January 2012 Promotions

Apple Month: http://www.orangepippin.com/apples
Apricot Month: http://www.califapricot.com/
Artichoke Month: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cook_and_eat_an_artichoke/
Asparagus Month: http://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/asparagus/index.html
Be Kind to Food Servers Month: Highlight your front of the house employees for the residents to learn more about them.
Glaucoma Awareness Month
Hot Tea Month: Serve a specialty tea each week of the month
Oatmeal Month: Add topping options for oatmeal each week
Dried Fruit Month: Each week explore a new dried fruit with nutritional values available

15th - 21st: Healthy Weight Week
1/29th-2/5th: Meat Week

1 - New Year's Day: http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/newyearsday/newyearsday
2 - Rose Bowl Game
3 - Drinking Straw Day: http://monthsofediblecelebrations.blogspot.com/2008/01/drinking-straw-invented.html
3 - National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
4 - Trivia Day
5 - Bean Day: http://americanbean.org/
8 - English Toffee Day: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/2213/
19 - Popcorn Day
23 - Chinese New Year: http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
23 - National Pie Day
26 - National Peanut Brittle Day
29 - Puzzle Day