Oslo Local Custom Tips by Herttuli

NORWEGIAN FOOD
For breakfast...

NORWEGIAN FOOD
For breakfast most Norwegians eat open sandwiches with butter and jam, cheese or some kind of meat in slices on top. We most often drink milk for breakfast. Our milk comes from cows, and it is very healthy. But we do not only eat bread, we eat cereals, too. It is not usual to eat a hot meal for breakfast in Norway.

Students eat lunch at school around noon. We bring open sandwiches from home and buy cold, fresh milk to drink. We do not receive any hot meals at school as you might do. We are responsible for our own food. If we forget to bring our lunch, we buy some food at the nearest grocery store in town.

We usually eat dinner around five o'clock. What we eat is different from season to season, from family to family. Most families eat fish twice a week or more. We do not eat it raw as you do, we either boil it or fry it.

Even though meat here in Norway is very expensive, we eat a lot of it. In the cities it is more usual to eat meat than fish. We make many different meat dishes, e.g. meat balls, steaks and so on. And we do not eat just pure Norwegian meals, a lot of foregin types of food have entered into the Norwegian menues, such as Mexican tacos and Italian pasta or pizza. Pizza is often used as 'quick meal', fast and easy to cook. We just buy a frozen pizza in the store. (Further down this page you will find a recipe of a traditional way of preparing meat: Meatballs.)

If you are hungry later in the evening , you take a slice of bread and make yourself an open sandwich or something like that. Some families have the supper as a regular meal, some do not. Some eat bread, some eat a hot meal. That is different form place to place, from family to family.

Norway
When meeting with...

Norway
When meeting with business associates in Norway, be advised that Norwegians are very direct in business and do not waste time on a lot of pleasantries. Also punctuality is very important.

When meeting with business...

When meeting with business associates in Norway, be advised that Norwegians are very direct in business and do not waste time on a lot of pleasantries. Also punctuality is very important.