BEST FRENCH GROCERY STORE SOUVENIRS WORTH BRINGING HOME!!

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When we travel, I LOVE dropping into a grocery store. I'm fascinated by the local brands of the country.

Many years ago, I would bring reusable bags back from my trips and give them as souvenir gifts to friends and family. They would always graciously accept them but never used them as it was common to get single use plastic bags from stores at no cost. Now that most cities have banned the use of disposable bags and started charging for reusable bags, they understand how useful those souvenirs are!

I live in France and though the supermarket aisles are already familiar, I still enjoy watching this kind of content and it gives a new perspective on how we look at the things we see on a daily basis ! Great job Diane, all the best ! x

My favorite French souvenir remains bar soap from the supermarket. All of my friends love it and have started requesting it in advance of a trip. Bonus: it makes your luggage smell good. Also, I recently picked up some Monoprix reusable thin nylon shopping bags. I loved that they had a stuff sack sewn into them so you can't lose it and they pack very small. Oh wait, you covered that, I spoke too soon!

As a french I am always incredibly surprised by how appreciated and trendy monoprix is to people from abroad. In France I feel like it's often seen as the very expensive grocery store of the city centres. Now with this video i also understand why i once saw a group of american tourists in my city's Monoprix who bought 10 soaps and 10 reusable bags. Much better than the single use they give in the usa. Now living abroad i am starting to realize how much of a variety of products we have in France compared to other countries, even of the most random products like salt and mustard. Another shocking thing is how expensive french products are abroad (which explains why tourists buy a ton to store it at home when they are on a trip to France, might do the same now).

I love your grocery store tours! The prices in France always surprise me because I live in Canada. Many of the items you highlighted are available here but at double/triple/10X the cost.

I am a Frenchman living in France and I like watching your videos, if only because I understand everything you say without putting on the English subtitles.

I live in the uk and I pop over regularly and buy 95% these things each trip :)

First time I've been in India (2007) I was surprised to see "Bonne maman" jam in a little super market; it was the only French product available there. Just to say how world wide this product is. The thing you can also easily find is Nuttela but it's not French. Bravo Diane, even if I'm French I enjoy all of your videos.

The Bon Maman tartes au citron have come home in our suitcases as have some of the lovely round sugar cubes, a Super-U bag (I used it at Monoprix so didn't buy theirs), some of the soaps from Le Petit Marseilles, some sea salt, a few aprons, some socks, and Nespresso pods that aren't available in the US. Also, in 2005, I broke my eyeliner pencil sharpener & had to buy a new one at Monoprix...I still have it & use it 18 years later!

Hello Dianne, I have a little story to tell, about the wine you can see at exactly 19:44 of your video. I was in the queue to pay, in a French supermarket - nothing unusual, I am French, and I live in France - I had picked up randomly a bottle of wine, and when I put it on the counter, the woman behind me cried «  you have found some ? Where did you find this bottle ? » So I told her, and she immediately took off to go and get some. So when we opened that bottle, we paid extra attention : the wine was really good, the price was very good. That was twenty years ago, and, since then, I have remained faithful to the Médoc Merrain Rouge, it never disappointed me !

While last in Parris I bought two tea towels with an unusual textile design. I framed one & hung it in my kitchen where I get a lot of complimentary comments about my "etching".

Bon jour Diane. I love to receive practical gifts and I also give them. I'm a big gift giver of grocery store items, especially dish towels, scarves, and tote bags. Some practical tips- cookies in boxes travel better than bagged cookies. Since we have to check liquids, I don't recommend honey, mustard, etc. If they leak/break, everything in your luggage is ruined. If you do carry, remember to travel with zip lock bags. Last, I find groceries frequently have very nice pistachio products. As always, another wonderful and useful vlog. Merci.

For French chocolate, I always go to the Grand Epicerie at Bon Marche. They have chocolate made in France.

I bring back the salted caramel spread to NZ and have it on my crêpes or waffles to remind me of France….for the short time it lasts 😁

Perfect timing with this video! I'll be in France in two weeks and will be sure to pick up some of these items. Thanks so much!

Bonne Maman or LU cookies, canned pate, bar soaps & dish towels are my favorite Monoprix souvenirs. French baby foods are always appreciated too...they are definitely more "gourmet" compared to what we find in the US.

It may depend on the flavor but some of the Maille mustards here in the US come from Canada. I've tried the chestnut spread, I assume it's just for baking. It's sweet but didn't have much chestnut flavor. If you like canned sardines, you can get sardines packed in butter. I've not seen this from other countries, it's pretty amazing if you happen to be a canned sardine eater.

So fun story about fountain pens. I worked at a before and after school care program. In the mornings I was at a different school and started showing some of the kids how to write in cursive when one showed an interest in it. One day I brought in a fountain pen and showed the difference in writing and they were so fascinated. A lot of schools these days don't teach cursive writing and at the time, the school wasn't either. But this was a way of keeping them busy and quiet so I didn't mind. I had one student who was homeless. He really took a shine to the fountain pen and cursive writing. After a while, he got pretty good so I bought him his own and you'd have thought I'd given him gold! Lol the other parents had to go get their kids their own pens after a while😁 they didn't seem to mind since it was educational and kept the kids busy!