July 3 - National Compliment Your Mirror Day

 

Happy National Compliment Your Mirror Day! On July 3, today reminds us to take a moment before rushing through our morning rituals. 

Most of us look in a mirror every day. Our mirrors go through a lot of work. They see us at our worst and at our best. It’s time they are given their due.  

On July 3, find the closest mirror and pay the reflection the compliment it deserves.  

The amount of time that you spend talking with that wonderful person you are looking at in the mirror is totally up to you.  It can be just a few seconds or it can be a few minutes or more. 

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest of them all…….  It is YOU! 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

On National Compliment Your Mirror Day, spend a few minutes with your mirror. 

Offer a compliment or two to your mirror and the reflection you see. You might even find the time you spend boosts your confidence just a bit.  

National Day Calendar® even offers a few examples to try: 

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  • You look great!  

• • Keep up the great grooming. 

• • You are awesome!  

• • That hair is styling! 

• • The bathroom sparkles just like you!  

• • Keep on flashing – that amazing smile.  

• • When you clean up, you clean up niiiice! 

Share your mirror compliments by using #ComplimentYourMirrorDay on social media. 

HISTORY 

National Day Calendar® continues researching this reflective holiday. 

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July 3 - National Eat Your Beans Day

Happy National Eat Your Beans Day! Observed very year on July 3, today is a “live healthy” holiday. This day celebrates the bean vegetable in all sizes, shapes, and colors.  

 
Beans (legumes) date back to the early seventh millennium B.C.E., making them one of the longest-cultivated plants.  

 
As they were seven millennia ago, today, beans are a significant source of protein. If you’re looking for complex carbohydrates, folate, fiber, and iron, eat some beans. They are excellent sources for each of those.  

A very healthy choice for any meal or snack, they are also an excellent source of fiber, low in fat and high in complex carbohydrates, folate, and iron. 

• • There are approximately 40,000 bean varieties in the world! 

• • Only a fraction of these varieties are mass-produced for regular consumption. 

Let’s Snack! 

That’s a lot of beans! How do we know which ones to choose? Snacking on chickpeas provides us with one of the best choices.  

Also known as garbanzo beans, these legumes pack a whopping 12.5 grams of fiber, seventy-one percent of the recommended daily intake (RDI) of folate, eighty-four percent RDI of Manganese, and twenty-six percent RDI of Iron per serving in one cup.  

Add chickpeas to stews like you would any bean. However, they also roast nicely with your favorite herbs and spices for a delicious and healthy snack. 

Another tremendous snacking bean is the soybean. For more tips on bean varieties, visit the website below to learn about the six most healthful beans: 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324213 

With so many choices, celebrating with beans should be a delicious success! 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

Head over to their National Day Recipe page for many recipes to choose from or enjoy a fava bean dip with goat cheese and garlic dip (with a nice chianti) or black bean chili dip. 

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day-recipes/ 

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/fava_bean_dip_with_goat_cheese_and_garlic/ 

https://www.food.com/recipe/black-bean-chicken-chili-118068 

Use #NationalEatYourBeansDay to share on social media. 

HISTORY 

The research by National Day Calendar® was unable to identify the creator of National Eat Your Beans Day. 

What is your favorite kind of bean? 

 
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