Eating habits in the UK
People in Britain have five or six mels a day:
breakfast a morning snack lunch snack (tea) dinner – is a hot main meal of the day (supper) – is a light cold meal
breakfast
- the British like to begin the day with cup of coffe or tea in the bed early in the morning
- starts with a glass of orange juice and cereals, cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar or porrige
- tradicional British breakfast:
- cooked meal of bacon, eggs, sausages, spice beans in tomatoes sauce, mushrooms, eavon potatoes and bread.Sometimes fish = kipper or heddock
- and then toast woth marmalade with their usually drink tea or milk
- but they don´t have a time, so all three courses eat they at the weekends. Usually they eat later => brunch (late breakfast, early lunch)
morning snack
- adults eat sandwich with ham or tuna, biscuits and cup of coffe
- children usually have sandwich with ham, tuna, cheese, crisps, chocolade and some fruit. They often drink juice
lunch
- light meal at school or at work
- they buy some sandwich, biscuits, tipical English fish and chips, hamburger, becked potatoes or vegetable salad
- Sunday lunch => roast beef with mustard and Yorkshire pudding or lamb with mint sauce or pork with apple sauce
- After that they usually eat tradicional apple pie or frit salad or jelly
snack (tea)
- at about 5 p.m. => tea time
- bread with butter, cheese, fish, ham, bread with jam, some cake, fruit pies or only biscuits with tea or coffe and both of milk
dinner
- about 7 p.m. it has 3 or 4 courses
- 1. drink => sherry, martiny or whiskey
- 2. starter => soup
- 3. meal or fish with vegetable and potatoes
- 4. desert or pudung
- it ends with glass of port or a cup of coffe or tea
- 60% British homes use microvave oven for cooking
- Indian, Italien or Chinese foods are popular for evening meals
- Supermarkets sell a lot of pre-packed maels to be heated in a microvave
- light cold meal
- either spour, sandwich with cheese, ham, salami, tuna and so one