We'll be traveling through Oslo, Copenhagen and other Scandanivian cities in August. I tend to be a pretty picky eatter, so I was wondering if I should plan on packing a bunch of energy bars and peanuts, or will there be things for me to eat other than reindeer meat and gelled fish? Thank you for any ideas.

Sounds like a good plan to me, OFF. I found the lunch meals very expensive (hard, dry bun with few cold-cuts and a drink was close to $20.00) Most of my evening meals were included in my tour package, thank goodness. But I'm not a fish eater but they were kind enough to substitute for me. (only tried the reindeer once.)If you like peanut butter--throw in a plastic jar of it and crackers and there's another option. We had several in our tour break out the PB especially on ferry boat rides. The larger cities will have fast food places and probably excellent restaurants you will enjoy. Just take along the money!

We do have food-chains in Scandinavia too... Brugsen, Ica, Coop... They tend to be quite like American stores. We also have peanutbutter, but maybe not at the hotel. <BR>Chockolat in Denmark and Norway are very good.<BR>Restaurants allways serve steak. Breakfast include at least bread, cheese and jam. <BR>

For your information, reindeer meat is not what you could call everyday food in Scandinavia. At least not in Finland, where I live. Although I admit it is something they will probably recommend or offer to tourists as a specialty, it is still quite rare to eat it in the southern parts of our country. I personally do not even remember when was the last time I ate some reindeer.<BR><BR>In almost every restaurant you will have a choice of different kinds of food from vegetarian and fish to chicken, pork, beef to game. In Norway there will probably be more fish available, but not as the only choice. <BR><BR>Ans as the previous person said, you can buy your energy bars etc. also from here. In Norway the prices will be high, so maybe a small stock from home is necessary in any case.<BR><BR>By the way, I am not sure wheather to take it as an insult or not, that you could even think that Scandinavia is some kind of backwater area, which does not have the normal amenities to offer. In my view, Scandinavia is one of the most global areas in the world and this is seen also in the restaurant activity and foodstuff.

Katja, don't you know a troll when you see one? We all know that the Scandinavian countries are highly civilised democracies with better food that you tend to get in the US (cloudberries yum!). There was a post about Norway coming top in the quality of life survey and we got the usual nonsense from some of the sillier forum members about how it was all a socialist plot etc.<BR>Do as the rest of us do and treat them with the contempt they deserve.

Sorry. Did not see that..

We just returned from a wonderful tour of Scandinavian cities, and although I brought cheese/peanut butter cracker packs(and used them all) for when we were too tired to go out to eat, we found some markets which would sell very good fresh berries, cheeses, olives, breads, etc. even what I call sugar peas to enjoy with a bottle of wine occ. We like fish, so we enjoyed some fish sandwiches but basically the same selection is over there in restaurants as here just for more money! If you are staying in hotels that have buffet breakfasts, we would have a large one (loved the different kinds of herring etc. ) and that would carry us through to dinner time with perhaps an ice cream for lunch. Have a good time. Judy

I agree on the poster above. When we went on holiday to the US we also went to the market for mid day snacks

Can anyone recommend good restaurants for lunch or dinner in any of the "big" cities in Scandinavia?

We really enjoyed Babettes ?Guesthus near City Hall in Oslo. Was $70 something without wine though. Judy

Wow - $70 without wine. Was the meal worth it? Can anyone recommend some restaurants that might be a little less costly?

Jim, that was in Oslo. Norway is something like 40% more expensive than Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Iceland is even more expensive than Norway.

Ohhhh I wish I could get the spreadable cheese with mushrooms or shrimp I had in Denmark and then again on the Scandinavian Ferry from the Netherlands to Newcastle... I'm not wild about fried potatoes with sugar sprinkled on them, but oh that rod grod med flothe is to die for!

Danna, those cheeses are sold in every Scandinavian country in just about every supermarket. You should have bought some.

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Hi<BR><BR>I've lived and worked in Scandinavia for many years in the past.<BR><BR>1) Excellent foods , of all types, are available but at a high price.<BR>2) The sp&ecirc;cial fixed lunch menu (SEK 60, DK, NOK 50) is usually good value.<BR>3) You can buy bread , meat and veg, at reasonable prices in supermarkets if you want to "do it yourself" !<BR>4) Medium range hotels normally have a wide range of food for breakfast. Be a pig there, sandwich for lunch, then sort out the dinner ?<BR><BR>Peter<BR>http://tlp.netfirms.com<BR><BR>

Peter, you are right on target.