How The Netherlands Changed My Diet
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Hey everyone, I hope that quarantine life is treating you all well. In this video I am discussing how the 🇳🇱 has changed my eating habits. I think this is a good thing...aside from all the bread hahah. Comment below and let me know what you think!
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"The only difference between a Dutch breakfast and a Dutch lunch is the 3 hours between the two meals."
true, although hot lunches, or more luxurious lunches, seem to take on in the Netherlands.
There is a "rule" that you only eat one hot meal a day. If you don't it's concidered weird/foreign. There are a few exceptions, but they are bread related. Croque Messieu, omlet or "uitsmijter" (egg sunnyside up on toast with ham and cheese) are eaten warm. I think it has to do with the calvinistic history, were abundance was sinfull. More then one hot meal unneaded thus sinfull. It was only to get nurishment, enjoyment was not a part of it.
We do like good food. But this one is a stuborn old habbit. But times are changing.
Anniek yeah and lunch used to be the one hot meal. Like my grandparents would eat a hot meal (aardappelen, groente, vlees) for lunch and then bread for dinner.
I honestly don't think this is true... maybe outside of the randstad? (No shade, serious question). I feel like around here you can get plenty of warm meals for lunch. I know I do :P
@@isabelgunneweg5148 , i wouldnt know. I was talking about the general historic influence That only one hot meal is per day is eaten, is deemd the dutch standard.
And i was only offering a theory as an possible explenation.
I don't deny you can't buy it. Because you can. But it's a foreign influence that it's changing. I know when i was young i was visiting an uncle in France. They ate what i would call "diner" for lunch. But they would eat a similar meal again in the evening. I remember it to be very strange. This was someware late 80's early 90's.
On sunday the hot meal (dinnerlike) for lunch was something my grandparents did. But then it would be bread in the evening. If you follow other RUclips vids. It's concidered a Dutch thing to eat only one hot meal per day. Even to take your own lunch with you instead of ordering a hot (OR cold) lunch.
And i live in the south part were good food is enjoyed. Do if there would be a part in the Netherlands it would /could be normal. It would be here. Were the protestant en calvinistic way of thinking had less influence.
It sure is a influence from abroad! Historically it was one hot meal aday for sure. Just saying with all the outside influences nowaday it is not a weird thing to enjoy a warm lunch at all! :) Even pretty common now.
@@anniek4681 & I agree that bringing your own lunch is super Dutch haha. We love saving some money.
Most families have a special day ones a week to order something (like fries) and most times it is in the weekend
Most families? I don’ t think so
A lot of families do that. My friend had patatjes every friday. But we at home had always a patatjes, pizza, poffertjes of pannenkoeken of something else that was special specials (like ‘afgebakken broodjes’ or ‘chinees’) at saturday or sunday. I think a lot of people with kids eat something ‘ongezond’ once a week and most times in the weekend
Faya Kapi vrijdag snacken
Klopt ik ken het ook nog echt van vroeger 1 dag in de week op vrijdag liep ik blij naar de cafetaria en onderweg patatjes eten 😍
Vrijdag Frietdag!
In my experience in the netherlands it’s more common to cook with less processed and more whole foods... Also most bread here containes a lot less sugar and more ‘volkoren’ graines.
When I moved here to Amsterdam I thought I was going to gain so much weight. It had probably been 8 years since I ate bread in the USA. I now eat bread every day multiple times per day and I haven't gained anything. I think there is a misconception about bread happening in the USA. Or maybe our ingredients aren't created equal between here and there. Whatever it is I don't care, bring on all the broodjes!
So true!!
The bread is definitely different. My mom has to be gluten free in the US, but didn't have any reaction to the wheat products here in the Netherlands.
Bread in the USA usually has a lot more sugar I think. Here they almost never add any extra sugar to the bread, and its often 'Bruin brood' which is healtier than the white colored variant.
Bread in the US definitely has more preservatives. It's almost scary 😂
Bread in America is like memory foam, not comparable with bread in Europe. I eat crackers instead of bread when I am in America.
The best thing about cooking is when you cook for more people and you can then enjoy dinner with someone else. Cooking for yourself is boring and feels like a necessity. Cooking for someone else is rewarding and feels great.
In the Netherlands farmers ate warm lunch and bread for dinner(so they switched the 2) back in the day. So they would have enough food in their tummys to work hard the rest of the day.
Some still do, most don't. Just because it is easier not to
Ahhh interesting!
I feel your point about warm lunches en breakfast. I'm Dutch and I prefer warm foods over bread. My friends always make fun about me eating noodles pasta and pancakes so often. Also it's hard to get warm lunches, especially when going to work where there is no cafeteria or where the cafeteria only serves bread.
Sometimes I take leftovers with me to school, we have a microwave in the cafeteria. But sometimes people make fun of it
1 advantage in my life moving feom NL to France... lunch culture is sooo much betrer here
Bo Grisel I don’t necessarily want warm foods, I just hate eating bread twice a day. So I take wraps, salad, pancakes and things like that for lunch. I eat granola or oatmeal for breakfast.
Also prefer warm food. I bring hot food in a thermos, works for me.
Odette Krijthe . I love food also. I just happen to love bread 😀
A lot of elderly people eat their warm meal during lunch instead of in the evening. It's not unheard of, but mainly seen as old-fashioned. Not sure if this has preserved in the city as well, but on the countryside it's still a thing!
But then they eat bread for dinner which is just as horrible D:
@@Marijemarijee They do, it's kinda disgusting if you ask me
You would have loved my grandmother. Back in the day, most people would have an hour and a half, or two hours of lunch break. So everybody could go home and eat the warm meal in the afternoon. this all changed over the years though. But with my gran it was still the same: soup first, potatoes vegetables and meat second, desert (mostly yoghurt) third, and a fruit course as well. Miss you Oma!!! (btw, you'd better do some sport regularly with meals like hers).
I'm Dutch and even thinking of a warm breakfast like a wrap or something else that we eat at dinner normally triggers me
As much as I love a lekker broodje met beleg, I feel you on the absence of warm lunches and breakfasts :( I'm Dutch and have lived here all my life but have really come to dislike the 'boring' boterhammencultuur when it comes to lunch. Lately I've been feeling like I want something a little more exciting! Something to keep me going throughout the day! This quarantine has me cooking for myself at lunchtime more often because I'm home anyway, and it has been amazing! I don't know if I can go back to boterhammen after this :P
Yes I’ve been cooking lekker lunches it’s going to be weird to go back to sandwiches after this whole thing is over!!
@@JoeyJaq you dont have to tho. You can still have a proper meal that you can bring along. Like pasta salad or couscous/bulgar/quinoa salad, or roasted veggies and sweet potstoes etc is all Nice at room temp.
I totally agree, we need more warm lunches and breakfasts in the Netherlands! We eat way to much bread. I bring my own lunch to work (bread) because it is cheap and easy. We definitely need have more options but it is hard to make it succeed since it is so normal to bring your own food to work.
Just cook a large potato before bed and it heat it on the microwave much more filling and yummy than bread again
Dutch here... I used to live in NY and the food culture there is just so much better than in NL. Everything from the wide range of options to the grocery stores (Whole Foods! Fairway! Trader Joe's!) and the 24/7 mentality. But yes, grocery shopping is more expensive there, though restaurants are cheaper. The NL is getting better with options, but the mentality of only one cooked meal a day is still going strong and it is honestly.... boring!
Most places of work have a microwave and a fridge. It's pretty normal to just throw leftovers from last night in the freezer, store it in the fridge at work when you arrive and heat it up during lunch time. It just takes a bit of prep work but it's perfectly normal. Especially because practically everyone cooks for themselves several times a week. It is why meal sized freezer bags can be found in every supermarket in the country.
The only reason I'm aware of that a lot of people don't bring warm meals to work is because it takes more time to eat. Most people prefer to spent their lunch chatting with their colleagues without having to worry about finishing their lunch on time. Oh, and bread doesn't smell.
Yes, ordering pad Thai for lunch would be weird. Unless you have some heated up leftovers, or a soup, a warm lunch is out of the question.
I think it's kind of an American thing to think bread makes you fat (I've heard some misconseptions, something to do with carbs or something)
But in the Netherlands we don't have a lot of extremely overweight people and we all eat bread, A LOT... Bread has a lot of vibers and not a lot of calories, so depending on what you top it with it shouldn't make you fat.
Broodje frikandel everyday, yes that will make you fat.
but a toasted bread with a slice of cheese will not hurt much.
That's the thing, it's about having a balanced diet. Bread can create fat on a body get if you eat multiple slices of bread with nutella/hagelslag every day. It's full of carbs and void of nutrients. Carbs in bread are a good quick source for energy, so it suits the Dutch, who walk and cycle a lot troughout the day. Oh, and i forgot to add, in many countries they add sugar to their bread, Dutch bread is mostly not sweetened.
I think it also comes from the fact that almost all american bread has a lot of sugar. When I went there on holiday and we bought bread in the supermarket it was so sweet. Here in The Netherlands bread rarely has any added sugars and often is the darker type of bread, instead of the white bread.
I think besides the added sugar another thing is that a lot of Americans only eat white bread, which is the less healthy option.
Maybe also because when Americans eat bread, they make a sandwich and put mayo on it? At least in TV shows they do that (reliable source, I know). If you were to put mayo on your bread everyday, you'd become fat a bit faster I think
@@estheradriana1992 White bread is also eaten a lot in Nederland
Even if it was weird, if you want warm lunch and if you can get it, why not? There is no law against it and you don't harm anybody with it. So go for it. Who cares what other people think.
I think it depends on where you are in the Netherlands, here in Rotterdam it's not that weird to eat warm lunches.A lot of my friends, almost all of my colleagues and I eat warm lunches. And in the office building next to ours, there's is a whole food court with lunches
Thanks for speaking in Dunglish? Englitch? A combination of Dutch and English. It's really helpful for me trying to learn Dutch to hear someone switch back and forth like you do. Plus, you're fun. Dank je wel!
I agree, thanks, has been very helpful
The price difference surprised me: I expected the US to be cheaper (no vat). Or was it just NY that was expensive?
New York definitely has a reputation for being expensive, and now I get why!
I think its like amsterdam and london, they are not cheap either. But some other citys or villages are ‘normal’.
But yeah if you expected to be cheaper ‘ dan is dat een tegenvaller’
In Florida, some things were cheaper, especially the more (sub-) tropical food. Other things were more expensive (such as vegetables). And there was no cheap wine for cooking! No bottle under $15...
@@doornroosje4695 But at Albert Heijn in Amsterdam, you will pay the same for the same products as in the Albert Heijn in Winschoten for example, right?
@@cristakampert8740 Albert Heijn used to have different prices but not anymore in their regular stores. Their AH to go stores are still more expensive and there are a lot of them in Amsterdam. I do know that de Consumentenbond (consumersunion) compared prices of all products in all supermarkets in the Netherlands in 2018 and found that Jumbo and Hoogvliet had different prices per location.
Een warme lunch is inderdaad niet heel "gewoon" hier in NL. Het is altijd broodjes halen of broodjes meenemen, of een salade/pastasalade. Wel neem ik soms restjes van de dag ervoor mee, maar dan moet ik wel zeker weten dat er een magnetron is.
I second the warm food thing, luckily I have a good cafeteria at where I do my internship, fresh bread and good warm soup does miracles for the soul.
I think it's not weird to eat warm during lunch, especially soup is considered normal. But it's a matter of convenience. At the office it's difficult to get a warm meal because there's no microwave or they don't provide it on that day. In quarantine it is a little easier. But still it feels like a waste of time? If I go out for lunch eating warm food I think should become more normal, because why not haha
It is indeed a bit unusual to order warm lunch or breakfast in cafes or restaurants. But when you make it yourself it isn't as weird to do it. Maybe because you switched to sandwiches you eat less warm meals. I think it is good to switch it up between warm and cold in order to not get tired of crackers and sandwiches.
Als student weet ik dat veel van mijn leeftijdsgenoten ook niet de moeite nemen om zelf te koken. Maar het is vaak zo veel lekkerder, gezonder en goedkoper! Dus ik ook altijd voor twee dagen en dan hoef ik de volgende dag alleen maar op te warmen!
Relatable! I've lived in Beijing for more than a year and diet/groceries are so immensely different over there! So much so, that I can't really change back now that I'm in the Netherlands again... I miss it so much!😢
So true!
Come to think of it, it’s kinda weird that we don’t eat warm breakfast/lunch as much? Especially because it’s cold and wet here so often haha
In Malaysia we have warm food at least 3 times a day, sometimes 4 if we're hungry in the middle of the night as well! When my Dutch bf first visited me he found it strange to be eating rice first thing in the morning, but over here it's a norm. I already know I'm going to miss all the warm meals when I move over there. lolol.
YUMMMMM I could totally live there then.
Lol found it funny how you compared prices, NY is otherworldly expensive. I used to get by with 25 Euro per week for groceries (Germany), in the Netherlands that's at about 30 per week.
Me alone do groceries for 110 a month so your estemate is pretty close!
-The Netherlands
@@Ancovg Good to see I am not absolutely overspending here then :D
I live in Australia now and I miss broodjes 🤣 Here it’s more common to do warm lunch and dinner. I could probably do broodjes, but the bread just isn’t the same as back home and there isn’t as much of variety of things to put on your bread either haha
Pad Thai for lunch is indeed not common in The Netherlands. But Indonesian, Surinam (and people from other cultures also, I pressume) have no problem with warm dishes for luch or even breakfast. Mostly leftovers from diner the day before. But normaly, Lunch means bread with cheese or ham. Would be bice though, pad thai for lunch 😉
Hi, I enjoyed your video ^_^.
Are there no broodjes in America? Or boterhammen? I'd miss that. And also getting groceries and preparing home cooked meals. I don't love to cook, but it's so much cheaper (haha Dutch ^_^) and fresh, and you know what's in it ^_^. I've heard from a colleague who had been to America that getting vegetables and fresh products are very expensive there. Didn't know that.
Als ik zou verhuizen zal ik de gesnede groente zakjes missen, vooral voor in de pasta of andere maaltijdgerechten. Soms gebruik ik courget, ui, paprika en tomaat voor de pasta, maar die zakjes zijn zo handig!
I am Dutch and I love to eat A warm breakfast and a warm lunch. I did it today too, I had noodles for breakfast and A wok leftover for lunch. Years ago, when my parents Where young in The 50’s, 60’s and 70’s it was normal to eat a warm lunch every day in the Netherlands. This has changed when people were going to travel more for work and eat at work and when mothers are getting jobs instead of being at home for raising their children.
Lekkkker, I want to do the same but I do not have so much time.
Are you able to price match/coupon easily in the Netherlands? I'm Canadian and literally always prepare these things before I go shopping. I'm wondering if the Netherland grocery chains have such a model.
No I have never tried it actually!
ik eet voor lunch en ontbijt altijd boterhammen met kaas en boterhammen met hagelslag, ik heb denk ik nog nooit warm geluncht
Je Nederlands wordt zo goed. You switch from Dutch to English so fluently.
Yay thank you!!
I eat Pad Thai for breakfast (and a lot of other dishes; ever heard of paprikás csirke with galuska? One of my favorites, I can eat that every hour, every day ... )
are you hungry?
order food
are you not hungry?
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order food!
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I hate that you can barely get any warm lunch in The Netherlands! Sometimes I will eat leftover pasta for breakfast the next day and I LOVE it but a lot of people think it's weird somehow. I think it's weird that people prefer cold boring food in the morning but oh well. I would miss doing groceries if I'd live in New York, definitely. I love grocery shopping and I would feel pretty anxious if there would not be a store nearby! How can you get groceries if you don't have a driver license then? :o But I would love to order food more often... I only order food about once a month.
Brilliant video. Had to laugh about the warm breakfast and lunch part because my 21-year-old godson is half British/half American and has been spending his Summers in the US since he was a kid. He keeps telling his mum een broodje (bread roll) is not a proper meal unless it's grilled.
I live in the Netherlands but I love to eat warm food for lunch. I usualy eat the leftovers or I will make an egg or a tosti.
i did notice there in NL that i would eat differently as well but here in the states i will bulk buy and bulk cook food and then just have portions of the same meal every day. cooking eggs in the morning i have down to a science tho so even there i would make eggs for my love. i find i buy gadgets to shorten cooking times and efforts tho like multi-function rice cookers or insta-pots. it just makes things flow quickly so i can still have down time even after a long day of work. i also did notice there that the foods upset my body less. here in the us i will get sick a lot from many of the healthy foods but there it seems like the food is fresher from farm to store to plate.
Your Dutch keeps improving! You go, Joey! "We filter coffee not people" I like it! :-)
At my office in Amsterdam we order warm Surinam or Indonesian food for lunch every Friday! (Via Thuisbezorgd) 😉
Lekkkkkker
Yes, I want more warm lunces and breakfast! I'm not really the breadtype. But I wonder how about portionsize? I hear from friends that the portions are huge in america?
Yes, ridiculously large. I am a Dutch-American dual citizen from birth. I have lived in the US for most of my life, and when I visited the Netherlands recently, I found the portions so much more reasonably sized. Surprisingly, the largest difference was actually in the ice cream scoop sizes and I loved the size because they were just enough.
Well, in my case, I can eat twice from the portion size I get there. Always had to take home leftovers 😂
Try going to Germany near the Dutch border like Groningen or Greetsiel. They do warm lunches and speak Frisian which is basically the same as Dutch. As an extra bonus German bakeries are the bomb. You will get a whole new outlook on bread and cake. Check out some stores for Hachez and Feodora chocolate.
Did you record this video like 3 weeks ago? You already had over 15k subscribers by april 23!
Yeah I had, I didn’t think I would grow so quickly hhaha 😂
i would miss the grocery shopping.. i think it s so nice having fresh foods near by.. and not as expensive as in ny. But i would love to have the option to order more often.. because that s most of the time expensive here.,
Mijn zoontje en ik hebben graag havermoutpap als ontbijt. Fijne havervlokken, melk en een beetje suiker naar smaak. Je kan Chia toevoegen, rozijntjes, zelfs banaan.
Ook een gebakken eitje/omelet/roerei kan een lekkere, warme aanvulling zijn op je ontbijt.
Doe gewoon wat je lekker vindt. Soms maak ik pannenkoeken en doe er choco of suiker op voor mijn zoon, maar voor mezelf rol ik ze op met ham, lekker hartelijk bij zoet...
Hou je niet van een yoghurt meer fruit voor ontbijt of lunch? Muesli mag er ook in.
Altijd koud, ik wil warm!!
As a Thai person who also lives in the Netherlands, I ALWAYS order warm lunches or pack my own lunch despite those looks from my Dutch friends. I can't go for cold food, I just can't 😂
Hahahah amazing!
Those looks might be because they’re jealous of your food😄
@@jetfromholland9638 Ah haha guess that's a bright side though. Thanks for that!
In New York I would miss plain unsweetened yoghurt with berries for breakfast and fresh wholemeal bread with butter and dutch farmers’ cheese or Calvé pindakaas.
I want this. I want that & I want everything else!!! Dude you are so funny 😂
I would miss groceries shopping I think, because you said it’s much cheaper here than in New York
Eating out for lunch, I would go for something warm. I would like to have that at home too, but I don’t want to cook two or three times a day! I do make pots of soup, to have with lunch. Always nice.
I really miss the grocery stores in The Netherlands and THEIR PRICES. I have many grocery stores around me. But so much processed food, or so much added sugar, even in the bread. I still cook every night, almost never order food. But my grocery bill is minimum of an $1000 a month. If you want to buy healthy, organic, non GMOs. Keep digging in that wallet. When I'm in the Netherlands, I'm going crazy in the Albert Heijn. I cant imagine you will spend €750 on groceries in the Netherlands. Unless you choose daily for luxury items.
I love these verspakketten, it makes cooking so much easier, it is fresh, you can try out different dishes and you get a decent healthy meal in no time.
Yes loveeeee it!!
Ugh the lack of warm lunches kills me!! In fact, at my uni in Amsterdam they have like one public microwave on campus. I'm also not a big fan of bread (love me some potatoes though lol) so it's been weird for me.
I’m Dutch, but I LOVE soup (as lunch). People make fun of me, but tomato soup is my favourite food ever! So if I could that would be my lunch. Now it’s my lunch, sometimes. When I’m allowed. Hahahahaha. Soup is healthy , warm and just delicious. So that would be my favourite lunch ever! :)
In my house we actually NEVER ordered yet, funfact!
I would miss The cooking! It just feels more fresh.
You never ordered!!!🤪🤪
@@JoeyJaq me neither at 28 years old 😂
I like grocery shopping... it's so fun to pick fruit & veggies that you would like & check what's on sale.
Also I've been learning to cook and love preparing food & trying new recipes.
Every sunday my bf & I visit his mom & her boyfriend and eat frietjes together. 😊🥰
For those who don't know, the Netherlands has the greatest choice of food in the world. That's official. Brian Oosterbeek
I think it is so weird that Americans associate bread with getting fat. You are just sitting there, eating your broodje, being at healthy/stable weight, and then someone says it would make you fat.
Hahahaha very true
I love warm lunches, I always cooking more food than we actually need and take the leftovers to work. People look at you as if they see water burning 😂 but I would miss homemade food in New York, and Dutch brood and cheese... And Hagelslag en vlokken 😋
Somethimes i Cook an Afghaanse lunch.... Haha zo lekker! Aardappel blokjes in koekepan ongeveer 5minutjes, ui in stukjes erbij, zout en peper, tomaat in kleine stukjes erbij, zachtjes koken ongeveer 15 minuten. 1eetlepel tomatenpuree erbij. En dan een paar eieren erover heen met hele eidooier. Als eieren gaar zijn is, de lunch klaar. Je kan er nog wat peulvruchten door heen doen. Kruiden als komijn, koriander en kurkuma en gember gebruiken 😁 ik ben gewoon Nederlandse 😊groetjes🌷
Hey Joey, you're AMAZING! Indeed, the warm lunches (I'm from brazil) are the best and here... I cannot eat the broodjies hahahahaha!
I’m gonna miss Dutch bread when I move probably more than anything else. 😔
I miss grocery shopping so much during this quarantine. I try to shop for the week to limit exposure, but I miss it. I used to do it every other day. I don't think I would cook less, because I only cook for me and that wouldn't change.
I'm going to get some bread, thanks to you I'm craving a nice baguette with all kinds of veggies, eggs, some meat. Thank you for adding that to my shopping list. I do eat more warm meals now with the virus, maybe it has something to do with doing groceries less often? I don't know.
I missed the potatoes, veggies, meat dinner type. It's always the first thing I hear from foreign friends when they come here 'You guys can only make one dish'.
Hahahah so true, its all very simple spiced as well.
I eat leftovers from what i cooked the day before in the morning lunch etc. Just make a little bit more so you can lunch it the next day. I love warm food evergday
Btw you know that mid last century and before that time,we used to have two warm meals a day ,in the morning and mid noon,but in them days most of the people were farmers ,who burned enough calories to endure two hot meals a day,but after all upcoming industries were situated in cities it altered and not as least because the notion of "time is money" and the acceptance of the 24/7 mentality,it fucked up everything from then on.
I make my own versions of stammpots. I also add some herbs to make them more interesting. My Dutch mother in law finds it strange but she likes them.
Lekkkker with more herbs hahah
@@JoeyJaq there are only two things that Dutch people use to spice up things :salt & pepper.
I would miss the bread! Especially the wholeweat bread fresh from the bakery🤗. Tip: when you cook dinner, cook for one extra person and set it apart for the next day for lunch. Buy nice wraps at AH, put in your home made food with a bit of créme fraîche added... lekkerrrr😋 you can put it in the oven or micro wave and have a warm lunch.
Great idea!!
Who do some people say "do groceries" when its suppose to be "get groceries"...
Hoi Joey. Bedankt weer voor je leuke video. Je doet het goed hoor en je Nederlands steeds beter 👍👍👍. Tot ziens..❤..En een broodje die zijn gewoon lekker .
Dankjewel lieverd!!
I am Dutch as well and I have to say that I am very happy that we eat this much bread. I can't handle cooked vegetables and potatoes, so thank god that is only once a day. The only hot meals I can eat without getting extremely nauseous or having to vomit are pasta's, fish and most 'knorr wereldgerechten'.
I do love raw vegetables, bread and fruits tho. So I am happy with living in the Netherlands and you probably won't see me moving out of the country.
Maybe you should be checked for allergies/untolerances
@@bearclaire hey, a bit late of a reaction, but we figured out what it is, I have an eating disorder caused by a heightened sense of smell. This means the smell of certain food, (which is especially warm food, since that smells more) really triggers me and makes me nauseous. No allergies or intolerances at all :)
Haha, mooi kapsel! Toch een kapper gevonden?
Do you plan to live in NL forever? Like having kids and getting old in NL. Or would you also consider to return to the US after a few years? Btw like your videos :D.
I do plan on staying here, but you know I never say ever because I never thought I was going to leave NYC.
If oatmeal counts I always have a warm breakfast, haha.
At my work, colleagues often go eat thai or poke bowl for lunch. Or bring dinner leftovers to put in the microwave. (Not now obviously, because everyone is working at home. But still, for me and people around me, cooking more dinner so you have a nice warm lunch the next day (and don't cook for only one meal) is definetely a thing.
I totally get what you're saying about cooking for yourself, I don't like that either. So I just keep it simple and/or make sure I make more than 1-2 meals at once for myself.
So how about couponing? You strike to me as a person who is into extreme couponing. Must be something totally different to you,not being able to get as much free stuff as over there.
Btw cudoz on you cooking from scratch (I presume) ,way to go......
I love it that you talk Dutch en Amerikaans door elkaar! 🤣🤣. Leuke filmpjes om te kijken! I've only been once to the states, but omg, ik wil zooooo graag naar alle fast food ketens daar!!! Sowieso IN-N-OUT. I'm gonna try to make the animal style sauce myself. It looks so goooood😍. Wat ik zou missen van NL, idk, you can almost get everything in the states🤣! Dus zou het niet weten.🤔🤔. 😘😘
OMG schat in n out is insane!!! Lekerste burger ooit!!!
I like variety, i don't have a 30 min lunch break so I can just eat leftovers at home if I want, fry an egg for on my my bread or eat something sweet. But when I was at school it was always the same three slices of whole wheat with chocolate spread and it tasted good to me. Then after I got home i'd get a snack. Sometimes basic dutch food is great and at other times like today I made in indo dish with chicken peppers and onions with lots of rice on the side. i think dutch people like all kinds of "exotic" style foods and make them part of the national food. But eating out or ordering is expensive and not very good. We also have more time to cook of course compared to the U.S, we work less hours and have less traveltime.
I would miss the cheap and easy access grocery stores, i lived in toronto, was the same thing, no real grocery stores in my area. I had to take a cab home once because i couldn't carry my groceries all the way home. I enjoy cooking and making meals from scratch, that was hard to do, also super expensive so I would eat out for basically every meal. Now i'm back in the NLs I do miss the cheap convenient giant dinners and taking a doggy bag home.
So true!
Lol, I'm Dutch but I really don't like bread... I eat a lot of salads or warm meals for lunch. But yeah people think it is weird :)
I was never a bread person. I love eating warm meals during the day 🙈 and leftovers or just salad(s) from vegetables and fruits.
The first conclusion of a video about eating habits: "I'm growing" @1:40 :-)
BTW I started to change my breakfast habits; I abandoned the boterhammen met hagelslag for a warm, healthier meal: egg muffins with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes.
As a dutch person I would love warm lunches, but since it's not really a culture here it is hard to come by
Yeah if you tell me you need to go far for grocery, i would definitely miss that. I order sometimes when i am lazy or like chill night but its always more expensive for me than cooking. I have an idea, would you like to make a video about breakfast or lunch? Like what you eat in a week? I am tited of eating the same and I really liked your ice coffee video.!! Xxd
Yeah I think thats a great idea!
Loved watching this video! I can totally relate to most of what you're saying :D
Glad you enjoyed!
I don't like bread, but I love to make myself a brown "broodje" (the heavy square one) with a thick layer of shrimsalade. I defently would miss that in NY. And I cook almost every day so I would miss that too. When I'm on holiday and stay with friends or family in NZ or Canada, I always coock a few times. Love to cook for dear ones. Or make a cake. The improvising without your familiar products makes it so fun. Even once made the desert for a wedding in Curacao. On saterday my bf cooks and he will make a kind of soup. Thursday is patatdag! So would miss een patatje waterfiets (fries + 2 frikandellen).
MMMM Lekker the thick brown slices, my fav!
Omg Joey I can't agree more with you on this! I am from Spain and the eating culture there is so rich! We have 5 meals a day (3 main warm and 2 cold snacks) and sandwiches are only part of the snack in the mid-evening! (Oh, and btw, Tapas bars are only for tourists). Letterlijk, the eating culture and gastronomy is the one of the things that I dislike the most about NL (with the weather)! I feel even posh restaurants have super basic menus, with small and super expensive dishes. Since I live here I barely go out to eat, as I always feel it's not worth the price at all! Also, the only typical dishes here are extra basic hahaha, like stampot or kroketjes... I mean... can you even say there is a Dutch gastronomy? For me tostie with fish and egg is just a snack 😂
Don't mistake me, I love Holland, but here eating is a very unimportant part of people's life and efficiency (having a sandwich very fast and back to work) is the main focus of lunches here.
Let's not even get started with eating times... At the time some Dutch are having dinner I have recently had lunch... I still don't understand how they go from 5pm until 00 without eating a full meal!!
Haha so true I always have a late lunch so I can’t have early dinner it’s too much!! 😂
Bwuhahaha.. Did you really say we have no gastronomic culture? You need new friends who are capable to show you the right places my friend. 😉
I have no clue what backward part of the Nederlands your in but stappot at 17:30 is verry last century 😂
I was used to having dinner at 6-7pm. I can't get used to my American fiancé's dinner time that's more 7:30-8:30pm. My stomach still feels full when going to bed at 11pm....😅
@@shasita3361 At my house we eat dinner between 5-6 pm. We might eat like a little snack or dessert around 9 pm but that's not a daily thing.
@@BlueEyedRaven_ That's rather early! I don't know anyone else who eats at 5pm...I'd be fine eating at 5pm, but I'm still on my way home from work around that time. Then I have to cook. So there's no way I can have dinner before 6pm
Wow Joey, je Nederlands wordt echt goed!
In my culture we also cook for all 3 meals lol. Out of time we didnt do that anymore (mom worked too). I did a gastric by pass about 2 years ago now and what i been doing now to get my veggies in is a small stir fry (i think that’s a ‘roerbak’ right) for lunch, so for dinner i can do just a small salad next to some what ever. You can do Bread everyday ecually, they say that brown is healthiest and if you do have it with alot of ‘toppings’ limit it to 1 ‘broodje’ or or 2 ‘sneetjes’. But if Bread is your mean meal for brackfeast and lunch than you schould eat more than that, i think lol (defenently not a ‘diëtiste’! Just been to one basicly all my life)
Wow so how large are your portions now?
@@JoeyJaq not so big now. i eat my dinner in a 'lunch/bread' plate. and soups, sir fries etc. in a bowl smaller than a normal soup bowl, i think its a baby size kind. i dont feel hunger any more (can be different for every person) but can drink all day (that why the tea lol)
Can you please choose one languages?
Nope. 😃
Dying about your " No dont go grocery shoppen friday night" hahaha #welwaar
I would totally miss the easyness of boodschappen doen, and the overal quality of the store. I would miss my Albert Heijn :(
Ja een warme lunch is misschien wel een beetje gek op een doordeweekse dag, maar thuis kan je dat ook maken toch! En als je het wel doet, dan kijkt vast niemand raar naar je.
I really wish warm meals before dinner will become a thing here someday! When I'm going for a lunch I usually order either soup or bread with warm toppings, cuz I just like it so much. Pad Thai does sound nice :(