As an old man living alone, I have to admit that quick and easy is very tempting. But, there's plenty of quick and easy traditional dishes that can be made. (Schninkennudeln for example.) Germans have it lucky with a good, easy to attain, assortment of charcuterie and breads. (That doesn't get easier to whip up a meal with.) But, you know me well enough by now to know that I can get a bug and go out whole-hog on cooking something very special. And, I'm still enough grumpy old man that I try to avoid those new fangled packaged meals. An interesting thing you didn't speak of is how often do modern Germans go to the grocery store. Have there been changes over time? I can remember going to a grocery store, a butcher or a baker about a total of 3 to 4 times a week. (Shops were small, so you got something at one, others at another.) Here in the US, I go grocery shopping (for everything) once or twice a month, no more.
Oh you Are Right, that would be interesting to know. I don’t have any statistics but I can tell you that young people go out to stores almost every day. A lot of people don’t do meal planning and therefore go grocery shopping every day. We also go 2-3 times a week. How do you manage to go only twice a month? Are you ordering a lot of foods online?
Yes it's interesting, and that's one of the things that's different here in the US. Germans buy less when they do shop, but they shop more often. People in the US therefore tend to have larger pantry stocks than Germans. Results is that less fresh is used, more canned, and more fresh goes to waste. Also in stores, US portions sold are larger, and it's quite difficult for me to buy just enough to cook the meal I'm planning. Therefore, just like many Americans, we make frozen leftovers. I do order some online. It's mostly specialty items though.
Regional and seasonal food for fair price is what I'm looking for and with the current situation i started to cook more and more at home. And i must say, i like it. It's a variation of food, always open for new ideas.
I was thinking about what you wrote and actually regional and seasonal food should have a fair price. It doesn't have to be transported so sometimes I don't understand why we have to pay so much more for those ingredients..
@@cooking-the-world if you go to a supermarket, sometimes a fish from Thailand from the Pacific Ocean is cheaper than the trout from local lake or the mackerel from North Sea. Germany buys cheap fruits or pork meat from China and that's not necessary, but it forces the local farmers to do the same things and old traditional fruits and also farm animals get lost, because it's to expensive in acquisition and maintenance and finally politicians are asked to change something. It would be so much better for the environment.
I have to say as well that I truly love your channel and it gives me inspiration to cook all the different dishes of Germany especially the northern german cuisine as we are all northern german in my family we are so blessed to be a subscriber to your channel thank you again for all the time and effort that you put into these videos for all of us bless you and your family!!!
I cook a variety of dishes, a lot of them traditional older American. I have been to Southern Germany and Ireland (since both are part of my heritage) and love to use recipes from those countries as well.
I think there isn’t a video out there that went in to such detail as you did. It was nice, thank you. Sine last year I have been cooking most of my meals and enjoyed it too :)
For health reasons I try to eat a whole food plant based diet, so no meat, fish, eggs or dairy and no refined sugars or oils. There are lots of delicious recipes out there, but not really any restaurants.
@@angeloofpalermo2612 No refined oils at all, but I only follow this way of eating about 80% of the time because I have little will power. Read 'How Not to Die' and 'How Not to Diet' by Michael Gregor MD for more info.
I prefer cooking the traditional German ( British, Russian, Swedish, etc) food as opposed to anything else. Not only it's tasty, but gives me a sense of accomplishment.
I am a chef and I cook all of our family's meals and the only time I ever eat out is from small family owned restaurants that I know cook from scratch like I do I find it is much better quality food and better for your health overall and keeps you feeling fuller longer without any weird side affects like too much salt or sugar that is in so much fast foods
Is this why the grocery store attendant (in Munchen) made faces at me when I bought dozens of chocolate bars to bring back as souvenirs? Our chocolate here in the US is not quite as good :)
@@cooking-the-world My store stocks Ritter Sport. Their Dark Chocolate with Hazelnuts has 2 g fiber per 14 g total carbs. That ratio puts it well within my diet standards.
Since the Pandemic, I am cooking more meals at home. Just running out of ideas that my husband and my grown so will both eat. Very frustrating. We are of German descent but are from the U.S. My husband was born in Heidelberg though. I cook some German dishes, but we like a lot of different kinds of foods.
Lucky you!:) for us the situation has changed a bit with the baby. During the pandemic I cooked a lot, after the birth we ate all this what we had in the freezer and now we partly cook at home partly order take-away. I am sure that one day we will be cooking more again, but for the moment having free time is the biggest issue 😉
After 4 heart attacks and 3 strokes, I eat low fat, low salt, low carb, low cholesterol fresh or frozen meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. At least, that is what I tell my doctor. (:
@@cooking-the-world To answer your question... I'm a bad cook, I do like trying new foods but I have a sensitive sense of smell. Blue cheeses, vinegars even egg make me gag!
To your other question yeah Aldi Lidl... I don't think there's that big of a German population in the UK, you get loads of Polish, Turkish and Chinese food shops but no German ones
Abend Marta, we still cook every day, mostly traditional English or German meals, we are not veggies in any way but used to quite often eat Indian veggie foods when we were out for a meal. That's not happened for a while.
I lived in Frankfurt in early 80's and have loved your videos about foods and recipes! But I think giving statistics like this video will Wir sehr landweilig.
The EU-Eco-regulation is a bit of joke, especially when it comes to livestock farming. The most trustful organic products are those that carry the symbol of one of our organic associations (Demeter/Bioland/Naturland). Of course something can be organic without being labelled. For example game meat (Wildfleisch) is organic, but it can't be labelled. Well, it makes sense to me. Very small regional businesses that work with (high) organic quality don't really have to be in one of the associations.
Interesting !
Thanks Tim!
I love cooking meals that my oma taught me for my family.
Me too 😍
Very, very interesting
Thanks!;) world is changing 😊
always good to see something new from you. is the next vid belegtes brot?
Yes! Just filming today the last two examples! So excited about this one
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You you you 😍😍😍
As an old man living alone, I have to admit that quick and easy is very tempting. But, there's plenty of quick and easy traditional dishes that can be made. (Schninkennudeln for example.) Germans have it lucky with a good, easy to attain, assortment of charcuterie and breads. (That doesn't get easier to whip up a meal with.) But, you know me well enough by now to know that I can get a bug and go out whole-hog on cooking something very special. And, I'm still enough grumpy old man that I try to avoid those new fangled packaged meals. An interesting thing you didn't speak of is how often do modern Germans go to the grocery store. Have there been changes over time? I can remember going to a grocery store, a butcher or a baker about a total of 3 to 4 times a week. (Shops were small, so you got something at one, others at another.) Here in the US, I go grocery shopping (for everything) once or twice a month, no more.
Oh you Are Right, that would be interesting to know. I don’t have any statistics but I can tell you that young people go out to stores almost every day. A lot of people don’t do meal planning and therefore go grocery shopping every day. We also go 2-3 times a week. How do you manage to go only twice a month? Are you ordering a lot of foods online?
Yes it's interesting, and that's one of the things that's different here in the US. Germans buy less when they do shop, but they shop more often. People in the US therefore tend to have larger pantry stocks than Germans. Results is that less fresh is used, more canned, and more fresh goes to waste. Also in stores, US portions sold are larger, and it's quite difficult for me to buy just enough to cook the meal I'm planning. Therefore, just like many Americans, we make frozen leftovers. I do order some online. It's mostly specialty items though.
Regional and seasonal food for fair price is what I'm looking for and with the current situation i started to cook more and more at home.
And i must say, i like it. It's a variation of food, always open for new ideas.
I was thinking about what you wrote and actually regional and seasonal food should have a fair price. It doesn't have to be transported so sometimes I don't understand why we have to pay so much more for those ingredients..
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if you go to a supermarket, sometimes a fish from Thailand from the Pacific Ocean is cheaper than the trout from local lake or the mackerel from North Sea.
Germany buys cheap fruits or pork meat from China and that's not necessary, but it forces the local farmers to do the same things and old traditional fruits and also farm animals get lost, because it's to expensive in acquisition and maintenance and finally politicians are asked to change something. It would be so much better for the environment.
@@robertzander9723 You are right. And yes, this is not fair and upsetting.
I have to say as well that I truly love your channel and it gives me inspiration to cook all the different dishes of Germany especially the northern german cuisine as we are all northern german in my family we are so blessed to be a subscriber to your channel thank you again for all the time and effort that you put into these videos for all of us bless you and your family!!!
Thanks John. We are planning to go to the Northern Germany again in October. I will consider filming something for you:) let’s see what I will find!:)
I cook a variety of dishes, a lot of them traditional older American. I have been to Southern Germany and Ireland (since both are part of my heritage) and love to use recipes from those countries as well.
I think there isn’t a video out there that went in to such detail as you did. It was nice, thank you. Sine last year I have been cooking most of my meals and enjoyed it too :)
Thanks for watching!:) I have a feeling that the pandemic has changed the way we live. The changes are not bad at all!:)
I still cook very traditionally. This type of food is the most comforting to me.
For health reasons I try to eat a whole food plant based diet, so no meat, fish, eggs or dairy and no refined sugars or oils. There are lots of delicious recipes out there, but not really any restaurants.
Olive oil is refined are you not able to eat that? Or do you mean you don't eat the super processed vegetable oils/trans fats. Sorry just curious
@@angeloofpalermo2612 No refined oils at all, but I only follow this way of eating about 80% of the time because I have little will power. Read 'How Not to Die' and 'How Not to Diet' by Michael Gregor MD for more info.
I prefer cooking the traditional German ( British, Russian, Swedish, etc) food as opposed to anything else. Not only it's tasty, but gives me a sense of accomplishment.
That’s so true Charlie!:)
I am a chef and I cook all of our family's meals and the only time I ever eat out is from small family owned restaurants that I know cook from scratch like I do I find it is much better quality food and better for your health overall and keeps you feeling fuller longer without any weird side affects like too much salt or sugar that is in so much fast foods
That’s true! You always know what you put in your dishes when you cook yourself:)
Is this why the grocery store attendant (in Munchen) made faces at me when I bought dozens of chocolate bars to bring back as souvenirs? Our chocolate here in the US is not quite as good :)
Hahahaha! What did you go for? Old good Ritter Sport?;)
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My store stocks Ritter Sport. Their Dark Chocolate with Hazelnuts has 2 g fiber per 14 g total carbs. That ratio puts it well within my diet standards.
Since the Pandemic, I am cooking more meals at home. Just running out of ideas that my husband and my grown so will both eat. Very frustrating. We are of German descent but are from the U.S. My husband was born in Heidelberg though. I cook some German dishes, but we like a lot of different kinds of foods.
Thanks for sharing! I also like some diversity when meal planning!:) shame that you running out of ideas.. are they so picky about the food?;)
My wife cooks traditional food. Once in a while we go for quick and easy. We don't eat out very often .
Have a great week !
Lucky you!:) for us the situation has changed a bit with the baby. During the pandemic I cooked a lot, after the birth we ate all this what we had in the freezer and now we partly cook at home partly order take-away. I am sure that one day we will be cooking more again, but for the moment having free time is the biggest issue 😉
After 4 heart attacks and 3 strokes, I eat low fat, low salt, low carb, low cholesterol fresh or frozen meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. At least, that is what I tell my doctor.
(:
Oh;) I am sorry to hear about your condition. It has to be hard.
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It is not easy, but the people who live with constant pain are the ones who really have it bad.
It annoys me that you can't get the German chocolate that comes in little squares in blighty
No German shops in UK?
@@cooking-the-world To answer your question... I'm a bad cook, I do like trying new foods but I have a sensitive sense of smell. Blue cheeses, vinegars even egg make me gag!
To your other question yeah Aldi Lidl...
I don't think there's that big of a German population in the UK, you get loads of Polish, Turkish and Chinese food shops but no German ones
My wife and I love to cook and bake at home. We eat out occasionally and once in a while we buy quick and easy foods.
Abend Marta, we still cook every day, mostly traditional English or German meals, we are not veggies in any way but used to quite often eat Indian veggie foods when we were out for a meal. That's not happened for a while.
I lived in Frankfurt in early 80's and have loved your videos about foods and recipes! But I think giving statistics like this video will
Wir sehr landweilig.
Ich habe Deutsch gelernt, so will wieder nach Frankfurt Kommen mit mein Mann und hoffe es geht alles gut wir können und treffen!
Das wäre toll 😍
And thanks for the feedback
The EU-Eco-regulation is a bit of joke, especially when it comes to livestock farming.
The most trustful organic products are those that carry the symbol of one of our organic associations (Demeter/Bioland/Naturland).
Of course something can be organic without being labelled. For example game meat (Wildfleisch) is organic, but it can't be labelled. Well, it makes sense to me. Very small regional businesses that work with (high) organic quality don't really have to be in one of the associations.
Agree 100%!!!