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Abstract

Food is an important part of everyday life, but measuring what, how, and when people eat, and with whom, is challenging. In Cross Cutting Theme 2 of the Healthy soil, Healthy food, Healthy people (H3) project, we aim to understand everyday practices and behaviors related to food, including eating out, shopping, home cooking, preparing, wasting, and storing food.

We also explore food processing, mental wellbeing, and food insecurity. In short we aim to increase the understanding of food-related social practices as a means to understanding potential transformations to the UK food system.

The findings will inform food system decision-making by identifying areas for interventions and further research. This survey is attempting to go beyond the nutritional, safety, or economic focus of surveys like the National Diet and Nutrition Survey or the Living Cost and Food Survey or Food and You, to provide additional insights on the social context of food and eating practices; providing a snapshot of current practices to complement the emphasis on longer-term trends in food-related behaviours explored by sociologists such as Alan Warde and Anne Murcott, we also buildson questions asked in Poulain et als Food Barometer of Malaysia. We acknowledge that this survey has the limitation of being self-reported. This poster shows some of the potential avenues of investigation, in the future we will use Warde’s conceptual framework on the practice of eating (Warde 2016), and Everyday Eating (Warde 2024) which have examined changing eating practices in Britain since the 1950s to identify possible leverage points for wider food system change (Meadows 1999, Benton 2021,. Abson et al 2017).

Publication Type:	Poster
Publisher Keywords:	food practices, Eating practices, 24 hour recall, Shopping habits, cooking confidence, Eating out, Food Waste, Leftovers, meal times, time use diaries
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine S Agriculture
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Healthcare Services Research & Management
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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