Day
About Fresh Veggies Day
When is Fresh Veggies Day? This holiday is always celebrated on June 16
This is a wonderful day to be a vegetarian. Today is Fresh Veggies Day. On this June 16 holiday, take a vow to eat healthy today (and every day), with fresh veggies for every meal, and for snacks, too. If you are not a vegetarian think about becoming one, at least for today. Your body will like it.
Fresh vegetables are tasty, and far better tasting than canned or frozen vegetables. They are also healthy and highly nutritious. This makes it easy to add fresh vegetables to the menu at every meal, and for snacking. This time of year, there are plenty of fresh vegetables at your local grocery store, or in your backyard vegetable garden.
So relish Fresh Veggies Day with a bountiful supply of fresh-picked veggies.
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A Case for more Chocolate? Chocolate is made from cocoa beans witch is vegetable matter. So if we eat more chocolate we’re eating more vegetables, right!?
How to Celebrate and Participate in Fresh Veggies Day
It is very easy to celebrate this holiday:
- Eat your vegetables.
- Add more veggies to your diet.
- Make homemade vegetable soup.
- Find unique and different ways to put more of them into the meals you eat today.
- Become a vegetarian.
- Start a vegetable garden. Or, enlarge an existing one.
- Explore adding Edible Weeds to your diet.
Today's Chuckle
“If a child refuses to take a nap, is he resisting arrest?” – – Author Unknown
History and Origin of Fresh Veggies Day
Our research did not find the creator or the origin of this day. Could the creator be a vegetarian? Perhaps. Of course, it might be a gardener.
This Day in History
In addition to Fresh Veggies Day, here are a couple of other things that happened on June 16:
- Pope Gregory the Great issues a decree saying “God Bless You” is the proper response to a sneeze. (600)
- The premiere of Ghostbusters II. (1959)
- Stan Laurel, comedian, “Laurel & Hardy” duo, was born on this day in 1890.
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Did You Know? Moreover, in addition to Fresh Veggies Day, there are literally thousands of daily holidays, special events, and observances, more than one for every day of the year. What’s more, many of these holidays are new. People and organizations are creating new holidays regularly. June holidays are no exception. Consequently, at Holiday Insights, we take great efforts to thoroughly research and document the details of each one, as completely and accurately as possible.