Готовый перевод Мы строим деревню / we are building ecovillage: про питание

about food

- Are you a vegetarian?

- Moral – yes.

Interview with Boris Grebenshikov

Now and then I insert some thoughts about food into different parts of this book, but here I'm going to tell more. The main rural life revelation was that, as it turned out, the products have scent. Each vegetable smells special. Zucchini - zucchini . Cucumber - cucumber. Bread - bread. Flour - flour. Logically? Yes. But once after having lived in the village, and after eating true rustic meal I went to the city and realized that "urban" products at stores do not have scent. When we bought a mill, we got to know that flour have the smell of seeds instead of dust, and how much the bread baked out of such flour differs from the factory bread.

This was an important discovery. Now, if I have to buy groceries at the store, I pay much attention to the smell, I think scent is hard to be faked. The products look excellent, this can be easily achieved nowadays. But the scent is not perfectly in order. The scent tells the truth.

Interesting and new for us became the fact that in a city we never thought about the quantity of certain products, since no supplies we did, nothing grew ourselves and bought the food as required in the shop. In a village people clearly know what food and how much of it they eat. Well, it's just for that food that they grow themselevs. It's interesting. And it is convenient. And the house is kept on the basis of these calculations.

Here, unfortunately, there are no universal figures, each family has different preferences and appetite, so we all have different amounts. Most important - is to calculate main crops:

- potatoes

- carrots

- beets

- onions

- cabbage

These five vegetables basically keep the Russian village. Almost all people grow them in their gardens, they make up the basic food allowance all year round.

Then go tomatoes and cucumbers. Next - zucchini.

And the rest isbeing planted for "pampering", for diversity and experimentation.

We decided to make up some calculations. Since in summers we always live keeping a company, only in winter there's an opportunity to consider the needs more or less precisely.

Now during a winter day we both eat on average about:

1-2 carrots

1-2 onions

5 medium potatoes

1 liter of milk (if go to the village for dairy products)

300 grams of cottage cheese

100 grams of bread

200 grams of cereals

This is the basis.

Approximate amount per month:

carrots - 3 - 6 kg

onions - 3 - 6 kg

potatoes - 15 kg

milk - 30 litres

cottage cheese - 10 kg

cereals - 6 kg

bread - 3 kg

Also we eat: vegetable oil, honey, all kinds of candy, dried fruits, sometimes fish, eggs, mushrooms, sauerkraut, pickles, jam. Nutrition we have is quite diverse. Now we spend about 1000 rubles per week on food. This is despite the fact that we do not yet have our own grown products. By urban standards this is really modest. We buy up about once a week, for this we go to the district center.

In summer we consume much less dairy products, but we eat more herbs, fruits, berries and vegetables. Eat well. A few days ago a friend of mine called and asked: "Hey, what do you eat there? For example, what did you eat today?" I have listed. He said: "I've been in worse eat in the city than you in the mountains". Well, we live here not for the starvation and asceticism!

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