Foraged foods like nettles, cleaver, wild garlic, hawthorn and plantain are both nutritious and seasonally synced with the demands of our bodies. Nettles make a wonderful tea, wild garlic give pizazz to your pesto, and the other greens take your... Read more
On occasion you might get a hankering for sweet and sour noodles, or avocado on toast. We may also see exotic foods as a key part of our food culture and just call them plain food! Either way, we need... Read more
Streets to Kitchen is our ambitious new community partnership with local charities Square Food Foundation and St. Mungo’s Recovery College. Here we meet Square Food Operations Manager, Eloise Price, and hear how the transformative work the social enterprise does in... Read more
Until 2019, we were happily using Vegware in our cafes, because, though far from perfect and still single-use, it seemed better than plastic alternatives. Vegware is a brand of bioplastic, and while it has many good qualities, we have changed... Read more
With a background in education and care services, Simon Dyer wanted to find a way of bringing his skills and experience to work with people affected by homelessness. He finally found his calling at St. Mungo’s, Bristol – a charity he... Read more
Now employing 5 people, Bodymatter supplies independent retailers like us with crunchy granola, using mainly British and always organic ingredients. We love it, which is why we’ve chosen to promote it during this year’s Wake Up To Organic* campaign (from... Read more
Kate is a long-standing Better Food customer. 12 years ago, her son Tom was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease, a life-long auto immune disease that interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have coeliac disease are unable tolerate gluten.... Read more
By Hannah Braye, Nutritional Therapist (DipCNM, mBANT, CNHCreg) Did you know we shed millions of dead skin cells daily and create a whole new layer of skin every 17-42 days? Unpleasant, but true. Skin is the largest organ in the... Read more
Summer isn’t rosy for all of us. About 1 in 6 of us suffer from hay fever in the UK. It often develops during adolescence, and leaves us with puffy eyes, sneezy noses and itchy rashes – not much fun... Read more