National Egg Salad Week

Egg Salads served in some form or fashion will fill kitchen tables & lunch boxes the whole week following Easter Sunday. Homemakers search the Internet for new inventive recipes in order to use up all the hard-cooked eggs. Hence..... National Egg Salad week.

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Egg Salad Week is always the full week

right after Easter Sunday.

Traditional Time for Egg Salads

It's very traditional in the United States for families to

hard boil eggs for Easter. Most households usually boil

an average of 1 to 5 dozen eggs each year and join in

the tradition of painting and dying the eggs. Kids tend to

bring home even more eggs found from Easter Egg Hunts

which leads to many left over eggs & many Moms &

Dads try to think of ingenious ways to eat the left overs.

What is this Holiday for?

To apprecipate the great taste of homemade egg salad.

If you've never had it before, give it a try. Let today be the

day you boil, mash and mix your way to a great egg

spread that's great for the lunch box and in your picnic

basket too.

Origin of this Holiday?

Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this

day. This holiday is referred to as a "National" day.

However, we did not find any congressional records or

presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we

didn't, this is still a holiday that is publicized to celebrate.

So have fun with it and celebrate it!

What is egg salad anyway?

Egg salad is part of an Anglo-American tradition of salads involving a high-protein or high-carbohydrate food mixed with seasonings in the form of spices, herbs, and other foods, and bound with an oil-based dressing. Its siblings include tuna salad, chicken salad, potato salad, ham salad, pasta salad, lobster salad, crab meat salad, etc.

Egg salad is often used as a sandwich spread, typically made of chopped hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, minced celery, salt, pepper and paprika.

Do people really celebrate this holiday?

You bet they do! Since National Egg Salad Week fall on the week right after Easter Sunday, most homes who celebrate Easter will have lots of left over Easter eggs that they have to do something with. The Internet will be filled with searches for boiled egg recipes. So yes many people partake in Egg Salad Week.

How To Celebrate this holiday

1) - Plan A Egg Theme Party

First visit our party planning section where we help you decide

the what, when, where and why's of planning a party.

2) - Meet for a meal

Enjoy coffee and eggs for breakfast.... share lunch and enjoy a

garden salad topped with boiled eggs. Our favorite is sharing

tea time at a tea room.

3) - Eat up all those left over Easter Eggs!

Come on now.... you know how to search the Net for recipes.

4) - Send Greetings - If your ready to get together with your

friends don't forget to invite them with fun Internet Invitations.

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