Living Without Supermarket - Elena Tioli

Living without a supermarket is not only possible, but offers a lot of opportunities: you learn to produce new things, you meet a lot of producers who work in the area, you save money, you protect the environment and your personal health .

A choice that can be made by those who live in small towns as well as in large cities, by large families as well as by singles.

Written in the first person, in a simple and compelling way, the book is also a practical guide on how to eliminate supermarkets from your life . A possibility available to everyone.

Queues, packaging, useless products that are harmful to health and the environment, long supply chains, pollution and exploitation, needs induced by advertising, long waits to find parking, to choose, to pay: this is the supermarket. And anyone who thinks that giving it up is difficult, useless or even impossible will have to think again. Living without a supermarket is not only possible but it is actually easy and pleasant: according to those who have done it.

Entering into relationships with producers, discovering the provenance and origin of goods, finding out about the personal and global consequences of what you buy and consume: living without a supermarket means all this and much more. It means making ecological, conscious and responsible purchases, giving a new value to your actions and a different weight to your money. It means changing your lifestyle and way of thinking.

Living without a supermarket means making money: in money, health, relationships and time. A choice within everyone's reach.

Preface

Prologue

My choice

The smoking metaphor

Live how you eat

Living without a supermarket

The first steps outside

• The Solidarity Purchasing Group
• How does a solidarity purchasing group work in practice?
• Buy in bulk
• Markets, shops and small producers
• Urban and social gardens: the countryside in the city

Virtual: real, supportive and sustainable

The “hidden” price of plastic

• Disposable plates, glasses and cutlery: the triumph of laziness
• Napkins, handkerchiefs and tea towels: why not?

Wash without getting dirty

• Women's things
• Ok... but what about toilet paper?

How to clean your house without dirtying the world

I eat ergo sum

• Let's open our eyes (and look at each other)
• The dirty supply chain of large-scale retail trade
• No to intensive farming

Let's take back the Mediterranean diet

So? What do you eat?!

• Small parenthesis on the salad in the bag
• First of all, the raw materials
• Self-production in the kitchen
• Do not waste!
• The mayor's water

Critical consumption

The ecological footprint

OK but...

• But... you don't have children!
• But... how much does it cost me?
• But you live in the city
• But... the workers?!
• But experts say...
• But... the pleasures of life?

My life without it

Thank you!

Post Scriptum

10 tips for more conscious spending

Reading recommendations

Author

Elena Tioli , from Modena transplanted to Rome, born in 1982, journalist, deals with the press office and political communication. He collaborates with numerous newspapers writing articles on nutrition, self-production and sustainability. He hasn't entered a supermarket since January 2015.