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  • The dinner table of Wednesday 27 January 2010 at 15:37<br />
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The meal we had today is one of our favourites, it's easy to make and we like it a lot so we have it often. The meat comes from our local butcher. We choose it and he minces it for us. We bought the potatoes from a farmer in Silesia, we order them and he brings them to our home. The sauerkraut comes from our basement. Today's meal cost us 15 Zloty (EUR3.75)
    Polish Family # 09 - dinner table
  • We don't know how much we spend on food, we don't consider counting it, but most probably 300 Zloty (EUR75) a week. We care about the quality of the food we buy; we only buy something that we know that is good. We shop in small shops and medium size supermarkets, we never go to hypermarkets and we avoid discount stores. We buy all of our vegetables from the local farmer's market and meat from the meat market in town.  We also make our own pickles, preserves, sauerkraut, jam etc. For those we buy the ingredients directly from farmers. During winter we eat more sauerkraut but in the summer we prefer fresh vegetables. We don't fully trust fresh vegetables in the winter like tomatoes and cucumber. During communism we used to grow our own vegetables in our garden and we had a little plot outside the town where we were growing potatoes. <br />
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We don't like the taste of readymade food so we prefer to cook at home. Also this is cheaper. We eat together everyday when Halina comes back from work at 15:00. Halina does most of the cooking but sometimes our son Pawe? cooks too. We are self made cooks, we didn't learned from anyone we just like to experiment. For Halina quality makes a good meal, for Eugeniusz quantity but we both agree that a well spiced meal is a good meal.
    Polish Family # 09 - set
  • The dinner table of Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:18<br />
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The sauerkraut came from the basement. Piotr is making a barrel of kapuszta every month or two. Also the potatoes came from the basement. We buy sacks of potatoes from a farmer and keep them for the winter. We only bought the chicken from the market. We use to have chickens in out back garden but it is too much of a hard work. The meal today cost us 15 Zloty (EUR3.75)
    Polish Family # 08 - dinner table
  • Eugeniusz moved in that house with his parents in 1971, when he married Halina in 1985 they moved in the top floor. We like it here because it is a calm neighbourhood, peaceful and close to the town centre.
    Polish Family # 09 - house
  • Halina 52, Eugeniusz 51, Pawel 17 <br />
Rybnik, Poland average income, medium education<br />
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Eugeniusz is a pensioner. He was working as a coal-miner in KWK Borynia. <br />
Halina is working in the public insurance company in Rybnik. <br />
Pawel goes to high school. <br />
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The Sunday lunch is very important for us because our son Dariusz who studies in Katowice comes home and we eat together. We start our Sunday lunch early at 12:00 and then at 15:00 Halina servers the desserts, home made cakes we don't like to buy ready made cakes. At family meals we talk, we are all together so we can discuss things, also Halina is "interrogating" Dariusz about his life in Katowice. Both of our families come from the countryside so when we were kids our meals were very simple. Potatoes with cabbage, potatoes with milk. We were eating what we could grow, but we had access to fresh meat too.
    Polish Family # 09 - portrait
  • Piotr 66, Janina 65<br />
Zabrze, Poland average income, medium education<br />
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Both we are pensioners now, but we used to work in the construction industry. Piotr in the power plant and Janina in a house building company.
    Polish Family # 08 - portrait
  • We live in this house since 1985. It's quiet and calm area close to work with friends living next to us.
    Polish Family # 08 - house
  • We spend about 400 Zloty to 500 Zloty  (EUR100-EUR125) a week on food. We have all the supermarkets close to our flat. Once a week we go for a big shopping but when Kamilla brings the kids from school she buys few things. When the big multinational supermarkets opened in the area all the small shops went bankrupt, they couldn't compete on the prices. We are looking for a balance between quality and price in the food we buy. Sometimes the cheapest things aren't the best buys. We care about the eggs so we buy them form a local farmer. Also Kinga cannot drink the milk from the supermarket so we get that from a farmer. <br />
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We always cook and eat at home, the only exception is when we buy a ready made "Flaki" a traditional Polish meat stew. Everyday the four of us eat together.  The family dinner is a celebration for us. We sit all together and we talk to the kids but we don't talk during eating, only afterwards. We know that we had a good meal when we feel full. Also we have to bear in mind what the kids like, we don't cook meals that the kids don't like. We eat when Tomek comes back from work and Kinga from school. Kamilla cooks the meals; she learned how to cook from her family. When Kamilla was in the hospital to give birth to Katarzyna Tomasz was cooking spaghetti everyday and Kinga liked that a lot. Our son Lukasz comes back from work at 11 and he is tired, his mother sleeps so he orders Pizza and beer. That is his diet.
    Polish Family # 07 - set
  • Ewa 58, Zdzislaw 59, Grzegorz 29, Hildegarda 84<br />
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Rybnik, higher income, higher education<br />
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Hildegarda is a pensioner now. She was forced labour in Germany during WWII, then she was working in a bag factory and then in a cable factory. <br />
Zdzislaw is an engineer, technical director of pipe factory. <br />
Ewa is a pensioner.  She was working as a sports teacher in local school. <br />
Grzegorz works for an NGO
    Polish Family # 06 - portrait
  • Tomasz 46, Kamilla 45, Kinga 11, Katarzyna 7 <br />
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Jastrzebie Zdrój, average income, medium education<br />
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Tomasz is the head electrician of a plastics factory. He thinks that he earns enough so his wife can take care of the kids that is a full time job. Lukasz the younger son who works as a baker contributes a bit to the house budget.<br />
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On Sundays Lukasz goes to work very early so again we don't have the opportunity to eat all together. The Sunday lunch is earlier, usually around 2 o'clock. After the lunch we stay together and talk but the kids run to the computer to play games.
    Polish Family # 07 - portrait
  • The dinner table of Monday 25 January 2010 at 15:40<br />
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The kids love pancakes and Kinga likes pasta in her soup. We bought everything from the local Kaufland supermarket. We like the big variety of products there. Everything cost no more than 20 Zloty (EUR5)
    Polish Family # 07 - dinner table
  • Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda spend 200 Zloty (EUR40) a week on food, Grzegorz who lives in Warsaw spends the same amount of money. Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda do not buy organic products but they don't buy low quality food either. They try to keep a balance between quality and price. They don't use fat but olive oil instead and they eat loads of salads. Everyday at lunchtime they have a glass of carrot and apple juice. They mostly shop at supermarkets except the meat that they buy from a local butcher. They eat at home, sometimes go to a restaurant but never buy a ready-made meal. The dinner is an opportunity to discuss what happened during the day, what happened at Zdzislaw's work, how was Ewa's day if Hildegarda had any problems and wondering what Grzegorz is doing in Warsaw.<br />
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Grzegorz tries to buy good and natural food but because he works a lot sometimes he has to have lunch in a restaurant. He never steps in a supermarket; he only shops in the local bazaar. He cooks  at home from time to time but usually he eats at restaurants. <br />
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Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda eat together everyday and Grzegorz joins them when for Christmas and whenever he is in town. Ewa does the cooking. She is self-taught, he reads cookery books, recipes in magazines and gets recipes from friends too. The side dishes vary by season. We have more salads and a bigger variety of vegetables and fruits.
    Polish Family # 06 - set
  • We finish building this house in 1983 and we moved in. It is a calm place, quiet and the neighbours are nice. In the summer is very green.
    Polish Family # 06 - house
  • Mielone Klops  - Polish fried hamburgers <br />
Serves 3 <br />
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Ingredients: 	700gr minced pork potatoes  <br />
1 loaf dry bread<br />
1 egg<br />
¼ teaspoon salt<br />
¼ teaspoon black pepper <br />
1 clove of garlic<br />
vegetable oil<br />
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Preparation :<br />
1.	Soak ¾ of the bread in water until soft <br />
2.	Grind the rest of the bread to make bread crumbles <br />
3.	Mix the soaked bread with the meat and the other ingredients<br />
4.	Make the burgers and coat them with bread crumbles <br />
5.	In a pan add enough vegetable oil to cover the burger and fry the burgers until ready<br />
6.	Turn occasionally
    Polish Family # 09 - dish
  • Pork rib soup with vegetables and pasta <br />
Serves 4-5<br />
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Ingredients: 	500gr pork ribs<br />
1 carrot<br />
1 parsley root<br />
1 leek<br />
½ tablespoon of vegeta <br />
150gr concentrated tomato <br />
1 tablespoon smetana <br />
300gr pasta<br />
¼ teaspoon salt <br />
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Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the ribs and the vegetables in large pieces <br />
2.	Put the ribs in a large saucepan with 2litres of water and bring to boil<br />
3.	Add the vegetables and simmer for 20mins<br />
4.	Add the vegeta and simmer for 45 more minutes<br />
5.	At the end ass the tomato paste and the smetana<br />
6.	In a separate pot boil the pasta for 10-15 mins<br />
7.	Put the pasta on the plate and add the soup
    Polish Family # 07 - dish
  • It is hard to say how much money we spend on food. Sometimes more sometimes less; let's say around 300 Zloty (EUR75) a week. We care about the food we buy. Quality is very important, our older son who is managing restaurants convince us about the importance of good quality food. We do half of our shopping in supermarkets and half in local shops. But we also make our own food like sauerkraut and other things. <br />
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We mostly cook and eat at home together it is a habit for us, it's something normal. We have been eating together for the past 45 years. Janina cooks most of the meals. Piotr makes the breakfast everyday and he makes some special meals - cabbage soup and others. We learned how to cook from our parents. The joy of eating makes a good meal. Piotr celebrates food it is important for him and he wants to be satisfied after the meal.  Sometimes we go to a restaurant but we never buy ready made meals. Three times a year our sons visit us and then we eat all together, those are the most important meals for us. We feel internal satisfaction when the kids are around.
    Polish Family # 08 - set
  • We live in this flat since 1974. The neighbours are OK and it is a calm and quite place with good access to facilities. We are happy that we have all those shops around us, the school is close and the kindergarten too. You can see the school from our balcony. We have a MacDonald's restaurant near us and the cinema is not that far away.
    Polish Family # 07 - house
  • Kompot<br />
Serves 2<br />
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Ingredients: 	5 big apples<br />
½ lt water<br />
100 gr sugar<br />
pinch cinnamon <br />
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Preparation :<br />
1.	Peel the apples and cut them into quarters <br />
2.	Add the sugar and the apples in the water <br />
3.	Boil until the apples are soft <br />
4. 	Add the cinnamon and serve cold
    Polish Family # 08 - dish
  • The dinner table of Sunday 20 January 2010 at 14:50<br />
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This meal today is a good meal but our favourite meal is breakfast in the balcony. We bought the meat from a local butcher and the rest from a supermarket. It cost 50 Zloty (EUR 12,50)
    Polish Family # 06 - dinner table
  • Leek soup with croutons - Zupa porowa<br />
Serves 4<br />
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Ingredients: 	1 leek  <br />
2 Knorr beef bullions <br />
2 tablespoons buckwheat <br />
¼ teaspoon black pepper <br />
½ loaf of bread <br />
2 tablespoons of butter <br />
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Preparation for the soup : <br />
1.	Cut the leek in to small pieces and place it in a saucepan <br />
2.	Add 1 litre of water and the knorr beef bullions and bring it to boil <br />
3.	Mix it with a mixer add the pepper and the buckwheat<br />
4.	Simmer for 5 mins <br />
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Preparation for the croutons:<br />
1.	Cut the bread into small pieces<br />
2.	Add butter in a saucepan in high heat <br />
3.	When butter melts add the bread and fry
    Polish Family # 06 - dish
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