Once you have it on your app, just import it:
import { AngularFireDatabase } from 'angularfire2/database';
constructor (private _af: AngularFireDatabase) {}
With this Observable List you can access to a list of items under a path, for example if you have root/items/food you can get food items like this:
this._af.list('root/items/food');
And you can simple put a new item here and will appear on your firebase database, or you can update one item and you will see it update on your database. You can push and update like this:
this._af.list('root/items/food').push(myItemData);
this._af.list('root/items/food').update(myItem.$key, myNewItemData);
Or you can even remote items from your food list:
this._af.list('root/items/food').remove(myItem.$key);