- How do GAS work ?
- How to buy directly from local producers
- The bbuono service for GAS.
- Who is bbuono.it
- The choice of local suppliers
- Matured and fresh cheeses for buying groups
- Genuine and 100% local meats and sausages
- Extra organic jams with fruits from the highest mountains
- Handmade, hand-packaged cookies
- Fresh handmade pasta
- High-quality KM 0 raw materials and ingredients
- Eating well and healthy
- Culture of good and sustainable food
- Contacts for booking and purchasing products from small producers
GAS (solidarity purchasing groups), what are they and how do they work?
You may not know that buying your food groceries directly from local producers has several advantages. The first is to eat better and in a healthy way given the genuineness of the products by buying with the system of short supply chain at km 0, the second not insignificant, is to help the planet by drastically reducing waste and food waste and also the family budget benefits, in fact you eliminate all costs related to intermediaries and transport typical of large retailers.
How then to undertake this new virtuous lifestyle? How to become part of such a philosophy?
The simplest and also the most correct answer is to join a GAS, or Solidarity Purchasing Group. These are groups of free citizens who come together to organize the purchase of food or everyday products, the rule is one and it is simple, buy local products that respect the environment and people.
A study by ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale) has shown how participating in GAS drastically reduces food waste production, a reduction of eight times that of traditional long chain systems has been calculated. Food waste is not only what you produce inside your home, what significantly affects you is mainly that due to the longer distances between the producer and the consumer.
GASs succeed in reducing waste because, in addition to the absence of middlemen, their purchases are targeted to actual consumption calculated on actual needs; nothing superfluous is purchased. The choice of GAS is a determining factor in the smooth operation of the group, the criteria for choice generally being product quality and production method.
The goal of online food buying groups, is to encourage a radical change in household eating habits, in favor of genuine local, non-industrially produced products.
The bbuono brand thought of providing this service, additional to those already present on the site, to all those who would like to know about the Brescian valleys and its typical products. Whether you live in other parts of Italy or abroad matters little, in these cases the network and social media bring you closer and give you unique and distant flavors.
Buy groceries online directly from local producers.
Buying food directly from producers allows a return to the origins, to those food models that are connected to healthy living, respecting local and regional traditions.
Choosing to consume KM O products gives value to small producers throughout Italy who are jumping through hoops to see their work recognized, but it also gives certainty of one’s consumption, without the risk of buying polluted food with ingredients that are harmful to health. Offering healthy food to children is a limitless gesture of love; avoiding giving them industrial foods such as packaged snacks and creams rich in preservatives, which cause food allergies and intolerances, gastro-intestinal problems and other pathologies, is a choice that can have fundamental implications in their lives.
The services of bbuono and GAS: alternative and high-quality online grocery shopping.
There are many purchasing formulas offered on the bbuono brand website, from single products to boxes of assorted products, from gift cards to offers for GAS. One of the winning formulas promoting the bbuono brand is that of online grocery buying groups, the so-called GAS.
In addition to classic e-commerce, GAS participants can benefit from a range of discounts and promotions (designed specifically for the group) on a range of specially chosen products. Undoubtedly, there are benefits to being part of Solidarity Purchasing Groups, such aslower shipping costs and reduced food waste.
For GAS, the bbuono brand offers selected products of excellence, directly from local companies in Lake Garda and the Brescian valleys. Bbuono is a young company but with old values, the customer is at the heart of the bbuono philosophy, which together with the products will give you culinary experiences that will go beyond your expectations.
Bbuono.it is not just a means of sales, as theapproach with both suppliers and consumers goes far beyond a purchase.
What is the brand “bbuono” and what are its products
Bbuono was born from the idea of its founder, Mattia Apostoli, and his passion for good food, healthy and produced according to the standards of tradition.
A love for his land and for small artisanal realities, which together with his team push him every day to go to local farms and workshops to personally meet the producers and have them explain the characteristics of their products and production processes.
Establishing a relationship of trust and loyalty with one’s suppliers, through direct contact, is the first step toward a sincere business projected for lasting success. Becoming aware of the realities of the local surroundings, the valleys and lakes, and seeing with one’s own eyes the raw material, the way it is processed, the hygienic conditions and the care of the farm and workshops, makes the producer-entrepreneur-consumer relationship firm and stable and gives the consumer confidence for future purchases.
Bbuono takes care to know not only the raw material but also the production methods, so that on the tables of its customers can arrive only products with excellent quality ingredients, processed according to traditional and environmentally sustainable methods, without harmful manipulations. Good food from the best food and wine tradition of the Brescia area and Lake Garda, where aged cheeses and excellent sausages are the stars on the table of local families.
Fresh pasta, jams for filling tarts and healthy and natural snacks for kids’ snacks are just some of the most interesting proposals. Natural ingredients such as unrefined organic flours, seasonal fruits, products with total absence of dyes and preservatives, simple procedures to bring forward a culture of healthy eating that is slowly disappearing in our society, to leave visible and concrete traces of our past. In this direction, the table becomes a moment of aggregation and family unity as in the days of grandmothers, where food was not only a material of quick and sterile consumption, but the love of taste and authentic flavors was renewed every day, thanks to mothers and fathers who spent themselves to give the best on the table for their family.
A romantic goal or an ambitious ideal, but one in which we firmly believe and for which we work every day with seriousness and commitment, because results can only be obtained if the work is fueled by healthy values and projected to honesty. We believe in good Italian cuisine, we are strongly in love with our land and geographical location, with local culinary traditions that we want to bring back and revive again in Italian families, so that new value is given to the consumption of Km O, seasonal and environmentally friendly products.
The choice of suppliers and the products that become part of the Bbuono brand.
The guarantee of a short and controlled supply chain are synonymous with great food, healthy and tasty. The bbuono team, in order to select the products it offers under its own brand, personally visits farms, ranches, laboratories, breweries and dairies, talks to producers about their methods and processes and, only after ascertaining that their values coincide with the bbuono philosophy, chooses the products to add to its food proposal.
We personally pick up the products and deliver them directly to the end customer, without intermediaries. All the suppliers of the Bbuono brand are local, from Lake Garda or the Brescian Valleys and fully espouse what are the key words of bbuono: quality, ethics and trust, tradition and authenticity.
All the producers work hard to pass on the tradition of their land, and introduce the authentic tastes of old-fashioned recipes. Bbuono is always looking for excellent local products to keep local traditions alive, to promote the area, their products and healthy and tasty eating. The selection of food products for group-made purchases include: aged and fresh cheeses, meats and sausages, cookies, jams, and fresh pastries.
Matured and fresh cheeses dedicated to buying groups
Aged cheese is rightfully part of the traditional products of northern Italy, such as delicious fondues to accompany toasted bread pieces or to enjoy with tasty seasonal vegetables.
Blue-veined goat’s blue cheese, for example, is a real calcium-charged, raw goat’s milk-based, slightly tangy cheese. Digestible even by those with lactose intolerance, it is a quality cheese that is highly prized for its blueing, which develops the typical noble molds that make it very tasty. Of a different flavor and texture is the aged cow’s milk cheese typical of Bagolino, with an intense taste of alpine brown, which can be accompanied by fine honey for the perfect contrast. Aged for at least 15 months, it is made by a true master of the art of cheese-making, who works with passion and dedication. Softer but with an equally intense flavor is the Valtrompia DOP cheese aged in a mine, made with fresh alpine brown milk, it has a soft and flavorful texture; excellent for an aperitif with friends but also to offer to children, it can be enjoyed with sweet jams that enhance the contrast.
The dairies from which Bbuono sources, and are part of the brand, were chosen for their philosophy, which we share. Some of the suppliers follow the cheese production chain, from the cultivation of the meadow to be used as pasture for the small herd, to the maturing process through the processing of the milk.
Fresh and aged cheeses are products of the highest quality from the Brescian mountain region. Producers who aim for top-of-the-line products but do not have their own herd make agreements with those who make milk their spearhead: excellences that come together to create unique and genuine flavors. Cheese maturations are short, medium and long, ranging from just over 20 days for the short one to 46 months for the long one, passing through semi-matured cheeses.
The milks used are goat‘s milk, and alpine brown cow’s milk, typical of the area; they can be processed raw, whole or skimmed. The resulting cheeses are semi-cooked, soft, firm and elastic; flavored with herbs, saffron and malt or aged inside wooden crates. There are different pack sizes and weights, from the 500-gram vacuum pack , to the half or whole wheel.
Sausages and meats for grilling with friends
Another feather in our cap, which we offer with great pride, are sausages and meats for grilling.
Excellent fresh sausages, made from the best quality cuts of Brescia pork, hand-packed with natural gut, salt and traditional spices, like the sausages of the food and wine tradition of our area. Strong scents that intoxicate the mind and take you back to atmospheres of yesteryear, where sausages were made at home, aided by the whole family and jealously left to dry in the cellar until completely dried.
The sausages are totally free of artificial preservatives, which gives them an especially good and true flavor, to be eaten with fresh bread that will be softened by the fat they release, for dinner with close friends.
Like the pure pork sausages, the fresh meats are also a top-quality product for barbecues with friends in the name of good food, a glass of strictly red wine and lots of merriment. The meats come from farms with animals in the wild and only from cuts raised and slaughtered in Valle Sabbia, with no added treatments, as any good meat deserves.
The cuts of meat are matured for 50 days in cold storage to give them their characteristic tenderness and flavor. In addition to the Florentine cut of Limousine beef, which is one of the most popular and suitable for grilling, we have the pure pork luganega, containing only pure Italian pork, to be grilled over an open fire, to savor the true essence of pork raised as local tradition requires.
The farms selected by bbuono have been processing meats for more than 40 years, synonymous with experience, reliability and passion; their animals, cows and pigs are raised in the wild, the pasture cared for directly by the farmers is nutritionally, climatically and naturally controlled, and the controlled pastures in Valle Sabbia are perfect for raising their livestock.
The supply chain is controlled and monitored at every stage, from feed production to hay harvesting and drying, from breeding to slaughtering to cured meat curing. Gluten-free meats and cured meats are certified. Curing and processing at over 1,000 m, local forages and flavoring with wild herbs. Meats seasoned at 20 and 30 days, matured and fresh, packaged and shipped in small or large quantities, the flavor of Brescia’s pastures, top quality meats and cured meats enrich your lunches.
Organic jams produced at over 1,000 meters in full respect of nature.
A specialty included in the bbuono brand are jams, the good, organic jams produced at 1,000 meters above sea level in Pertica Bassa.
In fact, according to the ancient recipes of housewives, fruit is harvested strictly in season and ripe at the right point, and immediately processed to make it into a tasty jam to be enjoyed with strong-flavored aged cheeses or offered at breakfast, to start the day off right. The goal, in fact, is to offer a jam with an authentic fruit flavor, without excessive amounts of sugar covering up the flavor, like those found on supermarket shelves.
The fruit from which it is made is from the Brescian area, so blackberries and fruit from the high mountains, but also alternative jams such as elderberry and pumpkin, for an unusual taste to offer for tasty aperitifs. Real delicacies for the palate, which will satisfy even the most demanding.
Jam companies use innovative techniques for the production and harvesting of the fruit, as is the case with strawberries from Salò on Lake Garda of the Portola variety, for which the use of chemical treatments is excluded; the alternative used is the technique of predatory insects, thus obtaining a 100% natural product. Sweet and savory jams are made from raw materials grown on land over 1,000 meters above sea level.
There are jams for sweet breakfasts and snacks such as those with blackberries, strawberries, black cherries or rosehip berries or with more delicate flavors such as those with pumpkin or more intense ones such as those with red onions or green tomatoes, perfect to enjoy with cheeses, meats and croutons: in small 110 g sizes, medium 220 g sizes or 330 g stocks.
Handmade cookies with high-quality flours produced and packaged by hand.
Fine bakery confectionery products, such as cookies, are entrusted to historic companies of the highest prestige, which have been the benchmark for baked confectionery products for all the people of the Brescian valleys for years.
The use of raw materials such as yeast flours and candied fruit are of the highest quality, and the resulting products are excellent and with an unmistakable taste. Tradition and craftsmanship, these are the key words of the suppliers selected by bbuono, to guarantee those who will enjoy them sweet, tasty and healthy moments of respite. The packages are made entirely by hand, for weights ranging from 170 g. to 200 g.
You can enjoy and purchase excellent butter cookies flavored with hazelnut, chocolate or cinnamon. Almonds, hazelnuts and egg whites: the basic ingredients for delicious dry cookies, while chocolate chips give an unmistakable taste to the crumbly cookies, perfect to enjoy anytime. All cookies are made without the addition of additives and preservatives.
Fresh pasta made in the traditional way
Of the all-Italian tradition for pasta that the whole world envies us, we have made a real passion that we cultivate every day with imagination and variety. Fresh pasta to share on Sundays with the family as a time of togetherness or on holidays with sincere friends.
It is offered in a wide variety of shapes and with the most original fillings, such as excellent ravioli with meat or cheese, to give an extra touch of flavor to the table. The pasta is kneaded with the best flours, far from refined and unflavored industrial blends, to give a strong and authentic taste to every dish.
We believe that in order to obtain a good product, flour is essential, so we choose it with great care and attention, checking the milling processes step by step. We are aware of the damage that refining can do to the body and the artificial blends that are sold in large retailers, which alter flavors by making all foods similar to each other.
We believe, in fact, that there is nothing more traditional in our country than homemade pasta, by the patient hands of women who know the deepest secrets of this ancient art and employ all their passion to offer a qualitatively good product. Pastry that is thin to the right point for filled pasta but also of a more robust and full-bodied consistency for excellent fettuccine, to be seasoned according to a wide variety of recipes; flavor, tradition and ethics are always put at the center of every production and this is what makes the products we choose so unique.
There are stuffed or long pastas such as egg tagliatelle, the former in 500 g packages the latter in 250 g packages, square casoncelli typical of Brescia, ravioli with aged Bagòss cheese, ravioli stuffed with pumpkin or local meat, perfect for broths or sauces.
All pasta shapes are expertly and patiently made by hand. The roughness of the pasta sheet and the goodness of the filling will take you back to the valleys of Brescia with their flavors!
Only quality raw materials and local ingredients for products of excellence
B-break, the natural snack
With the same flours, stone-ground and without refining of any kind, artisanal cookies with multiple flavors and formats are prepared for a healthy and tasty breakfast and artisanal breadsticks with olive oil or natural. Among our proposals is B-Break, an absolute novelty, the first 100% artisanal and natural salty snack made in Brescia.
Created from a study that lasted more than a year in selecting products and finding the right baking and from the collaboration of Bbuono and Beniamino Bazzoli.
B-Break is a natural snack with Brescian products, the first 100% Brescian cheese snack, energetic, natural and simple.
Then the most traditional Easter and Christmas treats, for quality gifts that make every occasion unique.
Eating well and healthy through fair trade buying groups
Once you have tried the products of the bbuono brand , it will be difficult to buy again from large retailers; having recognized the flavors of the good earth, the authentic taste reminiscent of a distant past, you will no longer be able to submit to the tyranny of industrial products, which are less healthy for man and the earth.
So many products selected with care and dedication, which satisfy our consumers and are a source of pride for us who follow their production phases and see the rebirth of the culture of good food, healthy and respectful of the earth and traditions. Eco-sustainability, therefore, which goes hand in hand with quality and a renewed awareness of what we bring to the table, so that large industrial productions can become aware that those who buy are not blind consumers but people who intend to return to the origins of a healthy and authentic food, to a consumption of O km products that put back at the center the care of the environment and their health.
Eating well and healthy is possible, all it takes is an internet connection to put you in touch with the staff of bbuono, who will be able to advise and guide you in thepurchase of unique, typicalproducts made with traditional techniques. The production cycles the processing systems, the guarantee of a short and controlled supply chain are synonymous with excellent healthy and tasty food.
The e-commerce of the brand “bbuono – the taste of tradition” is just what you need, you can choose from a wide range of fresh and packaged products, oils, beers, cheeses and sweets. Gluten-free, organic, DOP, DOC and DE.CO products. You can order the products yourself or the typical and fragrant carefully prepared bboxes, cardboard or wooden boxes with only the typical products inside, or give someone you care about a Gift card.
If you want you can create or join the most affordable GAS, bbuono will be happy to customize solutions and create ad hoc offers for you and your solidarity buying group.
The culture of environmentally sustainable good
Each product you can pick it up at our location or it will be shipped to you wherever you want, the box that will come to you is made of 95 percent recyclable materials, the ice-gel box to maintain the cold chain also can become a convenient cooler bag to take to your picnics, and has a shelf life of about two years.
Bbuono does not share the philosophy of multinational corporations that condition choices and type of food with aggressive marketing, focus on industrial quantity when food waste is skyrocketing, to the continuous lowering of prices thus strangling small farms and village stores. In the past, in fact, people knew the farmer personally, who had land and animals to produce meat, vegetables or cheese for a few people with “people-friendly” and environmentally friendly methods.
Today, however, production is in the hands of large industries, which look more at sales percentages than at the characteristics of the raw material.
The product must be paid the right price to support the small local producer and keep alive those made-in-Italy traditions that the whole world envies us, that food diversity that can only be found in Italy, and all this can only be stemmed by a cultural change that radically modifies the consumer’s mentality.
Other bbuono brand excellence products are not featured online, but we organize visits with tastings for groups at farms so that they can evaluate and taste the goodness of other excellence as well as personally see how their products are made.
