Food and Drink Awareness Days May 2024 UK

Food and Drink Awareness Days for May 2024

If you find yourself struggling with ideas for your latest food blog or your social media channels, have you ever thought about using awareness days? If you haven't, I suggest you take a look, as there are many ideas for you to use in your marketing for your food and drink business.

We've all been there looking at a blank screen trying to think of something to post.

Fortunately there are many awareness events every month that can help you boost your posts and easily create you more content.

By focussing on food and drink awareness days, you will discover an abundance marketing content ideas. Use the awareness days to spark your creativity, and even use non-food ones to showcase your team.

So let's take a deep dive into the awareness events for May.

Awareness Months in May

- National Strawberry Month

- National Share a Story Month

Here are some examples of how you can use these.

National Strawberry Month

The strawberry is a very popular and versatile fruit, and I'm sure you must have many dishes, drinks and products that contain them.

Have a month long campaign to highlight this delicious fruit with the following ideas.

- Why you like cooking with them.

- What's your favourite dish?

- Unusual food pairings. A great way to engage with your customers to find out their most unusual pairing as well.

- Strawberry based drinks.

- How to prepare a strawberry chef style.

- The best way to store strawberries.

National Share a Story Month

Choose your favourite stories and highlight the food from them.

I've always loved Roald Dahl books, and imagine my excitement when I found that Gary Rhodes had written a whole cookery book of recipes inspired by Dahl's stories, even down to lickable wallpaper! You can have endless fun with this one.

Food Awareness Weeks for May 2024

There are also some week long food awareness days in May. They include:

- Food allergy awareness week (from the 12th)

- National Doughnut Week (for the Children's Trust) 18th - 26th

- British Sandwich Week 22nd-28th

- British Tomato Fortnight 27th - 9th June

Food Awareness Days for May 2024

There are plenty of food and drink awareness days in May. They include:

2nd World Tuna Day

5th Lemonade Day

7th Sauvignon Blanc Day

11th World Fairtrade Day

11th Eat What You Want Day

12th Garden Day

13th World Cocktail Day

13th International Hummus Day

16th International Pickle Day

17th National Walnut Day

17th World Baking Day

18th World Whisky Day

21st International Tea Day

22nd National Spaghetti Bolognaise Day

26th Chardonnay Day

27th Gloucester Cheese Rolling Day

28th International Hamburger Day

29th National Biscuit Day

30th International Potato Day

Ideas on how you could use these days

12th Garden Day

Do you grow your own produce for your restaurant or products? People like to see where their food is grown. I just love to see kitchen gardens and chefs gathering their food ready to go straight into their kitchens for evening service.

13th World Cocktail Day

You can have endless fun with this one, from staff making the cocktails, showcasing your favourites, and recipes using your drink products.

29th National Biscuit Day

The age old question - if you were a biscuit, which would you be? A great post for getting great interaction.

Food and Drink Social Media Content Planner

Would you like all these dates laid out on one easy sheet of paper on a calendar? Get our content planner on the link below.

We have researched as many UK dates for May 2024 as we can, but please just double check any dates that you do plan to use beforehand.

Enjoy using all the wonderful content ideas for your marketing this month. If you need help with any of this, we have food marketing packages that you might like.

About the author

Tina Wing

Tina is an award winning food photographer, and self confessed foodie, living in Wickford Essex.

She has been a professional photographer since 2012 and loves helping food and drink businesses to maximise their marketing with stunning photography, and creating helpful marketing tips like the social media content planner.