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Figures charting the UK's changing food-buying patterns since 1974 have been released. What do they tell us about the nation?
In with chips, fresh fruit and dried pasta. Out with white bread, tinned peas and meat paste. That's the story of the modern British dinner table.
Data from 150,000 households who took part in the survey of their food and drink habits from 1974-2000 have been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
It comes from the National Food Survey, which in 1940 began asking households to fill out diaries of their weekly food and drink purchases.
Together with studies that replaced it from 2000, the survey data offers a fascinating snapshot of the nation's shifting norms of dining and imbibing. So what does it reveal?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35595530
In with chips, fresh fruit and dried pasta. Out with white bread, tinned peas and meat paste. That's the story of the modern British dinner table.
Data from 150,000 households who took part in the survey of their food and drink habits from 1974-2000 have been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
It comes from the National Food Survey, which in 1940 began asking households to fill out diaries of their weekly food and drink purchases.
Together with studies that replaced it from 2000, the survey data offers a fascinating snapshot of the nation's shifting norms of dining and imbibing. So what does it reveal?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35595530
