Why families can not teach what they have never been taught Food literacy is often spoken about as something that should be taught at home – passed down through generations – – shared in kitchens – gardens – everyday life – In an ideal world, it would be but we are no longer living in the world our grandparents grew up in. The chain of knowledge has been broken. Today’s parents are raising children in a food system that looks nothing like the one they were raised in. Many never learned to cook from scratch, never grew food, never preserved seasonal produce and never saw real ingredients used…

How We Lost Our Connection to Real Food Over the last fifty years, Britain has undergone one of the most dramatic shifts in food culture in human history. In just three generations, we’ve moved from a society where most families cooked from scratch, grew something at home, and preserved seasonal produce — to one where ultra processed foods dominate diets, shopping baskets, and children’s understanding of what food even is. This didn’t happen overnight. It happened slowly, quietly, and systematically. Unless we understand how we got here, we cannot rebuild the food literacy our children desperately need. This is the first article in our Food Literacy Series. Exploring…

Rooted in Real Food Why Growing, Cooking & Preserving must be taught throughout the school years. We are now several generations deep into convenience culture, a world shaped by ultra processed foods, ready meals and a growing disconnect from where real food comes from. Many children leave school knowing how to analyse a poem or solve an equation, yet have no idea how to grow a carrot, cook a simple meal or preserve food for later. Some of us were fortunate enough to grow up with glimpses of real food skills woven into everyday life, gardening, cooking from scratch or being around farming and rural environments. However, that…