Welcome to our Community Guide

IES Gran Capitán
Madrid

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WHAT IS THIS COMMUNITY GUIDE ABOUT? 

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This community guide is about food in Madrid and the different types of products we have in our shops.                                    
In our community, we have a variety of products and options for people from other countries or beliefs. In this book you have some examples of our shop variety.
Most of the shops and restaurants that are in the map are in places with very easy access and in pedestrian zones. All these places are near our school and where we live.
In the map, a small description will be displayed about the place in that zone and what they can offer you. 

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The map of the school area

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MAP

AVAILABILITY

The squid sandwich is very typical in our city!

There are many restaurants and supermarkets around our school area with a great variety of healthy and fresh food. Most of the supermarkets are available 24h, and restaurants are open most of the day. Most of the food comes from other regions, like coastal or rural areas.

ACCESSIBILITY

The places we chose to talk about on the map are in the school area. As the school is almost in the center of Madrid, there are a lot of ways to access all the places we chose. You can access them by metro, by bus, by taxi, by car or you can walk.

Photo taken by Carlota and Sara

Supercor, Carrefour, Ahorramas and Mercadona are examples of very popular markets here that are easily accessible. There are also some restaurants and traditional markets that are popular and also easy to access.

COST

Food in Madrid is not cheap, that’s for sure but it’s neither too expensive. A meal for one in a cheap restaurant would approximately cost you 12€. A meal for two people in an average restaurant would approximately cost you 50€. In supermarkets, food is ok and there is a big variety, like meat, fish, vegetables, fruit…

There are other places like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC... that cannot be qualified as restaurants or supermarkets. They’re just places that serve dirty and unhealthy but yummy food. These places are very cheap. In conclusion, the restaurants and supermarkets have an average cost.

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OPTIONS

There are many food options in our community guide, and also a big variety of supermarkets, like Carrefour or BM Supermarkets. We have restaurants from different cultures like Megu and Ginos. We also have cafeterias where you can grab sandwiches, coffee and cake.

How might we improve food security for the people in this community?

In this project, we realized we don’t produce the food that is sold here in Madrid. It comes from other regions and countries, which makes it less fresh than food you can consume right at the places where it’s produced. For example, fish comes from coastal places and fresh fruits and vegetables come from agricultural places. Here you can find a lot of healthy food options, like meat, fish, fruits, vegetables… but also unhealthy food, like fast food.

Most of the food we eat has an average price but there are some people that can’t afford to buy high-quality food because it’s very expensive. But in the school area, we don’t have this problem of prices.

In conclusion, we can improve food security for people here by growing or producing the food here or nearby so it’s more fresh. We can also reduce the amount of junk food.