Goodbye dear #AdamsPeanutButter. Your President is pushing me to find a new way to shop. Not always 100% Canadian but fine-tuning it daily. No more #WholeFoods. Hello #Costco and #FreshStreet.

I am pleased that this paper has been published. I helped conceptualise the project, advocating for a place-based approach to #FreshStreet to reduce stigma and repair
#fooddeserts
Now taken forward by @drcpettingerrd.bsky.social and
#FoodSEqual

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Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: the Fresh Street pilot cluster randomised controlled trial - BMC Public Health Background Households in areas of socio-economic deprivation are more likely to consume diets low in fruit and vegetables. Fresh Street is a place-based fruit and vegetable voucher scheme with voucher...

How impressive is this pilot! Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: the Fresh Street pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 25, 29 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s128... #FreshStreet #SDoH #NutritionalSufficiency

a colleague and I undertook a pilot voucher scheme. That was #FreshStreet. The idea was to give people vouchers for fruit and veg that they could spend with small scale vendors. What was different and important about it was that it was place based. I wanted every household on the street to be given the vouchers because I thought it would reduce stigma, change food culture and It would keep the money hyper local and steady the market for that vendor. It was more than just a health project. The project has been handed over to others now so I am no longer involved, but the idea continues and is still something I think about. It’s kind of the underpinning idea behind my recent provocation about a #UniversalBasicDiet. What if we gave people £5 a week to use on fruit and veg in their market or with a fruit and veg vendor? They could choose not to use it. But most households on the FreshStreet project did. We even saw in Bradford a market trader taking a van into a food desert so people could use the vouchers with him. We also found that people shared the food, talked about the food, and ate differently. No one was being told not to eat other things, they were just being given the capability to eat better. Picture of Trump with a lot of junk food.

What if we had a #UniversalBasicDiet? #Freshstreet #Foodstudies

Excited 2b hosting our #foodsequal
(Health) #Plymouth celebration 🥳event on Fri 13th Dec (2-5pm Salvation Army Whitleigh)
Sharing #findings from our local
#Freshstreet #Fruit & #Vegetable
project 🍌🍎🥕🥦 PLUS games & give away🤩
#TamarFresh

Eventbrite link here👉: tinyurl.com/44b34cya

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