April 20

How I Celebrated

No lima beans in the house today. I added some flax seed meal and some chia seeds and a bit of extra oil to my batter. Also, no stupid cherries on the bottom of my cake. Pure amazing.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Lima beans are ok. For the cake, this one uses sugar free cake mix, splenda brown sugar blend and pineapple juice to get it all sweet and delicious.

• Gluten Free

  Lima beans are fine. Here is a gluten free recipe

• Vegetarian

  Yes

Recipes

• Betty Crocker has a few recipes for pinapple upside down cake.
• Martha Stewart puts nuts on her cake. Looks pretty good.
• Another cake from Epicurious
• Here is a simple lima bean recipe if you don't mind onions
• More beans from Eating Well
• And a bunch of recipes from Food Network

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History

Punchbowl
 I never hated lima beans like many of my childhood peers, but I never ate them that often either. I did have pineapple upside down cake more often, but that was still only on special occasions.

Merchandise

Hard not to have cute stuff for the sweet and very garnished pineapple upside down cake.
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Restaurants

• Pineapple Grill is said to have some delicious cake
• People on Yelp say Roy's has good cake too
• Lama Beans is in Berkely CA (I don't know if that counts, but it was number one on my search)

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• National Pecan Month
• National Florida Tomato Month
• National Soft Pretzel Month
• National Soy Foods Month
• National BLT Sandwich Month
• National Grilled Cheese Month
• National Garlic Month
• National Food Month
• Administrative Professional's Week
• Animal Cruelty / Human Violence Awareness Week
• Cleaning for a Reason Week
• Every Kid Healthy Week
• Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
• Money Smart Week
• National Coin Week
• National Crime Victims' Rights Week
• National Environmental Education Week
• National Infants Immunization Week
• National Infertility Awareness Week
• National Karaoke Week
• National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
• National Organ/ Tissue Donor Awareness Week
• National Osteopathic Medicine week
• National Park Week
• National Pet ID Week
• National Playground Safety Week
• National Princess Week
• National Sky Awareness Week
• National Student Leadership Week
• World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week
• World Week for Animals in Laboratories
• Look a Like Day
• National Pot Smokers Day
• UN Chinese Language Day