WHAT ARE TYPICAL MEALS IN THE NETHERLANDS? (24 hour dutch food tour)

In this episode, Michelle and Alex eat like the Dutch for a full 24 hours, with everything from breakfast (ontbijt) to a mid-morning snack, lunch, borrel (happy hour), and dinner (avondeten).

Episode 93 · Filmed on September 11, 2023 · Dordrecht, The Netherlands

0:00 Introduction
0:21 Breakfast (ontbijt)
0:42 What are we doing today?
1:06 Back to Breakfast
1:36 Snacks and tea
2:40 Lunch
5:39 Borrel (happy hour)
6:33 Dinner (avondeten)
8:21 Dessert
10:46 Favorites and least favorites
11:31 Wrap up

#netherlands #expatlife #dutchfood #dutchculture

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WHO IS BUNCHARTED?

We're Michelle and Alex, an American expat couple living abroad in the Netherlands. 🇳🇱

In 2020, we quit our jobs to travel the world, and... well, that didn't happen. So in 2022, we decided to make an even BIGGER change by packing up our lives (and our cats 🐈) and moving from Austin, Texas, in the US, to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Subscribe for new videos like this every week!

[buncharted]

did anyone notice that we got one more use of the "DUTCH" bucket from the "are we learning dutch" video?! 😅

[MichelBaek]

Put some good butter on your bread or bun. Without butter it is very dry. ❤❤❤

[treintje]

The borrel snacks are not a regular part of our daily meals. They are usually only done for special occasions and/or when you are with a group of people. Certainly not on a daily basis!

[spinozatheobvious]

Dutch peanut butter actually doesn't contain *any* sugar, and is traditionally indeed considered a savoury spread (which means kids can have it on their first sandwich, because many parents have the rule that the first sandwich has to be savoury).

[Diafragmates]

Crucial to put some 'Roomboter' on your bread, especially on the raisin bun with cheese

[speedernl]

You can put the sambal also over the cheese on your bread

[gedovanderzee]

Loved the video! One little remark, hutspot = stampot. Stampot is a collective name for potatoes mashed with any kind of vegetable. So potatoes mashed with kale, sauerkraut, spinach, broccoli, endive or carrots is all called stamppot (stomped meal).

[y.v.l.]

For breakfast bread is usually eaten with sweet toppings (jam, hagelslag and peanutbutter) and yes also cheese. For lunch bread is eaten with cheese or some kind of meat. Most people eat bread with some butter on it and then the topping. Most people drink milk or buttermilk with breakfast and/or lunch and/or tea or coffee.

[eddys.]

A small detail overlooked with Dinner is "jus" (gravy), which is traditionally made of the baking/cooking juice of the meat with some additional baking fat and water if quantities are not sufficient. When adding extra fat and water make sure the "jus"has to cook again. The "jus" is usually afterwards added to the potatoes. Depending on the "jus" that can be a yummie experience too..

BTW cheese on bread (preferably with 'echte boter') can be enriched by adding sliced meat (e.g. ham) or mosterd...

[gerardflach]

For Dutch pudding (not vla!), look for the ‘Mona toetjes’ in the supermarket. You can eat or scoop them directly from the bakje (about 450 ml), but it is more fun to open rhe bakje, put it upside down on a plate, and have a proper pudding! (Some variants also have an extra sauce at the bottom of the bakje, which functions as a topping when you put it upside down like that)

[MarjoleinNoyceBellingaMobiel]

Very Dutch breakfast is also 'beschuit' with butter and either sweet or savoury toppings, or mashed strawberry instead of strawberry jam. Beschuit is round and very like toast, but toasted through and through. A lot of Dutch people eat something around 4 o'clock and that would often be the soup you prefer next to your sandwich at lunch :)

[hdegelder]

Typical dutch lunch might be soup with a salad of a big broodje gezond. We always use butter on a sandwich and you should try a "12-uurtje".That s a combination of a small cup of soup, a snack with bread like a kroket, a slice of bread with for example tunasalad and a sandwich with egg but other combinations are possible.

[remcohoman]

2:27 haha yes, that is how I take my lunch to work, some brown bread with cheese in the bag of a while ago

[Vapor_with_a_hat]

I had fun watching you both trying the different foods, I hope you guys try ‘kibbeling’ soon, it’s delicious

[frankgeurts]

We also have sliced meat on the sandwich, like corned beef boterham worst bacon

[catharina]

Try a volkorenboterham ( instead of the coloured bread you ate ) wih mayo, sliced tomato, boiled egg and salt and pepper with a glass of buttermilk for lunch. And an apple or an orange for a snack. And never forget roomboter on your sandwich🙋🏼‍♀️🌷🇱🇺

[GoliathAngelus]

Other tip for dessert is a old and classic one, , Bessola .
Its an old and very Dutch dessert.
it is an old dish from Groningen originally.
It was very popular when i was young but today not so much i think.
Hard time to find it in Albert Heijn usually you will find it between the long-life milk and chocolate milk racks
if they have it

[JasonRamosNJ]

Going the first week of Oct and again First Week of April with my Wife. Enjoying your content! Thank you so much! I have been a few times but you both cover great topics. I want to Sauna with my wife and that was fun soo many options. Food looks good!

[vanderquast]

Great to see you eating vla and vanille kwark for the first time 😂👍 If you would like to taste a more challenging tradionall dutch desert, I would recommend Rijstepap, Gortepap, Griesmeelpap and Havermoutpap 😱😉

[KeesBoons]

I see a lot of comments about putting butter on your bread. I'm probably the weird one, but I don't put butter on my bread unless it's necessary, like with "hagelslag". Kwark wouldn't be in my meals, probably yoghurt instead, and I would eat some fruit during the day, but otherwise this looked like a "normal" day to me (well, not "taart" every day).