SCANDINAVIANS! and similars

amblight
amblight Posts: 350 Member
in Introduce Yourself
Hey! I figured it made most sense to get some Scandinavian (or other people from that area - Like northern Germany, Nederlands etc.) friends, as our foods etc. are more similar - I'm seeing all these delicious recipe exchanges, made from things I can't buy here (I'm jealous of all the sugar free, fat free deserts they can get!) Plus, we'll have similar holidays, similar foods etc. to tempt us to go off our plan, similar bicycle/transportation habits etc. It will just make a lot more sense to compare!

So, please add me :D

I am a female 22yo food science technology student, living in Denmark (:
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  • The_Raspberry
    The_Raspberry Posts: 84 Member
    Sweden here! Add me if you like! :)
  • girldownsouth
    girldownsouth Posts: 920 Member
    I'm in the UK, but I really liked the bridge...Does that count? And I'm sure I have a jar of ikea lingonberry jam in the fridge!
  • The_Raspberry
    The_Raspberry Posts: 84 Member
    I'm in the UK, but I really liked the bridge...Does that count? And I'm sure I have a jar of ikea lingonberry jam in the fridge!

    Lingonberry jam!! :love: :love: :love: I LOVE IT!!
  • Maaike84
    Maaike84 Posts: 211 Member
    I'm Dutch - and really blonde, my family is from the North. Does that count as almost-scandinavian? :)
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    Lingonberry? I dont'r think I've ever tried that :o Am I missing out?
  • The_Raspberry
    The_Raspberry Posts: 84 Member
    Lingonberry? I dont'r think I've ever tried that :o Am I missing out?

    Lingonsylt in swedish. It's great on pancakes and porrige. Not as sweat as other jams. I think you should be able to get it in denmark?
  • Orion782
    Orion782 Posts: 391
    In for gorgeous blondes. :-) (German/Prussian descent here...)
  • ZealousMissJJ
    ZealousMissJJ Posts: 454 Member
    Dutchie here :happy:!
  • Summer_Lunatic
    Summer_Lunatic Posts: 543 Member
    << Dad was born in Copenhagen but I was born in Toronto and the family still resides in Canada. Feel free to send me a friend request.
  • thistimewillbedifferent
    thistimewillbedifferent Posts: 217 Member
    Scandinavian resident here! If anyone from this chain sends me a FR, please mention that this is where you found me. Tack och trevlig helg!
  • BunBun85
    BunBun85 Posts: 246 Member
    Norway here, feel free to add me! =)
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    I'm so jealous, Swiss German here, but alas, I'm a Californian born in California. But add me please, we probably love the same foods!
  • kjm_723
    kjm_723 Posts: 66 Member
    Don't be jealous of sugar free fat free desserts. They don't taste good!
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    Lingonberry? I dont'r think I've ever tried that :o Am I missing out?

    Lingonsylt in swedish. It's great on pancakes and porrige. Not as sweat as other jams. I think you should be able to get it in denmark?

    Ahh, yes, I looked it up now, we do have that, though me mostly use it with meat and stuff for Christmas. Kind of like berry chutneys
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    Don't be jealous of sugar free fat free desserts. They don't taste good!

    I've tasted them, used to live in the US: I think they are alright - of course not the same as the real stuff, but I do tend to get a chocolate craving that could be stopped by any sort of vaguly chocolate-y desert :b
  • ktsmom430
    ktsmom430 Posts: 1,100 Member
    My maternal grandparents were both from Sweden, and my paternal grandparents were Swedish and Norwegian. The cuisine is deeply entrenched my family, but we live in Minnesota. Does this count? Um, no lutefisk though.:noway:
  • JolienvanH
    JolienvanH Posts: 20 Member
    Another Dutchie :) 20yo, Medicine student.
  • JolienvanH
    JolienvanH Posts: 20 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.
  • Wronkletoad
    Wronkletoad Posts: 368 Member
    rød grød uden fløde... :)

    hils,
  • ZealousMissJJ
    ZealousMissJJ Posts: 454 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.

    Of course! I commute to work by bike daily :). I wore an HRM a couple of times to see what I was actually burning and it's about 250 calories for a 60min bikeride (oma fiets, je weet wel). I added my own exercise to the MFP database.
  • saltycloud
    saltycloud Posts: 30 Member
    I am from southern Germany, does that count?
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.

    I log most of them - I know how far it is and I know how long it takes me, so I just add it by the end of the day. I don't usually log trips to the post office or grocery store though - Besides, I'll rather "risk" logging too little excersize, so I don't get a false idea of how much I can eat!
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    rød grød uden fløde... :)

    hils,

    Haha :b
  • JolienvanH
    JolienvanH Posts: 20 Member
    rød grød uden fløde... :)

    hils,

    What does that mean? Sounds kinda cool!
  • JolienvanH
    JolienvanH Posts: 20 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.

    Of course! I commute to work by bike daily :). I wore an HRM a couple of times to see what I was actually burning and it's about 250 calories for a 60min bikeride (oma fiets, je weet wel). I added my own exercise to the MFP database.

    Haha omafiets, allesz!
  • ZealousMissJJ
    ZealousMissJJ Posts: 454 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.

    Of course! I commute to work by bike daily :). I wore an HRM a couple of times to see what I was actually burning and it's about 250 calories for a 60min bikeride (oma fiets, je weet wel). I added my own exercise to the MFP database.

    Haha omafiets, allesz!

    Ja, dat gaat gewoon niet zo snel he ;). Al heb ik wel 6 versnellingen!
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    rød grød uden fløde... :)

    hils,

    What does that mean? Sounds kinda cool!

    It' means like "Red porridge without cream", a famous Danish desert. The original is "red porridge with cream", and it's kind of a joke in Denmark because pretty much only locals can pronounce it
  • Maaike84
    Maaike84 Posts: 211 Member
    Oh this might be the place to ask this: do you guys log all the bikerides? It's what gets me around so I find it such a hassle to log all the rides to university and back.

    Yes, but only b/c I have put my activity level as sedentary. If you'd put it as lightly active, I wouldn't count them. En waarom ik dit nou in het Engels typ...
  • The_Raspberry
    The_Raspberry Posts: 84 Member
    My maternal grandparents were both from Sweden, and my paternal grandparents were Swedish and Norwegian. The cuisine is deeply entrenched my family, but we live in Minnesota. Does this count? Um, no lutefisk though.:noway:

    Have you ever been here? Can you easily get swedish food over there?

    Lutfisk is disgusting. Only for chrismas. My parents like it but I know very few people my age who eats it. Yuck!!
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    My maternal grandparents were both from Sweden, and my paternal grandparents were Swedish and Norwegian. The cuisine is deeply entrenched my family, but we live in Minnesota. Does this count? Um, no lutefisk though.:noway:

    Have you ever been here? Can you easily get swedish food over there?

    Lutfisk is disgusting. Only for chrismas. My parents like it but I know very few people my age who eats it. Yuck!!

    I've lived in the US for many years, and I'd say in the north, like Minnesota (where I'm born!), you can get a lot of the Scandinavian foods, though a lot of it tends to be a bit old fashioned - think Christmas dinner and grandmas cooking.

    In the South (where I went to High School) - no such luck! I missed liquirce and sour dough rye bread so much! Sometimes I could get the sweet liqurice, but when I tried to explain I wanted those that taste like ammonia or ammonia chloride, people thought I was crazy, hah!

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