Kicking UPF out of school meals. Credit: www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0
Real Bread in your school?
On the menu, in the classroom and beyond.
The Real Bread Campaign wants to hear from and about every primary school that does one or more of the following:
- Runs hands-on Real Bread making skills and knowledge sharing sessions with children.
- Serves Real Bread on its lunch menu.
- Uses bread as a topic in any curriculum subject.
- Offers Real Bread in its breakfast club and/or after school provision.
- Grows, harvests, threshes and mills wheat in lessons or as extra-curricular activity - perhaps as part of a gardening club.
- Offers Real Bread making workshops to adult members of the school’s community (parents, grandparents, teachers, local residents etc.)
- Runs a microbakery.
The Campaign is doing this to collect inspiring examples, and find potential partners, to develop a (hopefully) fundable project.
Why?
Before there was ultra-processed food (UPF), there were the delicious, nutritious originals – including Real Bread.
The Real Bread Campaign believes that every child should have the opportunity to enjoy Real Bread and be empowered with the skills to make their own; while being provided with the knowledge (and inspired to ask questions) to have the chance to make better-informed food choices.
Home
Making Real Bread in-house offers school cooks opportunities to learn extra skills and knowledge as part of their personal and professional development. This can contribute to enhanced job satisfaction and even overall mental wellbeing.
Away
Buying Real Bread from a small, independent bakery helps to support skilled jobs in your local community and keep money circulating in your local economy.
What is Real Bread?
The Campaign defines Real Bread as made without chemical raising agents (eg baking soda/powder), so-called processing aids or other additives. Read more.
See also
- Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook (includes Lessons in Loaf guidance)
- Real Bread on the Menu
- Knead to Know…more about setting up a microbakery
Real Bread Campaign: The Real Bread Campaign finds and shares ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet. Whether your interest is local food, community-focussed small enterprises, honest labelling, therapeutic baking, or simply tasty toast, everyone is invited to become a Campaign supporter.
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