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October 22 Holidays

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Your guide to celebrating October 22

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October 22 is ready for a little kitchen tinkering, with a homemade snack as the payoff. For National Nut Day, choose a favorite nut and blend it with a little sweetener to make nut butter. If the usual jar feels too predictable, start with a variety you have not tried before. The holiday was organized by Liberation Foods, which is worth a look while you decide what belongs in the blender.

Now give the snack lab a lesson plan for Smart is Cool Day. Queue up a short online talk about a topic that has been tugging at your brain, then listen while you work. Blender noise may briefly defeat the speaker, but that is what the pause button is for. By the end, you will have something new for your toast and something new to talk about.

Spoon some of the finished spread into a small container for later. You can also assemble an extra nutty snack packet for a friend, neighbor or coworker and pass along the most surprising thing you learned. That makes the project part experiment, part snack delivery, with no white lab coat cluttering the kitchen.

Close out October 22 with the useful evidence lined up in front of you: one handy jar, one better-fed brain and, if the blender got ambitious, a countertop ready for a quick wipe.

Famous birthdays on October 22

  • Jeff GoldblumTurns 74
  • Deontay WilderTurns 41
  • Christopher LloydTurns 88
  • Bob OdenkirkTurns 64

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