Food and meals

Food and meals
Everybody likes eating something different. Diet experts say we should eat four or five times a day in small portions. Eating habits are different in different countries. People in the Continent usually eat three meals a day. We can drink milk cold or warm, or we can prepare hot chocolate. More frequently we eat bread with butter and jam or cheese, ham or different kinds of salami. In some families are typical scrambled eggs or hot sausages. We must remember that breakfast must be healthy, light and easily digestible. Every meal should include fruit (apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, plums, cherries, peaches, strawberries raspberries) and vegetables (cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, radishes, beans, lentils leeks, chives, onions, garlic, carrots celery, dill). Yoghurt is very healthy too with cereals (oat flakes, cornflakes). After every meal our body should have a lot of water. During breakfast w usually drink milk, herb or fruit tea, juice, etc.
About ten o'clock a,m. comes the time for a snack. We eat something small especial!; vegetable or fruit.
A lot of people have lunch at the local canteen or at the school canteen. We are beginning to cook healthier meals. Pork and beef replace poultry and fish;? Our lunch consists of soap [vegetable, green pea, fish) and the main dish ( for example roast pork with saurkraut an< duplings, chicken with rice, breaded and fried pork with mashed potatoes, fish with potato salad) Again it can be fruit, vegetable salad, fruit salad, pudding, desert, ice cream or a piece of pie. We can drink glass of mineral water, juice, tea or beer, wine after each meal. It's no good to overeat. It's better to eat more frequently, but in small portions.
Another meal is the afternoon snack. Usually we have it at around four o'clock p.m. W can prepare a little fruit and vegetables for our snack, together with a slice of bread and butter, cheese, salami or some spread. If we want to make some homemade spread, we can look into a cookery book where we can find a lot of recipes. With our snack we have a glass of milk coffee with milk or tea, etc.
At six or seven in the evening comes time for dinner. At this time the family is usually together. We often prepare warm dishes or on some occasions we even go out to restaurants.
Irrational food is the cause of some diseases. More frequent now are disorders of the digestive tract, stomach, thyroid gland and small and large intestines. All around us we can see fast foods and sweetshops. Hamburgers, hot-dogs and other fatty and unhealthy food aren't good for our health.
British and American eating habits are different. The traditional English breakfast consist of fried bacon and eggs, toasts bread and butter and marmalade, baked beans and tea o coffee. The traditional American breakfast consist of fruit juice, eggs, some kinds of meat an< toasts. On Saturdays and Sundays eat people later and usually eat pancakes, toasts, ho sausages or even sandwiches.
An US lunch is usually a quick meal. Many people in America have only a half - an hour break for lunch and they buy a sandwich near they place of work. Sunday lunch is special am for many families in Britain it is the biggest meal of the week, consisting of roast meat an vegetables and sweet cake.
Dinner is an evening meal in Britain. It is cooked meal with meat or fish and vegetable salad followed by the desert. The people in English speaking countries eat at different times a day and the dinner is the main meal a day when the family is together.