The cafeteria may be closed, but that doesn’t mean that we should be skipping breakfast.

National School Breakfast Week is celebrated from Monday, March 8, through Friday, March 12, and it is a good time to start getting in the habit of eating breakfast every day.

National School Breakfast Week raises awareness of school breakfast programs. According to National Day Calendar, “During the week, schools put their breakfast programs on display through exciting contests and promotions” (https://rb.gy/x6c3vu).

It may be difficult to participate during the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you can’t plan for the future. You could volunteer to help with the local school breakfast program and earn an interesting entry onto your college or work applications. Visit the schoolnutrition.org website to learn more about how to help out.

School breakfasts have not always been easily accessible. In 1966, the School Breakfast Program was established as a two-year pilot project to assist schools serving breakfasts to “nutritionally needy” children” and that they continued to grow until 1975 when the School Breakfast Program was permanently established, according to https://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/program-history. Fourteen years later, after the School Breakfast Program was configured, National School Breakfast Week was launched. It is celebrated the second full week of March every year.