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Typical Swedish habits

7 July 2023 By The Newbie Team

Typical Swedish habits are quite useful to know – even if you don’t adapt them. Living in a new country brings its own excitement and challenges. The first years are usually dubbed as the honeymoon phase. This is the moment when everything seems so bright, fresh and exciting. Written by Hayu Hamemayu Then soon, things […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: living in sweden, Swedish Culture, Swedish food, Swedish food culture, swedish habit, Swedish habits, swedish tradition, swedish way of life, this is sweden, typically swedish

Weird Swedish foods

16 June 2023 By The Newbie Team 3 Comments

Weird Swedish foods is something you will come across when you are in Sweden for a longer period of time. Every country has its own food peculiarities, foods that you often miss when you are away from your home country. Foods that often also have a cultural significance. And Sweden is of course no exception […]

Filed Under: Blog, Culture Tagged With: Swedish cheese in a tube, Swedish food, Swedish kebab pizza, Swedish licorice, Swedish surströmming, weird Swedish food, what is Kalles Kaviar, what is mesost, What is messmör, what is surströmming

What’s ‘Christmas in Sweden’ without a julbord!

3 December 2021 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Julbord – one thing you can not miss out on if you’re looking to soak in Christmas celebrations in Sweden. Literally translated to ‘Christmas table’, the julbord is a buffet of traditional Swedish eats, and a window into the land’s culture, habit, craving and identity. Written by our content writer, Nidhi Dhingra The Swedish julbord […]

Filed Under: Blog, Culture, Info, Sweden, Swedish Tagged With: christmas in sweden, culture, food culture, food in sweden, julbord, julbord in gothenburg, julbord in stockholm, life in sweden, Newbie in Sweden, Sweden, Swedish Culture, Swedish food, Swedish traditions, Swedish Winter, tips for Newbies, traditions, winter

Swedish Comfort Food

28 November 2020 By Sofi Tegsveden Deveaux Leave a Comment

I am intrigued by the concept of comfort food, and I had to ask several native English speakers, native food comforters about the topic. In Swedish, there is one seemingly fitting equivalent, which is tröstäter, ‘comfort eating’ or ‘consolation eating’, but this leads us in the wrong direction. Is there such a thing as Swedish […]

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In praise of Swedish tacos

13 October 2020 By Sofi Tegsveden Deveaux Leave a Comment

I have all the Mexicans, and all other sensible people out there, screaming at me through their screens now, but I’m afraid Sweden has claimed and appropriated tacos. This is old news, I assume, but this blog post is to confirm it: there is no food more Swedish than tacos. What does gunpowder have to […]

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Champagne, rafting and bonfires – Celebrating Valborg in Uppsala

30 April 2018 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Have you celebrated Walpurgis Night in Sweden yet?  Or Valborg, as it is known in Swedish? Each year on the 30th April, crowds gather in many Swedish cities to celebrate Valborg, an ancient festival heralding the arrival of spring and commemorating St Walburga, an 8th Century Christian missionary known for fighting witchcraft.  Valborg in Uppsala […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: meaning of valborg, Swedish food, Uppsala, Uppsala Castle, Uppsala Cathedral, Valborg, Valborg bonfires, valborg explained, Valborg in Uppsala, Walpurgis

Saving Money from Swedish Supermarket Shopping

4 December 2017 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Saving money in Sweden. Can it be done? Being a newbie for 9 months in Sweden and unfamiliar with the language can be a tad intimidating, and sometimes altogether confusing. In the beginning, grocery shopping in the supermarket can even seem a little frightening as there are just so many Swedish words all over the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: groceries in Sweden, saving money in sweden, shopping in Sweden, supermarkets in Sweden, Swedish food

How to bake your own birthday cake

25 November 2017 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Did you know that there is a tradition in Sweden that you bring your own cake on your birthday to your friends\colleagues? That’s new (and also a little strange) to me, since in my culture it is vice versa – generally people get YOU a birthday cake! It is not an actual must. But if […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: baking, birthday, cake, cooking, food, princesstårta, Swedish food, traditions

Swedish pancakes on Thursdays

3 February 2016 By The Newbie Team

Swedish pancakes on Thursdays, is that really a thing? Yes, indeed! In all cultures, there is an element of predictability. Some things that you can feel will always happen. Things that give you a sense of security because you can depend on them. And once you know about them, you feel slightly more integrated into […]

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