Good morning from Southern California! I am also a retired teacher and enjoy traveling and living abroad. I have always enjoyed doing the daily life things like grocery shopping when I travel. It is so interesting to see the different products and customs. Your adventures living in France are so enjoyable to watch.

Good morning from sunny Ireland! A great place to find pre loved budget friendly clothes in France is your local Emmaus. They have everything, from furniture to books to clothes, shoes etc etc. Eco conscious and thrifty. Gros bisous, Leiza xxxx

Enjoyed this video! I like seeing regular day to day activities that people do in other countries. Keep them coming. Merci beaucoup Janice!

It really is a global village - so many of those grocery brands are in our New Zealand supermarkets. We too prefer to eat fresh and seasonal.

Always great to see you live your best live in France! About the supermarkets in France, I read that some Carrefours have a BlaBla Caisse (chat & register) where it's ok to talk with the cashier for a long time. If they have one at yours in Fointainebleau, it's a good place to talk a bit with a local to practice your French. Enjoy your dream life!

Thank you for taking us along. I think you are doing a fabulous job!

Love sharing your everyday adventures.

Nothing quite like shopping in a different country. Loved this video x

Janice, you're just so delightful. I find myself liking your videos before even finishing seeing them.😄

I love being on this adventure with you Janice!

Thanks for the tour! I love French grocery stores. I hope you will be able to go to the summer markets. You will be able to save a lot of money and enjoy fresh local produce and assorted regional goodies!

Your joie de vivre is so inspiring, dear Janice 🙂

I too have a grocery trolley I pull. Same style as yours. It's saved my back. I always have it either full of library books or shopping from the grocery market. Plus if go to beach I can pack things and a picnic. Plus I take the bus so fits right at my seat easy.

Bonjour Janice! Thank you so much for showing a little bit of French life and habits. Loved to see the trees behind you, make me remember my birth village in this time of the year. Au revoir! Have a wonderful weeK!!!! 💙💛

Bonjour Janice. I'm a southern girl living in California, dreaming about France. I work on my French all the time in case I ever get the nerve to jump over the pond. You are an inspiration. We have to take bags to the store here too. My dream is to buy a big old house out in the countryside. I'm not much of a city girl. Keep up the great work. I love your videos!

This was so much fun! I am impressed with the size of the grocery store, I thought it would be much smaller. Thank you for sharing this!

Love your videos and sense of adventure!

It was fun to go on this little trip with you. Thank you.

I loved seeing your grocery store and what you bought. These are my favorite videos ❤️🇫🇷

Thanks for taking us shopping with you

Janice I just want to congratulate you on the growth and development of your channel. You are just living your life and allowing us to experience France vicariously through you but I thought I would salute you and your channel too.

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing. I would love to visit Europe someday.

Enjoyed your video!! 💖💖

Hi Janice, I loved your grocery store vlog in France so much! It was so much fun to watch and interesting to see all the French items. I am new to your channel and really enjoy your slower and casual way. Thanks so much! 🧡

Just love your positive attitude!

Great channel. Any daily bits you share we love.

Good evening to you! Loved going shopping with you. Hope you are well.

I am so jealous. I hope I will move back to France one day. In the meantime I live vicariously through you🥰🙏🏼

I realize this video was a bit more challenging for you to create, thank you for the effort you put into it. It was so much fun watching a slice of your life in France.

Me too. Anywhere I travel too, especially international, I check out the supermarket first! It excites me even more than restaurants!

Love there kind of videos, interesting to see what other people eat. Merci 🤗🇨🇦

Great video, especially loved your music choices. Keep up the good work.

That was fun for us and quite a lot of carrying for you, but thanks enjoyed seeing the different stops and a chuckle on the Old El Paso products at the grocery, cheers from Tennessee!

Janice, it was so nice to spend the morning with you! Your apartment is a perfect little home. I love your enthusiasm and friendly manner. Thanks for taking g us along on your French adventures!

Janice I just found your channel yesterday and love it. Thanks so much for sharing.

Lovely episode , I love French grocery stores - i.e. Carre Four ❤️

Really enjoyed your shopping trip, Nice that you found a route so that you can walk back and forth, I don’t live close to shopping at all, I would love to walk there I could use the excercise lol. Even the grocery stores there look interesting to shop at. Take care and I look forward to your next video, Sheila

Oh my! I found your channel just now. I love everything French and have been to Paris over 10 times. I would love to move there, but I still work. I am 61 years old. I look forward to watching your videos. Hugs from Sacramento, CA.

Thank you, this was fun.

What a lovely outing!! Thank you for inviting us!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰

You are already good at this!

wonderful all that fish and seafood out in the open just lovely I'm from europe remembering dead rabbits hanging in front of the store .

Thanks Janice!

I love your videos! You are inspiring me to try things I’ve dreamt about that I’ve been afraid to do. I’m turning 50 next month and I’m going to start following my dreams! Thank you for the inspiration:)

I love your shopping cart!

Morning! Loved the whole tour and the helpful tips! Fabulous sweater

I also lived in Fonty and loved it. I was in my early 30s and have the fondest memories of those years. Now 50 married and with kids living in CT. We dream of going back in a few years 😊

This was delightful!

I love watching your videos!!

My fav video of yours.

This was fun! I really liked the Music you used Belle Epoc. I would be so happy in that Wine Isle! Cheers 🥂 🍷

Hello from Michigan! Im glad to see you doing so well!

So good Janice to see Avon and Fontainebleau (with my favorite farmers market) that I left 1year ago to move to Colorado 🇺🇲💛🇨🇵

Love love your channel.

Loves it. Please take us everywhere you go.....

you and your channel are truly delightful. your wonderful shopping hauls remind me of my cherished time in France. i loved the fresh produce and the care that the purveyors put into everything they sold me. France is one of the most enchanting places on earth and I'm so happy for you that this worked out. Enjoy every moment of it :)

Merci beaucoup!

You are absolutely lovely! I really like your channel! Thanks for sharing!

Hi Janice, really enjoyed your shopping trip. I live in Canada and while we are a dual language country (French & English) I am an anglophone and do not speak French fluently. What I did notice was that I easily read all the display names of the seafood products in the market probably because our packaging is in both languages. I impressed myself haha. I love your videos, they are not overly long, your timing is perfect. N’est-ce pas?

Merci hon.....it is so refreshing to have people encourage to shop minimal. I think we waste too much food with our large shopping.

Check setting on Google maps. One time I was driving to a location 5 min away. Google had it taking 45 min. Discovered it was set for walking, not driving.

I LOVE that you live so close to a carousel. I had a life-sized rocking carousel horse that I named Cosette. She was my first investment in art. I've been a subscriber since you started your channel. You look fabulous. Great french manicure. What's a manicure/pedicure like at Fountainbleu? I'd love if you included a video with the editor that helps you with these masterpieces.

Fabulous channel and videos

I really enjoyed this💝 I hope you do more videos like this

How have not seen any of your vlogs before now? I’m recovering from Covid and feeling pretty good today, so I started binge watching your vlogs! I just adore them! Thank you. It’s so refreshing to follow a blogger near my age, being an expat, and living close to my situation and so close to me😀

Charming video Janice.

Fish at market is fabulous

thank you Janice. love the blog!!! Abientot

I would love to stay with you when I come to France! I have the best time watching your videos 🤗. I would be in heaven with Old El Paso taco kits ands products 🥰😍

Oh Janice, I would love to visit with you!

Hi Janice! I don't know if you have a Monoprix there, Casino, or Intermarche stores, but greàt selections of food and essential items. Plus, the outdoor markets are incredible. There is also Marks and Spencer in Paris, British store that carries all sorts of food and clothes. Think crumpets, scones and tea. Plus an incredible array of international foods. I have been shopping food and books in Paris for nearly 15 years. Let's go shopping when I get there!

You look great today! Love to see the little pieces of life in France. The €3,99 tomatoes isn’t 7 dollars, but just under 5 dollars. Just to put your mind at ease 😉

Ohhhh welcome to France. Have you visited any of the outdoor markets in your village. One of my regrets while living in Paris was not visiting the market day in FB. I always felt I get a better deal with veggies sold at outdoor markets, one thing I love about France where I visit every Monday.

Intrigued with who you are and what you do. 👏🏼🙏 Would you consider doing a video on your diet and daily meals. You look so good and healthy !

Thanks for taking us grocery shopping with you. It would be great if you could scan the shelves a little slower so we can see the labels and prices better, and show some of the products/brands/flavors that are unique to France.

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Hi Janice… I love your channel….🌸

Hi Janice, I just found your channel recently. I love your "down-to-earthiness". I've planned trips to France three times and have yet to set foot in France! I am hoping I will get there in the next couple of years. I am not into all the touristy things and really am enjoying the daily life that you are sharing. More, please!!

don't put away your warm clothes I arrive on Wed along with a cold snap! I love grocery stores

Love your videos. I hit the like button before I even even watch them. I thought I saw a tail. How are the pets

Hello from North Carolina. I'm new to your channel. I enjoyed your video.

Don't worry--colder weather is returning. I take my caddy and just put the groceries directly inside [no extra bags necessary]. I'm in Paris right now but returning to Maryland the second week in April. I think you're doing great.

Bonjour Janice! I’m enjoying your videos so much - I think this is the 7th I’ve viewed so far. May I offer a suggestion? It is difficult viewing your video of products because the camera needs to be held more steady (meaning not changing direction so quickly) and also needs to pan more slowly. It was a bit dizzying, especially when there’s so much curiosity about the products and packaging and names. Respectful suggestion for future videos. 😁 Keep your day-to-day life videos coming! I’d love to see how you manage transportation, like UBER, train, bus, (along with paying for them; Navigo card?) etc. Also museums - (passes, entrance lines - mundane stuff like that is always interesting! Truly!) You are inspiring!!

Fun, fun fun, enjoyed coming along with you : -) If you like peanut butter and have a blender or food processor where you are, it is so much cheaper to make your own! I love peanut butter, but it is (to my mind) too expensive in France. I simply buy a bag of peanuts, whizz in a food processor or blender. Add a bit of oil to get the texture you like. And voila! You have peanut butter :-) PS. When clueless about wine whilst in France, a great tip is to look for 'mis en bouteille...' on the label. This is where is it made. Look for a 'mis en bouteille à la propriété' or 'mis en bouteille au château'. This means that it was made by a small business, rather than a conglomerate. And it is usually better than any others since they put their heart and soul into what you are buying. (Note- I have had the same issue of not knowing what to buy. My partner, who is a winemaker gave me this tip and it has never let me down.)

I frugal shop too

You are so adorable!

Please move your camera as slow as possible so we can see the labels. How fun to shop with you in France.

You will surely freak out at our cost of living down here in South Africa! 🙂 Our currency is in the toilet, so to speak, and almost worthless when exchanged for dollars, pounds or euros! My weeks food cost has now forced me to eat one small meal per day only, so everything I eat has to be nutritionally sound. Having said this, I am grateful for what I can have, and our beautiful gardens that are safe to walk in every day. I have a place to stay, and never go to bed hungry - I see myself as blessed!

Thanks for taking us along, Janice! What camera are you using to film the video? Loved the quality of the footage you shot! Hope you have a great weekend!

And merci beaucoup to you:-) I just found your channel and instagram and am very interested in all the details of your move to France since I am hoping to move/retire to Spain where I lived in my 20s and again in my early 30s. And I want to take my little dog with me. Have you done an apartment tour yet? I'd love to see the whole apartment. What a lovely walk through your city to the markets.

Do you have a Sunday market like they have in Paris? I enjoy shopping in foreign markets and seeing the interesting packaging and different options.

Not in the state now $$$. Everything is sooooo expensive here!!

Would love to see more of Fountainbleau the town and videos of activity like this. Are there cafes? Shops to walk to? Thank you!

If this is France, where is the French music to go along with your video?💃💕🍷💃🌹

Janice, always pay attention to the price per kilo for fruit and veg. Have you tried shopping in Lidl?

Smoothie using zucchini? I like to see that!

Please ðo not be concerned - my body is thanking me! And my brother in England sends me food hampers from a nearby store...I am blessed!! At 73, I find I need less food....😊❤😊

Buy a portable air conditioner now if you haven't already. Barring that, at least a couple fans. Don't wait until it gets hot because you won't find one. Climatisation is a rare find in IDF.

Bonjour Janice, Did you try Paris-Brest ? It is my favourite pastry :)

I have been following you for a little while. Thank you for the vlogs. I have a question--have you considered taking an immersion course in French? If not, why not? I have spent a great deal of time in France & I speak almost fluently. I imagine your experience would be more enjoyable & certainly easier if you could speak 7 understand at an intermediate level or better. I also imagine an immersion course in French culture would make a big difference. You will of course pick things up bit by bit, but why not enhance this whole experience now? FYI some customs are a bit different from 1 region to another. In any case felicitations on your move & bonne chance with your adventure.