Wholemeal bread and young cheese most missed on holiday
Although in Thailand, for example, almost everything is available, Dutch holidaymakers still crave typical Dutch fare such as wholemeal bread, young cheese, semi-skimmed milk and buttermilk, according to Albert Heijn's Pick Up Point Schiphol among more than 1.000 people who went on holiday by plane .
On the plane from Bangkok or other airports, most holidaymakers already start thinking about the chores that are waiting for them at home and in what order they will do them. First unpack the suitcases and then go shopping, or the other way around? According to the survey, 43 percent immediately unpack their suitcases and tidy up when they return home. Opening the mail and cleaning up old newspapers are second with 26 percent. It is striking that the men are more fanatical unpackers and cleaners than the women, with 46 compared to 41 percent. The ladies opt twice as often as the gentlemen to do nothing at all and to stay in the holiday mood as long as possible.
Much-needed groceries
In the top 5 of groceries that holidaymakers immediately bring home, bread is at the top with 75 percent. Vegetables (65 percent), fruit (63 percent), cheese (59 percent) and meat products (57 percent) complete the list.
Dutch homesickness
Although the holiday is of course ideal to forget everything for a while, many travelers feel homesick for their trusted Dutch products during their holiday abroad. In general people miss the freshness and quality of products, but the real 'Dutch' products in particular are missed. Wholemeal bread, semi-skimmed milk and buttermilk, aged cheese, peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles are frequently mentioned 'homesick products' during the holidays.
The top 5, with the most frequently mentioned homesickness products in brackets:
- Bread (wholemeal, brown) 44%
- Cheese (young, old) 43%
- Daily fresh dairy (semi-skimmed milk, buttermilk) 38%
- Sandwich toppings (peanut butter, chocolate sprinkles) 23%
- Meat products (roast beef, filet americain) 19%
Whether holidaymakers miss out on products depends not so much on where they go, but above all on the length of their stay. Air travelers who go on holiday for longer, miss Dutch supermarket products more often on average.
Ha, ha, have those 1000 surveyed Dutch people not been to Pattaya,
All products from the Top 5 are widely available in the supermarkets here, with the possible exception of chocolate sprinkles and buttermilk.
Is indeed available everywhere, but be happy if you don't find it, because they are one of the most unhealthy food combinations you can eat.
We already knew that grains, carbohydrates raise your blood level, that gluten is very bad and also makes people sick.
But that whole grains also age your body? YES. On the top of the list;
Food #1 that ages you faster: Wheat (yes, even “whole wheat”)
Here is a little-known fact that's often covered up by the massive marketing campaigns by giant food companies that want you to believe that “whole wheat” is healthy for you… but the fact is that wheat contains a very unique type of carbohydrate (not found in other foods) called Amylopectin-A, which has been found in some tests to spike your blood sugar higher than even pure table sugar.
In fact, amylopectin-A (from wheat) raises your blood sugar more than almost any other carbohydrate source on earth based on blood sugar response testing.
So be happy if you are in Thailand and don't eat it for a few weeks, your body will have a little vacation too
I agree entirely with this comment, except that I may be missing something in the English text; I am not good at reading comprehension of english texts. It is remarkable that people do not want to eat the way it is healthy, but only the way they are used to. The subject of “healthy eating” does not score very high on this blog. A Dutchman lives near me. He runs a business where you can get all the unhealthy Dutch food there is. Up to whipped cream cake. He is friendliness itself, but I am not his customer anyway, because something healthy (let's say: a tuna salad) is not on his menu.. So I can't find anything I'm looking for with him, in I can't find everything in the supermarkets here in Thailand; believe me, even for someone who wants to eat healthy life is difficult.
Here in Thailand, too, I am glad that the adage: 'give us this day our daily bread' has come true. If I don't buy it already, I sometimes bake it nicely brown myself.
Well, it is true that for some time there have been warnings against the disadvantages of wheat, more specifically against wholemeal flour.
But it's all not too bad, it's made a monkey's bread, and a professor from Wageningen says about this:
“Foods can indeed be divided into 'fast' and 'slow' carbohydrates, depending on how quickly they raise blood sugar levels in the blood. Highly processed products with simple carbohydrates are quickly broken down and therefore quickly absorbed into the bloodstream. Products such as vegetables, fruit and brown bread have complex carbohydrates. They are therefore broken down more slowly and the glucose enters the blood gradually, without too many peaks. So it is exactly the opposite of what the baker claims.” Also see:
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/10/02/bakker-bakt-bruine-broodjes-met-de-waarheid/
Simply delicious fresh bread from the Thai bakery and top with young cheese from Makro.
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Buttermilk is also available, but only at Foodland in Bangkok and Pattaya. Not cheap. 69 B. for 3/4 liter. It is usually very thick and you can dilute it with drinking water up to 1 liter. Gourmet is the brand name. Cheers.
Yes, true Gringo, but I pay for a kilo of cheese in Pattaya, more than double what I pay in the Netherlands. But I don't really have to tell you that.
Or do you know an address where the cheese is the same price as the Netherlands. Then I won't have to take kilos from Holland to Thailand soon.
Ruud, I just checked in the fridge what I pay for the cheese, because I wouldn't have known it off the top of my head and I certainly don't know what it costs in the Netherlands now.
At Friendship (Pattaya South) I buy sliced Gouda cheese vacuum packed for 450 Baht per kilo. Is that twice as expensive as in the Netherlands?
In my opinion, Friendship has the best cheese selection in Pattaya, I can also buy that Gouda cheese in a piece and then it will be even cheaper. Italian, French, English cheese, it's all here. Go and have a look in the special cheese display case!
Ok thank you. Maybe we'll see each other there. In the Netherlands it costs 5 euros per kilo in the supermarket, but Gouda comes pretty close to your price if the bath stays that way. ,nl 9 euros approximately. Thanks Ruud
In Changmai there are the same stores as in Pattaya, Tops, Big C, Tesco, the Rimping super in Changmai has a wider selection for European tastes, for example I buy there. Remia mayonnaise everything is for sale there.
All the items mentioned are for sale in Thailand, just do a little searching, especially bread with all those bakeries owned by Westerners that exist nowadays, the only problem I encounter is; I have not yet come across meat products, good roast beef and especially filet American and I certainly will not buy that there, it is terribly perishable and even in the Netherlands I prefer not to buy that in the summer.
In Thailand everything is for sale and you really don't have to lug suitcases full of Dutch stuff, I even know of people who bring plasters and other first aid items and other self-care products to think that it is not easy to obtain in Thailand.
Regards,
Lex. K.
Maybe it's a good idea for the travel agencies.
That they organize a tour especially for these people in which the Thai supermarkets are also scheduled.
For example, an excursion in Bangkok with a visit to the Grand Palace with its Wat Phra Keo temple and then a visit to Bangkok's largest supermarkets such as Big C or Tesco Lotus and Carrefour, where yes, really!! bread, cheese, fresh dairy products, spreads and meats are available in abundance.
And that the other morning while consuming our sandwich with cheese and our glass of milk, we especially imagine ourselves back in our cozy and cozy Holland.
And then another three weeks of waiting to go home again, nice shopping all year round at the Albert Hein, pffff what a holiday.
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For correction.
Carrefour a French origin supermarket chain no longer exists in Thailand.
Turned everything over to the Big C organization.
Dutch food is widely available at the Rimping markets in Chiangmai and the surrounding area.
Even croquettes bitterballen and Dutch chowder.
Made in Thailand by a Dutch Thai couple.
Also tastes very good.
Cheese and bread are no problem either , the BIG C in HangDong and Lamphun also bake good bread .
I usually order by phone , because otherwise it is usually gone when you get there .
Mmmmm how delicious. Kind regards, Jantje
And that we especially imagine ourselves back in our cozy and cozy Holland. Great irony. The question arises what these kinds of tourists come to look for in foreign countries. Isn't it the charm of traveling abroad to be confronted with things that are not typically Dutch?
One of the things I like to be in a foreign country is that they eat differently there. In France, for example, they have ratatouille, well, what they have here in Thailand of particularly appetizing food is too much to list. What I, an expat in Thailand, no longer eat is that eternal bread in the Netherlands. Nor potatoes. Also not that typical Italian food, the pasta and pizzas and the like. Together with especially the quick-cooking rice that has been ground into a white mass, I have declared all that taboo. Why? You can learn your diet science from Montignac (about the combination of carbohydrates and fat), from Atkins (who discovered that it is not fat that makes you fat, but that carbohydrates do), from the Paleo diet (which - obviously rightly - abhors wheat) , among the Eskimos (who lived almost exclusively on fish) and among the Japanese, especially those on Okinawa (are -on soya among others- the oldest).
From prehistoric man to Japanese: we all have the same digestive mechanism. I discovered on a previous episode of this blog that even the usually well-informed Dick van der Lugt did not know about the Paleo diet. The fact that people started to eat grain was the great dietary revolution long ago, which was followed by a very recent industrial revolution (including the invention of the grinding cylinder). This had far-reaching consequences for the production (and distribution) of our food: obesity is now spreading worldwide (even in developing countries). Being fat is not just an innocent thing, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid it. Even I -always been slim- got it. Only here in Thailand, but anyone who becomes fat at a certain point, will become so after a long, many years of unmanifested history. I am now (almost) rid of my thickness and no longer follow the too one-sided slimming diet. That does not mean that I follow what I would like to follow. For example, I don't know where I can find the miso soup, the ingredients of which are so well-known in Japan, here in Thailand. I would still like to stay slim and avoid the diseases that usually come from behind that weight gain. Those (old-age or 'wealth) diseases' are diabetes of the elderly, cardiac arrhythmias, (bowel) cancer, and just about a few other diseases that are rare in Okinawa and with which the (nowadays not even so) elderly suffer in large numbers in our affluent world. are in the hospitals on the relevant departments.
The article is about Dutch holidaymakers. Before I came to live here, I myself went here on holiday for quite a few years and then you book a hotel. Most hotels here include breakfast and I think that is precisely where the problem arises and the lack of some Dutch products.
It's a bit different if you live here, even if you rent a house to spend the winter; in that case you come to supermarkets to get your daily groceries. As a holidaymaker in a hotel, you don't go to a supermarket for pleasure, do you? ... At least I don't just enjoy a nice holiday ;)
Coarse wholemeal bread is indeed the only food I miss.
I especially love that Alison whole wheat.
That's not the airy stuff that blows off your plate if you don't put toppings on it quickly.
The wholemeal bread that I can buy in town tastes slightly sour, but is otherwise reasonable to eat.
Anyway, sometimes you have to make sacrifices in your life and I put my Alison whole grain on the offering block.
Dear Ruud
how about a bread machine, also for sale in Bangkok and whole wheat flour if I can buy it in Roi-et it is for sale almost everywhere in Thailand, especially at Tops (albert Heijn) and central. The machine usually has a timer that bakes fresh baked wholemeal bread at night when you wake up.
Eat them greetings Ceesdu
Thanks for the tip.
I'll check that out when I'm in town again.
It never occurred to me that they would also sell bread makers in Thailand.
Rice cookers, of course.
There is a Central with a Tops so I can probably buy everything in one go.
And then hope that the electricity decides not to fail for a while during baking.
In any case, it has become more reliable in recent years.
Only between 18:00 and 22:00 does the voltage sometimes drop to about 170 to 180 volts.
Especially when the weather is hot in March and April.
Hi Ruud they are for sale at
PowerBuy in Paragon
Emporium
Cost about 3000 Baht
Greetings Cees
Good afternoon.
We live in Hua-Hin and we really don't have to miss out on food and drinks.
Delicious roast beef and other meats, cheese, brie, milk and delicious dark brown bread, what more could you want and if you fancy a herring, that is also available here.
Kind regards, Nellie.
The only thing I can *miss* is really nice brown bread 🙂 But the rest is also for sale here! Most larger supermarkets in every major town often have a special display with imported stuff. Fruit, toppings, (yes also cheese) etc is really all for sale here. And what I don't understand, but will be just me: a tourist who is on vacation for 3-4 weeks, MISSES that?? Can't imagine but yes.. who am I 😀 I've been living here for almost 2 years now and don't miss it because (almost) everything is for sale here and otherwise you just buy something else. You are/live/stay in another country, so adapt a bit I would say 🙂
Delicious (but pricey) hearty types of whole wheat bread are for sale on Bangnaroad at Central and Mega Bangna in Bangkok. Cheese is very expensive, but available. So Dutch food is partly possible.
Who does not remember the old saying as an advertising slogan :
“I only come out for rusks”
This, for me, irreplaceable part of the breakfast was for sale in HuaHin for a short time in the Tesco, even in their own packaging wrapper, which also stated that it was baked in the Netherlands.
What a blessing! Just put the biscuits in the microwave for 2x 10 seconds, then let them cool down, put a slice of Gouda cheese on top (available at the Macro) and enjoy.
But apparently the turnover rate was not high enough and the rusk has disappeared again… Unfortunately.
Or maybe someone knows where rusk is for sale in Thailand?
For the Dutch who don't know Thailand very well.. Look up a Makro. Old Dutch company. Has a lot of Dutch products Also very good Bread. Also pre-baked Farm frites.
What I'm missing I finally found HARING and so tasty from a professional.
Pim thanks for this goodies, nothing beats fresh and you brought that to Thailand first
thank you and we enjoy it well and even my Thai loves it.
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