Food in the Netherlands

Food in the Netherlands for most families exists of two meals of bread (breakfast and lunch) home-made sandwiches with thinly sliced cheese or meat (or chocolatesprinkles) and one hot eveningmeal.

Did you know that Dutch business people have the shortest lunches in Europe?
Lunch at work will most likely be taken in the company restaurant, or they take a little stroll outside while having a sober meal of bread, milk, coffee and some fruit. Sometimes adding a soup or hot snack (kroket)to the sandwiches brought from home.

Very much the Netherlands: practical, cheap and it doesn't matter who you are: the boss or not.
Food in the Netherlands is not as important as it is for example in France or Italy.

Families have dinner together sitting on the table between 5pm and 7 pm.
They eat with knife and fork. For most people this will be a home-made meal with potatoes, vegetables and meat and let's not forget dessert. Which lots of times will be a different kind of yoghurt and/or "vla" (custard), vanilla or chocolate.

Of course the population of the Netherlands also eat spaghetti, pizza and chinese. But take-out is not the norm, it is not The Food in the Netherlands
There is a big Indonesian influence in the Netherlands food culture, because a lot of them came to live in the Netherlands years ago. Their food is prepared with more spices and rice. In every household they'll have "nassi or bami" once a week for sure.
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Very important is there has to be a variety in the meals, lots of vegetables, less fat and no big portions.
The population in the Netherlands is pretty fit. A lot of people use their bicycles a lot and walk, because everything is close and it is easier. So people are living a positive healthy lifestyle.
Although the younger generation is doing things a little different. They both have jobs, meals have to be done faster and let's take the car.

Don't think for a moment though that people don't enjoy food in the Netherlands. They love going out for dinner in all the great and original restaurants (with prices for every wallet, as they would say).
These restaurants are filled with people at the right time, the so called student-restaurants (great food for reasonable prices) and fine dining as well.
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Also at home many people take pleasure in good cooking and extensive dinners.

The Netherlands has a multicultural society. This means availibility of foods and products from all over the world. A few favorites are Turkish bread, shoarma, Thai and Vietnamese spring rolls.

Common and very tasty (of course not all foreigners agree on that) in the Netherlands are a rusk for breakfast (and a custom is to eat them with white and pink/blue sprinkles when a baby is born), pancakes for dinner with all kinds of toppings, mashed potatoes with endive, red cabbage or carrots with onions (they call it "stamppot"), salt herring (raw fish), French fries with mayonaise or peanutsauce(this is so good), Belgian endive, potatoe-salad, raisin buns, cinnemon cookies and on NewYear's Eve they bake "oliebollen" and "appelflappen".