What a typical French person eats in a day!

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[marie]

As a French person: we don't eat that much at lunch during the week, and we don't drink that much wine.

[geve]

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

[glowingember]

Person: *demonstrates French anything*
French person: non

[LikeAButterFly]

This is equivalent to thinking that every Indian eats Naan and butter chicken on an average day.. with a mango lassi on a side...

[charlotterolph]

Having lived in France for 20 years, I can tell you this is certainly not what the French eat on an average day.

[rainy]

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.

[GothCookie]

What the average American thinks French people eat during the day:

[emikochidori]

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 😊

[Mainecoon_Izzy]

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 (?)
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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

[cgavin]

The portion sizes are hilarious. That salad platter alone would feed 4 adults.

[JustMe]

Dear French-people, your cuisine is an art 😊 love from India

[vanguard]

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.

[Rayerie]

True French lunch experience (college student edition) is macaroni with cordon bleu.

[V.]

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

[mistypedhi]

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 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.♡

[fa]

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.

[nathalieu]

„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.

[avaritia]

My experience: often skipping breakfast (instead coffee), light lunch like a salad, dinner 7 courses, small portions also here, and wine.

[koala]

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.

[suddhadasi]

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...