What is the typical expat diet while living in Poland?

if you meant 'British' why didn't you say so?
to be honest the term 'expat' is somewhat outdated in relation to Europe.
Such a term would indicate an 'expat package' eg work, accomm,. school fees. relocation allowance and so on, which are simply not often found in Europe today.

If you really want to talk to British 'expats' I suggest you look for a Middle Eastern forum or similar.

They mainly certainly have from the diet of the typical British migrant in Poland (due to problems with availability).


You write about food but have never heard of aging steak? Seriously?


Given that by your own definition you are an expat, can't you answer your own question?


They've been replaced by local hires (mainly Poles, but with some foreigners, both migrants like me and immigrants like you).

Please define clearly so a dunce like me can understand.
A MIGRANT: is someone who has lived in another country for .....years. (Add any other requirement to qualify as a migrnat).

AN IMMIGRANT: is someone who has lived in another country for .....years. (Add any other requirement to qualify as an migrant).

AN ÉMIGRÉ: is someone who has lived in another country for .....years. (Add any other requirement to qualify as an émigré).

NOTE: MY speciality has always been Polish cuisine which does not have your British steak & chop obsession; as you know meat is de-chopped to form a boneless cutlet and the hell is beaten out of it before being breaded and fried.

All of those words have connotations that you won't find in any dictionary. You have to learn them by living in the culture. They involve widely shared mental images and emotional responses, and not silly definitions like number of years.

So do you agree with Harry's definitions?

I was referring to non-Polish expats, those of alien blood. When (what year) did you cease being an expat?

This thread should provide information about the typical expat diet in Poland

I,m not sure what I am, in mind I am an expat, but in reality a migrant from UK to Poland......now I can own land.....if anything happened to my wife......??? killed by one of the local crazy drivers?? I would stay here, who know,s? marry again? have more children? My wife also is not from this part of Poland, but I think she would not want to go back to UK if anything happened to me, (its not what it was) Both of us would stay here in this lovely country setting.

Mod's comment: This thread should provide information about the typical expat diet in Poland

I'm waiting for the expats (if any are left on PF) to speak up. If I am one I have already said what my family diet is like in Warsaw. I'd love to hear what others usually have for breakfast, second breakfast, dinner and supper. I hear some are eating lunch these days, although that's not a Polish thing.

As a person of British origin (will leave the expat/migrant discussion for another page) who has been in Poland for 5 years, Australia before that and Asia before that, Id' say my diet hasn't changed much except that I now eat Polish food as well as what I used to eat before & what I have picked up on my travels, but then again I'm the head chef in our house so what I cook gets eaten :) As for breakfast, lunch etc. I still stick to the British way of eating, breakfst, lunch & dinner, 2nd breakfast I thought was for hobbits, and dinner at 3pm just stuffs my head in. There has been minor variations in diet/habits, black pudding replaced by kaszanka, fish and chips/curries now made at home rather than bought, but apart from that most things I can find here except for taco shells which I pick up in Krakow whenever I get the chance. As an aside comment though Id saying I'm eating healthier here though as the fresh food market is closer to home and I now eat seasonal, i.e. whatever vegetables etc. are sold at the market that's what I use.

The only decent steak i ever had in Poland was Fillet, as you don't need to hang that cut so much....and at 100 PLN / KG twas a steal. Rump, Sirloin and Ribeye was always tuff as old army boots, looked great, smelled great, price was good but the minute you fried that stuff up and put in the mouth it was always the same result....rubber.

I used to eat a lot of Turkey, Pork and chicken. Strawberries by the KG in season and veg in season. When i lived in the city we used to takeout and use restaurants often but when we moved to the country it was always locally sourced, wholesome, home cooked food. Must admit I've really gone off the deli counters, i find the constant garlic marinated hams quite nauseating these days. Even though we've ben back in the UK for over 4 years now we still use Polish shops on a weekly basis....can't get a decent doughnut without them....and the jarred beetroot obviously.

That's one of the keys to good nutrition: eat seasonal and local! Stuff shipped in from half a world away has to be picked unripe and artificially ripened in storage. Some may contain exotic bacteria, fungi and other contaminants which thanks to globalism now travel world-wide.

OK straightforward: what I had for breakfast....a big bowl of Nestle Cornflakes, my wife sometimes has a couple of boiled eggs or porridge (with butter and salt - she's from Silesia?) went out for a nice drive for about 4 hours, on the way back stopped at some friends house, she is from somewhere near Rzeszow and he is from UK, there we had a bowl of chicken noodle soup, fresh noodles that he had just made. She then offered us some nice Lemon cake that she had made, it was so good I had 2 slices (she can make some damn good cakes). For our evening meal we will have some of my wife's home made beefburgers using meat from 'Fred' the last Pig corpse we bought...loads of onions and chives in these burgers, some tinned tomatoes and bread....a bottle of wine or a bottle of beer to share whichever mood takes us. We don't do supper......I never have and if my wife ever did she has gotten out of the habit. We try not to snack during the day....if we get peckish, a piece of cheese and a slice of bread with some HP sauce does the trick.

My breakfasts are the Old Polish żur about 2 times a week (with hard-boiled egg and cubed twaróg in); other days oat or millet porridge; white cheese with sour cream, rye bread, Benecol and tea; cheese (esp. brie & cranberries) or cold meat canapés with tea; occasionally 2 fried eggs with skwarki (fried fatback nuggets). When there are leftover noodles or rice from dinner I often have a hot milk soup for breakfast. I never eat toast or the dry crunchy-munchy or frosted-sugar-gloopie type cereals.