A Slice of Bread and Butter
The voice of The Bread and Butter Thing - with stories from the frontline of the cost of living crisis from one of the UK's leading food charities.
A Slice of Bread and Butter
Latest Episodes
What If The Problem Is Not Aspiration But The Pathway
Diana joins us with her dog Gizmo in the background and tells the kind of story that sticks with you. what it’s like to live through a nervous breakdown, carry anxiety for years, and still keep turning up as a parent?We talk about the fe...
Breaking Bread with Hovis
Bread is cheap, familiar, and everywhere which might be exactly why we waste so much of it. We sit down with Chris from Hovis to pull back the curtain on what “bread waste” actually looks like in UK bakery manufacturing and distribution, from o...
Barfoots of Botley and surplus veg
“Food waste” is often just food that lost its label, its looks, or its moment. We sit down with Steve Brown, Head of Customer Technical at Barfoots (and sustainability lead for factory operations), to get specific about what surplus means insid...
What If The Problem Is Not Your Budget
£2.47 left after bills. Not “after treats”, not “after a big shop”, after the basics. That single number from Tracy in Warrington says more about the UK cost of living crisis than a hundred hot takes about budgeting ever could, and it sets the ...
What Does A Fair Benefits System Look Like When You Can Barely Stand
A single jump. No warning. One second you’re proud of a job well done, the next you can’t feel your legs. For our 100th episode, Vic phones in as a roving reporter from rainy York and we share Steve’s story from Manchester, starting with the da...