The Real Food Calculator is a tool developed for students to audit their campus’s dining purchases. Built around the Real Food Standards, the Real Food Calculator analyzes a campus’s purchasing patterns after students research and input food purchases from invoices they collect from their campus dining manager.

Institutions can see how much real food - Local & Community Based, Fair, Ecologically Sound, and/or Humane foods - they buy. They can use their Calculator results to set new goals, and quantify the impact they have on building a more just and sustainable food system in their communities. The results can even be used to report on the Food and Beverage section of AASHE STARS. To date, over 1000 students from 263 institutions have researched well over $432,000,000 worth of food products!

If you are interested in running the Calculator on your campus this year, please fill out this quick form and Real Food Calculator staff will follow up with you.

We are here to support institutions of higher ed all across the country to build a just and sustainable food system that is rooted in the community it feeds. Let’s take this journey together!

** Visit the Real Food Calculator website at calculator.realfoodchallenge.org **

** Feel free to reach out to calculator@realfoodchallenge.org for any questions. **