Hello again everyone,
This topic isn't really connected to what were are doing in class but it's been something I've been thinking about recently. Where do you do your food shopping? Do you look at labels to see where the food has come from? I never used to but now after noticing that garlic in Pingo Doce comes from China, asparagus comes from Peru and peppers from Morocco I've started looking for things that are from Portugal - more difficult than it seems! What about you? Do you care about what you eat and where it comes from?
Looking forward to reading your entries
Paul
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Hello :)
I can say I don’t have any idea where does food that I eat comes from, actually I have never looked at labels. But I promise next time I will take that into consideration and try to buy food made in Portugal.
To be honest I already knew about the fact that most of supermarket food comes from foreign countries. It shows we are economically depending on others.
In my opinion, as consumers we should always prefer national products in order to rise the numbers of production and the manufacturers profit of our own country.
Wish you all a nice weekend.
Joana Silva
Hi!!
I prefer do my food shopping in small places like Modelo or Minipreço. I hate the confusion of big areas. So, when I go make purchase I like have a shopping list, go to the supermarket and catch quickly what I need, without have to search and lost time in long runners!
Luckily, the majority of vegetables and fruit I don’t need to buy, because I have the most “national” and fresh in my own home. It’s the advantage to be born in rural place.
However, unfortunately, when I have to buy some of these things I don’t look for the origin but yes for the price… the majority of Portuguese products are more expensive than the foreign… and we are in crisis….
To be perfect honest a care a lot about what I eat and where it comes from. I think everyone should pay attention to what they buy, because food shopping has become a very important economic issue. To buy Portuguese as well as local goods not only helps the national economy but it also allows us to find out more about the Portuguese vegetables, meat, fruit and fish.
Whenever I do my food shopping, I try to buy Portuguese labels as well as ‘white’ labels. I decided to do that because I believe those labels are as good as – or even better than - the ones so called ‘top labels’, which are more expensive and foreign, most of the times. Unfortunately, in Portugal there are still a lot of persons that believe that things produce here have less quality than those produce in Spain and in other countries. Our society must change it way of thinking, otherwise the Portuguese labels and goods will never impose themselves in the national and the foreign markets.
Sometimes I buy biological agriculture fruit, vegetables and cereals. They are without a doubt tastier than the others and so the food flavour is much better. Everyone who loves eating and cooking, like I do, should try them at least once.
Cláudia
Dear All,
I use to do shopping (not only food shopping) once in the week – usually on Saturday Morning – in Jumbo Hypermarket. I do this because, in one hand, as I live in Maia, Jumbo is near my house, so I can buy everything in the same place, on the other hand as I finish work very late I have no patience to do shopping during the week.
Anyway, I usually look to the label to see the provenience of the goods and every day it’s more difficult to by Portuguese food, specially fruits and vegetables. I always prefer the Portuguese ones, but, sometimes, it’s impossible to get it. As Paulo said, also in Jumbo we can find garlic from China (how is it possible!!!), Apples from Chile, Bananas from Equator, Peppers from Morocco and so on. Of course, we can’t include tropical fruit in this subject!!
Usually I don’t choose Biological food, because I doubt a little bit of it provenience and the aspect is not the best. I choose fruits and vegetables with a nice appearance as well as not pre-packaged.
In relation to other goods, I buy fresh milk, instead of the UHT milk (I think it tastes like hydrogen peroxide!).
I confess I don’t look (very much) to the price when we talk about the essential things like: milk, bread, butter, fruit, vegetables, fish and meat. If it’s good, It’s ok!
If I had time, I would like to do food shopping in a Market near my house called “Feira de Santana”. It occurs every Friday, in Santana – Maia, and it’s a place were local producers get together to sell their own products. Everything there is very good and tasty. But, unfortunately, I have no time to go there!
See you all next Monday! Have a nice week-end!
Hi everyone,
Interesting…
I’ve been thinking about this subject and I concluded that is a problem in Portugal.
While the “traditional market” sells national vegetables and fruits, supermarkets sell food from all over the world. “PIngo Doce” and “Lidl” are the worst. For the supermarkets the most important goals are low costs and high profitability.
As a costumer, I don’t agree with this strategy, because we have products with higher quality than the foreign one’s. Furthermore, our politic should be increase Portuguese wealth, and to achieve that we must to give the opportunity to our own products.
As Joana said I am lucky girl too, because my parents take the most incredible vegetables and fruits from their own production which they have in a village near Bragança.
In my daily routine, I don’t look for food labels, in particular for where the food has come from. The busy life and the increase of food’s price don’t allow people to make the right choice.
In my opinion, we should look at labels to see where food has come from because we must help to improve the development of our country.
Well, next time when I go to food shopping I will care more attention.
See you tomorrow
Hello!
I do my food shopping mainly in Continente - once a month and Lidl - once a week, and I also buy at Pingo Doce when something is missing.
I look at brands only for some goods like cosmetics, drinks or diapers for my daughter, but I really care about the products origin. I try to buy "made in Portugal" products as much as I can, both for quality and national economic reasons. I think my nationalistic shopping behaviour started since the days I accompanied my mother to the supermarket.
Hello everyone!
I usually do my food shopping in Continente, once a month. Only in particular situations I go to other supermarkets.
To be perfectly honest I don’t pay much attention to the products’ labels. When I do my food shopping I usually have a reference I my mind of what I need to buy, and then it is a matter of brands and price. I only open an exception to this rule when I have to buy milk because I prefer the Portuguese one.
See you on Monday!
Hello!
In my house we have lucky because my mother likes to plant some vegetables and fruits in our backyard, we have some chicken too, so we have eggs too :), So that type of food we really know what we eat, and we like it!
The others vegetables and fruits we don't have, fish, meat and bread we prefer to by in a small places, sometimes we buy in the market. The other produts as rice, olive oil, biscuits, ... we buy in supermarket or hypermarket.
Usually I don't care If the products I will buy and eat are Portuguese or from foreign countries, I only care If I like it, it has good quality and I have money for it.
Have a nice day.
Amália
Hi!
FFOOOOODDDD! I love this topic!
I usually do my food shopping once a week at Continente/Modelo. I buy meat at butcher's, fish at fishmonger's and fruits and vegetables at fruiterer's, twice a week.
I look at labels and prices and I choose the better on both! I always try to buy white labels and prices and I choose the better on both! I always try to buy white labels (some products have good quality) but some things I buy the good labels not considering the price. I usually am conserned about the origin of the products but the price difference is so huge that I'm forced to buy the cheapper ones. I only refuse Chinese goods and eating at Chinese restaurants.
As I always have family and friends at home I spend a lot of money on food!
Aldora
Hi people,
I usually do shopping once a week, but there isn’t a special market. Sometimes I go to Continente, other times I chose Jumbo or maybe Pingo Doce near my job, so it depends. I like to try different supplies to compare the qualities of product and prices.
About products, I am not usually watch where the food comes from, but I often listening notice about agricultural producers from different countries, including Portugal.
I don’t think that Portuguese products are worst than products from other countries. I think that there are Portuguese products better than products from other countries and vice-versa. So, when I do shopping I compare the relation price X quality. If a Portuguese product has a better relation comparing with abroad products I buy it. But if an abroad product has a better quality I buy it.
See you later.
António.
Normally when I go shopping, I always try to buy Portuguese brands, I think this is one way to help our economy and brands grow in the international markets.
However, sometimes I buy foreign products that I know there are really better than the Portuguese products.
About the vegetables and fruits, I search for national products, only in some tropical fruit that there are only foreign products. I’m shore that, if all the people knew the treatments and products used in pest control in producing vegetables and fruits, most of them would try to start is one small garden to produce “biological” products for them self. It’s true that in some countries they use 3 or 4 times more pest control products that the recommendation says, including some farmers in our one country don’t respect the range of safety treatments, or worse the last treatment date.
But don’t worry, someone is controlling this…
See you in classes
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