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The Department of Consumption of the City of Cieza encourages the recovery of traditional cuisine and a commitment to seasonal products and local commerce to overcome the period of confinement.The Councilor for Consumption of the City of Cieza, Francisco Saorín, has posed a series of challenges to the residents, encouraging them to make their own videos on how to make healthy meals with the family, traditional recipes and a shopping basket based on seasonal products and no junk food.
In addition to focusing on food, the challenge also includes challenges related to other healthy habits such as quitting smoking or moderating alcohol consumption during confinement.In the same vein, the Department of Consumer Affairs encourages the population to maintain sustainable behaviors that take care of the planet's health during the state of alarm.
Thus, it is proposed that purchases should be prioritized in the commerce of proximity to housing because, in addition to ensuring the maintenance of the local economy and our neighborhood, they avoid unnecessary displacement.Regarding the shopping basket, Saorín also proposes challenges focused on improving collective health and, for this, the Department of Consumption recalls the impact that single-use plastics have on the environment.
For this reason, it asks that the purchase of those foods that can be purchased in bulk or with minimal packaging be prioritized, always avoiding excessively packaged groceries, such as individual pieces of fruit in shells wrapped in plastic.
In any case, the Department is betting, preferably, on food packaged in materials other than plastic, since many of them are reusable and more easily recyclable.Healthy nutritionConsumption accompanies your challenges with a series of tips to make confinement compatible with healthy eating.
This notices that not only processed foods are durable, but so are fresh seasonal products.
The councilor proposes for the month of April to prioritize the consumption of apricot, cherry, strawberry, kiwi and mandarin, among other fruits.As for the basket of vegetables, the Department of Consumption also asks to prioritize those products that are typical of this month such as chard, artichoke, eggplant, broccoli, zucchini, squash, cauliflower, asparagus, spinach and green beans.
Given that the population has seen its daily activity reduced and, therefore, it has a lower caloric expenditure, Saorín recommends reducing the consumption of fats, pastries, sugar, pastry and sugary drinks.Mediterranean and traditional dietDue to the amount of free time we spend at home, the Department of Consumer Affairs invites parents to take advantage of the opportunity to bring children and adolescents closer to the kitchen.
Thus, Saorín recalls that good nutrition necessarily involves regaining knowledge of the products of the Mediterranean diet and traditional cuisine.
In the same way, it is recommended to recover the traditional dishes, recipes and flavors that are part of our cultural heritage.Lastly, Saorín recalls that the gastronomy from Cienzana is rich in use cooking and, therefore, it is also very healthy, economical and sustainable to recover recipes that allow you to multiply dishes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza
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