What do the French eat for breakfast?
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2021
- What do the French eat for breakfast? Let's head out to the grocery store and take a look at what breakfast foods are available and then get into what a typical French breakfast looks like. What kinds of foods do the French eat and drink for their morning meal? How does a French breakfast compare to what you eat in the morning?
A fun fact is that le petit-déjeuner is the French word for breakfast and means "little lunch" since déjeuner is lunch, but let's dig deeper into that etymology. Like in English, the French "break the fast" too. The verb jeûner means "to fast" so déjeuner (lunch) is breaking the fast, with breakfast being a "petit" déjeuner. Love it!
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As a native Parisian, my breakfast usually used to be an espresso and a cigarette... ready to go ! I'm happy to say that todays, I'm happy with just a expresso.
Glad you were able to quit smoking! Congrats!
Vous ne vous faites pas une santé, il faut manger ! Je suis Parisienne aussi. Parisian here... That's not healthy, you should eat too !
@@domitiennegegou5967 Really it's OK to skip your breakfast and actually for health reasons. Plenty of people do it to extend their night fast and avoid an insulin spike. Usually you would consume the same amount of Calories/food in your remaining meals but would end up with a better metabolism and a thinner waist line. Skipping breakfast allows your body to fast longer and benefit for longer of the fat metabolism that kicks in a the end of the night.Once used to it, you shouldn't be hungry as long as you have fat and even thin people have about 1 month of Calories in their fat.
@@andr386 I think it would depend on the person health if they can skip breakfast or not some people can skip meals some can not and a smaller waistline should come after one's health and eating the balance meals a day isn't un health because I had someone tell me that while I was dealing with a eating disorder but everyone body is different as long as you take care of yourself in a healthy way then that's all that matters
@@Carrieton_fae_tales I totally agree with you. Everybody is different. That's why the common sense rule of 3 meals a day doesn't make sense to everybody. Some people might need it to stay healthy, some people will be as healthy or more using a different pattern. I don't want people to develop an eating disorder.
I love visiting international grocery stores when traveling. Hopefully I can go to some if I end up in France.
Hope you're able to travel soon!
Thanks for dispelling the stereotype of "treats" from the bakery as the everyday breakfast. Croissants on the weekend it is!
You're welcome ;-) I'm sure some people eat croissants daily but the vast majority don't and save them for the weekend or a special treat.
Tbh tons of French people have croissant every morning, especially in big urban areas where people tend to not have a proper breakfast at home, just a coffee and a croissant on the go.
There’s even a word in french for that. Le café-croissant :)
My mother is half french (born in US) and growing up she had to make eggs and bacon or sausage daily for my father before work, but she sat at the table with hot chocolate she made in a pan on the stove and toast with butter and honey. I never saw her eat eggs or meat in the morning.
Love the picture you make of your mother😊
My mother was Niçoise, my fathers WWII bride from Nice, France. I went from grade school, through college, on sweetened Cafe au lait, baguette, and unsalted butter for breakfast. I didn't care for eggs at the time, but love them now.
How do you have the time for such meals in the morning? Im french and I go to middle school and like 6:20 i wake up 7:10 i have my bus i barely have the time for cereals 🤣
Eggs and bacon not a French breakfast thing.
I really enjoyed shopping in a French market when I was visiting in 2018. Size portions for products were not exaggerated. Juices were not overly sugary just tasted like the fruit on the box. The fruit was labeled if it was sourced from nearby! Everything was sensible but still tasty 😋
Yes, I love the selection as well! Hope you get to visit again soon!
Pro tip from the elders: when putting butter (it works with jam too, but butter is usually more challenging, specially if you forgot to take it out from the fridge ahead of time) on a biscotte, place said biscotte on top of another biscotte, it won't break (unless you apply crazy pressure that is). As for the blueberries, it's indeed rare to find them originating from France in supermarkets. But if you go to the center/south of France (Cantal, Jura, the Alps etc.) at the right season, bring buckets and combs, you can get loads from nature. Same with blackberries actually. Those thorny bushes give everything at the end of summer, they are delicious. I live in Vendée now and we have a lot in town so it's a feast in late July to September. But even in woody areas around Paris like Vincennes you can find tons of them. All natural, no pesticides, no fertilizers (except for dog or human urine if you grab the low low ones in some spots haha)
Careful! Each region has its own rules as to the picking of blueberries... For example, the use of combs is forbidden in the Vosges mountains and the quantity picked must not exceed 5 litres. I would advise to check with the local town hall first.
Love visiting French grocery stores every time I visit. So many great products.
Same! Even though live here, I still enjoy it so much! I love going to US supermarkets too when I'm back in the US... discovering all the new products.
How refreshing to see a grocery store so neat-no products stacked in the aisles! 🛒
As a French , I eat during the week one croissant and one pain au chocolat ( or another viennoiserie) , a fruits juice and sometimes a fruit.
It depends and the week end it's cereals ( Fitness milk chocolate of Special K red fruits) and one glass of fruits juice
I have an American friend who visited France the first time in 2006 as being as tourist and we went to supermarket for shopping. He was very astonished of fresh food shelves, when he saw the range of dairy fresh products, like yogurts cheeses, butters.
The blueberries are from my country, Portugal ❤️❤️❤️
A café créme, du jus d’orange and a basket of croissant or baguette (with beurre and confiture) are what our dreamy French breakfasts consist of when we travel to France! It’s like the mundane things about life here at home are elevated to new heights when we are there. It looks like 2022 will be our next trip there and we are so excited! Thank you for sharing, Diane!
In France, the croissants and so on with the full French breakfast are eaten about as often as the British eat a breakfast fry up. ;-)
Anita.
This is all I was given pour le petite dejeuner.
Seulement Croissants, avec beurre, confiture and a cafe au lait.
Maybe a baguette if for some weird and wonderful reason Croissants weren't available and hot chocolate for children.
Mind you, this was in the 70s and 80s so I suppose things are rather different now.
Noticed you have not showed a habit that is very common for the baguette, toast or any other type of tartine: dipping it into the hot chocolate (when a kid) or cofffee (also work with vienoiseries, actually). Probably more systematical when you are a kid, but certainly still done by adults. Not uniquely French habit, of course, but I find very much French... When travelling and I see someone dipping into coffee in the hotel breakfirst room, it is usually another French traveler.... rarely someone from some other place. Bon appetit!
It’s a Maltese habit to dip toast/bread in coffee for breakfast too.
In the Philippines, we also dip bread called pandesal (I guess pain du sel in French?) in coffee or, less frequently, hot chocolate.
Je trempe ma tartine dans mon café au lait et j'ai 33 ans
My American parents never allowed dipping. My great grandma (from Sweden) would dip when no one was looking.🤣
Love this post! Yes, on trempe et on sauce en France. J'ai presque 60 ans et même après 20 ans aux US, je le fais encore! Mais c'est impoli aux US, alors ... On s' adapte, je ne le fais pas en public 🤣
I enjoy these super market shopping trips so much. I was in France in 2019 and I would have French yogurt everyday for breakfast. Since coming back in the USA I haven’t been able to find yogurt as good as the yogurt in France.
I’m Canadian and my husband is French. We live in France and typically have a “French style breakfast” during the week and then a bigger Canadian breakfast on the weekends with eggs, bacon and hash browns, or pancakes. This is typically how I am used to eating in Canada too though so not a big change for me. ☺️
Mmmm! American here! I love Canadian bacon!!!
We are French living in the US and we do French breakfast on workdays and American or Mexican style on the weekends!
@anne sikaddour I'm British, we eat the same as French really,but I love a big breakfast at the weekends! I'm not sure what a Mexican breakfast is, though!
@@annesikaddour7225I love Mexican breakfasts! Being from Texas and having been to Mexico multiple times when I was younger, I learned to love a little spice with my breakfast in the morning!
I guess I eat the French way in Northern California. I make my own jams from our fruit trees. Apricot, plum, nectarine, peach, I use a big French copper pot and it holds me over for a year plus gifts for friends. My friend swaps me honey from her hives, so good. We have an amazing baker at the farmers market here who won silver at the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in France for his baguette. Spoiled!
Ahh I love that you make your own jams! Sounds great!
We found the leftover baguette was the most popular breakfast in our relatives homes in France, both north and south. Coffee with hot milk was the norm, served in a bowl, in Brittany. While in the south it was also coffee with hot milk but in a cup.
@ouiinfrance- thank you so much for this video. I grew up in a household with French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese relatives BUT my French grandmother ruled how everything played out. I remember warm drinks and croissants the most. I still make many of Grandma's recipes. I didn't eat peanut butter growing up. My grandmother would not allow me to eat it.
What was grandma's beef with peanut butter?
I love peanur butter, but all my thoughts to your grandma ❤️
What's wrong with peanut butter ?
Bonjour- New subscriber here! I’m obsessed with your channel 🤗! Love, love France 🇫🇷! Visited France twice in the past 3 years. Paris may just be my all time favorite city! Unbelievable memories. I found that my limited French went a long way- people seemed to appreciate my efforts. I love their seemingly “effortless” joie de vivre. So elegant!! Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Welcome Julie, so glad you're enjoying my content!
La tartine au beurre et à la confiture a l'air délicieuse Diane !
I am writing this comment before watching the video because I am remembering that once I accidentally had the closed captions on and, Diane, your opening greeting showed as Bonjour tuna mold! Cracked me up!
As a french , my breakfast for the week is cereals,especially müesli with oat milk and for the week end: viennoiserie (pain au chocolat or viennoise au chocolat) or tartines (pain or baguette with butter and jam) with café crème 😉.
I'm American and I eat muesli for breakfast. I add soy milk, some non-dairy yogurt, a flaxseed meal, berries, and peanut butter.
Diane, I write this before finishing the video. The French eat yogurt more as a dessert than for breakfast.
Well then my French colleagues ate a lot of dessert for breakfast. 😀
Bonjour Diane! Such a FUN little video!! It made me hungry, haha!! Your channel is wonderful! Thank you for all the hard work!!
Great content. Looking forward to seeing more
The “chocapic” cereal is pretty famous in Chile! 😀
Oh wow, I didn't know that! I think a similar US one would be Cocoa Puffs but I'm out of the loop.
men of culture i see 🧐
Nice video 😊 I was surprised not to see a baguette 🥖 or any fresh bread featured, as I guess that’s one of the commonest breakfast items! If you’re able, try the Figues Violettes jam, it’s absolutely delicious 😋
Great video -- would be great seeing similar videos but for lunch and dinner
Thank you for the video! Very informative!
Diane! J'adore vos vidéeo! La france me manque tant, j'ai hâte de pouvoir enfin y retourner! Merci!
Love your videos! Thank you for sharing great information.
Glad you like them! Merci!
I guess times and trends have changed since I lived in France but it might just be regional variations. Thanks, Diane, I just love your food videos!
Yes, even in the time I've lived in France trends have changed. Interesting to watch! Thank you, so happy you enjoyed the video!
So jealous of that Bonne Maman selection. We just got some new, fun ones in the states (I went to the market after watching this to grab some 😁).
J'adore le petit dejeuner francais! We're starting to eat a lighter breakfast like the french do as I find bacon and eggs, which us Aussies eat on the weekend, can be very heavy after a while. Finally one bakery here, Baker's Delight, has the french baguette or at least close enough. They call it a Continental Baguette.
So much fun! Love these videos.
Glad you like them!
I love love this video! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Just subscribed! I love your videos
Yay! Thank you and welcome!
mes biscottes préférées, celles avec du beurre salé dans la recette
Love your videos. I only recently discovered your channel. I used to spend some of my longer weekends traveling to Paris on the night train from Amsterdam. Opposite the little place at Gare du Nord there was a little cafe where I would spend some time, drinking coffee and a croissant, acclimate myself to Paris, before I went on to the rest of my days. Happy memories.
Welcome aboard!
Merci pour le video de l’imformations sur ‘petit déjeuner’ français…C’est vraiment interessant. Salut! Two thumbs up!
I love following your You Tube channel and how you take us on your shopping journeys! Thanks!
You are so welcome!
I grew up with German breakfast. We often had a hard or soft boiled egg… a (hard crust) roll (similar to a mini baguette) with butter and a slice of cheese or some sliced sausage or cold cuts… and a cup of tea or coffee with milk.
On weekends, things would get a bit fancier, with an omelette (with mushrooms and a variety of veggies) and maybe a sweet pastry or a croissant with butter and jam or Nutella.
Hello ! My breakfast in France is a coffee with a little bit of cream, a piece of baguette to do a tartine grillée with half salted butter ans raspberry or orange marmalade, and an orange juice. 🤗
Sounds great!
Just stumbled across your channel. Gladly so. Thanks for simplifying the French market for us. May I kindly request you to make more detailed videos of all kinds of food markets, wholesale and retail spice markets, food and beverage manufacturing units etc etc? Basically everything related to food in France! Merci boaucoup!!!
Welcome! Have a look at some of my older videos. I did a live market walkthrough, a bunch of supermarket tours, and a vlog where I interview a wine seller, cheese expert, and baker!
That Banania drink sounds amazing!!
I'm french banana drink is available in France since the first world war and the package featured a African soldier who was in uniform of the french colonial troops
Then political correctness
Remove it like uncle Ben rice
The African troops fought for the french the Maghreb Algeria Maroc troops fought for the french and the cancel culture remove the reminder if you think about breakfast
A table with cotton cloth , sugar, coffee a concrete results off slavery in the breakfast way
Well and thorough video, you’ve just got a new subscriber.
Thanks and welcome!
Great content.
Wow if I didn't see the French writing on this, I would have assumed it's straight out of an NZ grocery store!!
Hi Diane =) love your supermarket videos!
Thanks so much! So glad ;-)
When I worked in a chambre d’hôtes in Bellac
I was intrigued by the way the various nationalities
had breakfast - French, Spanish, Swiss, German, British, Dutch
(we didn't have any Americans but did have two Australians)
The French usually had the baguette with jam
and they often popped the middle out and just ate the crust
popping the centre in their coffee cup afterwards.
Where they making a tartine.
The bread and croissants were fresh daily from the boulangerie
but they didn't often eat the centre.
My kids were raised in the US and we accustomed them to eat tartines or pancakes with their Chocolat chaud during school days, savory American breakfast on weekends. First time we visit my mother in law in France, she was excited to offer them the Chocapic for breakfast!
I spent 2 months in France as a tourist in 95 and breakfast back then in small hotels was petit pain or more often just cut up baguettes and jam and yes, croissants were well loved but less common and most important of all cafe creme. Interesting video.
Love instant coffee especially getting ready for work. I have a french press that I use on my days off
I find the Quaker Oats that I can buy in France is different than the Quaker Oats I buy in the states. I can a big difference in my oatmeal cookies. It’s more fine here in France. A couple of years ago, my husband and I saw that one of our favorite restaurants started having brunch. We made a reservation and we so happy to go. I asked for an orange juice with champagne and they had no juice! The menu for “brunch” was just their lunch menu. The food was yummy, but it was a disappointment.
*_I AM LITERALLY IN FRANCE RIGHT NOW EATING BREAKFAST AND WATCHING YOUR VIDEO._*
Bon appétit!
Oh I can just taste those strawberries! I was in France a few years ago in May and had the pleasure of tasting the fresh strawberries. They are delicious. So sweet and red all the way through. I think I went through a pint a day. 🙂 I miss them every time I buy strawberries in the US. Loved this video Diane!
Yesss, the strawberries are some of the best I've ever had. Thanks for watching!
I was in Brittany 2 years ago during strawberry season and had fresh Plougastel strawberries. They were amazing ! So much better than the ones I buy in the US.
My home grown strawberries are like that also. The ones you buy in the grocery stores are usually picked before they are ripe and shipped cross-country. Notice how she keeps saying "locally grown" strawberries. That's the difference.
I heard that French strawberries are full of insecticidesThey are hugely expensive compared to the UK. I rarely buy strawberries in France, the last ones I bought as cheaper were Spanish, but my own plants are producing now.
@@wudgee Yeah, they are. But you can found good ones in France to. I bet they didn't ship those one so much tho, they stay for the local market. But we all agree better strawberries are the ones from the garden.
Hello, for me I eat one yoghurt, Activia nature, black coffee and sometimes bread with butter and jam.
When my husband moved to the U.S. on Sundays he would ask for a "big American breakfast", so we would have to go out to a diner that serves HUGE breakfasts. When visiting France, we always have very small breakfasts--usually a croissant and a bit of baguette with some coffee. I'm always surprised how that holds me over for half the day. I miss French croissants and baguettes!
Yesss! Totally relate because Tom does the same thing. He loves his eggs and sausage and all that when we visit the US!
@@OuiInFrance growing up in the U S my grandmother kept to her French roots. I never truly enjoyed a huge breakfast with eggs, toast, bacon/sausage and etc. I prefer a cup of coffee and an occasional croissant. Sometimes, I indulge with a cup of chocolat chaud that I make at home. This video as well as all of the others is outstanding! Thank you so much.
@@OuiInFrance We took his family to a restaurant that serves embarrassingly large breakfasts... The table was covered with plates--they were amazed. I'm sure they thought that all Americans eat breakfast like that! :-D
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
If I was in France, I would probably eat cheese everyday for breakfast with baguette ou biscotte/tartine! How could I resist?
Lol. The bread in the box looks hard as a rock and more suitable for breaking into croutons 🤣
But will take your word for it that it was good. I've always been in either no breakfast or brunch camp. Just have rarely ever been hungry early in the mornings.
Really been enjoying your videos and greatly appreciate your response to questions I've had. 😊 I'm sure it's a bit time consuming. So wanted to thank you for making the extra effort.
As a french I can say you're not so far off. You could acutually use biscotte in your soup if you're out of croutons. But I wouldn't use biscotte in a salad for exemple. In my opinion/experience croutons are harder than biscotte. Biscotte is very light and airy despite appearances and crumbles very easily.
They have them in Italy too, they're crispy, but crumble very easily. Much more brittle or fragile than croutons. You definitely won't crack a tooth on them.
Ur videos r wonderful. We have Carrefour in here, Dubai - UAE , and all these products are available in here.
Oh wow! Very cool the chain is there as well! So happy you enjoy my videos!
Bonjour, Diane!
I've been having breakfast like the French for years and didn't know it. My favorite videos are supermarket, brocantes and shops of any kind. Now you have never taken us to a restaurant, let's say for a light lunch or a quick meal. I would like to watch that. Just a suggestion. I'm interested in how to make a selection and prices of course. Visiting in about six months, and just wanted to have a feeling of that. Now that the USA is opening up again, they are promising travel to Europe in about six months.
Hi Bill, unfortunately restaurants have been closed for so long now I almost forget what it's like to go to one. Filming hasn't been possible there, but I hope to do a restaurant video this summer! Stay tuned ;-)
@@OuiInFrance
You know, I totally forgot about the restaurants being closed I'm sorry I wasn't thinking 🤔. Over here everything is opening up and I just took it for granted that your business' were as well. But, I'll stay tuned for when ever you do your review. Cheers!
ahhhh! nothing better than a 'tartine' dipped in good chocolate milk.
personally I look at the labels indicating the ingredients of the product and if there is too much sugar, salt, coloring and palm oil: I do not buy! and now the nutriscore: it's awesome.
I recommend 'confipote' very good low-sugar jam with lots of fruit.
The Blueberries were from Portugal, Lol !
Yes, I rarely see any from France. The strawberries, on the other hand, are mostly from France in the May time frame as I pointed out. Earlier in the season, they do come from Spain though. ;-)
The label read Framboise (raspberry) Portugal. the little black fruits are Myrtle (billberry) easy mistake to make as they are related to Blueberry.
I hope to go back to France in the future
I'm jealous of the Nespresso capsule selection. i get like 3 or 4 options at my local store.
My usual breakfast is a tartine with vache qui rit, à glass of milk with mint syrup (love it!) and multi fruit juice. Sometimes I also enjoy some fromage blanc with apricot jam, and some hot tea (with a lot of sugar, please!!). Might not be the healthiest options, am I right?
To open a jam container, it is also very popular to tap the bottom. This will increase the pressure on the top and make it easy to unscrew the lid.
I stick the tip of a spoon under the lid rim and gently push spoon handle down. When I hear a small pop, then I can easily unscew the lid. An arthritis trick...
My Canadian city is still under lockdown. I only leave my house once a week to buy groceries for my family. I allow myself the “luxury” of popping into the pharmacy next door to the grocery store for a tiny bit of retail therapy. I’m rather bored of it all but it’s all I have. Thanks for the fresh trip Diane.
Hi, during lockdown, anything that can provide a bright spot is welcome. A few of the things that worked for me were buying/having a pastry on the week-end, so that there is a happy anticipation setting in, buying a pretty potted plant to keep inside and look at, using a body cream with a lovely fragrance, going down a kiiten hole of binge-watching favourite vids on YT, which can be adapted to other interests, of course, provided it makes you happy. Hang in there!
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About the Jam, it seems you said it was figue violet as if it was figue and violet flower in the same jam. Indeed it's a special type of figue that are violet, that are different from white figue. But violet flower jam does exist and is quite good, but this is not very common to find it.
The store seems a LOT CLEANER than many supermarkets here in the States.
My favourite breakfast as a french person will always be fresh baguette with butter and jam, dipped in hot cocoa. Tastes like childhood.
Thanks for sharing your memory.
Most expat French teachers (women) I've worked with have a hot drink like coffee for breakfast and sometimes a piece of toast with a little scrape of butter and small bit of jam or a tiny yogurt. Their lunch was a small cup of soup with mini roll or salad (mostly vegetables). When I was in France, I saw people eating a ham sandwich for breakfast (1 thin slice of ham, butter, and part of baguette) or in a cafe with hot drink and croissant. I don't know what they eat at home.
When touring in Europe the hotels always put out sliced ham, cheeses, fresh fruit, plain yogurt, honey, jam, various breads, cereal and milk, juice, coffee and tea. It's quite a spread and really nice to be able to pick and choose. I always imagined a smaller version in European homes. My Spanish friends are fans of cereal with freeze dried strawberries. The shelf stable milk is great. You just buy a case and put a box in the fridge as needed.
For a big spread try Turkish breakfast. I only saw the spread you mentioned in hotels in France. But Turkish people often have such a spread for weekend breakfasts in their home plus olives, sliced cucumbers, sliced tomatoes, egg.
I hear (from some of the Food Network sows that the butter made in France is really good. My mouth is watering.
Yes! In the USA you can buy Kerry Gold Irish butter. It is extremely good. Costco organic butter also has more flavor than regular tasteless American brands.
I so miss Marie LU cookies! Loved eating breakfast in France: espresso and jam on a fresh baguette. My favorite jam is also Bonne Maman.
Excellent choice ;-) What's your favorite flavor?
Marie LU cookies are in US supermarkets. So is Bonne Maman jam as well as that smaller jar of lower sugar bonne maman jam.
Could you make a video on what they eat in a day (all 4 meals petit dej, dej, goûter et dîner) and at what time of the day. What do we serve if a French friend is visiting at 10am or 2pm. A friend on mine came at 2 pm (for some work stuff) and we were working till 5pm at 5pm I offered her gaufres and cookies that we get in supermarket and I didn’t understand why she didn’t have and left them on the working desk. She took the juice though that I offered as soon as she arrived (2pm). And how does this change season to season.
Ahahha that's a funny story, I guess she just ate well for lunch and wasn't particularly hungry in the afternoon, there's nothing more behind that because that would be something a french person could totally snack on as a "goûté" which is the 4pm snack we take here. It's not an everyday thing at all or it depends on the person, some people do, some others don't.
If you want someday to do a more formal "goûté" you could grab a pastry at the bakery for each person coming, but this is a rare thing you would do maybe on the weekend or something.
Just to add some specification, "petit-déjeuner" is French of France (and French of West Africa excluding DRC's French) for breakfast. In Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, the word "déjeuner" is used instead. Then, at noon, they eat the "déjeuner" in France, but the "dîner" in Canada etc. And in the evening, they have "dîner" in France, but "souper" in Canada, Switzerland and Belgium.
Hi, if you like half-salted butter (demi-sel), it isn't hard as a rock when you take it out of the fridge just before having breakfast. That's nice.
While we were deployed in southern France we got
baguettesm fried eggs and fruit
coffee and tea
Ok, I’ve converted my Bro in law when he was in the US. We now have 1 egg over easy, 1 slice of cheese, and one slice of thin ham, coffee and small toast. One rule we have to eat it between 730-9 and a kind of busy morning If after 9 of a lazy morning, we just have coffee and toast with butterais jam, ( can’t mess with lunch appetite). Thanks (Just two more months and it back to France !!!!!) 😃😃😃
For breakfast, I eat muesli with soy milk, a few tablespoons of non-dairy yogurt, flaxseed meal, fruit, and peanut butter. I sweeten it with a bit of Pyure, a stevia/erythritol blend sweetener.
Yum, sounds delicious!
I like the Nutri Score on the packages.
I like the photos on the wall behind you. Can you tell me what brand camera you use? Also, have you migrated to mirrorless? Many thanks.
Hi Paul, I have a few and depending on the type of video, I use a DJI Osmo Pocket or drone, a Panasonic Lumix, or even my phone! Just depends ;-)
@@OuiInFrance Merci Madame :-)
Something very popular in France is Cracotte. A little bit like a biscotte, better in my opinion, you put butter and jam on it(or honey), it's delicious. It's also from the LU brand
Don't forget about Breakifast In America. Really good pancakes and French Toast IF you are from the US and feeling homesick. Also great burgers and shakes. He has two restaurants in Paris. Well, he DID, I haven't checked since the start of Covid.
Do you know of the American breakfast place in Paris? Called Breakfast in America, on Rue des Ecoles. I hear it is very popular.
Yes, been there several times and even reviewed Craig's book on my blog a couple of years back. Enjoy both the resto and the book ;-)
Merci beaucoup
Do you find French foods tend to have less sugar and more real ingredients than USA? I am looking forward to trying these things.
Sympa des Chocapic ! ^^
Cafe au lait, yesterdays leftover baguette, unsalted butter, ...end of subject! 😁
Same jam I buy very good they have a date jam yum
Oui in France ! I have an idea for a video! There's a contemporary art museum in Nantes which used to be the factory of the LU company.
Bonne chance, Diana ! Vous êtes là mielleuse !
That place is called le Lieu Unique, and it's not only a museum, place for art and crativity, very nice place famous in Nantes and all over around
As a person of French Canadian ancestry I have a pastry with coffee and perhaps a yogurt with fruit.
I loved this video! I visit France and also USA whenever possible. One item from the USA that has never caught on in UK or rest of Europe is coffee creamer. I’ve always been curious about this. As an American do you have any thoughts on this?
Very true, other than maybe one brand of little single dose creamer packs (like what you'd find at a diner), coffee creamer isn't really a "thing" in France. I'd say most people either use regular milk of some sort or take their coffee black. I've learned to put a few spoonfuls of milk in my coffee.
I love going back to the US to see all the flavored creamer and non-dairy options! So fun
In general the quality of dairy products in France and other European countries (such as Denmark and Ireland) is very high, as cows are generally grass fed. In addition, as mentioned in the video, shelf stable milk is easily available. Most Europeans (myself included) would find the taste of coffee creamers artificial and undesirable in comparison to the natural product.
Coffee creamer is disgusting. I want a heavier real cream or I like evaporated milk in my coffee. "Gloria" in France. I am American but never liked powdered creamer or the flavored sticky sweet ones now. I don't like flavored coffee either. Potpourri coffee I call it.
You are not missing anything.....coffee creamer (powdered version) is horrible!
I'm English and had French, Irish , Grandparents. Omelette for me. Marmalade or Apricot Jam for Breakfast. French Toast OK. ' Protein '
We get that brand of jam in America at Walmart! :)
Bon Mamaan is sold worldwide. I bought it in Iraq, Tanzania, China, India, etc. Lol yummy too.
I didn't even know strawberries had different varieties 😬
Ooohoo jam where are you? oh- its right here ^_^ is my favorite part