🍳 What comes to mind when you think of the Great British Breakfast?
Don't miss Episode 3 of our #BanginSomeBeans podcast as chef and author Melissa Hemsley explores its traditions and busts some myths!
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4b0p050
Tune into the best audio this week, courtesy of Melissa Hemsley, Felicity Cloake of @theguardian.com, Bold Bean Co and Emma Bardwell:
🫘💥#BangInSomeBeans, airing every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
Thank you for spotlighting #beans @telegraph.co.uk! www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...
Pride and resilience at heart of food in the North East 💗
Last but not least, a new film and report from the fourth and final ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ on food in the 📍North East - watch in full and learn more here: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/pride-a...
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
⚠️ Despite government commitments to help families struggling with the costs of baby formula, prices are rising again!
In our latest podcast, experts and campaigners discuss what this means for parents and what needs to change.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4riuM6S
@hannahbrins.bsky.social
We are the citizens📢
Time for our leaders to listen: Good food for people is good business, and those businesses should be rewarded, rather than putting profit over health.
Read the citizen-led report on #Liverpool & #Merseyside: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/communi...
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
A visit to a food project
What do you do when your neighbourhood is a food desert?
In Liverpool and Merseyside, people are building their own solutions to get good food to communities.
Read the citizen-led report: shorturl.at/uBErJ
#foodpolicy #liverpool #merseyside @ffc-commission.bsky.social
📢 Once a staple in British kitchens for thousands of years until it disappeared from our plates - the Fava bean is making a comeback!
Don't miss Episode 2 of our #BanginSomeBeans podcast as we explore how it could change the conversation around staples like bread.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4cSZ7W4
Why do some communities have easy access to organic eggs, while others have easy access to blueberry vapes and cherry vodka?
Dominic reflects on visiting food projects in #Yorkshire as part of a citizen-led inquiry
Report out now! foodfoundation.org.uk/news/whats-d...
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
🗣️ 'No child should grow up hungry or excluded due to circumstances beyond their control' - Food Ambassador Yusuf
This is why 100+ organisations, including supermarkets and food businesses, are campaigning for a Good Food Bill!
🔗 bit.ly/4rJWU3R
✨ A Good Food Bill represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform our food system!
That's why 100+ organisations including @green-alliance.org.uk and @sustainweb.org are supporting the campaign, says our Executive Director Anna Taylor.
🎧 Learn more: bit.ly/3MXVcN0
Food Foundation Chair job advert
📢 We're looking for a Chair to lead our campaign work to ensure everyone in the UK can access healthy and sustainable food!
This is a high-profile role for a respected leader with strong political insight, a commitment to social justice and passion for healthier food systems.
🔗 shorturl.at/06YZZ
Yorkshire leading the way on food 💡
Today, a new film and report from the second ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ in 📍York and North #Yorkshire is out. Citizens heard from leaders across the food system and have shared their findings ➡️ foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-wo...
#foodsystems #healthyfood
🗣📢 More than 100 organisations, including supermarkets, food businesses and investors are calling for the introduction of a Good Food Bill!
They're warning the government our failing food system is a threat to national security and public health.
Here's why: ➡️ bit.ly/4rJWU3R
These businesses are making a BANG 💥
We're thrilled to announce brand new Keen Bean pledgers - businesses who are committing to get more beans on plates. @compassgroupplc.bsky.social @compassgroupuki.bsky.social
💥 Interested? Visit the BANG IN SOME BEANS page on our website!
#BangInSomeBeans
📢 Episode One of our Bang in Some Beans podcast series is live!
Presented by chef and author Melissa Hemsley, it features vegan cook Ian Theasby of BOSH! and Dr Jo Lunn of Waitrose.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4rCyn0C
Rising food prices
📉 Latest Office for National Statistics statistics show food inflation has fallen - so why are so many families still cutting back on fresh food?
We've identified three key reasons why food prices remain higher than before the start of the cost of living crisis.
🔗 bit.ly/3OGEXV8
📢🚀 We're launching a podcast series with TV chef and author Melissa Hemsley tomorrow!
From supermarkets and farming to sport, gut health, mental wellbeing and hormonal health, it'll explore the many benefits of beans and challenge the way the UK views them.
🎧 Trailer here: bit.ly/4u8uyCb
📢 Changes have been made to how the government classifies 'healthy' and 'less healthy' food and drinks.
This could have a wide-ranging consequences, as Kat Jenner of @obesityalliance.bsky.social explains in our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3OiIskG
@actionsaltsugar.bsky.social
Passion 🔥 Passion for food, for people, livelihoods and ecosystems. That is what citizens investigating local food systems heard in 📍#Cornwall.
Farmers and fishers are sustaining communities, but local food initiatives need more support.
🦪 Read more: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-ca...
Impact on Urban Health school food pic
⚠️ Around 215,000 children not getting the Free School Meals they're entitled to.
Research from Fix Our Food, @york.ac.uk and Bremner & Co explains why: ➡️ bit.ly/4rqfqyf
Anna Taylor speaks at a podium, gesturing with one hand while wearing a dark dress and an orange lanyard with a conference badge.
Save the date: Tuesday 19th May 2026 16:00- 17:30 at the @exeter.ac.uk Streatham campus or online.
An @exeterfood.bsky.social seminar with Anna Taylor, Exec Director of @foodfoundation.bsky.social - Ambitions for the National Food Strategy.
Get updates: forms.office.com/e/7FEYZtV025
#FoodStudies
💥 NEW film & report: What can government learn from Cornwall’s food system?
Today, we are publishing initial findings from a citizen-led investigation into local success stories and challenges in 📍Cornwall's food system.
🔗 foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-ca...
#foodsystems #healthyfood #cornwall
Vegetarian Society graphic
We're supporting calls for words such as 'burger’ and 'sausage' to continue to be allowed on plant-based products!
So we joined @vegsoc.bsky.social and 12+ food companies in writing to @ec.europa.eu to urge a rethink on a proposed ban.
🔗 shorturl.at/0Odi9
📢 New research reveals what works in school food!
To unpack the findings check out our latest podcast with experts from @unibirmingham.bsky.social @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social and Monmouthshire County Council.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4bONsXV
Mike Rayner and Anna Taylor
🗣️ 'A pie chart sitting on an NHS website doesn't feel like it is really leveraging the power it ought to have in terms of steering policy'
Our Executive Director Anna Taylor on the government's dietary guidelines.
Watch a fascinating webinar with @ox.ac.uk Prof Mike Rayner here: ➡️ bit.ly/3Mr8YYg
We know the barriers to accessing healthy food, we know people don't eat enough fibre, now we need action. BEANS are the perfect vehicle for change!
Rushda, Jo & Nirvani bring powerful testimonies about access to #fibre-rich food & why #beans are worth celebrating
#FibreFebruary #BangInSomeBeans
Why are we so obsessed with beans? 🤩
Rebecca Tobi explains why #beans are a win-win-win for our health, budgets and planet, and shares how we are partnering with businesses through the #BangInSomeBeans campaign - learn more on on our website! 💥🫘
#FibreFebruary #WorldPulsesDay #WorldPulsesDay2026
Today on World Pulses Day, we are shouting it from the rooftops (and the kitchen): #BANGINSOMEBEANS! 💥
Thomasina Miers, @hughfw.bsky.social & Ramona Hazan join the bean brigade alongside Food Ambassadors Barbara, Ryan, Wena, Magdalena & more 🌱
#FibreFebruary #WorldPulsesDay2026 #WorldPulsesDay
We're delighted the Food Ambassadors were announced as finalists last week for an APPG on School Food award for their work campaigning for free #schoolmeals & better #schoolfood.
Congratulations to the winners -
@proveguk.bsky.social!
#childrenshealth @provegint.bsky.social
Imagine a school lunch that helps every child thrive.
Young campaigners and Emma Thompson are calling for change, because every child deserves a good lunch.
▶️ Watch the full animation: youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
🌈 Join the movement: foodfoundation.org.uk/joinschoolfo...
#schoolfood #childrenshealth
