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Women don’t each that much never in France. I was astonished when I started being closer to my friends. I’m married to a Belgian and we live almost half the year in Cannes. They are always in a severe diet almost anorexia. I was flabbergasted, wouldn’t expect that. The men eat well thou. And both are nice people too.
Ok I’m French and these are super cliché! No one dunks their baguette or bread in coffee anymore apart from the older generation in their 70s. If you work ain’t no time for a three course meal, this is for Sundays when you’ll start with a salad of carottes rapées or concombre. Also no one I know drinks so much wine, maybe during the weekends but personally I don’t drink alcohol
@@gkiran05 French cuisine is super varied and the ingredients/techniques really depend on where you live. For example I am from the north where one of of our most famous dishes is carbonate flamande. You would have difficulty finding that in the south where Mediterranean cuisine prevails, such as lemony fennel salad and tomatoes with grilled fish.
@@geve4392 Mon fiancé est Français, il a 23 ans et il trempe toujours son croissant dans son chocolat/café 🤣 Et son plat favori est la carbonade flamande !
@@comebacktochrist533 ah in croissant trempé dan du Nesquick cest plus acceptable que tremper son pain dans du café 😂 franchement on a tellement une cuisine variée en France mais ce n’est jamais représenté dans ce genre de vidéos. Et Aussie le truc de dire qu’on boit du vin a chaque repas ça me saoûle (mauvais jeu de mots). Je me connais que mes grand parents qui boivent in verre de vin au midi. Tous mes amis et moi on est à l’eau plate toute la journée
I agree I am french too, and I was wondering what she was talking about, also we use cups too, we don't put drinks in bowls, but I do like to dip my croissant in my coffe.
Well, in this case, we have our reasons. I know that some people of my country are just being douchebags but we think it's kind of superficial to make french things seem better than what they already are. France is a country of variety. There are positive things, there are negative things but we like to be represented correctly (i don't know if you've seen Emily in Paris but this serie is full of stéréotypes and the people who looks at this show tend to idealise how France really is). Yours sincerely A french girl
This is more what a French would eat on vacation. I don't think a lot of people would eat a 3 course meal everyday, though that's what you would eat at a restaurant or for family dinners. Those are occasional. The sweet breakfast is accurate, although I would never dunk bread into my beverage, but I know a lot of people do it. As for the ligther meal in the evening, it depends of your lifestyle, whether your work allows you to eat a full meal at lunch or not.
I don't know anyone who has time to eat a 3 course meal during the work week... And certainly not wine for lunch... We usually do that for family dinners, especially in summer... She certainly forgot goûter 😬
I find it odd, that the main meal wouldn't be the one, you have with your family (if you have one, obviously). To me, it seems to make more sense, to have a quick, light lunch during working hours and then a warm meal in the evening, with your partner and kids.
@@raraavis7782 We have warm meals for lunch and dinner. I've never had one smaller than the other '-'. That said, the salad is usually fairly smaller. 3 course meals is what we do in my family, for both lunch and dinner. And since many people have a cantine at their work place, it's pretty common for them to also have a 3 course meal there. You eat with your colleagues, and you can often have an hour/1h30 lunch break to eat with them. That said, we also tend to walk much mire than the average american, and we simply don't snack, outside of a small thing at 4pm, though it's traditionnaly for kids. And a fruit can be the dessert, or a small yoghurt (we sell them by portions of 125 grams).
I'm French. Although indeed not everybody would eat these meals on a regular basis and although yes, this breakfast is closer to that of older generations, I think you did a really good job at portraying the French diet. Bread with butter and coffee in the morning, a 3-course lunch with salad, main and dessert, and a lighter dinner. I would add the 4pm sweet snack that we call "goûter" and it would be perfect. Traditionally and historically, what is portrayed in this video is quite true: my parents and grandparents do eat like this 😊
„Something quick and easy to prepare“ for dinner.. while showing soupe à l‘oignon where the first step is caramelizing onions and stirring for half an hour, then add water and cook it down, making croutons or broil the soup with bread and cheese. Personally my weeknight dinners are ramen. Or pasta with a sauce I can make before the pasta is al dente.
as a french person this isn’t too bad! relatively accurate although lunch usually doesn’t take hours and you would typically find at least a few cigarettes between or in place of meals
The French don’t have all the preservatives & additives in their food like Americans They have a very sensible diet My ex-husband is French, & I absolutely loved visiting Biarritz, Paris, Clemont Ferrone (?) spelling🤫 I love the French ♥️ & I love their style 💯 Also love the countryside folks, take a two hour lunch-break from 12 noon to 2 PM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love the French, they are truly individuals
The correct title should be what i eat in a day as an influencer I'm not even French or live in France to know that most people don't eat those snobbish things that you show from overpriced gourmet restaurants because they can't afford it and eat something that's actually homemade bought with ingredients from the local supermarket
Im really curious what you're on about. I'm french and nothing she showed struck me as fancy or overpriced. You'd be surprised how easy it is to pull those meals together
I've been living in France for 20 years, depending on the geographical area and people's occupation, this video is quite accurate for some and not at all for others...
I’m married to a Frenchman and lived in rural France. I can tell you my husband born does dunk his bread. Definitely doesn’t eat so much at lunchtime but does eat a balanced meal. In Australia he doesn’t drink wine because it’s taxed too high but he would drink a glass or two with meals in France. As does his family and friends. I don’t think there is one rule for all. Each to their own.
Right ?! French people are so quick to say « it’s cliché », « I don’t do this » while most of them live in Paris and consider it to be representative of the entire country… Outside Paris, people do eat that way !!!
As a french, i used to have the same breakfast, but most people dunk the baguette in hot chocolate and its SO GOOD! Lunch like this one are for family reunion of something like this. In a day to day life, its more often a quick lunch prepared the day before or a sandwich or going somewhere quick. But it also depends cause older generations love to eat like that! (But by tradition, thats why we have 2 hours of lunch break at school) At home, my mom used to cook for diner these typical french diners everyday (she loves cooking) but most of the time people are exhausted and prepare something quick
I stayed in France for a time and I actually lost weight without trying and I bought a fresh baguette every morning for breakfast. Their food is so much better and higher quality than in the states. I miss it so much.
@@ekunsa ha I believe it. I’m American obviously and I mostly cook at home because anything you get out is garbage unless you go to a really nice place.
@@kinndah2519 Right. I'm American and live in the South and we eat salads with homemade dressings, vegetables galore, good meats and cheeses, big pots of healthy soups, scratch desserts, and I bake a loaf of bread every week.
@@kinndah2519no way you find the same quality cheese, bread, charcuterie, pastries in amercia sorry. Maybe some places but nowhere as easily. And the general quality of ingredients is much higher ( Americans told me)
@@Leonnitram123 You seriously think in a country that's 3.8 MILLION Square miles that has many different climates and variations of geographical landscaping...that we don't have options with 2.3 MILLION FARMS, plantations and ranches?! With half a billion ppl?! You serious?! You're completely lying. The states of Wisconsin and California are known for their fresh variations of cheese. My uncle owned a farm in the mountains of Pittsburgh, PA and fresh organic dairy from happy free range healthy animals was the norm. We have vineyards in the area too that was featured on the food network channel. Stop hating on America for no reason😒 There are many different types of grocery stores that sell different things.
@@markbigelow2608 no, French is ethnicity under a Caucasian race. it is not similar to American. In a modern world a name of a country also represent nationality that is inclusive of many races. It is true only dues to globalization.
I used to work with French teachers. They dieted constantly. For breakfast they had a coffee with milk, for lunch a leafy green salad, and often a small yogurt for dinner. On the weekends when they shared lunchtime as a social event they did eat a big lunch.
As a french person I don't even eat all those on a day, cereals for breakfast and pasta with ham are enough for lunch maybe a salad for dinner but I don't think the average french person will eat any of that on a day... Looks good tho
My mom was from Europe n at one time worked for French people..she learned to cook n bake under a Cordon Bleu..I normally eat a bit like this..minus the alcohol n the amount.. actually it is healthy n delicious...if there s pressure to be thin it on the individual anywhere
YOU do it ! Most People take their time to eat in France. It’s actually well know « the French art de vivre » so stop making it about you !!! « As a French, WE » 🙄. Now you represent 70 millions of people ?!?! Come on now That’s your problem French ppl : always complaining for no reason at all
All the comments : no we don't do that. That would be because they are food typically consumed in France, but OF COURSE not everyone eats the same thing, come on. I think your video is great. Sure not EVERY SINGLE french person eats that way, you couldn't possibly make a video for that, but these are certainly food we eat and some of us on a regular basis. Breakfast is pretty spot on for me but I guess your lunch looks more like my dinner and your dinner more like my lunch :)
I just wish I lived in Europe where the food wasn't poison. I have to go to great lengths to eat healthy here in America. They put sugar and preservatives in everything.
Having spent a lot of time in France,I would say that this is just a perception not fact! Probably not eating as well as the older generations did,lifestyles have changed dramatically so cooking has too.
That was the typical french diet in the 70's when i lived in France back then, no snacking all fresh non pre-fabricated food, adults would have a glass of red somedays .Very healthy.
I wasn't so sure but damn you're spot on! Dunking the buttered baguette in a bowl of coffee is a thing of my grandparents/parents but you can't be frenchier than that LOL
The French have very nice food.... especially when you are at the beach. Very nice oyster. Mussels, langostine and sint jackop fruchten.... and onion soup very nice een een stokbrood met a ham and cheese and a bit of English mustard. They have finest food
4 heures à l'avance ?!? Quelle curieuse façon de faire de la soupe à l'oignon .... 20 à 25 mn suffisent largement, et personnellement pour faire colorer mes oignons je rajoute un peu de sauce soja, pas très académique je sais mais ça fonctionne très bien.
It is wild learning about all of this and comparing to my own life. 70% of my ancestors came from France but migrated to southern Louisiana in the late 1700's. I grew up speaking broken Cajun French ((the French language spoken in the 1700's)) so I have been trying to learn more about France and the culture and it is wildly different from Cajun culture. We adopted and meshed with the Creoloes from this area and our accents are veryyyyy different even when speaking in Cajun French. Our styles, foods..etc. is also just so different. I plan on becoming fluent in modern French soon, because sadly our 1700's style version of French is a dying language here. I would love to learn enough to blend into France one day, since it is where my ancestors were born and walked.♡
As an asian, I'm not sure if I able to survive in French for a week by eating bread, cheese, and salad like that 😅 I need my rice, instant noodle, and other deep fried food 😂😂
@@antoinemorel9654 yeah, it's a cliché. Most of the other comments from French people say so too. I also know (and have been to) Asian grocery stores in some parts of Western Europe, so I know they exist, especially in big cities. One can get rice, noodles, soy sauce, oyster sauce, even frozen dumplings, etc in those Asian stores. Cheers!
Traditionally we used to do. However today eating for more than your 1 hour break is rare as heck. You'll get your 3 -4 course meal spanning over the afternoon only on the weekend for family gathering, celebrations like weddings or baptisms or just during uneventful days if we feel like eating a lot. The only people I know who eat 3 courses meal are our older folks (like my grandparents who have their entree, a bigger middle course, cheese and a dessert), when I eat like this in my family it takes 30 minutes and that's it
There's differences in France depenting where you are. I was an au pair there for 6 months. Breakfast is very sweet, then light luch, something sweet maybe at 16 and a big dinner.
French food day for an actual fonctioning adult Morning : bread, jam, nutela, coffe, hot chocolate, juice (it's often nothing but coffe) Lunch : for exemple bread with ham, cheese, ...(we more than often don't have the time to eat a hot meal) something simple and light sometime with soup. For dinner it's hot meal, you have the time, food in france can be very varied as it is a multicultural country.
Based on the comments, I am not sure of the accuracy, but I do want to say your videos are beautifully and appetizingly done! Still inspires my diet, French or otherwise!
Am french and it’s pretty accurate, my guess is that the french people commenting are pretty young and have a fast modern life or are broke. But I know many people including myself who eat like that.
Try, intermittent fasting, or alternate day fasting, tons of tips on it here on TH-cam. It has definitely helped me lose weight, and boost my metabolism.
Pro tip: visit a "cave" that does tastings! Very french, available everywhere almost 😊😊 also learn quickly a few french words, we love tourists that do an effort, and it will pay off 😊
apart from showing lots of bread, the rest seem quite accurate. The quantities though are too much. I prefer to have just one plate and usually eat rice with vegetables and fish or a bowl of soup. What you see in this video represents what you have at the restaurant otherwise at home it's much simpler
French here; this is very well spotted! Living in america for 8 years now, I had time to reflect on my previous food habit. A lot of wholefood, absolutely right, I would add in small portions, especially the appetizer that is indeed shredded raw veggies, or cooked veggies with a light dressing. Cheese would be consumed as well in very small portion with greens on side. Again, a lot of accurate infos. Bravo!
French Canadians like their maple syrup pancakes, many types of baguettes, muffins, some have crepes and fresh butter and jam, and they love their mochas or cappuchinos not espresso's. They have fruit and vegetables at all meals. They are very healthy so sweets eaten in the morning and less throughout the day.
This is so cliché. That's the traditional last century urban society style (completely different in rural areas). Not every french person eats baguette for breakfast (I used to do it once every Sunday when I was still in France) and not always with salted butter and jam (ask a normand what they think of salted butter and you'll see). The meal is just a restaurant 3 course meal from Paris so not really representative of the food variety in other french regions and the average person would most likely just have one dish. French food has a lot of fat dishes (cassoulet, carbonade, tartiflette, choucroutes just to quote a few) + We say French food or French Cuisine but really it's French CuisineS as it traditonally changes with every region.
It's all about timing. Eating a large meal in the middle of the day will give you more energie and help you lose the calories more easily because your day is not over after lunch....that's the secret "health benefit"...not the food itself...but the time of day you eat the most food.
As a French person: we don't eat that much at lunch during the week, and we don't drink that much wine.
Sauf à la cantine, même si la quantité n'est pas comme la sienne
Lies again? Yum My
Women don’t each that much never in France. I was astonished when I started being closer to my friends. I’m married to a Belgian and we live almost half the year in Cannes. They are always in a severe diet almost anorexia. I was flabbergasted, wouldn’t expect that. The men eat well thou. And both are nice people too.
Imho there is a a lot of pressure if you are a french woman to stay thin.
She only drink like one glass?
Ok I’m French and these are super cliché! No one dunks their baguette or bread in coffee anymore apart from the older generation in their 70s. If you work ain’t no time for a three course meal, this is for Sundays when you’ll start with a salad of carottes rapées or concombre. Also no one I know drinks so much wine, maybe during the weekends but personally I don’t drink alcohol
Oh is it. I wanted to tryout some of the French dishes, which brought me here. Thanks for info.
Love from India 🇮🇳 but now am in Saint Maarten 😃
@@gkiran05 French cuisine is super varied and the ingredients/techniques really depend on where you live. For example I am from the north where one of of our most famous dishes is carbonate flamande. You would have difficulty finding that in the south where Mediterranean cuisine prevails, such as lemony fennel salad and tomatoes with grilled fish.
@@geve4392
Mon fiancé est Français, il a 23 ans et il trempe toujours son croissant dans son chocolat/café 🤣
Et son plat favori est la carbonade flamande !
@@comebacktochrist533 ah in croissant trempé dan du Nesquick cest plus acceptable que tremper son pain dans du café 😂 franchement on a tellement une cuisine variée en France mais ce n’est jamais représenté dans ce genre de vidéos. Et Aussie le truc de dire qu’on boit du vin a chaque repas ça me saoûle (mauvais jeu de mots). Je me connais que mes grand parents qui boivent in verre de vin au midi. Tous mes amis et moi on est à l’eau plate toute la journée
I agree I am french too, and I was wondering what she was talking about, also we use cups too, we don't put drinks in bowls, but I do like to dip my croissant in my coffe.
This is equivalent to thinking that every Indian eats Naan and butter chicken on an average day.. with a mango lassi on a side...
Person: *demonstrates French anything*
French person: non
Well, in this case, we have our reasons. I know that some people of my country are just being douchebags but we think it's kind of superficial to make french things seem better than what they already are. France is a country of variety. There are positive things, there are negative things but we like to be represented correctly (i don't know if you've seen Emily in Paris but this serie is full of stéréotypes and the people who looks at this show tend to idealise how France really is).
Yours sincerely
A french girl
@@larosebleue ^Quelle bêtise
@@lmnll2742Comment ça ? Elle a parfaitement raison
@@dgszii Vraiment pas.
@@lmnll2742 tu peux m'expliquer ce quelle a dit g la flemme de lire le paragraphe quelle a ecrit?
Having lived in France for 20 years, I can tell you this is certainly not what the French eat on an average day.
I believe you
Then do enlighten us ohhh French one 🥖🥐🧀🍷🍽
@@juleswifey6003 😄👍
and so many French smoke (appetite suppressant)
@@KJB0001 I gave up smoking and put on so much weight my doctor told me I'd be better of smoking ( I am NOT joking ).
What the average American thinks French people eat during the day:
does she sound American to you ???!
She’s not American . I’m sure you could find something wrong to complain about Americans in a puppy video.
Defo more aussie based accent there
@@ashleighsparkle8810well there's a lot to say..but its alright
@@hyeronymus Theres a lot to say about every country if you wanted to. It’s about the fact that Americans are always on your mind.
The portion sizes are hilarious. That salad platter alone would feed 4 adults.
If you go in restaurant in France, salads will have this size. But at home, way less bigger.
Or one American. 😋
>I weigh 90 pounds soaking wet with rain boots on, and I would NEVER dare stuff that much in my stomach! I’m weak and my names Gavin btdubs!
@@kayo5291lmfao
I’m not French, have never even been and even I knew this doesn’t seem accurate. 😂 Those portion sizes are outrageous.
This is more what a French would eat on vacation. I don't think a lot of people would eat a 3 course meal everyday, though that's what you would eat at a restaurant or for family dinners. Those are occasional.
The sweet breakfast is accurate, although I would never dunk bread into my beverage, but I know a lot of people do it.
As for the ligther meal in the evening, it depends of your lifestyle, whether your work allows you to eat a full meal at lunch or not.
I don't know anyone who has time to eat a 3 course meal during the work week... And certainly not wine for lunch... We usually do that for family dinners, especially in summer...
She certainly forgot goûter 😬
I find it odd, that the main meal wouldn't be the one, you have with your family (if you have one, obviously).
To me, it seems to make more sense, to have a quick, light lunch during working hours and then a warm meal in the evening, with your partner and kids.
@@raraavis7782 We have warm meals for lunch and dinner. I've never had one smaller than the other '-'. That said, the salad is usually fairly smaller. 3 course meals is what we do in my family, for both lunch and dinner.
And since many people have a cantine at their work place, it's pretty common for them to also have a 3 course meal there. You eat with your colleagues, and you can often have an hour/1h30 lunch break to eat with them.
That said, we also tend to walk much mire than the average american, and we simply don't snack, outside of a small thing at 4pm, though it's traditionnaly for kids. And a fruit can be the dessert, or a small yoghurt (we sell them by portions of 125 grams).
In the school cafeteria we usually a 3 course meal
@@marcbuisson2463May I ask: what are some things that you’d like for goûter time? Does coffee or tea go with goûter like Swedish fika time?
I'm French. Although indeed not everybody would eat these meals on a regular basis and although yes, this breakfast is closer to that of older generations, I think you did a really good job at portraying the French diet. Bread with butter and coffee in the morning, a 3-course lunch with salad, main and dessert, and a lighter dinner. I would add the 4pm sweet snack that we call "goûter" and it would be perfect.
Traditionally and historically, what is portrayed in this video is quite true: my parents and grandparents do eat like this 😊
Agreed.
As a fellow French I agree with you
And I was dismayed to hear that you are not all draped in Chanel.
@@m.s.2549 Sorry to disappoint, many of us actually wear Levi's which we pronounce "layveess"
@@emikochidori Love it!
„Something quick and easy to prepare“ for dinner.. while showing soupe à l‘oignon where the first step is caramelizing onions and stirring for half an hour, then add water and cook it down, making croutons or broil the soup with bread and cheese.
Personally my weeknight dinners are ramen. Or pasta with a sauce I can make before the pasta is al dente.
The point of dipping the baguette in one's boule (of café) was because the bread was not always fresh (post-war)!
True French lunch experience (college student edition) is macaroni with cordon bleu.
Repas à 1€ du crous
@@hyeronymus Sandwich avec un peu de beure et un bout de jambon T.T
Avec des haricots verts en boiite
with cordon bleu being rather the exception than the norm
Vous même vous savez 😂
as a french person this isn’t too bad! relatively accurate although lunch usually doesn’t take hours and you would typically find at least a few cigarettes between or in place of meals
This is realistic except the lunch duration of several hours, that’s only a few times a year with family. On workdays lunch break is usually an hour.
The French don’t have all the preservatives & additives in their food like Americans
They have a very sensible diet
My ex-husband is French, & I absolutely loved visiting Biarritz, Paris, Clemont Ferrone (?)
spelling🤫
I love the French ♥️ & I love their style 💯
Also love the countryside folks, take a two hour lunch-break from 12 noon to 2 PM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love the French, they are truly individuals
The correct title should be what i eat in a day as an influencer I'm not even French or live in France to know that most people don't eat those snobbish things that you show from overpriced gourmet restaurants because they can't afford it and eat something that's actually homemade bought with ingredients from the local supermarket
Who hurt you
well you would be surprised how cheap these dishes are to prepare. There was nothing that special really.
Im really curious what you're on about. I'm french and nothing she showed struck me as fancy or overpriced. You'd be surprised how easy it is to pull those meals together
TIL bread and jam is expensive gourmet food.
@@LulaMae21 Let them eat cake !
I've been living in France for 20 years, depending on the geographical area and people's occupation, this video is quite accurate for some and not at all for others...
I’m married to a Frenchman and lived in rural France. I can tell you my husband born does dunk his bread. Definitely doesn’t eat so much at lunchtime but does eat a balanced meal. In Australia he doesn’t drink wine because it’s taxed too high but he would drink a glass or two with meals in France. As does his family and friends. I don’t think there is one rule for all. Each to their own.
Right ?! French people are so quick to say « it’s cliché », « I don’t do this » while most of them live in Paris and consider it to be representative of the entire country… Outside Paris, people do eat that way !!!
@@TheSugarGoldI am Parisian and I did it when I was little
Whats it like being married to a Frenchman amd living in rural france? My partner is french and im curious :)
As a french, i used to have the same breakfast, but most people dunk the baguette in hot chocolate and its SO GOOD!
Lunch like this one are for family reunion of something like this. In a day to day life, its more often a quick lunch prepared the day before or a sandwich or going somewhere quick. But it also depends cause older generations love to eat like that! (But by tradition, thats why we have 2 hours of lunch break at school)
At home, my mom used to cook for diner these typical french diners everyday (she loves cooking) but most of the time people are exhausted and prepare something quick
Où est le goûter? There's at least 6 and at the most 9 hours between lunch and dinner in France, there needs to be a snack in between
Dear French-people, your cuisine is an art 😊 love from India
Indian food look better
I thought their diet consist of cheese, wine and cigarette 😂
“A multi-course meal spread out over several hours” …. I would argue that counts as “snacking” 😂
I stayed in France for a time and I actually lost weight without trying and I bought a fresh baguette every morning for breakfast. Their food is so much better and higher quality than in the states. I miss it so much.
I stayed one month in USA and I grew thin because I did not like the food. We ate only Chinese, 1 piece of pizza. At The South soul food
@@ekunsa ha I believe it. I’m American obviously and I mostly cook at home because anything you get out is garbage unless you go to a really nice place.
The same thing happened to me and the group of students I studied abroad with in Spain. Having to walk everywhere likely helped as well.
@@ekunsaat the south or in the south 😂😂
The French have one of the most beautifully balanced diets. And their food quality is top notch. So jealous here in the US…
This food is available everywhere. I'm American, this is normal food.
@@kinndah2519 Right. I'm American and live in the South and we eat salads with homemade dressings, vegetables galore, good meats and cheeses, big pots of healthy soups, scratch desserts, and I bake a loaf of bread every week.
@@kinndah2519no way you find the same quality cheese, bread, charcuterie, pastries in amercia sorry. Maybe some places but nowhere as easily. And the general quality of ingredients is much higher ( Americans told me)
@@magiccitymama1620 you don’t have the same quality cheeses don’t bullshit and very few people bake bread .
@@Leonnitram123 You seriously think in a country that's 3.8 MILLION Square miles that has many different climates and variations of geographical landscaping...that we don't have options with 2.3 MILLION FARMS, plantations and ranches?! With half a billion ppl?! You serious?! You're completely lying.
The states of Wisconsin and California are known for their fresh variations of cheese. My uncle owned a farm in the mountains of Pittsburgh, PA and fresh organic dairy from happy free range healthy animals was the norm. We have vineyards in the area too that was featured on the food network channel. Stop hating on America for no reason😒 There are many different types of grocery stores that sell different things.
Dont forget at least 10 cigs during lunch.
LMAOOO
When you are in a rush, you eat them.
What about cat calling for snacks 😂😂 and racism for dessert
@@daniyalbbd5281 the French are not a race of people. I have a feeling many races compose the French populace. Read more books.
@@markbigelow2608 no, French is ethnicity under a Caucasian race. it is not similar to American. In a modern world a name of a country also represent nationality that is inclusive of many races. It is true only dues to globalization.
I used to work with French teachers. They dieted constantly. For breakfast they had a coffee with milk, for lunch a leafy green salad, and often a small yogurt for dinner. On the weekends when they shared lunchtime as a social event they did eat a big lunch.
It sounds like their LIFESTYLE and not a diet
That’s like what an anorexic person would eat in a day…
@@kimik01889diet doesnt mean restriction, it means eating habits
As a french person I don't even eat all those on a day, cereals for breakfast and pasta with ham are enough for lunch maybe a salad for dinner but I don't think the average french person will eat any of that on a day... Looks good tho
Many french people eat like that sorry. Maybe you are young and broke or busy but outside Paris it’s pretty common.
As a french person : just get a croissant and some Nutella !
My mom was from Europe n at one time worked for French people..she learned to cook n bake under a Cordon Bleu..I normally eat a bit like this..minus the alcohol n the amount.. actually it is healthy n delicious...if there s pressure to be thin it on the individual anywhere
as a french we grab a quick lunch , and don't drink one during working hours. but I agree on the healthy options though.
YOU do it ! Most People take their time to eat in France. It’s actually well know « the French art de vivre » so stop making it about you !!! « As a French, WE » 🙄. Now you represent 70 millions of people ?!?! Come on now
That’s your problem French ppl : always complaining for no reason at all
Depends who many people have a big lunch especially manual workers. They take one hour and a half lunch break.
All the comments : no we don't do that.
That would be because they are food typically consumed in France, but OF COURSE not everyone eats the same thing, come on. I think your video is great. Sure not EVERY SINGLE french person eats that way, you couldn't possibly make a video for that, but these are certainly food we eat and some of us on a regular basis. Breakfast is pretty spot on for me but I guess your lunch looks more like my dinner and your dinner more like my lunch :)
This is the most unfrench routine i've ever seen 😂
You’re Arabic what do you know?
@@athejbaka7084 tf how am i arabic 😂
@@athejbaka7084 also France is literally full of Arabic people anyway so they would probably know 😂
@@athejbaka7084 they aren't even arab but even if they were u know there's arab people in france too right ...
@@athejbaka7084 you do realize there are many Arab-French people, right? That person’s name contains no Arabic…
My boyfriend is french and this is so accurate. Right down to dunking the bread in coffee.
As a french, I can confirm we eat pasta
I just wish I lived in Europe where the food wasn't poison. I have to go to great lengths to eat healthy here in America. They put sugar and preservatives in everything.
I was in French Polynesia and I lost weight on my vacation, it’s literally effortless to eat healthy when surrounded with those options
The "French" Polynesian natives still manage to be immensely overweight despite having French food all around them
This is what I aspire
Bring back fond memories of Nice France as a child!
It shows that its not just food that matters for health.
hey I'm french! THIS IS NOT CLICHÉ ! i eat each morning pastries and / or bread baguette with butter and jam with coffee/hot chocolate :)
FU
I must admit French pastry is a work of art and great details.
Having spent a lot of time in France,I would say that this is just a perception not fact! Probably not eating as well as the older generations did,lifestyles have changed dramatically so cooking has too.
If I had a lunch like that, I wouldn’t be in a food coma for the rest of the day 😅
Lunch doesn’t last hours. Working people do not consume wine at lunchtime. Salted butter in Brittany yes, not in the rest of France.
Brittany + Pays de la loire+ Centre + Ile de France + Haut de France. Don't speak if you don"t know
That was the typical french diet in the 70's when i lived in France back then, no snacking all fresh non pre-fabricated food, adults would have a glass of red somedays .Very healthy.
I wasn't so sure but damn you're spot on! Dunking the buttered baguette in a bowl of coffee is a thing of my grandparents/parents but you can't be frenchier than that LOL
As I’ve seen other comments say.. that’s what the older generation does in France, but not the average person
@@desertrose3511 lol its probably regional. Growing up, we dipped in nesquick or milk coffee ( im 22 btw, not just an old generation thing)
@@desertrose3511not only the old generation. I remember that when I was little dunked the buttered baguette in a bowl
The French have very nice food.... especially when you are at the beach. Very nice oyster. Mussels, langostine and sint jackop fruchten.... and onion soup very nice een een stokbrood met a ham and cheese and a bit of English mustard. They have finest food
'Easy to make'
* proceeds to show French onion soup which requires the onion to have been caramelized for like 4 hours in advance *
4 heures à l'avance ?!? Quelle curieuse façon de faire de la soupe à l'oignon .... 20 à 25 mn suffisent largement, et personnellement pour faire colorer mes oignons je rajoute un peu de sauce soja, pas très académique je sais mais ça fonctionne très bien.
@@harrycauvert9934 Americans think 30 minutes to prepare a meal is too long! 😂
The lunch is like my entire day worth of food 😂😊
It is wild learning about all of this and comparing to my own life. 70% of my ancestors came from France but migrated to southern Louisiana in the late 1700's. I grew up speaking broken Cajun French ((the French language spoken in the 1700's)) so I have been trying to learn more about France and the culture and it is wildly different from Cajun culture. We adopted and meshed with the Creoloes from this area and our accents are veryyyyy different even when speaking in Cajun French. Our styles, foods..etc. is also just so different. I plan on becoming fluent in modern French soon, because sadly our 1700's style version of French is a dying language here. I would love to learn enough to blend into France one day, since it is where my ancestors were born and walked.♡
Everything looks delicious, as to be expected. People don't understand why France is the Queen of good food in Europe ❤
And Italy is the King.
Multiple courses tor lunch - unless you have a job 😂
Visited my family in France and we were having a 10 course meal of various dishes…I went into food coma then woke up to them saying “Lunch time” 🙃
That evening big salad at the end is enough to keep me full during an entire day.
As an asian, I'm not sure if I able to survive in French for a week by eating bread, cheese, and salad like that 😅
I need my rice, instant noodle, and other deep fried food 😂😂
Yup. I need my rice & noodles too! Fellow Asian here. Not keen on fried food though - not good for the heart. 😅🍚🍜
And you'll find plenty of it in France too. Don't trust this video. It's full of clichés
@@antoinemorel9654 yeah, it's a cliché. Most of the other comments from French people say so too. I also know (and have been to) Asian grocery stores in some parts of Western Europe, so I know they exist, especially in big cities. One can get rice, noodles, soy sauce, oyster sauce, even frozen dumplings, etc in those Asian stores. Cheers!
I'm French, don't eat baguette with jam and coffee in the morning, and regularly eat asian food, we French people looove Chinese or Japanese food 😆
@𖧷ʀᴀɴᴅᴏꜱ𖧷 😋😋
PS: Never eat in Paris eat in Lyon!
I praise you and your mission.
My experience: often skipping breakfast (instead coffee), light lunch like a salad, dinner 7 courses, small portions also here, and wine.
Salted butter with jam im the morning? J'aurais bien aimé, c' est sur.
I was expecting a carton of cigarettes
and black coffee
You honestly believe that the average French person takes a couple hours for their lunch every day?
it's that awful "emily in paris" influence 😂
That took me off guard a little 😅 I was like how can they afford to do that lmfao
@@londazhwaaa 😭 I did actually believe it bc the show, don't ruin my dreams! 🥲
Traditionally we used to do. However today eating for more than your 1 hour break is rare as heck. You'll get your 3 -4 course meal spanning over the afternoon only on the weekend for family gathering, celebrations like weddings or baptisms or just during uneventful days if we feel like eating a lot. The only people I know who eat 3 courses meal are our older folks (like my grandparents who have their entree, a bigger middle course, cheese and a dessert), when I eat like this in my family it takes 30 minutes and that's it
@@pookpook3891 plz don't adapt to American 😥 I have been all over France many years ago and it was perfect. Plz keep tradition alive 🫶🏼
This is more a Sunday family, friends eating day :)
Looks amazing ❤ 🇫🇷
My grandparents ate like that, yes... Now for me it's more sandwiches for the working days tbh. Or ramen cup.
Basically just Another form of mediatterenian diet
It really depends in which part of France you are.
In northern France they are closer to the English Channel! 😂
Dipping the Baguette 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ok...I need to save up to visit France 🇫🇷 and experience some of this delicious looking food. Yum 😋
I love when people from other countries give their very definite guides to a non native country
Well French people aren't telling us what they eat, so we've gotta make it up as we go 🤷🏿
Everyone is okay with it when it's Americans though
Bwahahahah you better be joking we usually just go eat at a snack
the fruit stewed in wine my ultimate fave french thing i learned from the locals near Paris
There's differences in France depenting where you are. I was an au pair there for 6 months. Breakfast is very sweet, then light luch, something sweet maybe at 16 and a big dinner.
Can an actual French person do this instead of a tourist?
I'm French and I don't have this healthy balanced meal that she's talking about !😂
Who cares ? Its general
French food day for an actual fonctioning adult
Morning : bread, jam, nutela, coffe, hot chocolate, juice (it's often nothing but coffe)
Lunch : for exemple bread with ham, cheese, ...(we more than often don't have the time to eat a hot meal) something simple and light sometime with soup.
For dinner it's hot meal, you have the time, food in france can be very varied as it is a multicultural country.
I mean my french friends tend to snack on a baguette throughout the day with some fruit
Based on the comments, I am not sure of the accuracy, but I do want to say your videos are beautifully and appetizingly done! Still inspires my diet, French or otherwise!
Am french and it’s pretty accurate, my guess is that the french people commenting are pretty young and have a fast modern life or are broke. But I know many people including myself who eat like that.
@@Leonnitram123 I see thanks.
Oh dear, you watched a french scene in a 'movie'
Yum! My favourite cuisine of all. 🇫🇷
That's actually super close to what we learned in school what the french eat.
The only difference is that the several course meal would be dinner.
I eat half that and dont lose weight 😢
Try, intermittent fasting, or alternate day fasting, tons of tips on it here on TH-cam. It has definitely helped me lose weight, and boost my metabolism.
im visiting france next week for a weekend and i plan on eating bread butter and cheese and drinking wine for three days straight
Pro tip: visit a "cave" that does tastings! Very french, available everywhere almost 😊😊 also learn quickly a few french words, we love tourists that do an effort, and it will pay off 😊
apart from showing lots of bread, the rest seem quite accurate. The quantities though are too much. I prefer to have just one plate and usually eat rice with vegetables and fish or a bowl of soup. What you see in this video represents what you have at the restaurant otherwise at home it's much simpler
Damn, all that looks so good.
Only old people still have their coffee in a bowl these days 😂
I do !! 😂 and I’m 36.
Maybe I’m old.
@@librepenseuse7376 I'm older than you, it's ok 😂
I still dip my 🥐in my hot chocolate or ☕️. I get weird looks at Panera.
Car ils ne connaissent pas la vraie vie. 😊
Man thats the best looking salad I’ve ever seen. Woa!! and the food looks amazing. 🤤🤌🏻
- Boeuf bourguignon
- Coq au vin
- Escargots de Bourgogne
- Ratatouille
- Quiche Lorraine
- Bouillabaisse
- Cassoulet
- Crème brûlée
- Tarte Tatin
- Croissant
- Tartiflette
- Confit de canard
- Soupe à l'oignon
- Escargots à la bourguignonne
- Salade niçoise
- Pot-au-feu
- Foie gras
- Raclette
- Coquilles Saint-Jacques
- Magret de canard
- Crêpes suzette
- Mousse au chocolat
- Choucroute
- Blanquette de veau
- Fondue Savoyarde
- Bouillabaisse
- Gratin dauphinois
- Pissaladière
- Tarte flambée
- Boudin noir
- Quenelles de brochet
- Galette complète
- Pâté en croûte
Je dois en rajouter ? 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
LOL my french ass hating wine eating cereals every morning and instant ramens is laughing right now.
No one eat like that anymore 😂
I dated a french person for years and never saw them dip bread in a bowlll of coffeeeee 😭
In a hot chocolate, its a MUST
Dipping bread in coffee is top tier!
My French Mother and Grandmother did this every single morning.
Dipping bread in coffee in France is very usual. I do it, my parents do it, my grandparents did it.
That has to be the softest baguette I've ever seen. It looks so good 🤤
I prefer crispy but to each their own.
@@kathleenwisialowski4558 crispy on the outside and soft on the inside 👌
So many vegetables...in every meal.
French here; this is very well spotted! Living in america for 8 years now, I had time to reflect on my previous food habit. A lot of wholefood, absolutely right, I would add in small portions, especially the appetizer that is indeed shredded raw veggies, or cooked veggies with a light dressing. Cheese would be consumed as well in very small portion with greens on side. Again, a lot of accurate infos. Bravo!
« Pain au chocolat » or « Chocolatine » ?
It’s a war issue in France ! 😂
In Italy we call it saccottino
No debate. It's Pain au chocolat. Only the minority who think it's called Chocolatine believe there is a war between those expressions.
The food in France is amazing. Even the cheap touristy food is amazing.
French Canadians like their maple syrup pancakes, many types of baguettes, muffins, some have crepes and fresh butter and jam, and they love their mochas or cappuchinos not espresso's.
They have fruit and vegetables at all meals. They are very healthy so sweets eaten in the morning and less throughout the day.
you should try sudanese cuisine!
This is so cliché. That's the traditional last century urban society style (completely different in rural areas).
Not every french person eats baguette for breakfast (I used to do it once every Sunday when I was still in France) and not always with salted butter and jam (ask a normand what they think of salted butter and you'll see).
The meal is just a restaurant 3 course meal from Paris so not really representative of the food variety in other french regions and the average person would most likely just have one dish.
French food has a lot of fat dishes (cassoulet, carbonade, tartiflette, choucroutes just to quote a few)
+ We say French food or French Cuisine but really it's French CuisineS as it traditonally changes with every region.
C'est toi le cliché Antoine
@@lmnll2742 mdr, bha va manger ta baguette alors et ferme la
Bread at least 5 days a week
It's all about timing. Eating a large meal in the middle of the day will give you more energie and help you lose the calories more easily because your day is not over after lunch....that's the secret "health benefit"...not the food itself...but the time of day you eat the most food.
Food looks delicious 😋 😊