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…
Live beyond the label matters and for us, this began as a simple shift in our own home, reducing our UPF intake and realising just how deeply these products shape our routines, our choices and even our understanding of what “healthy” means. The more we paid attention, the clearer it became that this isn’t just about food. It’s about how we shop, how we’re marketed to, how we make decisions for our families and how disconnected we’ve become from understanding what we are really consuming. That personal wake‑up call sparked something bigger, a space for people who are tired of being fed information that doesn’t stack up, who…
