I enjoy visiting supermarkets in foreign countries to give me a small taste of what the local residents experience and to see how they differ from what we experience at home.
I've stayed in places on a couple of vacations in France where I had access to kitchenettes, so I had the opportunity to not only brouse the isles of the grocery stores (a favorite passtime while there) but also do a bit of cooking. The Bonne Mamman chocolate deserts are so good - I wish they had them in the US.
❤merci! les gavottes , le muscadet, les curly,les lardons... Vous vous êtes tellement imprégnée de la vie quotidienne française! Et c est agréable de ne pas voir une vidéo type "emily in paris"!
French here, about "Le Petit Marseillais" brand : Marseilles soap is in our blood, i'm french from no place in particular due to large changes during my young years, it's everywhere the same ! This brand is special, as they imply in their name the inheritance of a 2600 years old city's traditions and rules, and as far as i know, they stand up to a high level of quality, with very few ingredients (like water, an oil and sodium hydroxyde complex as soap agent, perfumes of course, and by law, stabilisers), and kids friendly range of products. We don't say it much, but that's a brand we are really really proud of 😅❤ Things we speak only with very close people, yet spreading like wildfire 😅🤣 There is 3 way to do things : the good way, the bad way, and the french way 😉❤🖖
Diane, I always love watching your grocery store videos. In fact this is my favourite part about visiting a different country. We usually stay in airbnbs and go daily to the local grocery stores. Thank you
ok your favorite part about visiting another country is to go to the grocery store 😂 Americans.... I prefer visiting the country personnaly ,see beautiful landscape, try local food and go to the most beautiful site of the country No offense by the way
Wow, you gave me such a blast of nostalgia, especially with the apericubes (olive and blue cheese were my favourites as a kid a long, long time ago) and the whole yogurt and dairy desserts aisle (some time ago I had a craving for Marie Morin brand chocolate mousse and couldn’t satisfy it, it was bad lol). I miss French butter so much too - ah, having some beurre d’Échiré on a piece of baguette, perhaps with some real bilberry jam…
My favorite thing to buy at Super U is the bag of frozen potatoes called, Pommes de Terre à la Sarladaise, cuisinée à la graisse de canard. Je pourrais manger ça tous les jours!
My favourite Boursin is the walnut and fig one. Can't go wrong with a good Rilletts favourite being roast chicken or Tuna and Sardine ones. Bouche a la Reine another good thing to try.
Always stop in Mono Prix when in Paris. Purchased 4 lbs of butter. Kept it in hotel room fridge until and put them in zip lock freezer bag. Wrapped them in clothing and put in suitcase before going to the airport. Arrived home in the US in perfect condition.
My go-to product is “Gervita”, plain fromage blanc with a top layer of unsweetened whipped cream. Being diabetic really limits me to the supermarket products I can have. I add stevia to it. Next to the Boursin is Tartare. I did a side-by-side taste test, and I like the garlic herb Tartare better than the Boursin one. For a future supermarket video, may I suggest a focus on “bio” and “diététique” products. There are a lot of people who have dietary restrictions and that could be very helpful. I recently discovered the brands “Dukan” and “Gayelord Hauser”.
Two of my favorite grocery store products are Bonne Maman's semoule au lait vanille naturelle (vanilla semolina pudding) and vast array of chilled desserts such as mousse, flan and pot de creme in unusual flavors like fig, noisette or currant. Also love the frozen prepared seafood dishes that come in small ceramic ramekins with flavors such as Coquille St. Jacques. I still have a collection of those ramekins. We have nothing like these in the US!
Bonjour. I love shopping in french supermarkets. We normally visit Paris in Nov and return with grocery store cookies for our holiday open house. People are always impressed as I snicker that they are very modestly priced cookies. But I would never serve "puffs" at a party. Another great video.
Love to see the big grocery store's in France. In The Netherlands we have a lot of different grocery stores but much smaller. Nice to see the typical France products!
This is true especially outside of large city centres - I live in Paris and even I am jealous of the size and selection of Diane's supermarkets! In Paris they are smaller because space is much more limited, sadly
Used to love getting the Kinder bars and the flavours of Yop that we no longer got in British supermarkets but then they started selling those kinder bars so no need to wait for a trip to france to stock up. If you're going to eat it quickly it's the cheese and bakery products that are the main attraction
We always have two types of butter in our fridge: regular salted for cooking and baking and the cristaux de sel (the one you showed) for tartines! Tasty! 😋
I work at a major supermarket chain in the Chicago area. I like seeing the similarities and differences between American stores and those in other parts of the world. I know most French grocery stores don’t have pharmacies or even over the counter medication. I like that most American stores also have carts like the one at 25:19. I’m shopping for myself so I find them handy, especially if I’m picking up stuff like canned goods, a gallon of milk or some pop which get heavy quick.
The pharmacies are everywhere in France like bakeries so there is no need for one in a supermarket. And when supermarkets are in a shopping area or a mall, there are always one or several pharmacies in the same mall.
A raclette dinner is so fun. I have a raclette grill, a yummy little-prep dinner for sort of a community meal. It’s hard to find raclette cheese here in SoCal but a gruyere subs fine. I offer non traditional raw beef, salmon, instead of veal, and boiled potatoes, bread, tons of accoutrements like cornishons, cocktail onions, etc. A very unique and easy way to host a dinner for six, if you’ve got an inexpensive raclette grill and an outlet near your table!. And the stories to tell about the Swiss/French/Austrian/whoever mountain sheep or cattle Alpine wranglers melting their night cheese over a fire, they’re worth the price of the grill. Thanks Diane and happy holidays! 💃💐
Since so many people rave about salted caramel, they might want to get a tube of two of salted caramel from Régilait, next to the sweetened condensed milk by Régilait.
Counting the days till our next visit to France and this was a lovely warm up! You covered lots of our favourite products. Your UK fans might like to know that the Selection de Medailles cheese is available at M&S in the UK.
We are having a marvellous time but sadly have not managed to track down the Brets Chips flavoured with Sheep’s Cheese and Black Cherry. As a keen amateur of Brets more interesting flavours I’m keen to try them!
I've seen potato chips served for apéro very commonly... even in some bars And in all honesty, I prefer Le Petit Marseillais shower gels (and especially their shower creams - Cadum is another brand I love) to any L'Occitane one I've ever tried NO offense, but any French lower end butter is in another galaxy compared to standard US butter (I've lived in the US and am still shocked by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, LOL)
Wonderful video! We were just in France a few weeks ago. Went to Intermarché, Super U and Monoprix. Followed many of your suggestions. The quality of the food is amazing in France!
Thanks for the grocery tour. You showed Grain de Sail.The first time I'd seen that brand was in this week's LaPresse d'Armor...who announced a 52 metres sail yacht will be leaving St Malo at the end of January for New York... carrying les tablettes de chocolate Grain de Sail.
Bonjour Diane. Your videos are wonderful - educational but also practical. Gifts from the grocery store are the way to go. We rarely stay in hotels - we rent an apartment and shop of the supermarket and specialty shops. I've had some horrendous meals at tourist restaurants. We always have good luck at the markets, save money, and eat what aligns with our lifestyle (and time).
My favourite in the Grain de Sail chocolate collection is "Tea flavoured". They make great ground coffee too. I agree about Gavotte, they are very addictive.
Hello Diane! Thanks! 🙏 it's also interesting for me as a Greek to see that the same products that you can find also in Greece are cheaper in France and the salaries in Greece are a lot lower than France!😮
I actually purchased some packs of vanilla sugar and bakers yeast before returning to the US. I wanted gross suc for the brioche i make but didn’t find any. This post is exactly what I needed as I’m seriously missing my time in France. Gigi is wonderful and a great companion to me. Im having some friends over this Saturday. Making galettes with organic buckwheat. A variety of savory options and sweet options for dessert. Getting good cider here is a challenge. The best is by Stella Artois. But i am surrounded by local wineries in cape may. One of my favorites, Hawk Haven is making decent wines also makes cider from apples grown in NJ. It’s so good, brut with an alcohol level of 7 %. Please give your dad and Tom my best wishes. Josef.
No way you didn't recommend Maron Sui's when you were in the mousse/flan/pudding aisle! It's the best mousse ever, imo hahahah. I ate tons of those in my childhood. And it's something very local, I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere else!
About butter on baguette in France... you don't get that. No restaurant will serve you butter with baguette. You need to ask and they look at you funny when you do, but, yes, butter is great on a baguette. A nice baguette sandwitch jambon/beurre or jambon brie with butter and dijon mustard on it is great. Don't forget a little vino with that.
This video made me even more eager to be back in France than I already was. Can't wait! Of note: you had two cute "French-isms" in this video: when you said the candy was "enrobed" in chocolate, and when you said "a dozen of eggs". 😊😍 (And of course, when you couldn't remember the word for "ciboulette" in English lol.)
Bonjour Diane, I always enjoy your videos. My wife and I live in the Aude, south of Carcassonne. We generally do most of our shopping at a small local grocer that only sells Bio products, but swing by the nearest Leclerc for other items. We spend part of the year in the U.S. as well, and are always shocked by how expensive groceries are there vs. France, especially since we often find French products to be of superior quality. Some of your viewers might be curious to learn how prices compare. Not sure if it's been a topic in any of your other videos. Merci et bonne journée!
(12:15) Something really important you didn"t talk about in the cheese section is that there's a lot of product that have a little red and gold symbol with "appelation d'origine protégée" or "AOP" (protected designation of origin) written on it. It's an european legislation that garanties you quality. Products that want this little symbol on their packaging need to pass a very strict series of test and to follow traditionnal methods that garanties the origin and quality of the product to have the right to use this little symbol so if you can, choose products with the AOP medal, they are a little bit more pricey but WAY better, not all product can have this little medal but if you are looking for a goat milk cheese for exemple, if you take the AOP cheese, you will not be disappointed for sure.
Also, it might depend of people’s class… I would think that poor or middle class will eat potato chips for apéro, while probably higher/rich class might not find potato chips fancy enough for apéro, and will instead prefer something else… less generic. But again, I’m not rich and I’m fine with potato chips any time of the time, including for apéro :)
I am in France. I find that all classes serve potato chips for apero. The well off put out a bowl with ten of them in it. Ha ha. Shrimp and olives are popular.
The products chosen by Diane are indeed very common and popular in France, but the brands she selects are among the most expensive... But for a tourist, these are brands without any unpleasant surprises.
While Vico's Curly are still fine I really miss the authentic original Bahlsen (later Lorenz) ones because it included monosodium glutamate that is quite hard to get separately in France aside Asian food shops. It added this addictive umami taste salt can't really compete with.
Bonjour Diane. Never seen a 10 pack of eggs in Canada ever. Usually 6 (Premium Eggs) or 12 (Regular), and full flats as well of course. Have a great day!
Great selection of products 😊. I will have to keep an eye out for these next time I go to France. We have 2 french supermarket chains in Portugal so I might see if I can get some of the products there 😊
Wow, your French pronouncation is excellent! I'm so impressed. Two points I would disagree with is that potato chips are a definitely served at apero time. And although some grocery stores do have excellent wine departments, in general unless you know the specific vigneron, I would visit a specialty shop to buy wine.
French here and i can say there s no need to buy wines in spécialty stores bc the supermarkets offer a very large range. If you visit late september, october we have la foire du vin in every supermarket and give u the opportunity to discuss w. Wine connoisseur. Of course you can pay à visit to vine spécialty shop if you,'re à connoissor if not i would not recommend
If you like sirops, you can also try to drink it with a beer, a little bit of sirop and a beer. In Bistrot, you can request as “demi xxx” since demi means a beer, so for lemon, you can ask for a “demi citron”, or grenadine “demi grenadine”, or cherry “demi cerise”, etc… it’s tasty :D
A little dash of sirop is popular with white or rose wine as an apero. My favourite is pamplemouse rose (pink grapefruit) gives a tang to the sweetness.
@@Teri_Berk Demi also has the same meaning in French, and in cafés "un demi" means half a "French pint" of 500ml ("une livre", a pound, represent 500 grams and not the imperial pound of 450 grams), so a demi is a 250ml beer served on tap.
@@chucku00 The first time I've seen the French word "demi" was on the packaging of a butter: "Beurre demi-sel pasteurisé" But when demi is spoken alone does it mean demi-bière?
I heard that France, protects the rights of its citizen with respect to affordable food, is this correct, and if so please give me a link. We have out of control food prices in Canada, and wondering if this applies in France. I see the products here are much less than Canada...especailly the cheese and chocolates, well basically most prices you showed is much much lower than Canada..
Le supermarché de ma ville natale où je vais souvent c est à dire Cholet. Vous habitez à Angers je crois ainsi que vous l aviez dit dans une de vos vidéos . Bonne soirée à vous. Michel
Hello!! These are amazing videos and i definitely will go to buy some products as souvenir. How about french coffee and french cat food? I would like to know what are a french brands for cat food specilly. I want to buy souvenirs for my kitties too!
I love French supermarkets and pharmacies! I had a bottled beverage when I was there that was a pale milky yellow. It was non-alcoholic and tasted of anise. Can anyone tell me the name of it?
Question have you done a video and how to cut cheese in France or any other table manners suggestions? I just saw someone on Instagram saying the wrong way and the correct way to slice cheese at a restaurant
In the US, Aldi carries peanut puffs and they are so darn good. But I noticed that after the pandemic, the price went up, and the size of the bag went down significantly.
Bonjour, Diane! I'm hopefully moving to the South of France in a few months. One of my favorite US foods is cottage cheese (weird, probably). Is that a uniquely American food or do they have it in France? And if so, what is it called? Merci beaucoup!
You can find cottage cheese easily these days, no problem, and guess what, it's called 'cottage cheese' as it's not typically French, the original name is used. Philadelphia brand is also widely spread nowadays.
Look for a product line called Jockey (from Danone). You can find it but not everywhere and definitely no flavored ones with mix-ins or anything. Danone uses the English "Cottage Cheese" on the label.
Wow I never realised that potato chips were very often in a different section than crackers! But it's usually near. I wonder why though because it's frequent to eat chips during an apero... maybe because we're going to look for it no matter where they put it in the store?
In my country the chips are also not with the crackers. Tooooootally different food classes. Sometimes, the chips are almost their own aisle but they are also with corn chips, doritos, Cheetos, puffed snacks. Sometimes one side of the aisle is chips and the other side is pretzels. If not, the pretzels sometimes can be found near the crackers. Chips and crackers - never together.
Crackers are often near the liquor secion (pastis, whisky...), so du to their sheer volume chips are often located in another section, ususally the adjacent ones.
There are organic (bio) products in every section of French supermarkets, from cookies to vegetables. Even small supermarkets at the deep end of countryside have organic products selection. There are also specific organic shops like Biocoop or Naturalia but they are often overpriced and mostly located in middle/big cities.
Do the French drink half and half with their coffee? I was in Paris and couldn’t find any half and half at the grocery to bring back to my Airbnb to add it to my coffee. 😅
There's something named "lait entier" (whole milk) that includes enough cream to render half and half irrelevant. Or you can also find "lait crèmeux" if you really want more cream. And if you're into "full cream" you can get "crème chantilly" (whipped cream) in a siphon.
Or you can buy "crème liquide" in the shelf stable dairy section, they are lighter in fat than the refrigerated crème fraîche and in very small bricks. They must be refrigerated after opening...
Les super marcher sont différents selon la classe sociale moi je vais tre peut au super marcher j'achète mes produits au producteur c'est l'endroit où la nourriture est meilleure
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I enjoy visiting supermarkets in foreign countries to give me a small taste of what the local residents experience and to see how they differ from what we experience at home.
One of my favorite things as well. It's like a mini adventure with the local food brands🙂
I agree. I usually find great items to bring home and give as gifts.
Same here
I've stayed in places on a couple of vacations in France where I had access to kitchenettes, so I had the opportunity to not only brouse the isles of the grocery stores (a favorite passtime while there) but also do a bit of cooking. The Bonne Mamman chocolate deserts are so good - I wish they had them in the US.
Not only that, but it is a great vocabulary opportunity!
❤merci! les gavottes , le muscadet, les curly,les lardons... Vous vous êtes tellement imprégnée de la vie quotidienne française! Et c est agréable de ne pas voir une vidéo type "emily in paris"!
7:44 That Organic White Peach and Nectarine body wash by Le Petit Marseillais is my favorite. I love the way it smells.
You can learn a lot about a culture by wandering through their grocery store. That was very interesting!
French here, about "Le Petit Marseillais" brand : Marseilles soap is in our blood, i'm french from no place in particular due to large changes during my young years, it's everywhere the same ! This brand is special, as they imply in their name the inheritance of a 2600 years old city's traditions and rules, and as far as i know, they stand up to a high level of quality, with very few ingredients (like water, an oil and sodium hydroxyde complex as soap agent, perfumes of course, and by law, stabilisers), and kids friendly range of products.
We don't say it much, but that's a brand we are really really proud of 😅❤ Things we speak only with very close people, yet spreading like wildfire 😅🤣
There is 3 way to do things : the good way, the bad way, and the french way 😉❤🖖
Is it true you French come to Germany? Because food is much cheaper there
Grocery shopping mostly
@@liqiz1755well no. Unless you live next to the border, I guess.
Diane, I always love watching your grocery store videos. In fact this is my favourite part about visiting a different country. We usually stay in airbnbs and go daily to the local grocery stores. Thank you
ok your favorite part about visiting another country is to go to the grocery store 😂
Americans....
I prefer visiting the country personnaly ,see beautiful landscape, try local food and go to the most beautiful site of the country
No offense by the way
@@rhdrhd3255 😂😂😂not American. No offensive taken
Wow, you gave me such a blast of nostalgia, especially with the apericubes (olive and blue cheese were my favourites as a kid a long, long time ago) and the whole yogurt and dairy desserts aisle (some time ago I had a craving for Marie Morin brand chocolate mousse and couldn’t satisfy it, it was bad lol). I miss French butter so much too - ah, having some beurre d’Échiré on a piece of baguette, perhaps with some real bilberry jam…
oh oui le beurre d'Echiré c'est le meilleur ...nature sur du pain, et même avec de la confiture de cerises 😛
My favorite thing to buy at Super U is the bag of frozen potatoes called, Pommes de Terre à la Sarladaise, cuisinée à la graisse de canard. Je pourrais manger ça tous les jours!
My favourite Boursin is the walnut and fig one. Can't go wrong with a good Rilletts favourite being roast chicken or Tuna and Sardine ones. Bouche a la Reine another good thing to try.
SO GOOD!
Always stop in Mono Prix when in Paris. Purchased 4 lbs of butter. Kept it in hotel room fridge until and put them in zip lock freezer bag. Wrapped them in clothing and put in suitcase before going to the airport. Arrived home in the US in perfect condition.
J'adore Lindt! My grandmother is Swiss, so we always have a good selection of Swiss chocolate around.
My go-to product is “Gervita”, plain fromage blanc with a top layer of unsweetened whipped cream. Being diabetic really limits me to the supermarket products I can have. I add stevia to it. Next to the Boursin is Tartare. I did a side-by-side taste test, and I like the garlic herb Tartare better than the Boursin one.
For a future supermarket video, may I suggest a focus on “bio” and “diététique” products. There are a lot of people who have dietary restrictions and that could be very helpful. I recently discovered the brands “Dukan” and “Gayelord Hauser”.
Two of my favorite grocery store products are Bonne Maman's semoule au lait vanille naturelle (vanilla semolina pudding) and vast array of chilled desserts such as mousse, flan and pot de creme in unusual flavors like fig, noisette or currant. Also love the frozen prepared seafood dishes that come in small ceramic ramekins with flavors such as Coquille St. Jacques. I still have a collection of those ramekins. We have nothing like these in the US!
Bonjour. I love shopping in french supermarkets. We normally visit Paris in Nov and return with grocery store cookies for our holiday open house. People are always impressed as I snicker that they are very modestly priced cookies. But I would never serve "puffs" at a party. Another great video.
Love to see the big grocery store's in France. In The Netherlands we have a lot of different grocery stores but much smaller. Nice to see the typical France products!
This is true especially outside of large city centres - I live in Paris and even I am jealous of the size and selection of Diane's supermarkets! In Paris they are smaller because space is much more limited, sadly
The crêpes dentelle are exquisite ❤
Used to love getting the Kinder bars and the flavours of Yop that we no longer got in British supermarkets but then they started selling those kinder bars so no need to wait for a trip to france to stock up. If you're going to eat it quickly it's the cheese and bakery products that are the main attraction
Hello! I love going to the supermarket when in France. They have awesome foods and things :D
We always have two types of butter in our fridge: regular salted for cooking and baking and the cristaux de sel (the one you showed) for tartines! Tasty! 😋
Vous avez bon goût. Je fais la même chose ! 🙃
@@mlomarechal6877 You clearly have good taste, too! 😊
Ah je vois qu'on fait tous pareil!
I work at a major supermarket chain in the Chicago area. I like seeing the similarities and differences between American stores and those in other parts of the world. I know most French grocery stores don’t have pharmacies or even over the counter medication. I like that most American stores also have carts like the one at 25:19. I’m shopping for myself so I find them handy, especially if I’m picking up stuff like canned goods, a gallon of milk or some pop which get heavy quick.
The pharmacies are everywhere in France like bakeries so there is no need for one in a supermarket. And when supermarkets are in a shopping area or a mall, there are always one or several pharmacies in the same mall.
A raclette dinner is so fun. I have a raclette grill, a yummy little-prep dinner for sort of a community meal. It’s hard to find raclette cheese here in SoCal but a gruyere subs fine. I offer non traditional raw beef, salmon, instead of veal, and boiled potatoes, bread, tons of accoutrements like cornishons, cocktail onions, etc. A very unique and easy way to host a dinner for six, if you’ve got an inexpensive raclette grill and an outlet near your table!. And the stories to tell about the Swiss/French/Austrian/whoever mountain sheep or cattle Alpine wranglers melting their night cheese over a fire, they’re worth the price of the grill. Thanks Diane and happy holidays! 💃💐
no gruyere doesn't susb raclette cheese at all 🤮
and yes raclette is fun and very good if you have the good cheese and the good charcuterie
@@rhdrhd3255 Holy shit! 🤷♀️
Those peanut curly snacks are just amazing. I got a box of 6 with 3 free packs! I’m the only one who likes them, kerching!
Since so many people rave about salted caramel, they might want to get a tube of two of salted caramel from Régilait, next to the sweetened condensed milk by Régilait.
We went to Carrefour and Monoprix when we visited and I loved every bit of it❤!!
Amazed by the variety of foodstuffs from the brand Bonne Maman. I'm sure they would be popular here in NYC and other areas too.
Counting the days till our next visit to France and this was a lovely warm up! You covered lots of our favourite products. Your UK fans might like to know that the Selection de Medailles cheese is available at M&S in the UK.
Have a great upcoming trip!
We are having a marvellous time but sadly have not managed to track down the Brets Chips flavoured with Sheep’s Cheese and Black Cherry. As a keen amateur of Brets more interesting flavours I’m keen to try them!
I've seen potato chips served for apéro very commonly... even in some bars
And in all honesty, I prefer Le Petit Marseillais shower gels (and especially their shower creams - Cadum is another brand I love) to any L'Occitane one I've ever tried
NO offense, but any French lower end butter is in another galaxy compared to standard US butter (I've lived in the US and am still shocked by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, LOL)
Can you believe it's not butter ?
Hello Diane! I just adore grocery store videos! Thanks so much!😊
The fennel looked awesome.
Wonderful video! We were just in France a few weeks ago. Went to Intermarché, Super U and Monoprix. Followed many of your suggestions. The quality of the food is amazing in France!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the grocery tour. You showed Grain de Sail.The first time I'd seen that brand was in this week's LaPresse d'Armor...who announced a 52 metres sail yacht will be leaving St Malo at the end of January for New York... carrying les tablettes de chocolate Grain de Sail.
Can not believe you did not showcase the famous Lindt Pyrenees chocolate that they have out every year in France they are simply the best
I’m going to Paris next week, so this is perfect timing as I love supermarkets in other countries
Have a great trip!
Bonjour Diane. Your videos are wonderful - educational but also practical. Gifts from the grocery store are the way to go. We rarely stay in hotels - we rent an apartment and shop of the supermarket and specialty shops. I've had some horrendous meals at tourist restaurants. We always have good luck at the markets, save money, and eat what aligns with our lifestyle (and time).
My favourite in the Grain de Sail chocolate collection is "Tea flavoured". They make great ground coffee too.
I agree about Gavotte, they are very addictive.
Hello Diane! Thanks! 🙏 it's also interesting for me as a Greek to see that the same products that you can find also in Greece are cheaper in France and the salaries in Greece are a lot lower than France!😮
I hope you will come north to Evron, where we live. Evron is the home of Baby belle fromage and amazing ciders. Great restos too.
If you have time, go to Alsace (Strasbourg, Colmar, etc.) to visit the Christmas markets, you will not be disappointed by the atmosphere and the food
It would be a dream to be there in December!
I actually purchased some packs of vanilla sugar and bakers yeast before returning to the US. I wanted gross suc for the brioche i make but didn’t find any.
This post is exactly what I needed as I’m seriously missing my time in France. Gigi is wonderful and a great companion to me.
Im having some friends over this Saturday. Making galettes with organic buckwheat. A variety of savory options and sweet options for dessert. Getting good cider here is a challenge. The best is by Stella Artois. But i am surrounded by local wineries in cape may. One of my favorites, Hawk Haven is making decent wines also makes cider from apples grown in NJ. It’s so good, brut with an alcohol level of 7 %. Please give your dad and Tom my best wishes. Josef.
No way you didn't recommend Maron Sui's when you were in the mousse/flan/pudding aisle! It's the best mousse ever, imo hahahah. I ate tons of those in my childhood. And it's something very local, I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere else!
About butter on baguette in France... you don't get that. No restaurant will serve you butter with baguette. You need to ask and they look at you funny when you do, but, yes, butter is great on a baguette. A nice baguette sandwitch jambon/beurre or jambon brie with butter and dijon mustard on it is great. Don't forget a little vino with that.
I love the Fermiere chocolate mousses ! 😊
This video made me even more eager to be back in France than I already was. Can't wait! Of note: you had two cute "French-isms" in this video: when you said the candy was "enrobed" in chocolate, and when you said "a dozen of eggs". 😊😍 (And of course, when you couldn't remember the word for "ciboulette" in English lol.)
Delacre cookies are made with palm oil in Belgium 🤗 I do not know what is french in this box ...
Bonjour Diane, I always enjoy your videos. My wife and I live in the Aude, south of Carcassonne. We generally do most of our shopping at a small local grocer that only sells Bio products, but swing by the nearest Leclerc for other items. We spend part of the year in the U.S. as well, and are always shocked by how expensive groceries are there vs. France, especially since we often find French products to be of superior quality. Some of your viewers might be curious to learn how prices compare. Not sure if it's been a topic in any of your other videos. Merci et bonne journée!
You should have showed shampoos as well . I love using shampoos from abroad
(12:15) Something really important you didn"t talk about in the cheese section is that there's a lot of product that have a little red and gold symbol with "appelation d'origine protégée" or "AOP" (protected designation of origin) written on it. It's an european legislation that garanties you quality. Products that want this little symbol on their packaging need to pass a very strict series of test and to follow traditionnal methods that garanties the origin and quality of the product to have the right to use this little symbol so if you can, choose products with the AOP medal, they are a little bit more pricey but WAY better, not all product can have this little medal but if you are looking for a goat milk cheese for exemple, if you take the AOP cheese, you will not be disappointed for sure.
Lovely video, Diane! The variety looks amazing and delicious!! 🛒🛒 the personal care aisle looks so fun too.
Love your videos like these! Thank you for sharing.
Supermarket is what I miss the most since I left France ♥️
5:20 it depends regions; I know a lot of people that eat potato chips during apéro
Also, it might depend of people’s class… I would think that poor or middle class will eat potato chips for apéro, while probably higher/rich class might not find potato chips fancy enough for apéro, and will instead prefer something else… less generic. But again, I’m not rich and I’m fine with potato chips any time of the time, including for apéro :)
I am in France. I find that all classes serve potato chips for apero. The well off put out a bowl with ten of them in it. Ha ha.
Shrimp and olives are popular.
I love the fact you picked a Belgian brand (Delacre) as your first choice!
SO good! You'll find a lot of non-French brands in French grocery stores that are excellent!
A couple of recommendations from me for things to enjoy while in France: Bonne Maman chocolate mousse cups and Monster snacks. ❤
This my favorite video so far
I am salivating, omg this make me really hungry
The products chosen by Diane are indeed very common and popular in France, but the brands she selects are among the most expensive... But for a tourist, these are brands without any unpleasant surprises.
While Vico's Curly are still fine I really miss the authentic original Bahlsen (later Lorenz) ones because it included monosodium glutamate that is quite hard to get separately in France aside Asian food shops. It added this addictive umami taste salt can't really compete with.
Bonjour Diane. Never seen a 10 pack of eggs in Canada ever. Usually 6 (Premium Eggs) or 12 (Regular), and full flats as well of course. Have a great day!
In France, eggs containers came with a variety of different sizes : usually, you can found boxes of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or trays of 20 or even 24…
Wow! I like that!@@thaleis
Great selection of products 😊. I will have to keep an eye out for these next time I go to France. We have 2 french supermarket chains in Portugal so I might see if I can get some of the products there 😊
Wow, your French pronouncation is excellent! I'm so impressed. Two points I would disagree with is that potato chips are a definitely served at apero time. And although some grocery stores do have excellent wine departments, in general unless you know the specific vigneron, I would visit a specialty shop to buy wine.
French here and i can say there s no need to buy wines in spécialty stores bc the supermarkets offer a very large range. If you visit late september, october we have la foire du vin in every supermarket and give u the opportunity to discuss w. Wine connoisseur. Of course you can pay à visit to vine spécialty shop if you,'re à connoissor if not i would not recommend
I love this!!! Thank you! And Happy Thanksgiving❤Love from New Jersey😊
The Nestle atelier are some of my favorite, I live in madrid now- we don’t have those here😢
C'est super 👍😀
If you like sirops, you can also try to drink it with a beer, a little bit of sirop and a beer. In Bistrot, you can request as “demi xxx” since demi means a beer, so for lemon, you can ask for a “demi citron”, or grenadine “demi grenadine”, or cherry “demi cerise”, etc… it’s tasty :D
A little dash of sirop is popular with white or rose wine as an apero. My favourite is pamplemouse rose (pink grapefruit) gives a tang to the sweetness.
Hello from Turkey. Isn't there a typo there. The "demi" means "semi" meaning half the amount/weight.
Un Monaco, le préféré des étudiants à mon époque 😂😂
@@Teri_Berk Demi also has the same meaning in French, and in cafés "un demi" means half a "French pint" of 500ml ("une livre", a pound, represent 500 grams and not the imperial pound of 450 grams), so a demi is a 250ml beer served on tap.
@@chucku00 The first time I've seen the French word "demi" was on the packaging of a butter: "Beurre demi-sel pasteurisé" But when demi is spoken alone does it mean demi-bière?
I heard that France, protects the rights of its citizen with respect to affordable food, is this correct, and if so please give me a link. We have out of control food prices in Canada, and wondering if this applies in France. I see the products here are much less than Canada...especailly the cheese and chocolates, well basically most prices you showed is much much lower than Canada..
I don't always agree with some of the things you say about France and the French, but here you certainly do us justice.
I try ;-)
We found cépe crisps (among other things). They were delicious!!!
Le supermarché de ma ville natale où je vais souvent c est à dire Cholet. Vous habitez à Angers je crois ainsi que vous l aviez dit dans une de vos vidéos . Bonne soirée à vous. Michel
Hello!! These are amazing videos and i definitely will go to buy some products as souvenir. How about french coffee and french cat food? I would like to know what are a french brands for cat food specilly. I want to buy souvenirs for my kitties too!
I love French supermarkets and pharmacies! I had a bottled beverage when I was there that was a pale milky yellow. It was non-alcoholic and tasted of anise. Can anyone tell me the name of it?
Could it be non alcoholic pastis like anisé ? There are brands like Pacific who make these
@@MrsHoneydukes yes! That is it.
Great ideas! Thanks!
You are so welcome!
C'est super 👍😊
Great info! Thanks so much.
Thank you for the video!
Question have you done a video and how to cut cheese in France or any other table manners suggestions? I just saw someone on Instagram saying the wrong way and the correct way to slice cheese at a restaurant
Les chips 🥰
could you do a video on meat costs in grocery stores and butchers.. thanks
Loved this -- thanks!
The price indicators for the products have minicomputers. I have never seen that before.
In the US, Aldi carries peanut puffs and they are so darn good. But I noticed that after the pandemic, the price went up, and the size of the bag went down significantly.
Love grocery shopping in France. Our biggest (1st world) challenge has been finding a substitute for “half and half” 😊
I think you can do half cream and half milk for your own substitute.
usually most supermarkets stock 15% fat cream?
Bonjour, Diane! I'm hopefully moving to the South of France in a few months. One of my favorite US foods is cottage cheese (weird, probably). Is that a uniquely American food or do they have it in France? And if so, what is it called? Merci beaucoup!
You can find cottage cheese easily these days, no problem, and guess what, it's called 'cottage cheese' as it's not typically French, the original name is used. Philadelphia brand is also widely spread nowadays.
Look for a product line called Jockey (from Danone). You can find it but not everywhere and definitely no flavored ones with mix-ins or anything. Danone uses the English "Cottage Cheese" on the label.
@@OuiInFrance Awesome! Thank you!!
Danone has a cottage cheese. You will not find it everywhere, this is packed in a white and green cardboard and 2 of them together.
Really enjoyed this video. Where is the location of the Super U you visited in this video???
"enrobed" in chocolate 😄 we all succumb to franglais from time to time
Sounds so much better than covered or coated in chocolate!
@@OuiInFrance On the other hand, "sparkling water" does sound fancier than "eau gazeuse", so I guess that's one point for each language.
Wow I never realised that potato chips were very often in a different section than crackers! But it's usually near.
I wonder why though because it's frequent to eat chips during an apero... maybe because we're going to look for it no matter where they put it in the store?
In my country the chips are also not with the crackers. Tooooootally different food classes. Sometimes, the chips are almost their own aisle but they are also with corn chips, doritos, Cheetos, puffed snacks. Sometimes one side of the aisle is chips and the other side is pretzels. If not, the pretzels sometimes can be found near the crackers. Chips and crackers - never together.
Crackers are often near the liquor secion (pastis, whisky...), so du to their sheer volume chips are often located in another section, ususally the adjacent ones.
I’m on the look out for bordier butter.
I'm wondering if you could talk about organic groceries? Or is it not popular? ❤ thanks.
She explained that the organic products are marked "bio"
There are organic (bio) products in every section of French supermarkets, from cookies to vegetables. Even small supermarkets at the deep end of countryside have organic products selection. There are also specific organic shops like Biocoop or Naturalia but they are often overpriced and mostly located in middle/big cities.
@@CathyS_Bx yes but I was asking about true organic stores to shop at. Not just a few things sprinkled around in what seems to be like a Safeway.
Bonsoir à vous
Dans cette vidéo je reconnais le supermarché où 2:41
Good
Can I bring loose leaf tea INTO France?
Ce supermarché est particulièrement bien achalandé.
Merci salu
Hello. the final S is not silent in the fruit named cassis. Be aware thou that there is a city named Cassis whose final S is silent
Try Brets chips made in Brittany ❤
They're the best!
Uhh.. I’m so hungry now😂
Bonjour
Do the French drink half and half with their coffee? I was in Paris and couldn’t find any half and half at the grocery to bring back to my Airbnb to add it to my coffee. 😅
Half and half is an American invention..... it doesn't exist in Europe
There's something named "lait entier" (whole milk) that includes enough cream to render half and half irrelevant. Or you can also find "lait crèmeux" if you really want more cream. And if you're into "full cream" you can get "crème chantilly" (whipped cream) in a siphon.
Or you can buy "crème liquide" in the shelf stable dairy section, they are lighter in fat than the refrigerated crème fraîche and in very small bricks. They must be refrigerated after opening...
Les super marcher sont différents selon la classe sociale moi je vais tre peut au super marcher j'achète mes produits au producteur c'est l'endroit où la nourriture est meilleure
🚶🏽♂️Sa sai un grand supermarché 😇