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Amazing video. I am so impressed with the French culture, attitudes and norms around food. It is beautifully balanced in every way. Our American values and culture around food is incredibly warped. Thankfully we can choose differently! Thank you🤍
All mushrooms should be cooked before eating, even the white buttons.
So true, the French pride themself on such good quality produce, meat and cheese. And yes, it was the law, a midi on mange!!! By 20:00 hr dinner is eaten. There was no snacking, or maybe a petite friandise at 4 hr, la goutee. So yes eating times are very structureed.
My favorite breakfast….is the breakfast sandwiches in the US, too! Gawd! So good. It's the mayo. Most of the time, mayonnaise will do it every time. People will probably disagree until the see how the sandwiches are made. Million dollar company idea: quality French food at French prices in the US. It'd sell out. We have small places, mostly dinner restaurants, but also bakeries. And a couple French style breakfast places. Sometimes the menus are not very French. We discovered a 'Normandie' restaurant a couple weeks ago…and it was Asian fusion due to the chef. Go figure.
And the French don’t snack between meals.
As far as eating times are concerned—in the US this is because of the erosion of workers rights here as compared to France. Many people have unpredictable work schedules with random assigned “lunch” at weird times of day. Often workers only get 30 minutes to shove food in. It is definitely unhealthy. And for children it’s very similar—sports matches are scheduled during dinner time or even close to bedtime. It’s very hard to have a normal routine here. And it’s not good. I don’t know why my fellow citizens put up with it.
I was in Paris a few weeks ago and the food was amazing!!! The quality is top notch.
I lived in Paris for 2 years. Way less preservatives than American food. One WALKS way more in Paris. Plus that red wine does wonders! 😊
Hello Lucile! I've just discovered you by discovering this great video. You are a very nice woman and it's a pleasure to watch this video! I just have a question: Do you always without snacks, between lunch and dinner for example? It's a really long time from 1pm30 to 8 pm! Many thanks in advance for your answer!
When you were talking about table manners and everyone eating the same meal, that is what was expected in my family, too. I’m an American and back in the 1970s when I was a kid, it was that way with pretty much every family I knew. And nearly everyone I knew ate dinner between 5:30 pm and 6 pm.
I think things started to change in the 1980s…that is when I noticed people eating later and having separate kid meals. When I became a mom myself, I saw how rare it has become for families to eat together. One of my daughter’s friends hadn’t ever eaten at the dinner table…they ate in front of the TV. I think her friend liked the experience of eating with us at the table, and using real dishes instead of paper plates. But I definitely felt like we’re the exception and not the norm. Thanks for this video…it was really interesting👍🏻
A savoury breakfast is far more sustainable for the body over a bowl of cereal. Sugar is the enemy.
Went to France in Sept 2024 and purchased Airalo International data plan for $37. I have iPhone 13, and when I arrived I tried to install it and it wouldn't work. It said my code was invalid. Spent 1 1/2 hours with tech support and they STILL couldn't get it installed. I said forget it, just give me my money back. And do you know they still don't want to give me a refund, or an apology. My credit card company is battling with them. For me Airalo was a disaster. Fortunately my French friend set me up with Orange so I was able to use my phone during my visit. Think carefully people, be warned. Their customer service is appalling.
Ahh – how you make me long for Paris! Such a wonderful city and a gift to the world.
When my boyfriend (who had never been to France before) and I were in Paris back in January, he asked me on our second day there "wherere are all the fat people." He's rail-thin, and I have the dad bod, and here in the rural US where we live, I'm the norm and he is an outlier. But in Paris, he was the norm. I told him there weren't too many American tourists in January, and there'd be more fat people in July.
I agree with you about the fresh food. I firmly believe that a lot of American obesity is caused by processed foods.
The peer pressure can definitely be huge. I've gained a bit of weight recently which combined with being really tall has made clothes shopping hell. But when I visited the US it wasn't so bad, even the UK wasn't too bad. And also having friends who were bigger in their youth and what that meant for their school lives. It can be rough.
I also grew up eating a lot of home cooked which was really a blessing. And it really taught me to eat different things.
Every time I am going to Paris I am loosing weight although I am eating things which I never would eat here like cakes and so on. But if I eat a cake I am so full that it last till the afternoon. I was every time really surprised why it fills me so up but now you told because of the good ingredients I think. But I love the cakes in Paris even if they are vegan they are so delicious. I am grown up in Turkish culture and there is the same pressure on women to be thin I hate that because it is not there business to tell me what I have to eat and how much.
I'm Latina/Hispanic but live in Scotland. My parents were shocked at how British people often feed their children a different dinner very early, put them to bed super early and then eat their actual dinner later with their spouse or partner. The one who feeds the kid will often finish off the kids' leftovers and gain weight, and then complain when the kids wake up at 5am. Needless to say, we didn't do that with our children! I make a few salads and two soups on Sundays so lunch is easy and bake fresh bread a few times a week. Butter is very expensive here now but easy to make yourself.
Actual numbers : nearly 50% of french population is overweight
French stereotypes youtube : Why are French people are so thin ?!
Im also french, and lets stop taking pride at stuff that is just not true ?
Whole fresh foods are filling and keep you full! A banana will keep you feeling full for longer than a McDonald's cheeseburger. But no matter what you eat, as long as it's no more than the calories you need, you won't put in weight . It's not a French thing, just a biology thing. Thanks for the video though.
When I was in France years ago, the hotel served a croissant for breakfast. That is weird compared to an English breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans, tomato and toast. Are the French starving themselves because they didn't have bread to eat during the revolution ? The croissant could just be a scam by hotels to save money on breakfasts. 😂
I love how French people act as if nobody in the USA has ever eaten or even heard of a salad.
Food costs, work culture, stress, the amount of processed foods and the lack of food regulation, natural metabolism and gut microbiome… There are fat people in every country. But there are additional stressors that make more of the population heavier in certain countries.
Love your videos, they are so relaxing. I noticed that French bloggers love to use term "rest of the world", and looks like this is an euphemism for USA 🙂
I wonder about the real studies of social pressure of being thin 🤔
The waitress who walked in the background at around 10:48 while Lucile was saying how overeating was not accepted in France must not have heard that … .
I want to offer something. I grew up in an Italian family and mealtime was an absolute non-negotiable 363 days out of the year (I don’t know the reason but perhaps 2 days out of the year we could for some reason get out of it 😝) and we never, ever ate at a restaurant; it was TABOO. We ordered takeout pizza as an ultimate treat a few times a year, but get this: my mom still cooked a full dinner those nights and we just had a slice or two of pizza alongside that. I complained about this so much. Now of course I realize I was very fortunate. I am a single lady just me and my dog, so of course it is the case that I eat alone often, which I know is not ideal. But I am very nice and skinny and very healthy in my 40s, and I was not always so slim in my younger years. I put many restrictions on my diet, and it really backfired. I believe that you should always eat whatever you truly want, just as long as you prepare it yourself. I became skinny when I adopted this rule. 😊
Hello guys❤❤
Parisians are thin. Not all French. Parisians hardly use cars, they walk kms in metro. They hardly snack. And smoke and drink instead…..very bad skin and not good teeth 🤫
Countryside French ppl are pretty overweight 😅
Always enjoyable vlogs: thanks for explaining a very common sense lifestyle, too.
J'en ai assez vu au bout de 2mn. C'est mignon de faire croire que tous les français habitent un quartier parisien branchouille avec un marché en bas de chez eux. Comment ignorer que la majorité fait ses courses dans les hypermarchés et achète du prêt à manger? Que les fruits et légumes bien souvent produits en espagne hors saison ne sont pas "top qualité", même au marché qui va les chercher à Rungis ?. Bref on est dans le folklorique lucile in paris
Farmers on strike again, so there’s a famine? 😢
you forgot the smoking…
Everything in this vid is true, but there is an elephant in the room. Smoking. I just got back from walking 100 miles in the French country side. I'm old and a life time nonsmoker. I was shocked to see young people long distance walking and smoking. Not to mention all the smokers on the streets and sitting in cafes.
In my experience, having been in France so often: they do not snack.
Once upon a time in the US people were slim. We ate home cooked meals, always all sat at the table, played outside. We were slim. I don't know when it all changed. Sad.
your boyfriend Bobby totally looks like the actor Robert Patterson! I think you getting full with those slices of bread and butter and fruit for breakfast is really interesting. Maybe eating more high quality fats makes you eat less sugar and other fattening ingredients so you lose weight overall and you snack less. Your hair and skin looks really healthy and vibrant, it must be the vitamins and minerals you eat from all the fruits and vegetables you eat. I heard the water in Paris that comes from the tap really is high in minerals so that's why your hair and nails is better in Paris for some reason. Bien reussi!
I am tri-cultural – and lives half of the year in the states, and the other half in Spain (or Brazil). It doesn’t matter if we go on a month vacation to Mexico, or if we are in Italy,France, etc – every time we are out of the states for longer than 2 weeks we start to lose weight and debloat. We change nothing about our eating habits, and remain at the same level of activeness… my husband and I just were talking the other day that the addition of so many preservatives in the foods in the states really affect us personally (so won’t be surprised if also it affects others) 🤷🏼♀️
Not everyone in France is thin. I was thin until menopause. I am still on the slim side but not slender. I don't live in France. When I see a slender older French woman… I often discover that they smoke. Wonderful reflections on how people do eat healthier in many ways… in France. I do believe there is more quality overall. I think the butter is different too… starting with what the cows are fed.
French with an American accent ??
A lot of this feels like generalization. When I went to Paris, i did see fat and even obese people. Also, I know a french guy (100% french) who is the BIGGEST picky eater. Absolute terrible diet. Doesnt eat vegetables, fruit, water, etc. Diet is 100% takeout, doner kebabs, etc. Can't cook, has the palette of a toddler.
Love the name Lucile, it has this middle age France ring to it. We dont hear it that often anymore.
In the west it’s about quantity not quantity of ingredients. I bet French would never think of buying frozen food 😮
What? You´re a french woman? Why don´t you have a french accent? Awesome!
Hello Lucille, do you like fashion? Have you ever made a video about the people of the fashion show in Paris which enter the buildings of the shows?
French people aren’t thin. French who live in big cities stay thin. It’s a choice.
I've watched a few similar videos and the key rule is that the French are great at masking how little they really eat.Sweet breakfast -why not 300kcal lunch a biiiig bowl of leaves with a little bit of everything and a few drops of dressing , some bread with a microscope to see that bread , then tea -dark chocolate -a small piece and that's it and tadam , ladies and gentlemen DINNER the one and only decent meal eaten for 3 hours. Grand total 1500 kcal for mesdames and 2000 for messieurs looking like an all day feast.
Living in the south of France, I gained 8 kg in a year . You have such good food there!! (a million types of cheese, desserts etc… yaaaayyy!!!!I 😋😋🥰😅