What is a Real Mediterranean Diet Breakfast?

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  • @connieramsey6798
    @connieramsey6798 Рік тому +48

    Excellent video! Thank you so much. I would love to see an extended version of this with all of these folks telling us what they eat in a day or week…perhaps one video per region. Again, thank you so much!

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +14

      We do have a few of these already on our channel (Spain, France) and will soon have one from Lebanon. Thanks for the suggestions!

    • @beachwanderer9486
      @beachwanderer9486 Рік тому +4

      ​@@Mediterraneanliving that's good thank you I to would like to see what each region eats daily especially Crete.

    • @samiaafzal786
      @samiaafzal786 Рік тому

      Q

  • @garlicgirl3149
    @garlicgirl3149 Рік тому +23

    I have argued with people for 12 years that carbohydrates like BREAD are NOT evil or the problem. It is the total lifestyle and on top of that what the industry has done to food. You cannot compare a homemade tomato to a store bought one. I can eat a "real" tomato like an apple they are so good. Mmmm

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +3

      Totally agree!

    • @Popo52451
      @Popo52451 Рік тому +3

      You are correct bread is not evil...it's some of the stuff that's put in the store bought bread...so much so that store bought bread doesn't even mold anymore😮.

    • @garlicgirl3149
      @garlicgirl3149 Рік тому

      @@Popo52451 Truth!

  • @nicolebalmier
    @nicolebalmier Рік тому +7

    Didn’t see one person say cereal lol. Loved seeing everyone’s perspective & share childhood memories

  • @gerryleblanc
    @gerryleblanc Рік тому +8

    So great to see these faces and traditions from ALL around the Mediterranean!

  • @dafni31
    @dafni31 Рік тому +24

    Thanks for another fun video. Love your channel so much!
    I live in Turkey and every morning without fail, I have black olives, ezine cheese, tomato, cucumber, parsley, turkey ham, whole-grain bread, and of course, çay. I get up excited every morning just to eat this breakfast 😄
    I moved from Japan to Turkey and have been truly enjoying the richness of their cuisine! I especially love the cuisine from the Aegean region.

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +4

      Hope to make it to Turkey someday. Thanks for sharing your breakfast!

    • @yuzan3607
      @yuzan3607 7 місяців тому +3

      Oh I love Japanese traditional breakfast. I miss waking up at a Ryokan with Japanese breakfast!
      I also miss Turkish breakfast in Istanbul. Both Turkey and Japan are my favorite countries in the world.

  • @SuzanneU
    @SuzanneU Рік тому +25

    Very different from what's pushed in the USA as the Mediterranean diet! My Dalmatian husband ate bread and jam, often with prsut or sunka (ham) for breakfast, with coffee, as a child. That's what we eat when we visit his family.
    I love shaksuka for breakfast, with a toasted slice of my home-made bread.

    • @garlicgirl3149
      @garlicgirl3149 Рік тому +1

      Agreed and you have to research really hard to find the "real" deal. I saw a documentary from a woman from Greece I believe who moved to American then after some years when back to Greece to visit and was dismayed to find junk food and fast food had arrived.

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +3

      Shakshuka is amazing!

    • @carm9716
      @carm9716 Рік тому +1

      In my family, we call Shakshuka "Eggs in Purgatory". It's delicious!

    • @TimGreigPhotography
      @TimGreigPhotography Рік тому

      That's exactly what I thought. This is what people eat, or used to eat.

  • @mmps18
    @mmps18 Рік тому +8

    Love seeing what people eat across the Mediterranean ❤

  • @dianehall5345
    @dianehall5345 Рік тому +12

    Mediterranean diet is my all-time favorite! Just from my personal preferences. Love the good olive oil, black olives, garlic, tomatoes, healthy fish. Crusty French bread is so gorgeous. When I worked in England I ate mostly French foods. I am grateful to see so many countries that fall within the Mediterranean diet catagory. Greek foods use a lot of fresh lemon and delicious spices. I'm trying to incorporate goat cheese and kefir VS milk. Love love ricotta
    cheese with honey or in a lasagna. Breakfast is my biggest challenge. Thank you for this helpful video ~ Diane

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому

      Glad you enjoyed the video. I love the great olive oil and black olives as well (plus the other foods you mentioned). Thanks for the comment.

    • @chrislanciani1165
      @chrislanciani1165 Рік тому

      ​@@MediterraneanlivingI also love her wording of "gorgeous" 🎯 truly love everything about this from Boston Massachusetts! 💞

  • @MissVal2507
    @MissVal2507 9 місяців тому +1

    This video was amazing!! There’s so many days where I just want something simple but different and these recipes were great!!!

  • @alyssadominique9962
    @alyssadominique9962 Рік тому +4

    Loved this video. So wonderful to see and hear all of these truly lovely people share their breakfast stories.❤ Thank you!

  • @LorraineinAustralia
    @LorraineinAustralia Рік тому +6

    My goodness… what a wonderful video.. Thank you❤️

  • @wynnyekey5316
    @wynnyekey5316 Рік тому +2

    Great video. Very high carb meal. Bread, fruit juice, dried fruit, etc.

  • @beachwanderer9486
    @beachwanderer9486 Рік тому +5

    This is an enjoyable and educational video, thank you.

  • @angeladyson7367
    @angeladyson7367 Рік тому +7

    Love this! Wow! How about the same again but for lunch and dinner? P.s do you have or can you post a halva recipe. I love halva 😋

  • @dlpatrie8466
    @dlpatrie8466 Рік тому +3

    Koula seems so warm and sweet. I'd love to have breakfast with her! 😊

  • @miriammanolov9135
    @miriammanolov9135 Рік тому +3

    I'm from Iraq, and our breakfast is full of protien, calories, and fat !! I cannot count it as the healthy part of the Mediterranean diet since we are not technically on the Mediterranean sea, but we consume many of the dishes they mentioned in the video. We have Bajilla (boiled fava beans served with pieces of bread and fried omelet on top); we have Kahi (full fat cream cheese served with fried phyllo sheets and honey or syrup). We also have stews served with either rice or bread (mostly have meat or kubba simmiring for hours). I cannot imagine eating such meal for breakfast, but some people do to give them energy to perform hard labor. Mind you, these meals are served very early in the morning and have nothing else to eat or snack on until 6 or 7 hours later. Breakfast is usually between 6 and 8 am. Lunch is not until 1 or 2 pm. And dinner is late by 7 or 8 pm. At least that's how it was when I grew up there 30 years ago!

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +1

      Thank you so much for sharing! Your diet has a lot of similarities for sure!

  • @melissabridge5687
    @melissabridge5687 Рік тому +6

    As a child in America most kids have cereal and milk. I was not a breakfast eater as a kid . I hated soggy cereal so my moms made me Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and honey or jelly and a glass of milk. I love eggs now and often have an scramble egg with olive oil on an sour dough English muffin with real mozzarella cheese.❤

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +4

      Eggs seemed to be eaten in many parts of the Mediterranean for meals other than breakfast. Sounds like your breakfasts as a kid were pretty healthy!

    • @rb7007
      @rb7007 Рік тому

      @@Mediterraneanliving It depends on the cereal.
      A lot of Cereals in the U.K. and USA have a load of Sugar in them,….hence why a lot of us end up having a sweet tooth! 🙈

    • @connieramsey6798
      @connieramsey6798 Рік тому +2

      I've been looking for sourdough English muffins and can't find them.

    • @rb7007
      @rb7007 Рік тому

      @WetLettuce-kc2qm Yep!
      I’ve tried giving up sugar, but can’t. 🙁

  • @jayceewedmak9524
    @jayceewedmak9524 Рік тому +4

    A very interesting and informative video. Thank you to everyone who participated and to those involved in its production. 💐 😊

  • @margiestephens8977
    @margiestephens8977 Рік тому +3

    I enjoyed all the people, faces & sharing of each of their countries breakfast entrees. Good health to each of you!

  • @bluebonnet1014
    @bluebonnet1014 Рік тому +4

    Great video! It’s so interesting to see what other people are eating especially in the Mediterranean. This low fat business is for the birds. Tfs 👍

  • @aqeelshahul9176
    @aqeelshahul9176 Рік тому +2

    Your videos are absolutely lovely. Most of these videos however focus on maintaining or losing weight. I do a lot of physical activity and actually need to gain weight, would you make some videos with possible recipe ideas for that. Thanks!

  • @karenburns1771
    @karenburns1771 Рік тому +6

    Well done. I like the push for bread as it is something that has a bad reputation. I believe it's the quality of supermarket that deserves that negative reputation not the homemade or bakery . Several have tomato for breakfast. I'd have to adapt to that , unusual. I've been trying breakfast salads and smoothies.

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +5

      Breakfast salads are a great idea. I love those! From what I know, many people who have issues with bread in the U.S. don't have the same issues when they go to the Mediterranean. The bread is different, for one thing, the wheat is not genetically modified. Thanks for the comment.

    • @StellaM22
      @StellaM22 9 місяців тому +1

      Its the added folate in many countries … look up mthfr genetic mutation

  • @michellegower1259
    @michellegower1259 Рік тому +2

    I just signed up for the weight loss 10wk plan. Starts 13/3. Also I'll learn new foods n how to cook!

    • @byzantineladybug9471
      @byzantineladybug9471 Рік тому +1

      How did it go for you? Can you share your experience? 👍🥰

    • @michellegower1259
      @michellegower1259 Рік тому +1

      @@byzantineladybug9471 I actually gained weight unless I counted calories. The amount of different foods to do the recipes was expensive in UK so I quit after 2nd week. The rich foods n olive oil was too much so I gained half a stone in 2 weeks!

    • @byzantineladybug9471
      @byzantineladybug9471 Рік тому +1

      @@michellegower1259 oh my goodness! Thank you for that update and I’m sorry that happened to you! I’m thinking of adopting a more Mediterranean style of eating but I strongly suspect I will need to, at least initially, count calories (which I know is counterintuitive but might be necessary). Anyway, thank you for your response!

    • @michellegower1259
      @michellegower1259 Рік тому

      @@byzantineladybug9471 The recipies were very tasty, but I wasted a lot as they're family sized mostly and what I cooked was for me only. That probably didn't help either as tempted to eat more. Good luck with your health journey.

  • @lottie1144
    @lottie1144 Місяць тому

    I’m from South Carolina and as a child I ate a lot of grits in the morning with a bit of butter salt and pepper. If my dad was making us breakfast he would scramble up eggs and put that on top of the grits. As an adult I find that breakfast tasty and memorable but it sits too heavy in my stomach.

  • @elcisne09
    @elcisne09 Рік тому +2

    Love this video! Thank you!

  • @simpleandfree4026
    @simpleandfree4026 Рік тому +2

    I loved this video. Thank you 😊

  • @Nicole_elizabeth1561
    @Nicole_elizabeth1561 Рік тому +1

    Really enjoyed the video ❤

  • @kathryndrake3136
    @kathryndrake3136 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for the video.

  • @SimpleHealth83
    @SimpleHealth83 Рік тому

    Very interesting

  • @micey522
    @micey522 Рік тому +3

    My fave part...bread bread bread

  • @anngoff6226
    @anngoff6226 Рік тому

    Wonderful!!

  • @TheBeardedSandman
    @TheBeardedSandman Рік тому +2

    I love how they all eat some kind of dairy or eggs. In America, everyone's pushing the "non-saturated fat" bull shit, and here they are eating butter, eggs, cheese, and whole milk.

  • @vzteacher
    @vzteacher Рік тому

    Loved learning about all the different breakfasts! The hubs and I will be visiting Chania and Heraklion this April, so I'm hoping to sample the delicious breakfasts Koula described!

  • @JacquiQ
    @JacquiQ Рік тому +1

    I stayed with Italians in my earky 20's in Italy, for breakfast they had a bowl of milky coffee and biscuits ! I thought it was fabulous . Then in isreal for breakfast they gave us a cold hard boiled egg and I can't remember what else and I was like ...yuck ! haha See how bread is a big part of the food - ususlly with Olive Oil, but if I eat bread I pile on weight in no time.

  • @paula-pw7yd
    @paula-pw7yd Рік тому +2

    I’m hungry now!

  • @angeladyson7367
    @angeladyson7367 Рік тому +1

    Second time watching this. Love it. So many good tips. I love The Mediterranean diet. I also love these people and their accent. If I could cope with the heat I would love to live in rural France or Greece/Crete.
    I notice that loving bread is such a big thing common amongst most if not all Mediterraneans.
    Thank you for this video. I wish things were as healthy here in the UK. I find it really hard to find meat and butter from grass fed cows, sheep & goats and stores here that do sell things preserved in oil and claim it's Spanish or Greek very often they use Rapeseed oil and not EVOO. There are some good things available but I wish it were as commonly available as it is in the Med.

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Рік тому +1

      If you can find an Irish butter called "truly" (in the US, it's a blue and white or silver pkg), it's amazing. Organic, grass-fed. Better even than the French butter I was buying

    • @angeladyson7367
      @angeladyson7367 Рік тому

      @@LindaC616 I recently found organic grass fed butter in Tesco but it's there own. Sadly never seen the Irish butter here in the UK that you mentioned but maybe the Americans have it as you say.

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Рік тому

      @angeladyson7367 it's only recently, the last year, I'd say. Maybe check with a smaller organic market, not Tesco? Or M&S, Sainsbury's?

    • @angeladyson7367
      @angeladyson7367 Рік тому

      @@LindaC616 Thanks, We don't really have a small organic market round here and Sainsbury's is a bit too far each time. All these online organic places can be quite pricey too which is why I say it would be great if organic, grass fed became commonplace because then the prices would come down. Budget is a bit tight at the mo. Certainly too tight for M&S and most if the time even Sainsbury's. Lidl, Aldi and Tesco are the cheapest. I think all farmers should be given a grant to stop pesticides and synthetic fertilizers so they could afford to transition to organic and grass-fed.

  • @oolala53
    @oolala53 Рік тому +1

    I respectfully say that this title is misleading. It should say what modern Mediterranean people eat, because the Mediterranean diet that was promoted and studied, is not like a lot of these offerings. One of the women said that they typically put sugar on the bread in the morning and I can tell you there is very little sugar eaten in the traditional Mediterranean diet. They also actually don’t eat a lot of bread, and certainly not white bread at several meals a day. It’s fun for me to find out what people eat and other places, but I am interested in the real Mediterranean diet for health reasons and although I’m not saying this breakfast or unhealthy, they are not the ones that lead people to live rather long lives with very little degenerative disease. But I do thank you for the tour!

    • @drivers99
      @drivers99 10 місяців тому

      Do you know what some traditional Mediterranean breakfasts are?

    • @brendadouglas9833
      @brendadouglas9833 9 місяців тому

      I agree with the sugar part, but no matter what you think, if people in America ate these stated variations, they would definitely be healthier. Definitely not store bought white bread as we know it. Bake your own, and it would be great if you milled your own grains.
      Thank you for your video. 😊

  • @vickenbastajian2369
    @vickenbastajian2369 5 місяців тому

    Is whole grain bread healthy??$$😊

  • @patriciadowd2948
    @patriciadowd2948 Рік тому +3

    My husband and I started out on the Keto diet and moved to carivore. We do feel better and have lost weight but I have not had a big difference in blood pressure or blood sugar and neither has my husband who has type 2 diabetes and heart issues. It is confusing to me because a lot of diets have you eating higher carb foods and when we do our weight goes up and higher blood pressure and blood sugar. Also on the Carivore diet we eat two meals a day and with the eggs and meat we do not get hungry but I try to use common sense and I just feel like overall this is not a healthy way to eat long term and there is no variety. I have been reading about the Mediterranean diet and even my husbands heart doctor mentioned this diet to us but there again it seems like so many doctors has a different opinion so who knows who to believe. Any comments or suggestions from anyone.

    • @Mike-01234
      @Mike-01234 11 місяців тому +2

      I have the same issues as your husband I'm pre-diabetic when I tried those diets you mentioned above, I lost weight, but my LDL and Triglycerides went way up so much my doctor said to stop eating so much saturated fats I would have to be put on a statin. I never met a doctor in person who advocated for these high saturated fat diets. I know lot of people watch KenDBerry MD channel he pushes these high saturated fat diets I never seen him provide any real study to backup what he says all just his opinion. There are lot of studies that show high LDL cholesterol does lead to heart attacks.

  • @belvadalidowich5314
    @belvadalidowich5314 Рік тому +1

    I really want to start the Mediterranean diet but I have one problem and I hope so much you can help me with it. I hate fish. I can eat tuna salad and Fish and chips but those are not healthy. All other fish I really have . the flavor and even the smell. Like wise for Feta cheese. I hate it. I would rather substitue mozzerrella or munster or some other cheese instead of feta. Can you help me be on a Mediterranean diet without fish and Feta?

    • @heatherlw13
      @heatherlw13 Рік тому

      In doing my own homework on the subject, since I too only like cod and tuna, I have found that you can have chicken, turkey, and other meats as long as you control how much of it per meal, per day. This way you have variety but still have fish 2-3 times per week. Get a cookbook and try to make cod, it is a great white flakey fish to begin with. I am trying to get the courage up to try salmon again...

  • @RaveyDavey
    @RaveyDavey Рік тому +3

    Breakfasts from mediterranean countries yes, breakfasts that fit the Mediterranean Diet guidelines?....some of them.
    They're not the same thing.

    • @Mediterraneanliving
      @Mediterraneanliving  Рік тому +3

      The Mediterranean Diet is quite varied from country to country, but some form of bread for breakfast is pretty common. And it does fit with the Mediterranean Diet guidelines especially when fruit or vegetables are included.

    • @nuranreda7582
      @nuranreda7582 Рік тому

      ​@@Mediterraneanliving bread vegetables fruit and some kind of cheese or eggs or beans is the general breakfast in the Mediterranean area ❤️❤️

    • @stacyvourlen2043
      @stacyvourlen2043 Рік тому

      Because those guidelines are marketing BS, the real Mediterranean diet is different from the one being pushed in places like the 🇺🇸

  • @cynthiachengmintz672
    @cynthiachengmintz672 Рік тому +3

    But Paris isn’t Mediterranean? I would have thought you’d feature someone further south…..

  • @unnamed_hero
    @unnamed_hero Місяць тому

    Mary from France, seems to be a slavic woman, according to her accent. 😅

  • @tyxeri48
    @tyxeri48 7 місяців тому

    Is Paris mediterranean? That's news!

  • @TimGreigPhotography
    @TimGreigPhotography Рік тому +1

    Where are all the " gluten intolerant" people? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Ag-wu4mi
    @Ag-wu4mi Рік тому +1

    White bread is bad for you

  • @Jim-ob9tw
    @Jim-ob9tw Рік тому

    Where are the whole grains?? I call bullshit on the promoted Mediterranean diet.

    • @primitivedaisy
      @primitivedaisy Рік тому

      Yeah, because us Americans know so much about proper diet. I call bullshit on our diet! Mediterranean diet is sooo much healthier.

  • @nomos6508
    @nomos6508 Рік тому +3

    0:49 Paris is a Mediterranean border now?🤣🤣🤣🤣 her breakfast is the worst nutritionally : white bread, white sugar (jam) saturated fat butter