My first time to do the shopping for
the weekend in a huge supermarket called
Halpa HALI It’s was an eye-opening experience to go to these places
and realize the choice they have of
everything. And in Finland the variety is still quite limited compared to many
other countries. Especially in France , I always get overwhelmed by the selection of
all the products from cheese to sweets. It makes me immediately think do i really need all this stuff? Of course i don’t.
Anyway, this time I focused on the variety of milk products Finns
love milk and consume a lot of yogurt, “piimä” (kind of sour milk) and “rahka”
(kind of quark). Milk is a typical drink for anything: breakfast, lunch,
snacks, dinner, salty, sweet.
Another thing is that there are as many tastes as there are kinds of milk.Moreover,
there’s a huge number of Finns who can’t intake milk lactose . There’s even a
joke that you know when you’ve lived too long in Finland when you become
lactose-intolerant. So now they have all the milk products also with little
(“hyla” or no lactose (“laktoositon”) And so the variety grows.
Actually the milk consumption of the Finns is arround 136 liters. Also , Finland
is the nation which most ice cream enjoyes in the world! Yoghurt consumption is
on the rise, too every Finn ate 24 kilos
of yoghurt. Personally I love natural yoghurt and eat it every morning for
breakfast with fruit and seeds.
Anyway, as there’s a very strong low-carb fashion in Finland, Finns consume
more and more fat milk and butter (instead of margarine). Also cheese and quark
are getting more popular.
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