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Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper

Celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver launch ‘Bang in Some Beans’ campaign to highlight cost savings and health advantages

The Guardian - UK

Jamie Oliver spearheads new campaign urging Britons to eat more fibre to combat cancer

The ‘Bang in Some Beans” initiative is aiming to double the UK’s bean consumption by 2028

The Independent UK

Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption

Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat

The Guardian - UK

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‘My big shop used to cost £100, now it’s £150’: readers recount their shock at supermarket food bills

We hear your stories of how you balance the family finances, from buying own brands to cutting right back on weekly shop

The Guardian - UK

‘Money runs out quickly’: Nearly 300,000 disadvantaged young children set to miss out on free meals

Exclusive: Experts warns Labour’s free school meal expansion will skip over a key cohort of disadvantaged children

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: How ‘climateflation’ is pushing food prices ever higher – and changing how we eat

In today’s newsletter: Extreme heat, droughts and floods are proving disastrous for farmers on the frontline of climate change, and consumers in the supermarket, too

The Guardian - UK

Food prices rise worldwide due to climate extremes, according to new report

Food items including potatoes, onions, lettuce, cabbage, fruit and rice are hit by extreme weather that exceeded historical precedent, raising inflation and prices for consumers, a new report shows. The study is released ahead of an important United Nations food summit, to open on Sunday in Ethiopia.

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Why there’s a growing backlash against plant-based diets

People in the UK are eating too much meat – especially processed meat – according to a recent report from the Food Foundation, a UK charity.

The Conversation

Scrap guidance for meat three times a week in English schools, says charity

Report finds children eat proportionally more processed meat than adults and calls for more pulses, grains and vegetables

The Guardian - UK

Healthier food grows more expensive at twice the rate of unhealthy options

Healthier options now cost more than double per calorie compared to less healthy alternatives

The Independent UK

Healthier food grows more expensive at twice rate of unhealthy options – report

Food that is lower in fat, salt and sugar is now more than twice as expensive per calorie than less healthy products, the Food Foundation study found.

Evening Standard

UK food system ‘relentlessly’ pushing consumers to unhealthy choices – report

The food environment is shaping diets and ‘setting us up to fail’, the Food Foundation charity said.

The Independent UK

UK supermarkets using multibuy deals to encourage sales of meat, study finds

Exclusive: about one in five offers involve meat and dairy and one in ten processed meat despite known health risks

The Guardian - UK

Plant-based meat alternatives are eco-friendlier and mostly healthier, study finds

Food Foundation’s study notes that some processed ‘alternative protein’ products have high levels of salt

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The Independent UK

Two-child benefit cap impact revealed as large families more likely to go hungry, data shows

Survey shows extent of food insecurity as Keir Starmer suspends seven MPs for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

Food Foundation survey finds 14% of households experienced food insecurity in June, with hunger more prevalent in larger families

Evening Standard

UK children are shorter and fatter due to poor diet and poverty, report finds

Food Foundation says children face lifetime of ‘diet-related illnesses’ without action

The Independent UK

Children in UK getting shorter due to malnutrition in ‘national embarrassment’

The height of children aged 5 has been declining since 2013 while Jamie Oliver, Gordon Brown and Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby all call for next prime minister to ‘turn the tide on obesity’

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The Guardian - UK

UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds

Food Foundation says height of five-year-olds falling, child obesity up by a third and type 2 diabetes by a fifth

The Guardian - UK

‘Health emergency’: 15% of UK households went hungry last month, data shows

As millions skip meals and are unable to regularly afford groceries, the Food Foundation warns of widening health inequalities

The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis and energy costs fuel £600 rise in UK household food bill, analysis finds

Extreme weather contributing one-third of all food price inflation with worse to come in 2024, warn climate researchers

The Guardian - UK

Food insecurity and eating disorders are linked and rising. Where’s the plan to tackle them?

New NHS research reveals the direct effect of the cost of living crisis on people’s mental health. The most vulnerable must be protected, says journalist Dorothy Dunn

The Independent UK

Food prices double in the UK as inflation at ‘shockingly high levels’, data shows

Which? urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to intervene on behalf of struggling consumers as its latest data showed ‘shockingly high’ inflation.

Daily Mirror

Mum 'skips meals' and might have to feed her baby cow's milk as food prices skyrocket

The mum even fears she may have to start feeding her daughter cow's milk after seeing baby milk prices rise, despite risks that children under 12 months can become seriously ill from drinking it

Wales Online

Mum on breadline says she can't afford healthy food for her kids and fears having to feed cow's milk to baby

Melissa has spoken out as part of a film for The Food Foundation

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