French grocery store tour: Holiday favorites
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French grocery stores are a lot of fun and in this video, I'm taking you with me to Super U where we have a look at some Christmas foods as well as some of my favorite foods and products. Come along for this virtual taste of the French supermarket.
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Just about my favorite thing to do when traveling is to shop in grocery stores for my daily sustenance -- thanks for the tour!
Agreed. Makes me feel like I live there and am going about my normal routine.
Hmmm no surprise there American favorite anywhere you go shopping, shopping and more shopping, shopaholic,
It's always worth looking in a supermarket when you're abroad. It gives an insight into how the locals live and makes you reconsider what's available where you're from.
@@coratheexplorer1824 Piss off.
@@coratheexplorer1824 it’s true 😭 but it’s to full the void cuz I’m depressed 😂
I love seeing the markets, grocery stores and food shops. Particularly when I can see the prices. Thank you for a great tour.
You are so welcome!
Yes enjoy comparing prizes too!
Yes love these
you didn´t saw the best... this dicreptions are really worthless. I spend over 2 years in France and speak french quite good. So ask me if you have further questions.
Things that I found when I was in France was shocking to me in a way. The grocery store I went to when I was in Grenoble 9 years ago was similarly big and they had a huge yogurt aisle with a lot of unflavored yogurt. You don't find that kind of an aisle here in the US and the yogurt sold here is made with ingredients that shouldn't even be in our bodies to begin with. Another thing that shocked me was the cheese, especially ones labeled "lait cru" (raw milk). Raw milk is illegal in the US and that was very cool to try some of those cheeses and not get any illness from it as our stupid country claimed a long time ago. Since my experience in France, I have been drinking my coffee black and have learned to eat quality ingredients and read labels at the grocery store.
I had my favourite cheese here in the States for the longest time - gourmandise with cherries - but haven't been finding it for the past few years. Asked around, and found out that the U/S has been banning its import because it isn't pasteurised. Unfortunate that it isn't made with pasteurized cheese..
Tho I heard that americans can get easily ill eating our raw milk cheeses, because your bodies aren't used to the bacterias in it (for example, french women can't eat raw milk cheese during pregnancy, it can lid to listeriosis and toxoplasmosis infections).
Yes, yes...the US is horrible...except for liberating France so it could be a prosperous democracy in the first place!
what you have in the US called "cheese" Europeans (With exception of good food nowhereland GB) we didn´t even wipe our asses with that bullshit.
And you don´t talk about fresh fish, even deep in the Alpes, the best chocolate you can get and so on... and don´t buy petit four or baquettes at a grocery store...
@@barfuss2007 How do you know this? I buy the same cheese in Ohio that I bought in France. Did you think Europe somehow prevented the export of cheese? My supermarket in Ohio has a large selection of cheeses from many countries.
I forgot to mention I’m now officially obsessed with the concept of a Bûchette de Noel!
I discovered your channel recently and I watch it to practice my English too. I am French and I find it so funny to see foreigners being fascinated by French shops. Once I was shopping and I came across an American family (I think lol) who were marvelling at the yoghurts xD I never really realised how lucky we were to have so many good products in France. I was born here and I'm used to always shopping, eating healthy actually became normal and a habit for me. It's when I travel that I realise the differences and also that we don't realise how lucky we are, we complain too much!
But I find it fascinating to see the differences in culture, I would love to travel to the US one day, the skyscrapers have always impressed me! And maybe I'll find some unusual products in their shop too lol
You could do worse than an aisle-by-aisle series. The most wonderful thing about grocery stores in France is, they're full of French food!
Except for the exotic food aisle :D
This bring nostalgia!! I’m french living in the US, I miss the French food a lot even after 25 years. My kids love going there for the food!
saucisson sec, jambon cru, camembert ! toute la charcuterie francaise ....... ! hummmmmmmmmmmm !!!!
@@mickaels.1614 oh ouiiiiiiiii trop bon!!!
I would be in heaven if I was in that supermarket. I am in London but miss France so badly. I used to go twice a year! ❤️🇫🇷😢
I just love to watch stuff like this -- everyday tasks, shopping, banking, errands, simple walks in the park, etc. I especially love that you are not 18 and saying "like" all the time and trying to live in a glorified broom closet. HA! I have visited France and plan to again. Keep up this great content. Love
When my wife and I travel to France, we always go to the markets and also look at the snacks. I love the flavors of chips. They usually show up in the US a couple years later.
The grocery experience in France has always been fun for me! Seeing the different foods compared to US grocers provides great insight into the French diet. Dairy, wine, bakery all larger than US counterparts. Yogurt alone takes up an aisle. Thanks for sharing and Joyeux Noel (sorry, no umlaut).
Umlaut, you mean Tréma ?
@@olivierdk2 Ah, what's a couple of dots among friends! Joyeux Noël, Olivier!
@@martinm2178 Joyeux noël à toi aussi.
@@olivierdk2 In all my years of taking French, including a year of living there, I never heard that term (Tréma). How could I not know that! Shame on me.
@@jackienaiditch7965 Unless you have been in elementary school in France or study French language as a future french teacher, you wouldn't have heard of it.
Merci, Diane. Such a good idea at this time of year.
Love this content Diane.. makes us feel like we are there in France. Going to grocery stores in foreign Countries is always a highlight.
I loved this! I was in heaven seeing these awesome treats.
Thanks for sharing!! I don’t know if I will ever get to France. I enjoy watching your visits to the supermarket, Boulangerie etc..😊
I'm rewatching this one. I love when you go into shops and we can see products and shopping routines in France. Great channel
LOVE this! Any grocery store content works for me! Super interesting to see everything!
Cool, thx for letting me know.
Thank you for taking the time to do this. I love the fact that you start in the car and we see how/where you park etc. It really gives the whole experience!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Merci Diane. I really enjoyed this video. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences. I like how you point out what's popular and why. I'm learning French so I also like seeing how many words I can recognize from storefronts to traffic/parking signs to items in the store. :) Wishing you and your husband a very happy and safe holiday season!
The flour aisle was the most amazing to me. In UK we have plain flour or self-raising flour - and a few oddities like cornflour or wholemeal flour - all in all it occupies maybe 10 foot (3m) of aisle. A typical French supermarket will have a whole aisle devoted to flour - loads of different types for different breads/cakes/pastries etc.... Amazing....
I experienced this in reverse recently. I'm French and the first time I went shopping to get ingredients for baking and making a cake in London I couldn't believe the small selection of baking stuff (including cooking chocolate... I could never even find real praliné and plain 60% cooking chocolate was so expensive 😅). I went to three supermarkets and combed through the aisles of Waitrose several times, certain I had missed the right one, before I had to admit defeat.
I was really surprised. It hadn't crossed my mind things like that could be hard to find on the other side of the tunnel.
Thank you so much for this video, I absolutely loved it and found myself "shopping" along with you.☺ Happy Holidays!
I love visiting grocery stores when in another country. One of my favorite things to do. And trying new or different products is a lot of fun. Thanks for the interesting video!
Loved this! The packs of cheese are great! I wish we had them. It takes the guess work out of it. I always learn new French words in places like stores and restaurants.
Absolutely brilliant Diane. The extensive selections, beautiful displays and impeccable cleanliness of the store is impressive. In some ways it reminds me of Wegmans. Your presentation style keeps everyone engaged and everything informative. These are my favorite. Joyeux Noël et bon anniversaire 🎂. Josef et King Louis XIV.
Miss Diane... so fun. Love this content. Beautiful grocery. I've been to Paris and loved it but looks like I need to get to the Loire Valley. Just gorgeous. Can't wait to travel again. 8 years. Wonderful.
Oh, how I missed going to France this year to do my Christmas shopping! French supermarkets do Christmas so much better than ours in the UK do - ours are just piles of cheap sweets, whereas in France there are those too, but also the lovely selection boxes you showed, and the hampers with jams or wine and paté (so useful as presents for one's elderly mother, who loves that kind of thing), and so on.... to say nothing of the smoked salmon (okay, you can get that here, too) or the foie gras with its gingerbread and onion or fig chutney..... I do hope that by next Christmas we will be able to travel again.
Loved this!
Thank you for all your hard work!
Love your content. Loved our French holidays. Thankyou, a great lift in difficult times. 🥂🎇🎆🇬🇧
Merci Diane. It was nice to see all my favorite french food😋😋. I wished I could have shop there for real!!
Joyeux Noël et bon réveillon 🥰
I find the variety of choices very interesting, especially the cheeses and yogurts. I enjoy your channel very much!
Nice video . Love the potato chip varieties and so much smoked salmon! I love checking out pharmacies while traveling too! Thanks for showing the whole process
Thank you for this lovely video! ♥️ My family & I love all types of French desserts. We can’t wait to visit France again! Happy holidays to you and your family!
Love love grocery store tour. So many things to explore! Especially a country I have not been to. Enjoyed so much your video! Thanks.
Thanks so much! 😊
I love going to the grocery store with you. When I would visit my sister in Australia the highlight for me was going grocery shopping.
Enjoyed this video, amazing variety of food in the supermarket there!
Le rayon fromage est toujours le meilleur 🤤
We always make a point of going to local grocery stores when we travel. While in Paris we visited Monoprix. We love the little glass pots of yogurt and the variety of salts. Of course, we have those in the US now too. Thanks for the tour.
Such a great country. The foods there are so good and really ‘clean’.
Bring on the videos! Happy NY
So glad to see well-stocked shelves and welcoming displays! Keep these videos coming - et Joyeux Noël
Diane, thanks so much for taking me back to France, I can’t wait for healthier times when I can return. Like you, I also enjoy exploring French supermarkets. Nicely produced episode, your vlogs are getting more and more sophistiquée.
Agreed. Diane is a standout from others.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching and so glad you enjoy my content.
Sophistiqués*
But yeah, I agree as well :)
I love seeing grocery stores when I travel!
Love seeing all the products that I love having when I'm there. Those Bret Chips are awesome!! Wish we had those cool cheese plates too! TY !
I loved to see the shopping 🛍 😍. I hope you will do more and share more with us. Very interesting to see 👀 what is available. Thank you 😊 for sharing ❤.
We love French grocery stores, too! Stuck in the US quarantining for now, so thanks for the lovely video. And yes, I love French chocolate!
OMG... even French supermarkets are stylish!!! 😄 TFS x
Enjoyed this so much. Visited Paris for the first time last summer and loved going to the grocery store. This was very enjoyable, loved seeing the holiday items.
One of my favorite things to do when we travel is to go to a grocery store. What fun, it reminds me of our Whole Foods here in Dallas, TX! Have a good holiday season.
Have you been to Marcel Market in Dallas?
www.marcel-market.com/
Love your video and it made hungry of a lot of things! Thanks for sharing ! Have a nice Holidays
Thanks so much for the vidéo. I miss these supermarkets especially at Christmas time.
The pink poinsettias are very pretty! It's fascinating to see other countries familiar yet different stores. The green tea t.p. looks cool!
Thanks. The market is so clean and organized. A pleasure to shop
Happy Holidays! I love watching your videos, I was in France last year, stayed in the 16th. We had a Fran Prix around the corner. We loved buying the rotisserie chicken & potatoes, it was our favorite meal. We also got to shop at Auchan in Serris, that was grocery heaven! We purchased plastic containers and brought back several pounds of aux cristaux de sel de mer to enjoy at home. Hopefully someday after the pandemic we can go back. Stay safe out there!
Thanks, Diane. I love wandering around foreign grocery stores just to see what is similar or different. When we were in France in 2017, we stopped at at GIGANTIC Carreforre”(sp?) somewhere in the south of France. It was ginormous- bigger than the Costco here. They had everything. If they didn’t have it, you don’t need it. Some employees were on roller skates. They had fresh game - definitely authentic because the unskinned leg and hoof were there...... The whole place was fascinating. We got hopelessly lost in the dang parking lot - getting out was frustrating, but also hilarious. A tour of one of those giant stores would be interesting.
* GIGANTIC "Carreforre” ... It's "Hypermarché CARREFOUR" : 248 Hypermarchés CARREFOUR in France, 703 in Europe, 1207 in World.
@@jockrangeos calmes toi poto
If you haven't tried the Amora Savora mustard sauce, it is WONDERFUL. Good on pot au feu, or even mixed with some plain yogurt to make a sauce for avocado, grapefruit & shrimp salad to serve as l'entrée.
J’aime bien le pot au feu.
Love 💕 it. It’s like we went there with you!
I love European grocery stores ... anything involving food works for me!! Thanks for sharing!
I miss these grocery trips! They were my always alone adventure times. Thank you.
Merry Christmas !!! Great video! Love your blog and videos!❤️❤️❤️ The grocery stores are beautiful . I shop at Wegmans in NJ. The scented toilet paper is different, but cool.
There is just something homey about grocery and pharmacy shopping!. Your tours are great, thanks for taking us along. The Maillie Cornichones have always been my favourite pickle. I live in Canada and think it is a staple here. They really make entertaining easy with their edible selection trays. The cheese looked so interesting. Happy Holidays and Joyeux Noël to you and yours Diane.
Now this is a grocery store! Thanks for all the tips!
Love this sort of content. Was surprised at the larger store. I hope you share your Christmas dinner as you did with Thanksgiving! Stay well.
Loved the selection of Lindt chocolate! My favorite 🥰 (other than Callebaut). Totally forgot about pate! Always used to have it at Christmas when growing up in Canada.
Merci Beaucoup Madame Oui in France. I loved the tour of the market. I especially loved the fromages. Well done.
Hi Diane! Love the content =) I missed out on the supermarket experience when I visited Paris last year from the states, so your tour was awesome! Cheers 🙂
Loved your video. I lived in a French speaking region of Belgium and recognized many of the items you showed. Happy Holidays!! Stay safe.
I love grocery stores when I travel. More, please!
Yes, great content! Love to see how people in other countries go about daily life in a usual way!
I think I got just as emotional about being back in a French supermarket via video as I get from all the beautiful photos of the architecture, countryside etc in France. Cointreau flavoured cream - that's definitely a first for me. I am still surprised everytime I see the huge range of chocolate flavoured breakfast cereals in French supermarkets. I suspect it is not limited to supermarkets in France and that we in Australia with 2-3 varieties are the odd ones out.
I love this sort of format with the brief intro and wrap up with well edited filming and interesting content. I liked that it was snappy and focussed particularly on the theme of Christmas. I create to dos to watch your longer videos but I never seem to get around to them. When I see anything above about 13 mins I think I don't have time to watch now - do it later. I have so many videos in my "To watch later" part of my library. :)
Thanks again for this video. I will share it within the FB group I help admin. The members will absolutely ❤it!!!
Joyeux Noël Diane
I enjoyed this content. That is a nice store. I love to shop early in the mornings too.
So glad! Yup, early is the only way to go on Saturdays here unless you want to lose your mind.
I really enjoy these videos. Thank you ❤️
Bonjour! What a great video! I love seeing how the French shop on a daily basis. I try and go with my husband's family when we're visiting. I'm from California and when we've wandered into the "Mexican Food" section, I shudder! :-D My (French) husband came in while I was watching and was mesmerized by all the brands and foods he's missing because of the lockdown. Thank you for this trip. Have a fantastic Christmas and New Year's.
As a retired chef, I love grocery/market crawls. I was in France and Paris in the early '80s when I was in college at the Culinary Institute of America. We visited anything that had to do with professional cooking. I know we did go shopping in Lyon for a little wine & cheese picnic we wanted. Thank you for your videos.
That’s wonderful we know about France 🇫🇷 supermarket.
Ça m’a fait plaisir de regarder votre vidéo, je vis au pays de Galles et j’ai un peu de mal du pays ! Bonnes fêtes 🥳
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, intrigued by french supermarket x
Super interesting!!! Thanks for the video. I love hearing you speak French. Great content in your channel. Greetings from Argentina.
Thank you! 😃
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays..
Love these shopping videos.
I loved this video! Whenever I go to France I like going to grocery stores, and especially to shower gel and shampoo section, I am absolutely mesmerized by the variety of scents and cute packaging!! My mom grew up between la Haute Savoie and Avignon, so we go to France pretty often, I'm even thinking of moving there with my husband and kids. Anyway, I am a new Sub :)
The smoked salmon and trout. Wow does that bring back memories of my dad and his friends smoking fresh fish they caught out of the Saginaw Bay, Michigan. Love smoke fish but not always easy to find. Thanks. ☃️♥️
I loved this. Keep putting this kind of content. Especially anything food related.
Cool Dianne, nice to see Scottish Salmon in the freezer!
That was a pure joy even for a french this video! I love your channel, i binge watch a lot of your videos :D
President Camembert is my favorite! The chocolate aisle is amazing. Carrefour has such an amazing variety!
Loved this. I have never been to a French market. So this was all interesting to me. Thanks!
I always like to visit grocery stores when I'm in other countries and this video gave me a little taste of that. Merci!
Would love to see what the French typically eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner...and the costs associated with them
Most of us start the day with coffee and tartines (baguette bread + butter and jam). We really don't eat that much in the morning compared to Germans for instance.
Tea, coffee or orane juice, brioche , break,butter, marmelade or corn flakes and milk for big kids lol. French try to avoid sugar and eat more organic food. Kiss from France
As a drink, cereals, chocolate or cofee are common. And then we eat mostly tartines (either honey or jam on top of a buttered slice of baguette). Sometimes fruits. If we want to make it fancy, we'll add some viennoiseries, croissants for instance, and maybe some orange juice. Overall the breakfast is mostly sweet stuff.
That was fun - thank you so much!
Oh I’m missing home!! Well, where I spent half my life. Due to Covid we haven’t been this year and i can’t wait to go again ASAP! Thank you for taking us along on this outing 😉
I was amazed at the deli section and the cheese section in the store. I was in a small town, St. Zacharie, and the local supermarche focused on a different cheese each week. They had a load of information about the cheese, where it was from, it's history etc. One thing I had difficulty with was milk. Confusing, all the kinds and types. The deli section was very different, with rabbits and more "raw" looking items. Great video. I hope you will go to some brocantes and vide grenier.
This is fantastic, this is what I’m interested in different countries, yes, plz keep it coming!🇺🇸🥰
🎄🌟🎄I love your channel. You’re great at showing the wonderful French culture. You are a great ambassador. If I could be in France to shop, I definitely would be buying many types of cheese, some Maille pickles for my husband, some Cremant from Loire....some bread and croissants❣️
Diane, maybe you can try the French pickels sold by U. I buy them for few weeks there and there are incredible... Delicious! ;) www.coursesu.com/p/le-petit-cornichon-francais-estragon-jardin-dorante-210g/1189450.html
These are available (except the fresh items) on Etsy in the store "myfrenchbox" 🥰
Every time I watch your videos it is like relaxing motion ✌️
I love to watch grocery shopping, especially in other countries. The cheese looks so yummy!
Another great video! Thanks for sharing. I’m interested in seeing the insides of speciality shops in your town, such as the Boulangerie, Patisserie, fromageries, etc.
I loved this. Thank you for sharing this
First time watching your videos. I very much enjoyed this trip to the grocery store. Thank you
Salut Diane,
Merci beaucoup pour ce petit sentiment de vacances en cette année difficile de Covid. Agréable de se promener dans le SuperU. J'aime ça autant que d'y marcher moi-même.
Un joyeux Noël et une 2021 prospère et saine pour vous et votre famille.
Merci beaucoup ! Je suis contente que ma vidéo vous ait plu !
That was really cool! Loved all of it Diane, I could live fat and happy!