Welcome to the final edition of our Lent Challenge newsletter.

Thank you for being part of this journey and spending Lent with us. We hope you enjoyed experimenting a little and that our newsletter helped keep you motivated and offered some useful insights along the way.

As promised, we’d love to hear about your experience: what worked, what was challenging, and what you’re taking away from it. With your help in filling out this short end survey, we’ll calculate our shared impact and feature it in our next newsletter and on social media.

Now it is only up to you to decide how much of these new habits you are going to keep!

We know we only scratched the surface when it comes to food and diet—there’s so much more we’d love to explore. What ends up on our plates is shaped by a complex web of factors, many of which are beyond our control.

But as our current lifestyles face growing pressure from environmental and social challenges, more and more of us are rethinking the habits we once took for granted, including the way we eat. Our focus on reducing meat consumption grew from both the Lenten tradition in Christianity and the ecological burden of industrial-scale meat production.

And you might be asking where does an individual fit into all this? We believe that culture shapes policy. And culture begins to shift when enough of us choose to live differently.

That’s why Our Daily Bread (ODB) has been established. To support and amplify the voices of those already working towards a more just and sustainable food system: faith-based organisations, local parishes, grassroots movements. We want their message to reach further, to reach you, and to reach those shaping food policy, subsidies, and public priorities.

To help sum our message of the last six weeks up, we’ve created a short infographic capturing the main ideas we explored together, you find it below. 

Going forward, this Lent Challenge newsletter will become part of our general ODB newsletter, where we’ll continue exploring the complex challenges of our food systems and why we need all of you to help tip the scale. If you wish not to receive our newsletter further, please unsubscribe below. 

Thank you again for walking this path with us and we wish you a Happy Easter.

If you’re part of a faith-based organisation working on food systems and would like to join forces, we’d love to connect. Reach out to us at info@ourdailybreadnetwork.eu