hello everybody and thank you for having
me here tonight I'm very happy to be
here so what I would like to share with
you tonight is some tips and tricks on
how to eat great food every day because
it is actually possible and easier than
you think so first of all a little bit
about myself well I love food and not
just ice creams so I love food and I
also dream a lot and so what is my
biggest dream well to eat great food
every day and this is actually the
reason why I'm here tonight because it's
possible to eat great food every day
just by doing your grocery shopping a
little more wisely so before we get
started I some days some definitions
what do I mean by great food well in my
opinion great food is food that is
produced locally whenever it is possible
what does that mean that means that if
some food is not produced cannot be
produced in your area let's say coffee
it's okay as long as you gather
information about how the coffee was
produced who made it where was it made
how was it made and so that's the first
thing then great foods to me is food
that is produced according two seasons
so who wants to eat tasteless and pale
strawberries in winter when you can have
juicy oranges instead and then great
food is food that is produced on a small
scale and that's because when food is
produced on a small scale the social and
economic spill overs in the region are
very strong and very positive and that's
something that we all want to happen and
then last but not least great food is
food that is produced respecting the
land and the animals
if you have a right to be happy they
have a right to be happy too and also
this thing goes back to what I was
saying before about producing food on a
small scale because usually production
on a small scale is also more respectful
of land and of of the animals so just to
wrap up why is great food produce
locally respecting lensing animals
seasonality and on a small scale well
because it's good for you and because
it's good for your community and now I
know what you're all thinking all right
great but this is difficult where do I
get good food great food every day I
don't have the time I don't know where
to get it it's just too complicated well
actually it's easier than you think it
just needs a little bit of organization
and so what I've thought is just to
share with you how I'm doing my
groceries every day because I can assure
you that I always have great food in my
fridge at my home in my place so one of
the things that I like to do a lot is to
buy food in a group and what what what
does it mean to buy food in a group well
basically it means that I get together
with a group of people we contact the
producer the food producer directly the
farmer and we buy food as a group all
together through a coordinator I find
that this way of buying food is really
helpful and useful for some kind of
products for instance non-perishable
food like flour rice pasta because since
we buy it in larger quantities than
normal I need to be able to store this
food somewhere in my in my house so this
is very very useful and also the kind of
products that i buy this way in a group
are all those products that cannot be
easily find locally so fish olive oil
oranges
and this is because that food does not
come from here so I it's more difficult
to know the story behind the behind the
production but since there's a direct
relationship with the producer when we
buy together as a group I can ask the
producer directly how did you make it
where does it come from and so it's a
trustworthy source of information and
last but not least it's also more
convenient to buy food in a group thanks
to the power of group buying so here it
goes great food is convenient first
thing then another thing that I like to
do a lot because i'm a lazy person and i
just don't have the patience to stand in
line in a supermarket i really like to
buy my food online and i find that this
way of doing my my grocery shopping is
really helpful for those products that i
buy every week like every week i know
that i eat milk i eat eggs I heat ham
cheese fruits and vegetables so every
week I go online I place my order and a
couple of days later I know that the
delivery boy will come to my office and
have it delivered to me and maybe you'll
think oh yeah but I'm never home this is
complicated where can I get my my my
deliveries well increasingly more there
are websites that allow you to receive
your groceries not just at home but also
at your office or you can go pick it up
at delivery points around the city and
so that's very very helpful and
something that I like to do a lot with
my colleagues I think it's in the good
mood good food mood I get some some
fruit some box of fruit and I have it
shipped at my office and we share it all
together and it's the perfect healthy
healthy break and so what can I say
about this online kind of shopping that
is really really
time saving in time convenient so great
food is time-saving as well and then now
something that I like to do on my spare
time instead of going shopping for
clothes or when I happen to visit a new
CT a new place I really like to go visit
farmers markets and when I go there I
start touching I start smelling I start
tasting the food I start talking to to
the producers and I find that it's a
very exciting activity it's really
especially when I'm in a new place it
tells me a lot about the places that I'm
that I'm visiting and I don't go there
with the precise idea of what I want to
buy or what I want to find I just go
there and start discovering things and
and this is really important to me
because great food is also discovery
this is what I do when I'm running out
of milk at home for instance when I'm in
a hurry or when I invite people over to
to my place and I know that for instance
my friend Ricardo is very fond of at
that particular cheese or that
particular wine I go and shop at small
shops in my neighborhood I always try to
to know the place where where I live it
and where I live and go select the the
small shops in the in the area I pick I
pick shops that I know that source their
food from small producers and local
producers and it's just really helpful
when i get out of work and it's late to
go and visit the the local shop the
local shop nearby and also it's very
important because I know that when I go
by at the small shops around the corner
I'm also helping the local economy grow
and it's always nice to speak with thee
with the shop owners because they know a
lot about the food they know a lot about
how the food was produced and and so
it's a relationship there that starts
and grows and this is to say
to me great food is relationships so
just to sum up real quickly it's
actually doable and easy to to eat great
food every day once a month I buy my
non-perishable food and food that comes
from far away through a group by buying
groups then every week I place an order
online for my weekly share of fruits and
vegetables and the things that I use the
most then when i when my fridge starts
to become empty and I ran out of food I
go and shop at the local at the local
store and then every now and then I go
visit farmers market and discover new
taste is and you and new producers and
then at the end of the week when I'm
tired and I don't feel like cooking
anymore what do i do I go wait at my
mom's place because we know that that's
where the greatest food of all is thank
you