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  • Greek experimental musician  Tasos Stamou  for  Epsilon magazine - Greece
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  • This is the central square in Divri on my first visit to the village; on the left was a cultural centre, built in 1967 above  the  church, then demolished for the rebuilt church. The plan was to build a bell tower higher than the communist memorial.
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  • Two Afghan boys wearing Real Madrid t-shirts proud that made the journey to Greece posing minutes after their boat landed on the beach of Skala Sykaminias, Lesbos island, Greece.Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • Stenje kids / Albania
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  • Tave / Kids
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  • 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
  • We spend about 300zł (€75) a week on food. We consume plain food. We don't buy any beverages or any industrial and processed food. We like to buy eggs from the village and freshly dug vegetables from the market .We buy all of our vegetables from the farmer's market but for big quantities we shop from the farmers in the village. When our kids were young we used to buy milk from the village but now there are no cows left in the village. We always eat at home. Once or twice a year we buy ready-made food and once a year on “our day” we go to a restaurant. Maria cooks in the house. She learned many things from her mother but when she got married she improved by reading cookery books. Now she knows by heart 32 different recipes for soups. Food should be made and eaten when it is still hot, not to stay for some days. We like simple meals with plain taste not so refined. We like Polish tastes. Variety is very important in our food, not to cook and eat the same food all the time. During our meals we read the newspaper and we discuss about the news.  Back in the old days we use to eat more fat food, more kluśki more pierogi. Now we eat more vegetables and more fruits that weren't available in Poland  in the past. I remember when we were kids we used to eat bread with sugar and that was a real delicacy, our kids didn't even want to hear about it.
    Polish Family #21
  • I saw many people, old people, grandparents, children all dead on the road. Their relatives left the bodies behind because they had to run, they had to escape. <br />
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You can only help the ones who are alive, you cannot do anything about the dead. <br />
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I saw kids, newborn babies, one month, two month old dead on the mountains and on the side of the road to Syria. More than 300 kids died on the way.<br />
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We didn’t have anything with us, we were walking for 36 hours and we were very very tired.
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  • 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
  • We spend around 70zł (€17.5) a week on food. We try to keep a balance between price and quality. On holidays we buy the best quality but on normal days we try to keep it cheap. Price is important for us. We shop in Carrefour and Selgros hypermarkets where you can buy bigger amounts but cheaper. We go there by car. We cook all the time, we make our own food. Today because we didn’t have time we bought this readymade Silesian potato dumplings (Kluski śląskie) there were good but we won’t by them again. Danuta cooks, she learned from mother but she learned many recipes from the neighbours too. In the old days when our kids were young the three families living in this floor were making cakes every Sunday and we were exchanging them. It was really nice for the kids.
    Polish Family # 19
  • Helena and Leszek spend about 250 Zloty (EUR60) a week on food. We buy good quality food we care very much about it. We don't shop in Tesco or other hypermarkets because the food there tastes of plastic. In those hypermarkets there are potatoes from Israel, carrots from Turkey etc but few Polish products. Poland is the biggest producer of apples in the EU but in the hypermarkets you only find apples from Holland. We buy our meat from a butcher and our bread from a bakery. Once a week we go to a supermarket in Pulawy to do a big shopping. In the spring and the summer we buy fruits and vegetables from neighbouring farms but in winter there are only potatoes for sale. <br />
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There are no restaurants in our village we only cook and eat at home. We cook only traditional food with local products. We like Polish cuisine not sushi or frutti di mare. Many young Poles are influenced by the TV and the magazines so they eat "fashionable" foreign food. Helena cooks and sometimes when Anita is at home she helps too. When the kids were young and Helena was working Leszek was doing the cooking. Helena learned to cook form her parents but she tries to do new things and experiment on Polish cuisine. In the winter we eat more soups and more meat. There are few vegetables growing naturally in winter so we eat kompot (Polish fruit stew) instead. In the summer we like light soups - milk soups with tomato, paprika, cucumber, berries, etc. We try to keep the tradition. We pass to our kids what we inherited from our parents.
    Polish Family # 11 - set
  • A couple of days later my sister called me and said that ISIS gathered all the Yazidis, around 1700 people and took all their valuables. Then they separated men from women and children. Then they brought trucks and start taking away the men, group by group, 20 - 25 men at the time. <br />
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After a while they start hearing gunshots from outside the village. ISIS took some boys too, but they didn’t kill the ones who didn’t have hair on their legs, and they brought them back to their mothers. Those kids witness the execution of the men and told the women what happened.  <br />
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The women asked ISIS if that’s true, ISIS said no, we didn’t kill anyone we just took the men to another place. When they asked what were those gunshots they heard  ISIS said that was nothing, there were some bad dogs outside the village and we shot at the air to scare them.
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  • Two refugee kids are carrying logs to their tent.<br />
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 Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
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  • An Afghan family rests in the field behind the petrol station near Idomani. The kids enjoy the warmth of the sun and playing. In the last few months the fields near this petrol station have become a transit camp for thousands of refugees and migrants waiting to cross to Greek Macedonian border.
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  • Hara Tasoglou, head of communications of ActionAid Hellas talking to kids from Iraq in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Kids from Iraq outside their tent in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Roma kids looking the red sea, after a while they swam. On Monday  June 8th, 2009 the sea was red. Aspropyrgos, Saronic Gulf, Western Attica
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  • Two refugee kids are carrying logs to their tent.<br />
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 Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha made it to Germany, her final destination. I thought they would be happy to take a picture under the sign, but both her and the kids were exhausted from the long uphill walk.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha and her kids arrive at the back of Vienna central station were a temporary welcome centre has been set up. There are volunteers who give information, food and psychological support.  There are hundreds of people there, reuniting, reorganising and using the free wifi to contact their families and friends.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha took a taxi to Vienna, together with the three Syrian teenagers who were helping her carry her kids from Serbia to Hungary. As soon as the taxi drove off everyone fell asleep.
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  • Evening Friday 11th of September 2015 at PIKPA camp, Lesbos, Greece. After registering with the Greek Police Aysha was free to move out of Kara Tepe camp. Since she was pregnant and with two kids she was admitted to PIKPA camp, outside Mytilini town, run by volunteers for women, families and refugees who want to apply for asylum in Greece. They gave her clean clothes, shoes and a little hut with beds to spend the night.
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  • Afghans rest in the field behind the petrol station near Idomani. The kids enjoy the warmth of the sun and playing. In the last few months the fields near this petrol station have become a transit camp for thousands of refugees and migrants waiting to cross to Greek Macedonian border.
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  • Hara Tasoglou, head of communications of ActionAid Hellas talking to kids from Iraq in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Hara Tasoglou, head of communications of ActionAid Hellas talking to kids from Iraq in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Kids from Iraq in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Kids from Iraq in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • MSF psychiatrist Lena Cachou is doing a programme with Afghan kids with the help of translator Bashir Salarzai outside the mobile camper van of MSF at Mytiline port, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • MSF psychiatrist Lena Cachou is doing a programme with Afghan kids with the help of translator Bashir Salarzai outside the mobile camper van of MSF at Mytiline port, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • Leila 31, Jorahan 35 and one their kids from Kunduz Afghanistan boiling water to make tea in Kara Tepe camp.
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  • Kids playing amid piles of rubbish in Kara Tepe camp.
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  • Kids playing amid piles of rubbish in Kara Tepe camp.
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  • Kids playing football inside Kara Tepe camp.
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  • Some of the girls had hidden their phones and they text us that they were taken to Mosul. <br />
Then ISIS took the women and the children to the high school of Kogo. They took some women who weren’t that beautiful, 40 -50 year old behind the school and we heard gunshots again. They killed the ugly women and the older women. The beautiful girls were kidnapped.<br />
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Pregnant women and women with kids were upstairs. Women over 40 who didn’t have children were executed. Beautiful and young women were taken by bus to Mosul. After they finished their first sorting  downstairs they went upstairs and took women with children and pregnant women to other muslim towns.
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  • MSF psychiatrist Lena Cachou is doing a programme with Afghan kids with the help of translator Bashir Salarzai outside the mobile camper van of MSF at Mytiline port, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • MSF psychiatrist Lena Cachou is doing a programme with Afghan kids with the help of translator Bashir Salarzai outside the mobile camper van of MSF at Mytiline port, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • MSF doctor Dimitris Giannousis playing football with refugee kids at the port of Mytiline.
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  • Kids playing amid piles of rubbish in Kara Tepe camp.
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  • We live in this house for 25 years. We needed some space for our 5 children when they where young. Also it was important to us to have a house with a garden where we could cultivate vegetables for the kids. Before we moved here we were living in a 18m2, two bedroom flat. When we were sleeping at night we were covering the whole floor.
    Polish Family #21 - house
  • Eleni 42,  Michał 45, Natalia 20, Jan 16, Aleksander 11<br />
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Borówiec, Poznań county, Poland    higher income, higher education <br />
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Michał is a publisher and member of the local council<br />
Eleni is working as a trainer<br />
Natalia is a student <br />
Jan and Aleksander are going to school<br />
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We eat together everyday. We have breakfast together, then the kids eat something light at school and when we are all back at 4-5 in the afternoon we have dinner. One of the things that happening during the family meals is that Michał is trying to teach the boys savoir-vivre.
    Polish Family #22 - portrait
  • 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.
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  • The dinner table of Saturday 6 March  2010 at 16:57<br />
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For today's dinner we bought everything at the deli market. Our kids are not big funs of fish so this is not a food that we cook very often. Our favourite food is a very plain dish, pasta with tomatoes. Oleg prefers rare beef stakes.
    Polish Family #22 - dinner table
  • This house is 120 years old and belongs to our family. We moved here 22 years ago from Warsaw because here is not polluted and the air is clean. Now are kids have moved out. Anita in Lublin where she studies and Lukasz lives in Warsaw.
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  • Rafal 35,  Ania 29,  Tomek 3½,  Elzbieta 59,  Jacek 61<br />
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Lublin, average income, higher education <br />
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Elzbieta is a pensioner. She used to work as a food engineer in a frozen food factory and now she is a coordinator in the multigenerational club for volunteers in Lublin. <br />
Jacek is a pensioner too. He was a food engineer, director of a milk company.<br />
Ania is an academic teacher in the economy and management faculty of the agricultural university of Lublin and she does a research on the dairy industry in Lubelski region. <br />
Rafal is a prosecutor. <br />
Tomek goes to kindergarten. <br />
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Almost every second Sunday Rafal, Ania and Tomek come for the Sunday lunch. The Sunday lunch with all the family is very important for us because we are all together and we celebrate that with a delicious meal. We all work hard during the week, me and my husband on the charity and our kids on their jobs, so on Sunday we can relax, we have fun, we spend time together and we chat to our lovely grandson. The atmosphere is special. On Christmas and other holidays all the family eats together; we have a big party.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • I spend 100 Zloty(EUR20) or less per week for food. I care about what i eat, I am a vegetarian.  I wish I could stay vegan but it is very difficult because sometimes I have to buy what is available. I don't buy any organic food, it's too expensive and there are no organic shops in the area. I shop in the market and in local shops. I don't like supermarkets. They are too loud and big for me. <br />
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When I am in Warsaw during the week I eat only  at home. On weekends when I go to the school of fine arts in Radom I eat there. <br />
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Now that the kids away we eat all together every week or every two weeks, it depends. I enjoy the family dinner. It is nice, it is my first time that I live alone without my children so now every time we eat together is like holidays. <br />
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I cook for 30 years but i still like learning new recipes. Cooking is like art  so I like experiment. For me a good salad makes a good meal, with spices and never mind what else. We eat more fruits in the summer. I like to buy strawberries and eat them all day.
    Polish Family # 05 - set
  • The dinner table of Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 19:00<br />
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I love rice. When I am alone I make rice with one salad. Today because of the kids I made two salads. I bought the ingredients from local shops. I had some stuff from yesterday but realised it was too little so I bought some more. It cost me 20 Zloty (EUR 5)
    Polish Family # 05 - dinner table
  • Fox with sunglasses  / Kid
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  • Marcin 30  Joanna 34  Ignacy 2<br />
Lódz, Poland  average income, higher education<br />
Marcin is a cameraman and Joanna is Mama/ photographer<br />
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Almost every Sunday we eat at our parents. One week in Joanna's, one week in Marcin's and sometimes all together. When Marcin was a kid all of his mother's family was coming from all over Poland to his grandmother's house for Christmas. Joanna remembers that when she was a kid the lunch on weekdays was quick and simple but on the weekends they used to go to her uncle and grandparents.
    Polish Family # 02 - portrait
  • A Syrian kid climbs a tree behind the petrol station 20 km from Idomeni. In the last few months the fields near this petrol station have become a transit camp for thousands of refugees and migrants waiting to cross to Greek Macedonian border.
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  • A pair of kid’s shoes on a tree at the beach of Skala Sykamias, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • I spend about 100zł (€25) a week on food. I want the food that I buy to be fresh and without dirty kilometres, I don’t buy products that coming from the other side of the planet. I buy local products without E’s. Also I like to grow my own herbs in my flat. I go mainly on the local shops for my everyday shopping. For special things like Parmesan, olives etc I go to Carrefour. I cook at home, I got to bar mleczny – (milky bars), sometimes I eat at Kombinator - it depends. Here in Nowa Huta there is a grocery run by old ladies who sell readymade meals I buy from them sometimes too. I cook and I like to experiment a lot. <br />
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You eat by the eyes – so a good meal is the one that looks good. You need time for a good meal, a way to serve it and nice atmosphere. A dinner with plastic plates is not a good one if you put candles on the table you make a difference.  In the summer I eat light food. Vegetables are cheaper in the summer and I use them a lot. I like strawberries but I don’t buy them in the winter. I remember when I was kid on holidays and I had to eat dishes that I didn’t like I was hiding them.
    Polish Family #20
  • Elzbieta and Jacek spend about 200 Zloty (EUR50) a week for food. We care about the food we buy. We buy healthy food but we believe that labels on food - organic, POP, etc - are more of a marketing thing than real quality assurance. We have a plot 10Km outside the town where in the summer we cultivate vegetables, herbs and fruits for our own consumption. We make preserves, pickles and we put herbs in salt for the winter. We keep all that in the basement. Our basement looks like a store. Mainly we shop in the local shops and in farmer's market. Rarely we go to supermarkets. Ania remembers that when she was a kid, 20 years ago, they weren't many sweets or vegetables in Poland. It was a hard time, people couldn't find meat and everybody had ration cards. <br />
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We cook and we eat together everyday. We only go to restaurants on special occasions.  We are busy during the day so over the dinner we have the opportunity to talk about everything, good things, our problems, to enjoy each other and have a good time. <br />
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We all cook, we learned from our parents. A good meal depends on the products, if they are fresh or not. Healthy, fresh, natural products from the farmer's market make a good meal.  In the summer we eat more vegetables and fruits. We like tomatoes very much; we could eat 1Kg of tomatoes a day.  Also in the summer we don't eat soups but only salads.
    Polish Family # 10 - set
  • Marek 27, Teresa 52, Robert 49 - he was at work<br />
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Stary Rembertów, Warsaw, Poland  average income, medium education <br />
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Marek is an IT student and Teresa a housewife.  <br />
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Four times a week we eat together. A good meal depends on the taste of the cook. During the family dinner we have a nice, warm atmosphere and a better contact between us. Our food varies by our mood. Our cuisine is changing depending on the situation but not on the season. The Sunday lunch is important because we eat all together. Teresa remembers that when she was a kid the meals in her family where of traditional Polish cuisine.
    Polish Family # 14 - portrait
  • We spend about 250 to 300 zloty (EUR60 to EUR75) per 10 days for food. We don't like to buy our vegetables from supermarkets, we prefer small shops or the farmer's market. We do not believe in organic products. In the supermarkets we buy all the cleaning stuff, tins and processed food. We buy meat always from the same butcher, also bread from the same bakery.  <br />
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We eat everyday together and most of the time we cook at home, rarely we order a pizza or a sushi or we go to a restaurant. Good company makes a good meal. We sit together, drink some wine, fight with the kid - she wants everything- talk about everyday things, gossip. Often we invite our parents to dinner with us and our house is open to friends. Konrad does the cooking and Ania is the assistant, but Ania always makes the desserts. Konrad is self-taught, when he was a student he was working in a restaurant in the USA, he likes trying new recipes. He enjoys making pizzas. Our food is a little bit different over the seasons. We don't buy tomatoes in the winter and we don't like cabbage and fat food in the summer.
    Polish Family # 03 - set
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