12th – 18th of October 2026
National Nutrition Week is an annual opportunity to celebrate food and start positive conversations about the role it plays in our lives in Australia. In 2026, National Nutrition Foundation is celebrating Love what you eat, exploring how food connects us to culture, community and place, supports wellbeing and brings people together.
Food connects us. Food brings us together. Food helps us thrive.
This National Nutrition Week, we’re celebrating what we love about food from the people we share it with, to the cultures and traditions behind it, the places our food comes from and the ways food can support our wellbeing.
We’ll continue adding new ideas, resources and updates in the lead-up to National Nutrition Week. Check back soon for the latest ways to get involved.
Bring National Nutrition Week to life in your workplace, school, early childhood service or community. Our practical guides are filled with simple ideas to help people connect, celebrate food and get involved in a way that works for your setting.
Download our stakeholder kit for inspiration and ready-for-use assets to make it easy to join us in celebrating the love of food this National Nutrition Week.
Explore ideas, resources and inspiration to help you connect with the food, people, places and traditions that matter to you.
More resources coming soon!
World Food Day, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), falls within National Nutrition Week, giving us another opportunity to celebrate food and reflect on the kind of food future we want to create.
National Nutrition Week 2026 runs from 12–18 October 2026. Throughout the week, people, workplaces, schools, early childhood services and community organisations across Australia are invited to celebrate food and join the conversation.
The National Nutrition Foundation’s theme for National Nutrition Week 2026 is Love what you eat.
This year, we’re celebrating the many ways food matters in our lives, including its connections to culture, community, place, wellbeing and equity. Food can tell stories, preserve traditions, bring people together and connect us to the places we live.
There are lots of ways to get involved. You could share a story, photo or video about what food means to you, start a conversation in your community, or bring National Nutrition Week to your workplace, school or early childhood service.
Use our free resources and celebration guides for ideas, or simply share how you love what you eat. Check out the National Nutrition Week 2026 stakeholder kit for more inspiration.
Make it meaningful to you. You could share a recipe or tradition connected to your culture, celebrate the people you enjoy eating with, highlight a local food or producer, talk about a food experience that supports your wellbeing, or recognise work helping make nourishing, affordable and culturally meaningful food more accessible.
Yes. The National Nutrition Foundation has created free National Nutrition Week 2026 resources to make it easy to get involved, including a stakeholder kit, ready-to-share social media content and celebration guides for workplaces, schools and early childhood services.
Workplaces can use our free workplace celebration guide for simple ideas to bring colleagues together around food. Activities can be adapted to suit the size, location and needs of your workplace.
Schools and early childhood services can use our dedicated celebration guides for practical, age-appropriate ways to explore and celebrate food with children and their communities.
World Food Day is Friday 16 October 2026, which falls within National Nutrition Week this year. World Food Day is led globally by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and provides another opportunity during the week to celebrate food and consider how we can build more inclusive and sustainable food systems.
