Meals+and+Meal+times

Some people have their biggest meal in the middle of the day and some have it in the evening, but most people today have a small mid-day meal - usually sandwiches, and perhaps some crisps and some fruit. We have three main meals a day: **Traditionally, and for some people still, the meals are called:** On Sundays the main meal of the day is often eaten at midday instead of in the evening. This meal usually is a Roast Dinner consisting of a roast meat, yorkshire pudding and two or three kinds of vegetables. BREAKFAST
 * **Breakfast** - between 7:00 and 9:00,
 * **Lunch** - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
 *  **Dinner** (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal )
 * **Breakfast** - between 7:00 and 9:00,
 * **Dinner** (The main meal) - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
 * **Tea** - anywhere from 5:30 at night to 6:30 p.m.

**What is a typical English Breakfast?** Most people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Now-a-days, however, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a **bowl of cereals**, a **slice of toast**, **orange juice** and a **cup of coffee**. Many people, especially children, in England will eat a bowl of cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc. In the winter many people will eat "porridge" or boiled oats.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">**What is the traditional English Breakfast?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">**The traditional English breakfast** consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always served in hotels and guest houses around Britain. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">The traditional English breakfast is called the 'Full English' and sometimes referred to as 'The Full English Fry-up'. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 220%;">LUNCH <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">**What is a typical British lunch?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Many children at school and adults at work will have a 'packed lunch'. This typically consists of a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. The 'packed lunch' is kept in a plastic container.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Sandwiches are also known as a 'butty' or 'sarnie' in some parts of the UK. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">My favourite sandwich is prawn and mayonnaise. I also love tuna and mayonnaise and ham and pickle sandwiches.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 220%;">DINNER <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">**What is a traditional British Dinner?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">A typical British meal for dinner is "**meat and two veg"**. We put hot brown gravy, (traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat, but more often today from a packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">**What is a typical British Dinner like today?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">The traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, apart from on Sundays. A recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta dishes are now favoured as the 'British Dinner'. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Vegetables grown in England, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are still very popular. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">The Sunday Roast Dinner <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Sunday lunch time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Traditionally it consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular. Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce. Gravy is poured over the meat.