Typical french meals?

Question

what do the french people in paris typically eat for each meal.

If you don't know anything about paris, but know something about another city in france, that's OK, tell me about the food there but just make sure u list the city u have talked about.

Thanks so much...i'm having trouble finding it on the internet...

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Answer 1

Well i was born there and then moved 3 weeks later but 2 weeks ago i was there for like a 9 day trip so here we go:

breakfast- fresh baguette w/ cheese

lunch- a croque monsieur (a sandwich with melted cheese and ham)

dinner- steak frites which is steak and french fries

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Answer 2

In fance they eat by season. If it is winter you will see ehavier thiker foods. Like beef and potatoes and red wine and foods like ratatuille. If it is summer you will find salmon fish green beans, melon, shrimp, lighter foods, white wine. etc. They usually go by season. Breakfast they ususally have like nutella on bread or something like that. Maybe an omlet not very big. A cofee or a tee aswell. At lunch they will usually eat sandwiches like croq monsieur. A sandwich with ham and cheese cooked in an oven and it sometimes has mustard( dijon). Diner is all out. Red wine for dark meat like beaf , pork annd white wine for fish. There is usually like a vegetable side and the food is delish.I talked about France in general.

Answer 3

Frogs legs, Garlic Snails, Bread, croisants, cheese and lots of coffee all in Paris

Answer 4

These are my meals in a day-cycle :

Bkfst : Coffe+milk

            Bread+butter

            Yoghurt

12.00 : Appetizer

             Meat or fish + vegetables

             Tap-water - black coffee

             some bread

19.00 : Soup(mandatory)

             Proteic complement eg omlet

             Green Salad (mandatory)

             Cheese

             Fruits (nothing else sweet)

             Sparkling min.water + tea

             no bread

Wine on week-end meals - No sugars - No soft-drinks -

Answer 5

I get this question ALL THE TIME where I live now, because here there are basically 3 national dishes (small country).

They can't get their head around the fact that France has so many geographically different regions, that the "typical" foodstuffs of each vary WILDLY.

Varying forms of melted cheese from the Alps.

Crepes in Brittany,

Gauffres in the north.

Saurkraut in Alsace.

Ratatouille and pistou in the mediterranean region.

Cassoulet in the South-West

The list is literally endless.

It's not by accident that France is traditionally considered the gastronomic center of the world.

Answer 6

I just spent a semester living with a French family.

I'll tell you their typical meal, however, I must warn you, they weren't a very traditional family:

Breakfast:

Normally, my host mom would just have some cafe au lait (coffee with milk) and these butter cracker/cookie things with a little bit of jelly.

They do actually eat a lot of cereal in France. She bought a lot of American cereals for us, which her son also ate.

Commonly the other student that I was staying with would have toast with Nutella (a chocolate-hazelnut spread).

If I was running late to class and leaving without eating, my "mom" would make me grab a piece of fruit.

Lunch:

Sandwiches are quite common and sandwich shops are usually packed around lunch time. Common sandwiches would be paninis, cold sandwiches on baguette, croque monsieurs and croque madames, and kebab. Kebab, in most of Europe, is a pita filled with shaved meat, tomatoes, lettuce and some type of sauce.

Dinner:

Like I said, my family wasn't traditional, so their meal doesn't represent everyone.

Generally, we'd just have the meal first (no entree/appetizer). It would be a meat dish with some sort of side. We'd have pork, merguez sausages, steak, stuffed tomatoes, crepes. On the side would usually be lentils, rice or couscous.

Side note: Couscous and merguez are traditional North African foods and represent the influence of that culture in French society.

After dinner, would have some salad. Usually mixed greens, but sometimes spinach and sometimes endives. My host brother would make a vinaigrette with mustard, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and some spices.

Also, cheese and bread would follow dinner. Popular cheeses in France include Brie, Camembert and Comte, among many others.

Finally, we'd have desert. Usually it would just be yogurt or pudding. Sometimes, we would have fresh fruit. Occasionally, she'd bake something like chocolate cake and rhubarb/strawberry cobbler.