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How Britain eats

The live read on Britain’s food mood – what people are cooking, craving, cutting back on, treating themselves to, and where pressure is changing how the nation eats.

Smiling woman in dungarees holding a phone and a paper grocery bag, with a crate of fresh vegetables and a fruit bowl behind
The contrarian

Organic lost to clarity, not price

05 Jun 2026

We're researching our health harder than ever, organic is the one claim that got cloudier.

By Alison Bainbridge

Older man smiling as he lifts the lid off a cooking pot, with fresh vegetables and a salad sandwich behind him
The unsaid

Scraped together, the new from scratch

05 Jun 2026

Not missing meals, we're just not quite having one either.

By Laura Gillespie

Woman with her arms full of groceries and shopping trolley
The contrarian

Borrowed growth

22 Apr 2026

Online grocery just posted its best quarter in four years. The customer driving it doesn't love you, doesn't plan to stay, and would rather be browsing the aisles.

By Alison Bainbridge