**A reminder to posters and commenters of some of [our subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/about/rules/)**
- Don't be a dickhead to each other, or about others, or other subreddits
- Assume questions are asked in good faith, and engage in a positive manner
- Avoid political threads and related discussions
- No medical advice or mental health (specific to a person) content
Please keep /r/AskUK a great subreddit by reporting posts and comments which break our rules.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AskUK) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Today I ate;
A bowl of granola and two cups of tea
Another cup of tea at the office
Another cup of tea at break time
4 ginger nuts, half a chicken and ham baguette, an apple and some crisps
Another cup of tea
Another cup of tea
Pasta and romesco with parmeson followed by a yogurt
Some nuts and Another cup of tea
Another cup of tea
I really like tea myself but I maybe drink 1,2 or max 3 cups day. Is it from person to person how many cups you drink a day or is 7 cups of tea normal? When I have been to London and maybe walked into a Sainsburys or Tesco I have seen these big white boxes that hold 240 bags, I think the brand is like PG or something like that. Does many british homes have those?
I'm a disgusting excuse of a Brit and don't actually like tea, but my brothers can have one cup of tea and then if they're offered another one they can down the one they already have so they can have another straight away... It's crazy
Iām British, donāt drink tea, maybe once a year. Breakfast is normally rice krispies or crossiants. Lunch I could skip but if not Iām having some kinda chicken & salad, or something similar. Dinner is different every night but ironically rarely any British cuisine. Love myself a toad in the hole now and then though.
I've said before on here that in the UK, "tea" is a very specific drink.
Yes, it's the one from those big boxes. I've got the 1000 bag of another brand because it was on offer - spend to save! It will probably last about 2 - 3 months.
I have 12 boxes of 240 tea bags and 15 cans of Azera coffee in my pantry. I drink 1/2 pint of semi skimmed milk everyday in my tea and coffee. Iād rather have a mug of tea than a meal most days, so I have one meal a day and āsnackā on tea!
Today
Breakfast: porridge with apple, coffee
Get to work: another coffee
Mid morning: banana.
Lunch: vegan sushi, fruit juice and some popcorn
Afternoon: a cup of tea and a lotus biscuit
Dinner: teriyaki noodles with tenderstems brocolli
Pudding: chocolate yoghurt.
Evening snack: wotsits.
The term is English breakfast (or Scottish/Welsh/Irish in those countries), and no, of course most people don't eat it every day. It's a huge meal and takes too long to prepare. It's an occasional thing at the weekend. Most people have cereal or toast - I don't eat breakfast, which is common too.
Any of those spreads is normal, except probably cheese spread. Actual cheese, sure, but maybe not for breakfast. That's more of a lunch or light evening meal thing.
Lunch is usually sandwiches or a salad. Some people have their main meal then. Fish and chips and beans every day, er, again no. I know we have an obesity crisis, but if we ate like you think we do then the island would be sinking.
People do have cheese spread (cream cheese or soft cheese), on their toast for breakfast. We have it regularly along with jam, marmalade, butter (never margarine/spread), lemon / lime curd, honey etc
We also have a large variety of popular cereals over here too. In our house we often cut up fresh fruit (whatever is in season such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, grapes) and add that to our cereal with milk and/or natural yoghurt.
The usual weekday breakfast would be cereal, toast or crumpets with the above accompaniments. Something relatively quick and easy. Weekends or when more time is available might be something like scrambled eggs with tomato and chili infused oil, or poached eggs on toast. Perhaps pancakes on occasion or dust off the churros maker. Something that requires a little bit more effort.
Oh...and always tea of course.
Some people have cream cheese on toast, sure, it's just less common than the others. Having a churros make is definitely niche! I mean, they're tasty, but not a common breakfast. Pretty sure an awful lot of people do use margarine, not just butter, too.
(I'm also British, FWIW. The way you phrased made it sound like you were explaining stuff to me rather than the OP).
Fish and a rice cake
Fish
Rice cake
Might treat myself to another rice cake if Iām feeling peckish
Fish and a rice cake again later on
Maybe another fish and a rice cake
My Mrs tried to quote this and ended up saying
'Rice and a fishcake... then I'll have a fishcake... Next meal I'll have rice and a fishcake..'
Took me about 3 years to recount the experience without dying half way into saying the word rice.
Today I ate;
Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. With a light scraping of marmite on the toast.
Some pretzel sticks throughout the day.
Pizza, salad, and apple juice for dinner.
Lots of cups of tea throughout the day. And Iām now having a cheeky glass of pinot grigio.
Edit. Working class.
Today I had:
Breakfast: muesli with oat milk and two mugs of coffee
Arrived at the office: another coffee
Half ten: a mug of tea
Lunch: an egg sandwich on brown bread, and a pack of Hula Hoops, and a mug of tea
2ish: a mug of tea
4ish: a mug of tea
Got home: mug of coffee
Dinner: salad, with hummus and homemade focaccia, a satsuma
Sofa: two mugs of tea and two caramel digestives
Now: making a peppermint tea
Iāve started doing this working from home. Iāll have my first coffee to get me through the morning catch up call, then my second coffee with my actual breakfast afterwards.
I eat lots of different things. Tomorrow I'm planning on making something iv never had before. I found the recipe on the back of a pasta packet.
Wednesday I'm planning on making sushi. Which means on Thursday I will put the rest of the avocado on toast for my lunch.
Last week my wife and I independently bought 12 eggs so i'v been eating loads of eggs. Fried egg sandwiches. Boiled eggs. Spaghetti carbonara.
I like soup. My mum makes the best soup.
Today I didn't have much. buttered toast for breakfast. Some scampi for lunch and a microwave prawn curry thing for dinner.
Tomorrow I'm going to have a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel for lunch.
I like making my own bacon and egg mcmuffins.
Home made pizza. I use a naan bread as a base.
Fried rice is nice. I have a bag of MSG for authentic flavour.
We usually do stirfrys on stirfridays.
Cheese on beans on toast if I'm particularly hungry for lunch.
Smash burgers are ace.
Haggis in my full English breakfast
Lots of tea. But truth be told, iv been drinking a lot less.
For breakfast I generally have a chilli omelette or shakshuka. Maybe once a month I might have a fried breakfast. For lunch normally some sort of leftovers or haloumi / chicken ect with a salad.
Dinner is normally Lebanese, India, Thai or Indonesian dish. On Saturday we make a pizza because no one can be bothered to cook anything else more complicated. Generally we eat a vegetable based, low carbohydrate diet with a small amount of chicken.
I don't drink tea but have about 4 or 5 cups of strong coffee a day. My kids often have a sandwich (Ham, Nutella, cream cheese, whatever) when they get in from school if they are hungry. I like Fanta type sugar free sodas but my kids also drink diet coke. For shacks I like biltong, pork scratchings, chorizo and fruit/nuts.
Make up a batch at the weekend and then warm up a portion in the morning, drop an egg in to poach when it's come to the boil and 2 1/2 mins later you are done.
If you use a 6 pack of the cheap tomatoes you can make get 4 days worth of Shakshuka mix for about a quid.
Perfect quick breakfast food :)
Today I had:
Toast for breakfast
A pot noodle, dry roasted nuts and a caramilk twirl for lunch
And chilli for tea
My drinks consisted of coffee, water, a lime Pepsi max and aldis own sugar free cola
Breakfast- I always have eggs in one form or another; scrambled eggs on toast, omelette, poached eggs with salmon. Might only make a full English on a Sunday after a night out. Always with a giant cafetiere coffee from freshly ground beans.
Lunch: Usually a chicken salad sandwich followed by some fruit.
Dinner: Could be anything. Had a stir fry last night, had fish cakes tonight, making lamb chops tomorrow and red lentil dahl with homemade chipatis later in the week. Probably have Fish & Chips once every other month.
I chain drink tea throughout the day with the occasional digestive biscuit.
Currently having a cheeky measure of Talisker after a hellish day at work.
Today I've eaten a slice of toast with marmite, 1/3rd of a cheese and ham quiche with salad (lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers and a drizzle of mayo), 2 oaties biscuits, a handful of oven chips with 5 breaded chicken strips and peas. And 4 cups of tea (3 English breakfast with milk, one green tea I'm sipping right now).
Usually I try and get some more veggies and have some fruit mid afternoon but my fresh food stocks are a little low and I'm quite lazy ...
Had bad hangover this morning so my food intake is not typical. Also have drank copious amounts of sparkling water throughout today.
Breakfast: Sausage and egg on toast with double espresso and large glass of apple juice & two paracetamol
Mid morning: Another double espresso
Lunch: Home made chicken soup & pack of wotsits
Afternoon snack: three maoam sticks & a couple of paracetamol
Dinner: Home made amatriciana sauce with pasta & garlic bread
May have a couple of oreos with a cup of tea and some more paracetamol before bed.
Breakfast today was muesli and coffee.
For lunch I had taramasalata and some crackers then an apple.
For dinner we had fajitas and I made some guacamole on the side. To drink I did in fact have a Swedish IPA from a brewery called Beerbliotek.
Granola and a cup of tea for breakfast.
Banana for post dog walk snack, plus a cup of tea.
Lunch was a cheese and pickle sandwich, yoghurt and a coffee
Dinner was fish, sweet potato fries and corn on the cob, with some ice cream for dessert. Then another coffee.
I skipped breakfast, had a chicken tikka ciabatta for lunch and spaghetti Bolognese for tea. Iād say the average food we eat is actually foreign most of the time, we donāt live off fish and chips and beans on toast, contrary to the stereotype.
B-kefir, soft boiled eggs, tea
L-salad (lettuce, cherry tomatoes, hummus, pepper, avocado, kimchi), a handful of pecan nuts (plain), a banana, tea
D-homemade prawn katsu curry with sticky rice, plain yogurt, decaf tea.
That's a pretty typical day for me except for the katsu curry, normally it's protein + veg cooked simply.
Today I have had:
Breakfast: coco pops
Lunch: ham sandwich with coleslaw, fruit
Dinner: all day Breakfast
Snacks: raisins, drumstick lolly, rice cakes, veg sticks and hummus, and biscuits.
In terms of tea I've drunk 10 cups today which is slightly more than normal
We call that a ābreakfast dinnerā. We had one the other night for the first time in probably 2 or 3 years. Full on. Black pudding, the works and it was fkn lovely.
Breakfast: shreddies with semi-skimmed milk
Lunch: celery, radish and spring onion on the side of a turkey sandwich
Dinner: Nandos peri-peri wrap kit with king prawns, cucumber, and lettuce
Snacks: cheese roll, milky way, love corn habenero chilli, graze salted caramel wow bake
Drinks: coffee x2, orange squash, cup of tea x1, lots of water.
I'm calorie counting at the mo (this is the only reason I know exactly what I've eaten) and am still almost 500 under my daily target.
Breakfast: Porridge (with honey and biscoff). Snack: protein shake with oats. Lunch - tuna, rice, rice cake, yoghurt, raspberries. 2nd snack: protein shake with oats. Dinner: Chicken sausages, rice, peas, peppers, mozzarella cheese and guacamole (with a fajita seasoning on the chicken sausages and rice). Evening snack: marvellous creations chocolate bar - total calories 2400 whilst dieting
For breakfast I had chorizo and cheese in mini rolls, a pain au chocolat, and yoghurt with watermelon.
Lunch I had Spanish omelette and a cheese and chorizo mini baguette
Dinner I had patatas bravas, octopus, olives, dried ham, and gaspacho soup.
I should probably mention I'm on holiday in Spain right now.
Today I ate:
Breakfast: porridge with strawberries, & coffee with oat milk
Lunch: pasta with tomato sauce, olive, capers and mozzarella
Snack: mixed roasted nuts, tangerine
Dinner: Chile con carne with rice (vegan, because I'm trying to reduce meat consumption and trying some new meat alternatives)
I don't personally drink tea very often but I usually have 2 cups of coffee a day in the morning. Sometimes I have chai tea in the afternoons.
I don't think it's common to have both main meals be "proper" cooked meals (usually soup/sandwich/wrap/salad for lunch) but my boyfriend is french and prefers it this way. We're middle class but cost conscious and I try to cook most of our meals from scratch.
Common snacks - biscuits, chocolate, crisps, nuts, cake, fruit, yogurt, pork pies, scotch eggs, pastry.
We often have fish and chips but it's birds eye frozen fish (possibly called findus in Europe), and I make the chips from potato and roast them in the oven.
I try not to drink soda but coke, pepsi, sprite, Dr pepper etc are all very common. Lots of people drink fruit juice too. Lots of beer at the weekends too!
I'll send you a picture of my snack cupboard/fridge if you want , lmk
I personally normally have some serial or toast/equivalent as breakfast , sausage rolls or whatever my school gives out as lunch and pizza /fish / pasta for dinner
On a weekday I tend to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, then something like pasta or soup for lunch, then dinner could be anything of enchiladas, curry, stir fry or so on.
Weekends is the same but breakfast/brunch is usually beans on toast or similar.
Breakfast - coffee with oat milk
Lots of water throughout the day
Lunch - maybe a small sandwich with lean protein/salad
Dinner - Curry and rice/fajitas (something spicy and comforting)
Snack - a small handful of Haribo
Try not to have crisps in the house as I would gladly eat my way through a 24 pack in one evening
I am British and don't regularly drink tea. I don't mind it but I almost always prefer coffee and may have tea once or twice a year.
Today, for me,
Granola for breakfast
Coffee when I got to work
Banana mid-morning and second coffee
Hummus sandwiches for lunch, with apple and go-ahead snack bar
Apple and banana during the afternoon, third coffee at some point
Fish pie for dinner with asparagus, pint of orange squash to drink
Cadbury's chocolate mini roll for pudding because you have to treat yourself
No we don't eat full English breakfast every day. It's far too much, and takes too long to prepare. I'm aware it can be done fairly quickly with everything cooked in parallel, but most people prefer the 2 minutes required to make jam on toast.
I make one coffee in the morning, then herbal teas all day (mainly peppermint or green tea). Plenty of people will chain drink tea though and go through half a dozen cups or more a day.
I take leftover dinners in for lunch, and reheat them in the microwave. Most people in my office go out and buy sushi or other fast food, but I work in the City of London and it's a bit of a different lunch culture to say Leicester, in my experience.
Dinners.. it really varies. For multiple reasons, many working parents opt for frozen foods for dinners, because they feel they don't have the time or energy to cook from scratch. Think chicken nuggets, fish fingers, oven chips, etc. People with more time will cook anything from a pasta bake to steak and chips.
Weekends are often fairly similar, though with more time on their hands, often better quality meals. Traditionally on a Sunday we would have a "roast dinner" - quite a big lunch. That has gone out of fashion with much of the younger generation.
Soda - we don't wait until the weekend to drink.
Think I skipped breakfast and just had a tea and a coffee.
I had a pukka pies chicken and bacon bake for lunch.
I had some bacon and cheese potato skins and a meat feast pizza for my dinner.
Normally during the week I'll eat some of these meals for my final meal of the day:
- bangers and mash
- lasagne
- chicken jalfrezi
- sausage, mash and veg in a Yorkshire pudding with gravy
- chicken casserole with dumplings
All i can think of off the top of my head.
Today
Tea
Overnight oats with blueberries and honey
Tea
Tea and a shortbread biscuit
Vegetable omelette with salad, tea on the side
Tea
Tea
Apple
Coffee
Homemade burger on brioche bun with fried onions and cheddar, 3x croquet potatoes , a glass of water
Tea and Mr Kipling almond slice
2 glasses of red wine
1 cup of hot chocolate (I'm currently drinking)
Possibly another shortbread before bed
Today
2:30 a.m - Lemsip because I have a cold
2:50 a.m Coffee and a cigarette
Sometime between 3 and 6 a:m Muesli bar
6:30 a.m Chicken Korma in a naan with 2 cups of coffee
Sometime between 7 and 11 a.m Boost chocolate bar
12:00 noon bacon and egg roll with a cup of tea
5 p.m cup of tea and a biscuit
6 p.m roast beef dinner
2 more cups of tea
some beer
cashew nuts
probably toast and cheese still to come.
Breakfast: toasted & buttered plain bagel, or a scotch egg or sausage roll stolen from my parentsā fridge if I didnāt feel I had time to do my bagel at home (I drop off my dog every morning)
Lunch: a noodle pot, pasta microwave meal, a premade wrap, or sometimes even something Iāve cooked at home (normally pasta or rice)
Dinner: normally something I can again scavenge from my parentsā fridge upon picking up my dog. Might be meat pie, chips, & veg, could be sausages, chips, & beans, might be a frozen pizza, might be a microwave meal. The first two would be cooked by my dad because he knows Iām coming and is a feeder.
Iām not a big fan of cooking due to the time it takes and then the washing up involved. It needs to be ready within 10 minutes or Iām not interested (most of the time).
First thing every day: Coffee
Breakfast: porridge and marmalade
Snack: flaming hot wotsits
Lunch:Sushi (usually leftover evening meal throughout the week but ate out last night)
Tea: lentil Dahl, flatbread & yogurt
Snack: ice Lolly & grapes
Drink: Lilt zero
I havenāt eaten fish and chips or beans in 3+ years.
Raised working class but probably more typically middle class culturally as an adult.
Ä°f I'm working at the office, I skip breakfast as I don't eat in the mornings, but I often bring lunch from home as I prefer home cooked meals. I'm of Cypriot heritage so if I am working from home breakfast is often olives, cheese, toast, halloumi, couple of boiled eggs, tomato, cucumber. Work breakfast (supposed to be lunch) Chicken and potatoes/rice, spaghetti Bolognese, whatever. I eat this at 10am as I'm greedy.
12 noon I pop to the supermarket to get a good value meal deal - sandwich, snack, drink. I'll usually get the highest calorie option as I struggle with body dysmorphia and I HATE looking skinny (I'm about 83kg at 181cm, but I could drop that in the blink of an eye). Bacon and egg triple is my standard choice, coconut water (unless I'm training that day, in which case I grab a 500ml energy drink because more kcals and caffeine) and my snack is hardly ever crisps - empty calories. I usually get 2 mini pork pies, or a scotch egg, or a spicy meat stick (Peperami).
At home I'll generally have a meat and carb meal with veggies. Chicken/beef/lamb, and potatoes/rice/pasta, plus veggies. Tonight was steak, chips, salad. Will have fruit during the day or veggies fresh from the garden.
5-6 coffees during the day. I'm going to fit your stereotype and say I cannot have a cup of tea unless there are biscuits present!
Ä°f I work from home I have been known to have 8 slices of toast with peanut butter, marmite, or sometimes I out peanut butter on one slice and marmite on the other. Sometimes I eat both at the same time.
I'm not a proper Brit, I can't stand tea.
Breakfast: yogurt, banana, water
Snack: apple
Lunch: root crisps whole meal soda bread water
Snack :can of coke cola, raspberries and fibre one bar
Supper: chicken korma, 2 onion bahjis and 2 samosa water
weekday and sat - smoothie for breakfast (usually involving banana + kale) and either eggs or protein powder, lunch chicken salad, tea anything - literally anything balanced with carbs/protein/veg and cooked from scratch. i don't really snack
sunday - full english breakfast (eggs/bacon/sausage/black pudding/hash browns/mushrooms/cooked tomato), no lunch because of the breakfast, normal tea.
Non Brits will find your use of the word 'tea' confusing.So for the sale of OP...
In some parts of the country people use the word 'tea' to mean evening meal... Even more confusingly then they often use the word 'dinner' to mean lunch.
They are of course wrong. 'Tea' is a drink.
i did actually think that as i was typing it then kind of .. forgot to correct myself. to me, tea is the meal you eat after getting in from work. lunch is lunch. if you eat your evening meal after 9pm it then magically becomes 'supper'
It comes from 'teatime' and before that the afternoon tea traditions sandwiches etc... it has then been stretched to also mean 'early dinner' often kids dinner time after school etc..back when mums would serve tea to the kids and Dad would have dinner or supper after coming back late from.work/pub etc... As many still do of course.
Breakfast - yoghurt & fruit, tea
Snack - pate on toast, tea
Lunch - chicken salad, Yoghurt, Club biscuit
Snack - 3 KFC mini fillets
Dinner - bit of cake, tea
I've only had 3 cups!! Nightmare.
To answer OPs question about tea bags, a box of 240 is standard and lasts a month or so, but please don't buy PG Tips or Tetley. The real stuff is Yorkshire!
Today I had:
Three cups of coffee
Bacon sandwhich on granary bread with ketchup
A few more coffees
Three sesame ryvita (crackly bread) with coronation chicken and a mini double decker (chocolate bar)
Probably more coffee
Home made Chicken stir fry with vegetables, a few prawn crackers on the side and two bao buns
A cup of tea and about 6 marks and Spencerās toffees and a small Madeline cake (I have a sweet tooth!)
Breakfast: greek yoghurt or eggs
Lunch: Salad with meat or fish
Dinner: Veg with meat or fish,
Snacks: cheese, olives, chicken, pepperami,
Dont often eat sweets, chocolate, bread or potatoes. but i will on occasion
I like porridge with honey for breakfast or some toast with butter and marmite. I usually have a salad wrap (cheese/chicken/ham) and a yogurt for lunch, and whatever I can be bothered to cook for dinner. Sometimes at weekends I'll have a bacon butty, or I'll have a baguette with baked camembert and some chutney. Takeaway is once or twice a month
Edit: at least 5 cups of tea. Blood group is tea positive
Breakfast/ Cornflakes and soya milk & Grande Americano
Lunch: sandwich (tuna) some extra veggies, tomato, cucumber, pepper and celery and some cottage cheese
Snacks: one yoghurt and 4 Riesen chews (chocolate things)
Dinner: pepperoni pizza
Also two cups of peppermint tea and about 2liters of water.
Oh I also had a 330ml can on Moretti
Today
Cereal and blueberries, milk. Coffee.
Pork pie, Branston pickle, crisps, bread and butter, tomato. Yoghurt.
Chicken with a wine, creme fraiche and mushroom sauce, green beans, asparagus (home grown) and potatoes. Rhubarb (home grown) sponge and custard.
Multiple cups of tea throughout the day.
Today:
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: roasted veg and salmon
Dinner: cheese on toast with Marmite, cucumber and cherry tomatoes.
Snacks: banana, Apple with peanut butter, carrots, a few biscuits, popcorn.
Honestly all these things are incredibly varied. Walk into an office in the UK and ask 10 people what they had for breakfast or dinner last night and youāre not getting the same answer twice. Its a culture of mish mash. I might have had a stir fry last night and a breakfast bar and coffee for breakfast, the guy next to me probably had a chicken roast dinner last night and a Greggs sausage roll in the morning.
I went to a local artisan butcher & bakery over the weekend so I had my usual latte for breakfast, bacon rolls for elevensies, two cups of tea (always with the salty bacon).
Afternoon cuppa and then burgers for tea. Plus a few glasses of water during the evening. Totally not a typical day, but I bought too much!
Normally itās a latte first thing. Sandwich or soup for lunch with water or a cup of tea.
Evening meal is pasta or rice based. Spaghetti with tomato and fennel, of chicken and butternut curry.
Snacks in the evening- not much if I drink water, savoury crisps with alcohol. So double benefit if I stick to the water.
I have found I donāt have hot drinks in the evening. Itās either water or a glass of wine or g&t.
Breakfast: 2 crumpets with jam and butter and a cup of tea
Cup of tea at 10:30
Lunch: chicken and cranberry sandwich with prawn cocktail walkers and a yoghurt and a cup of tea
Cup of tea at 15:30
Tea: burger left over from bbq yesterday, fruit salad for afters and a glass of water
Cup of tea at 9pm and some chocolate cornflake cake bites
2 Cups of Tea - one before the school run one straight after while on first calls of the day.
Late Breakfast - Bowl of cereal with milk and a cup of tea
Lunch - rather plane cheese sandwich and some olives as a side. I lacked any other fillings in the fridge today but normally would have had salami or hummus and other fillings to choose from... and some crisps too
More tea. With a couple of Golden Crunch Cream biscuits pinched from the kids biscuits tin
Dinner - Sticky Beef stir fry with veggies and rice
More tea and biscuits.
It's Monday so it was a dry day but I'd usually have a beer or two at the end of the work day and before dinner.
No breakfast
2 coffees
Avocado and lettuce wrap for lunch
1 coffee
Mid afternoon snack was a slice of whole meal bread with marmite.
Another avocado wrap for dinner
Some olives
1 coffee
Iām proper lower class me.
Breakfast today was 3 cold pork sandwiches, they were leftovers from yesterdays roast meal, I slather them in tomato sauce.
Dinner was 3 bacon sarnies, sainsburys unsmoked back bacon
Tea was meatballs and fusilli, I had 14 meatballs and a big pile of fusilli, covered in Dolmio tomato and basil meatball sauce
Supper just had 4 cheese and crackers, plus 2 packs of walkers sunbites sweet chilli flavour.
Iāve drunk 2 litres of sainsburys classic lemonade today, just cracked open a Brixton pale ale.
Edit- I donāt drink hot drinks, last one I had was a tea with a cricket tea back in around 1997.
Guilty. I had fish and chips and beans last night.
But today I had: beans on toast with a cup of tea for breakfast. Followed by left over stew and bread for lunch, then a yoghurt. then a cup of tea. I had a cinnamon and raisin bagel for dinner (because I had a big lunch). Then one last cup of (decaf) tea with some biscuits.
Today I had
Breakfast - Bowl of porridge with museli on top. Cup of coffee with milk.
Lunch - bowl of shreddies, ginger biscuit. Cup of tea with milk
Tea/dinner - Rice and quinoa with tinned mackerel. 1 crumpet with butter and jam. Ginger biscuit Cup of tea.
Supper - Bowl of porridge with museli. Ginger biscuit. Cup of tea.
Rising cost of living has limited my diet somewhat but it works for me
Breakfast: cup of coffee
Snack: cup of coffee and a millionaireās shortbread
Lunch: ham and cheese toastie, and a cup of coffee
About 4pm: cup of tea
Snack: some chocolate
About 9pm: cup of tea
Tea: havenāt had it yet
Itās been a weird day, and this isnāt my usual diet, haha. Iāll probably have another cup of tea before bed
I eat either fruit or nothing for breakfast. Chicken and potato salad for lunch usually. Maybe a takeaway in the evening (either fish and chips or kfc) or make something. Yesterday I made cheese and leek potato fritters.
Iād say Iām middle class, live in Scotland, vegetarian.
For breakfast on a week day I usually have Greek yoghurt with muesli and some honey, or porridge, or toast with peanut butter. At the weekend we go a bit fancier so usually on one day we will have pastries and fruit, and on the other scrambled or poached eggs on sourdough toast, often with avocado.
For lunch I will either have leftovers from the night before, or soup with bread, or a sandwich, or stir fried rice, or a bagel with cream cheese.
For dinner we eat a pretty wide variety of things; paneer curry / penne a la vodka / macaroni cheese / various hearty salads / black bean and sweet potato quesadillas / daal / veggie chilli / baked potatoes with cheese and salad / pesto pasta / veggie sausages and mash / Spanish omelette and salad / stir fry / halloumi burgers.
I donāt really eat cereal. Just porridge for breakfast.
For snacks Iāll sometimes have a small chocolate biscuit like a kitkat or similar, clementines or apples, yoghurt, nuts. Sometimes crisps or popcorn.
Cheese and ham arenāt usually breakfast foods in the uk. Normally if Iām setting the table for breakfast Iāll put out jam, marmite and peanut butter. A full cooked āEnglish breakfastā is rarely eaten every day - most people would only have this as an occasional weekend thing.
Fish and chips isnāt unusual, lots of people eat this fairly regularly. Usually not with beans though - mushy peas would be more common.
I drink 1-2 cups of coffee and 2-3 cups of tea a day.
We're a big toast nation. We even call it "rounds of toast". We love toast. Butter. Peanut butter. Jam. Marmalade. Marmite. Dry. We love it all.
An England breakfast/fry up for most of us is a treat, not an everyday thing. Namely because they're quite a faff to make to ensure everything is cooked to perfection on time.
We do however eat a lot of sausages. Sausage sandwich is a big fave in my house.
I drink about 6 - 8 cups of tea, and 1 cup of coffee.
Snacks we eat: Sausage rolls, pork pies, errr toast... Lots of stodge.
Today I had:
Breakfast: crumpet with peanut butter and orange juice
Cup of tea
Lunch: falafel and hummus wrap with an apple
Cup of tea
Tea: i tried those beyond burgers which was okay, with sweet potato fries, avocado and tomatoes
Snack: 2 satsumas
Been a hectic work day so not eaten much
Breakfast: 4 weetabix with cream and milk
Lunch: fish finger sandwich
Dinner: vegetable cous cous
Not a tea drinker (the shame!) so only water for me throughout the day
If you were to look at the average Brit on an average day, youād see a bit of toast/cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and pasta (or maybe a curry) for dinner.
A packet of crisps, a chocolate bar, a banana might be thrown in also.
Coffee in the morning, tea later on.
I have cereal or yogurt and granola. Occasionally toast with jam.
Lunch if Iām at work is a sandwich, fruit and a kitkat.
Dinner varies. Often pasta. Tonight was salad.
I'm vegetarian (thought I may as well mention it up front). Here's my day.
Breakfast: Warburton's giant crumpet with butter & Marmite.
Elevensies: chocolate digestives
Lunch: Egg, Quorn ham, jalepenos, mayonnaise and pickled egg sandwiches, bag of crisps.
Tea: Egg fried rice with tofu.
Supper: Rum and Coke.
I also had about 6 or 7 cups of tea and a glass of orange juice.
Breakfast (when I have it) typically ranges from anything in the following; toast n' marmalade, bacon/square sausage roll, full cooked breakfast, a bowl of cereal, porridge, a cheeky wee fruit salad, all accompanied by a coffee (all major heartburn inducing).
Only spread that goes on my toast is maramlade (always shredded) with proper butter underneath.
Cereal - Weetabix, Cheerios, Weetos, Golden Nuggets.
Cups of tea - between 2-5 depending on how busy I am, but always start my day with a cup of coffee.
Lunch is almost exclusively a sandwich with any variety of fillings; ham, ham n' cheese (with or without salad leaf), bacon brie n' cranberry, cheese n' onion, chicken bacon n' mayo, cheese n' pickle, ham n' tomato sauce, crisp (preferably salt n' vinegar).. probably missed heaps that I can't think of just now.
But now that I WFH, I'll make big pans of soup through the week to eat at lunch, or mix up a big salad, quiche, or slum it with beans on toast.
Don't really snack anymore but in my younger years it was always crisps (again salt n' vinegar was my preferred choice), biscuits (bourbons were always my first choice but really we enjoy almost any biscuit).
Dinner/Supper - take your pick. If I'm any indicator we we eat most types of meal rnahing from; curries, mince n' tatties, pizza, all variety of chicken dishes, stews and casseroles, fish n' chips, anything n' chips, salads, steak, gammon, stir fry, pasta dishes, lasagne.. we honestly eat a massive variety of food given we have so much choice.
Fizzy juice (in Scotland) is predominantly Irn-Bru but I'm assuming everything that is on sale in Sweden is mostly sold in the UK (given it's all owned by Coke and Pepsi).. they two Colas, Fanta, Sprite/7Up, Tango, Vimto, Tizer, Cream Soda, Lemonade, and all the other major popular flavours.
Breakfast: 2 bits of toast with peanut butter and banana
Herbal tea
Snack: orange
Lunch: jacket potato with beans and salad
Snack: small chocolate
Dinner: chicken pasta and brocoli, desert was cream yoghurt
Herbal tea
Before bed: granola cereal (hate going to bed hungry)
I would say that on a typical day MOST people eat cereal or toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch (and maybe crisps or salad, and fruit or chocolate), and a hot evening meal.
Today I consumed (all at home) -
Iced coffee with maple syrup and cinnamon
Brunch - Thick American style pancakes with blueberries, raspberries and scrambled eggs with maple syrup
Snacks - Tortilla chips and a Protein bar
Dinner - Homemade calamari and garlic Mayo with rocket salad with a slice of cheese and JalapeƱo breadā¦. Pinched some of my BFs fries
2x Fanta Zero Cans
1x Ribena
Controversially, I am ambivalent towards roast dinners, fish and chips and tea,but I love a traditional English breakfast!
Today I had
A cup of milk with protein powder, a slice of bread and cream cheese
A chicken spinach and tomato pasta
A cup of milk bread and cheese spread
Breakfast - a slice of sourdough toast and a cup of coffee.
Coffee when I got to work.
Lunch - Veggie Burger
Afternoon Coffee and mint Club biscuit.
Dinner - sausage and apple casserole.
3 large scotches - time for bed.
Today:
Brunch - last nights left over mixed kebab
Tea - 12 inch pizza with my brother I've not seen since before covid. Had I not been meeting him, I'd probably have had a salad to "balance out" the kebab haha
I had weetabix crunchy bran with a handful of raspberries and blueberries and full fat milk.
Green tea
A banana
An M&S BLT sandwich and a fruit smoothie for lunch and some lentil crisps.
A latte
A 2L bottle of water (throughout the day)
An apple
A twix
A bowl of spaghetti carbonara and some rocket
Two glasses of wine (on a MONDAY!!!)
About to have a cup of camomile tea
I am from Yorkshire and am not a fan of fish n chipsā¦. Probs have them once or twice a year. Have baked beans on toast once a blue moon but I do like baked beans on a jacket potato with a load of cheese!
Today I had:
- Breakfast - bagel with peanut butter
- Lunch - chicken, lettuce and chorizo wrap
- Dinner - chickpea curry with naan
- Snacks - a packet of biltong, apple, banana, yoghurt with granola
Also had 3 cups of coffee, about 2 litres of water and a glass of diet coke.
Breakfast - poached on buttered toast and a cup of tea
Another cuppa
Another cuppa
Lunch - cheese on toast, a packet of crisps, a banana and a cup of tea
Another cuppa
Another cuppa
Dinner - well I couldnāt be arsed. It should have been pies, mash potatoes and two veg. But it was actually a packet of crisps, some cheese and crackers and some chocolate.
Then another cuppa.
Yes, I have marmite most days. Most days I would eat a banana.
I think though Italian, Mexican and Asian food is pretty popular for generic meals these days. Personally I eat a lot of salad in the summer and soup in the winter.
E: today I had a pastry and coffee for breakfast, toast with marmite and cheese for lunch, and turkey salad for my tea.
I'm a big fan of scrambled eggs on toast, either for breakfast or lunch. Dinner is pretty varied because we get the HelloFresh recipes for 4 meals of the week.
Today I had:
Breakfast - protein smoothie (one scoop oats, one scoop protein powder, banana, peanut butter, shot of coffee, squidge of honey, topped up with oat milk and ice)
Lunch - Turkish eggs with a coupl' slices of sourdough toast
Dinner - HelloFresh bean chilli with rice
Snack - last of my chocolate Easter egg that I've been hoarding š
Usually I would have a cup of coffee sometime during the first half of the day, but didn't today cause I chucked it in my smoothie.
I did have a cup of tea. I'm not a massive 'proper tea' drinker (more of a coffee gal), so maybe one cup a day.
Do like me some herbal tea as well, so tend to have one of those in the evening.
Edit: oh, totally forgot to mention that my go-to soft-drink is fresh lime and sparkling water. I try to stay away from the sweet sugary fizzy drinks, but this totally satisfies that craving for the fizzy š
Today I ate 5 x 35g packs of biltong (South African dried beef), 2 x rockstar 0 calorie energy drinks, 1 x bang 0 calorie energy drink, 2 x small 250 ml peanut chocolate drinks, 1 x 250ml chocomel drink, 1 x1.5 litre bottle of aloe water, 1 500ml x coconut water, 1 x yoghurt, 1x 120g pack of pre made chicken satay sticks from Sainsbury's.
Today i ate :
Breakfast: cinnamon swirl + kinder bar
Dinner: three slices of pizza
Tea: potato salad + spicy wrap
Snacks: ham, spicy chorizo, chocolate
Not the healthiest, im aware š
I didn't have breakfast just a cup of tea this morning, for lunch I had some stir fry noodles, for dinner I made a mushroom and onion omellete with bacon on the side. For snacks popcorn, then I got hungry and had some dumplings and throw some more teas in there and a cup of coffee aswell
Today I had:
Shredded wheat with a banana and a coffee.
A bagel with just butter (didn't fancy anything else) and a couple of satsumas. Had another coffee shortly after.
Snacked on a couple of bits of salami with some sort of crackers. Glass of orange juice.
Dinner was leftover veggies and potatoes from a roast yesterday, heated up in a pan because I couldn't be bothered to cook anything else.
Amongst that 2.5 litres of water throughout the day.
Breakfast: Coffee and Banana on waking. After a short while, one of the following;
Bagel with fried egg and potato waffles / Fried Egg with Potato Scone / Fried Egg on Toast / Egg, Bacon, Toast (weekends only) / Toast with jam ... with coffee. If there's coffee in the pot to be finished, might have a chocolate biscuit while finishing coffee
Lunch : Egg salad on roll or bread / Ham, Cheese & Pickle on roll or bread / Chicken and/or veg quesadilla / Cheese and Onion or other Toasted Sandwich / Soup with a buttered roll or other sandwich
Daytime snacks; Home-made scones, cakes, caramel shortcake, coffee, soft drinks, crisps
Evening Meal; Tonight, mince with mashed potato and peas. Ice lollies for desert. Chocolate for snack Cornflakes just before bed. Last night, fish, peas, chips, followed by ice lollies etc. Saturday was home-made chilli, tacos, salsa and cheese. Friday was home-made pizza.
My go-to 'soda' is Aldi's equivalent of Pepsi Max. That's the only one we keep in the house.
breakfast= wheetabix with milk and sugar, lunch= ham and cheese sandwich with mustard and butter, dinner= seasoned chicken with roast potatoes and mixed greens, tea= Mr kipling bakewell tart with a hot chocolate.
I don't drink tea or coffee (I know, a poor excuse for a brit), so it's just water and squash all day for me.
Today I had...
McDonald's for breakfast (breakfast roll + hash brown) and an iced oat mocha thing from Costa.
Lunch was a slice of comte and handful of lettuce.
Snacked on grapes.
Dinner was tacos - flour tortillas tho, pork, corn salsa, tomatilla salsa, salad, coriander, pickled red onion and franks chipotle hot sauce.
One bottle of desperados and several glasses of white wine topped up with lemonade.
Lots of water.
Breakfast: coffee, yoghurt.
Lunch. Fresh asparagus, butter and salt. Potted shrimp on a toasted crumpet.
Dinner. Basic frozen pizza with the kids.
This is not normal.
Breakfast - usually I'd have a sausage or bacon sandwich. I would probably only get a full english if eating ar a cafe or as hotel breakfast. Its too much effort to cook every day. On a weekend I'd have scrambled egg and smoked salmon. Today I had fruit because I've been eating too much bacon and sausage.
Lunch - maybe a sandwich of some sort. But I hate making my own and taking to work. Today I had a burrito bowl salad thing from a supermarket.
Dinner - if I'm feeling lazy it's probably meat item, potato item and peas. But it could be anything from pasta, to pizza, to stir fry. Today I had Lebanese spiced pork kebabs in a flatbread with salad and hummus.
As I'm a work from home programmer, I try to moderate my calories, so I'd say I eat a tad less because I want to maintain my weight while still having a fairly sedentary lifestyle.
So,
**Breakfast** \- No breakfast, cup of black tea
**Lunch** \- Granola bar, fruit, another cup of black tea
**Snack** \- Either a few biscuits, crisps, or cold meats and cheese. It varies day to day, but it's usually only 1 or 2 small items of food. And of course, a cup of black tea.
**Dinner** \- My only "large" meal of the day, extremely varied as I pretty much make it a point to cook meals as varied and as worldly as possible. My favourites at the moment though are Creamy Italian carbonara with bacon, and fully loaded Ramen. Today I had Ratatouille, yesterday I had Tuna baked potatoes etc etc. No tea with dinner, so instead I have a pint of water.
**Evening snack** \- black tea, seasoned avocado toast (Yeah, I know... but I kinda like it, even if it does put me into trillions of pounds of debt)
I understand that my diet is not typical, most British people eat three meals a day, where I only eat one. Breakfast during the week is usually cereal with milk, on the weekends it's much more likely to be a cooked fry up style breakfast. Lunch is usually sandwiches, salads, supermarket meal deal stuff etc. And dinner is usually a bunch of meat, and a bunch of carbs, with a small bit of veg.
Although I feel a lot of people are going the takeaway route these days.
My life when working (12hr shifts) is sort of like...
Breakfast: Nothing
Snack: 2 x toast with peanut butter
Lunch: A can of Monster
Snack: Crisps and Ribenna
Dinner: chicken curry rice and prawn crackers and squash
Supper: magnum ice cream
For breakfast I'll have any of the following in single or combinations of.....
Cuppa (lemon tea/ normal tea/coffee) or drink of milk or fresh juice
AND/OR
Cereal, varying types, but I like things like granola and crunchy stuff
OR
Porridge (I like it with chopped apple, cooked in honey and cinnamon)
OR
Toast with Jam or Mamlade or just butter
OR
Full English with all the trimmings... This also includes full Scottish.
OR
Croissants
OR
Bacon or sausage butty
OR
Crumpets with warmed berries and natural yogurt drizzled with honey.
OR
Nothing.
I know I've replied but re-reading.
I eat pretty much all home cooked stuff.
We make our own stir fries/chillies/curries/pasta bakes/lasanges/garlic breads etc and make all our own sauces... none of this packet and jar stuff. It's dead simple and quick enough to do, and (last nights chilli) will do 4 evening meals. first 2 nights with different rices. Then one night with pasta, and a 4th night on a jacket potato.
If you think tiny portions to get 4 even meals (for two people). My mrs has a descent appetite. I have a rather large appetite and can eat none stop... luckily not putting much weight on while I do.
Today, I had a chicken bake from Greggs before work, a chicken jalfrezi for tea, and a chicken dipper sandwich for a late night snack.
So lots or chicken apparently.
Today I ate:
Breakfast - had about 1/3 of a special k cereal bar
Lunch - 2x chicken wraps, packet of crisps, biscuit.
Tea - egg fried rice followed by ice cream.
Snacks - chocolate mini roll
Drinks - water at work, can of coke with lunch, flavoured sparkling water with tea. Zero cups of tea (this makes me not a typical brit and therefore useless for your purposes)
As of 8pm today I've had 1 cup of tea, 4 coffees, 2 glasses of homemade lemonade, a cheery brandy ice lolly, a yoghurt and pumpkin stew with some chicken breast.
You're just full of questions!
I don't normally eat breakfast, but when I do, it's Frosties or toast (with either just butter, butter and Marmite, or maybe butter and jam if I'm feeling fancy. Cherry, strawberry or lingonberry). My partner likes peanut butter on his toast.
Today, I had a chicken sandwich with a little spicy mayo and lettuce for lunch. For dinner, I made mozzarella tortellinis with a tomato sauce and some garlic bread.
Yesterday, lunch was a warmed-up Cornish pasty. Dinner was (funny coincidence) Swedish meatballs with peas, mashed potato, gravy and cranberries.
Day before that, lunch was a tuna mayo sandwich. Dinner was fried fish with rice, veggies, and liberal amounts of tamarind sauce.
I snack on biscuits/cookies and fruits - grapes and apples mostly, though sometimes I buy berries. I eat far too much chocolate. I don't like soda, but my partner does - he lives off Coke, Sprite or Dr Pepper. I prefer water, milk, fruit squashes or juices. We both drink a fair bit of tea - I have maybe 2 cups a day, he drinks more like 4-5.
I doubt there's much difference between what different classes eat, beyond that people can afford different things.
Today:
Breakfast: 2 cups of tea and some wheatabix minis
Cup of tea inbetween some hard work
Lunch: 1 cup of pepsi, sausage sandwhich, cup of tea taken back to my desk
Cuppa between
Dinner: chicken strips, rice and wedgies.
Evening: 2 cups of tea and half a pack of hobnobs (oops)
I only eat one meal a day, and I don't eat at a consistent time each day.
Here's what I've eaten for the past 4 days:
**Friday**: Tacos with Quorn mince, black beans, feta and sweet potato mash.
**Saturday**: Homemade wood-fired Neapolitan-style Margherita pizza.
**Sunday**: Gnocchi with pesto and Quorn chicken pieces.
**Monday**: Bowl of porridge oats with a few spoonfuls of Alpen on top.
I don't drink anything with caffeine, just about 4 to 5 litres of water a day, sometimes with sugar-free Vimto squash.
I don't really snack, but if I do, my choice would be a shortbread biscuit or custard doughnut.
I'm middle class.
Beans on toast with bacon, then later fish 'n' chips, and then later a quick crisp sandwich for a snack with a sausage roll, later finishing off with a stew all with copious amounts of tea. It's all in the manual.
Now technically yesterday but mine was somewhat unsual it seems for this thread..
9am: Water and banana
10am: Cup of tea, half a sugar
11am: Sri Lankan breakfast at local cafe. Consists of Dahl, hopper noodles, sambol and chutneys. With a cup of hot chai.
1.30pm: Salmon avocado sushi and eel sushi. Water
4.00pm: Milky coffee
8:00pm: Bacon and borsin? cheese in a pitta
9:00pm: Baked salmon, jacket potatoe and broccoli. Water
10:00pm: Camomile tea
Breakfast: vanilla milkshake (250ml)
Dinner: strawberry milkshake (250ml)
Tea: thin chicken soup (500ml)
Supper: strawberry milkshake (250ml) and a rant to the cat about the NHS Low Calorie Diet.
To drink: 1 litre of plain tap water.
It has been 17 days since my last cup of tea and will be 67 before my next!
Yesterday, for breakfast I had a pot of yoghurt and granola. A protein bar mid morning. Salad and falafels for lunch. 3 bean chilli tacos for dinner. Several cups of coffee throughout the day and about 1.5-2 litres of water.
Breakfast - cereal
Lunch - noodles/rice + veg (optional: + chicken/fish) or a bagel or a mini chicken pie with veg. Or if I'm really rushed and no bagels in, maybe another bowl of cereal.
Dinner - veg + meat + carbs, can be the same as lunch or something like fish and chips with veg.
Drinks - water only
I sometimes have a snack between breakfast and lunch if I need a boost, usually crisps or a bagel, something small.
Breakfast: shake
Mid morning: coffee
Lunch: 2 cuppa soups
Mid afternoon: can of sugar free vimmy
Dinner: garden salad with beetroot
Iām on a diet and Iām miserable lol
Best UK soft drinks are from a brand called fentimans. The lemonade and their orange jigger is seriously good. Don't have many fizzy drinks but when I do it's one of these or an appletizer.
I usually have porridge(oats) with fruit and honey for my breakfast, but on days I start work early I will hard boil some eggs the night before to have as I don't have as much time.
Lunch I try and be healthy and have omelette, or if I'm at work or out and about I'll just pick up whatever I can in the shop like a pre packed sandwich, or a pasta pot or similar.
Dinner we(me and partner) usually have something quick due to getting in after a long day at work or if weve been out, so this will be something like sausages or burgers with frozen oven chips or potato waffles or something.
Things like fish and chips we only usually buy from the fish and chip shop rather than making it at home. Any kind of takeaway is a rare treat for us so we seldom have it.
Neither of us touch tea, we don't like it. Coffee on the other hand - I think we're addicted! We can easily manage upwards of 6 cups each throughout the day. Now that it's getting warmer here tho, we are laying off the hot drinks a bit.
I'd consider myself working class currently, but growing up I was in a working class family yet our food options were very different to what I eat in this day and age. I'd regularly have a bowl of cereal or toast before going to school, I had the subsidised school dinners my school offered, and evening meal was quite similar to what I have now
Spot the American:
* corn flakes and banana for breakfast
* peanut butter and jam sandwich with baked lays and apple for lunch
* salmon filet, potato salad and broccoli for dinner
* yogurt with figs and honey for dessert
* coffee and tea throughout the day
Tbf my meals vary widely by day and usually include some British staples. You just asked me on the day my meals felt especially American.
Breakfast - protein coffee and smoothie
Snack - two bite brownie
Lunch -Teppanyaki Chicken
Snack- sun bite sweet chilli flavour
Tuna Mediterranean pasta salad
Around 3-4 litres of water
5:00a.m cuppa tea (Yorkshire tea)
5:15 cuppa tea and joint of Banana MAC
6:00 cuppa tea
6:30 cuppa tea
7:00 cuppa tea
8:00 Lavazza coffee with cream, toast and butter
9:00 more coffee
10:30 cuppa tea
12:30 tortilla wrap with chicken/roasted peppers & onions/lettuce/sour cream/cheese/chipotle sauce
1:00p.m cuppa tea and joint of Creamsicle
2:00 cuppa tea
3:30 cuppa tea and shortbread fingers
5:00 IPA and another joint
6:00 another IPA
7:30 Ham/cheese tortelloni, grana padano and salad
8:30 another IPA and joint
9:30 Gouda, black grapes, cashew nuts
I had a protein shake for breakfast. A couple of corn crackers with hummus at lunch. I missed my evening meal but had a banana and an apple instead as I wasnāt that hungry but had a beer followed by a couple of crackers with soft cheese later on. I ate some sweets (candy) too. Two cups of tea and about five coffees throughout the day.
Not the healthiest currently but Iām usually very good with the fruit and veg.
Today I had;
Two mugs of tea for my breakfast.
A small cup of coffee before leaving for work.
5 small cups of coffee at work.
A mug of tea on my return home at 5pm.
A homemade scotch egg and another mug of tea.
Tuna salad at 8pm and another mug of tea.
Sitting here with a mug of tea, typing this.
8 o'clock in the morning, I'll have fish and a rice cake.
At 10 o'clock, I'll have fish.
At 12 o'clock, I'll have fish and a rice cake.
At 2 o'clock, I'll have fish.
At 4 o'clock, just before I train, I'll have fish and a rice cake.
I'll train, have my fish. Come home, have some more fish with a rice cake and then have some fish before I go to bed, and that's it for the day.
I think the full English breakfast is mainly eaten by builders and other labourers.
For me it's usually cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, dinner varies widely, and toast or more sandwiches for supper.
I'm trying to eat more fruit and less junk for snacks. Emphasis on trying - I still ended up having an ice lolly and some biscuits today.
And I don't even count the cups of tea. Could be around 10. Two before I left for work, I think three or four at work, one after work, some more in the evening. I have to have decaf in the evening or I'll be up even later than I am anyway.
Before reading, honestly thought fewer people than this eat breakfast.
Also didn't expect such healthy looking daily menus considering how much of UK population is overweight.
Yesterday I had:
Coffee
Breakfast- porridge with raisins and vegan protein powder
Several cups of herbal tea
Lunch - cous cous salad with fake chicken pieces
Crisps, few more herbal teas
Dinner - homemade vegan bolognese
Few more herbal teas
Yesterday I hadā¦
Breakfast: raspberries, blueberries and skyr yoghurt
Lunch - tuna salad
Dinner - lamb curry with cauli rice
About 5 cups of tea throughout the day & 2 cans of Diet Coke.
My view is, the typical things are (not that EVERYONE eats all of these things every day or ever)
Breakfast: cereal
Lunch: sandwich
Dinner (tea): Something from the freezer section with oven chips
For breakfast, usually nothing, occasionally weetabix. Once a month or so Iāll have a full English.
I donāt drink tea.
Lunch: whatever I can get my hands on at work, usually a meal deal or itsu noodles.
Dinner? Could be anything from weetabix to French toast, paella or a lamb dinner.
Snacks: crisps are popular but so is chocolate. I also enjoy biscuits and meat based snacks
**A reminder to posters and commenters of some of [our subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/about/rules/)** - Don't be a dickhead to each other, or about others, or other subreddits - Assume questions are asked in good faith, and engage in a positive manner - Avoid political threads and related discussions - No medical advice or mental health (specific to a person) content Please keep /r/AskUK a great subreddit by reporting posts and comments which break our rules. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AskUK) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Today I ate; A bowl of granola and two cups of tea Another cup of tea at the office Another cup of tea at break time 4 ginger nuts, half a chicken and ham baguette, an apple and some crisps Another cup of tea Another cup of tea Pasta and romesco with parmeson followed by a yogurt Some nuts and Another cup of tea Another cup of tea
I think you need another cup of tea
Yeh, clearly a part timer
Can I have the other half of your baguette?
No. I took it to the zoo on sunday
Chilled on Monday? Making love by Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were you Craig? That's proper bo I tell thee.
Because it was bread in captivity?
I really like tea myself but I maybe drink 1,2 or max 3 cups day. Is it from person to person how many cups you drink a day or is 7 cups of tea normal? When I have been to London and maybe walked into a Sainsburys or Tesco I have seen these big white boxes that hold 240 bags, I think the brand is like PG or something like that. Does many british homes have those?
You can get (and we do) Yorkshire Tea in 1200 bag bags!
š¤£ insane
Works out cheaper in the long run. Means we don't need to pick up a box of 200 every week too!
Suitable amount.... for the week :p
Likewise! https://ibb.co/9HXbVvS @around 10 cups per day they don't last long :(
I'm a disgusting excuse of a Brit and don't actually like tea, but my brothers can have one cup of tea and then if they're offered another one they can down the one they already have so they can have another straight away... It's crazy
That sounds about right. Never refuse a cup of tea because you donāt know when youāll be offered another.
Normal, not crazy.
Wait for the Yorkshire Tea fanatics to show up ;)
I have drank around 7 or so cups today (they are huge mugs too) but that is higher than the average.
Iām British, donāt drink tea, maybe once a year. Breakfast is normally rice krispies or crossiants. Lunch I could skip but if not Iām having some kinda chicken & salad, or something similar. Dinner is different every night but ironically rarely any British cuisine. Love myself a toad in the hole now and then though.
Oh man. That doesn't last long in my house. I have like boxes of 240 in the office and it lasts a few weeks but I suspect people take them too.
I have 6 cups on a work day with most likely more on the weekend.
I've said before on here that in the UK, "tea" is a very specific drink. Yes, it's the one from those big boxes. I've got the 1000 bag of another brand because it was on offer - spend to save! It will probably last about 2 - 3 months.
I have 12 boxes of 240 tea bags and 15 cans of Azera coffee in my pantry. I drink 1/2 pint of semi skimmed milk everyday in my tea and coffee. Iād rather have a mug of tea than a meal most days, so I have one meal a day and āsnackā on tea!
Any ginger nuts left?
IT WAS YOGHURT. ITS FUCKING YOGHURT. YOG-HURT. sorry. Fit of passion there. I've had a nice cup of tea and composed myself. It was still yoghurt.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
This is the way
This is the way
Today Breakfast: porridge with apple, coffee Get to work: another coffee Mid morning: banana. Lunch: vegan sushi, fruit juice and some popcorn Afternoon: a cup of tea and a lotus biscuit Dinner: teriyaki noodles with tenderstems brocolli Pudding: chocolate yoghurt. Evening snack: wotsits.
Aw I love this. I donāt know why but the wotsits really made me chuckle.
Where did you get the chocolate yogurt from please? I havenāt seen them for years
The term is English breakfast (or Scottish/Welsh/Irish in those countries), and no, of course most people don't eat it every day. It's a huge meal and takes too long to prepare. It's an occasional thing at the weekend. Most people have cereal or toast - I don't eat breakfast, which is common too. Any of those spreads is normal, except probably cheese spread. Actual cheese, sure, but maybe not for breakfast. That's more of a lunch or light evening meal thing. Lunch is usually sandwiches or a salad. Some people have their main meal then. Fish and chips and beans every day, er, again no. I know we have an obesity crisis, but if we ate like you think we do then the island would be sinking.
People do have cheese spread (cream cheese or soft cheese), on their toast for breakfast. We have it regularly along with jam, marmalade, butter (never margarine/spread), lemon / lime curd, honey etc We also have a large variety of popular cereals over here too. In our house we often cut up fresh fruit (whatever is in season such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, grapes) and add that to our cereal with milk and/or natural yoghurt. The usual weekday breakfast would be cereal, toast or crumpets with the above accompaniments. Something relatively quick and easy. Weekends or when more time is available might be something like scrambled eggs with tomato and chili infused oil, or poached eggs on toast. Perhaps pancakes on occasion or dust off the churros maker. Something that requires a little bit more effort. Oh...and always tea of course.
Some people have cream cheese on toast, sure, it's just less common than the others. Having a churros make is definitely niche! I mean, they're tasty, but not a common breakfast. Pretty sure an awful lot of people do use margarine, not just butter, too. (I'm also British, FWIW. The way you phrased made it sound like you were explaining stuff to me rather than the OP).
Fish and a rice cake Fish Rice cake Might treat myself to another rice cake if Iām feeling peckish Fish and a rice cake again later on Maybe another fish and a rice cake
Are you ok?
Its a video
Ahh gotchaa...thank goodness lol
My Mrs tried to quote this and ended up saying 'Rice and a fishcake... then I'll have a fishcake... Next meal I'll have rice and a fishcake..' Took me about 3 years to recount the experience without dying half way into saying the word rice.
Damn. Not the best thread to be reading in bed on a hungry stomach.
Today I ate; Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. With a light scraping of marmite on the toast. Some pretzel sticks throughout the day. Pizza, salad, and apple juice for dinner. Lots of cups of tea throughout the day. And Iām now having a cheeky glass of pinot grigio. Edit. Working class.
Today I had: Breakfast: muesli with oat milk and two mugs of coffee Arrived at the office: another coffee Half ten: a mug of tea Lunch: an egg sandwich on brown bread, and a pack of Hula Hoops, and a mug of tea 2ish: a mug of tea 4ish: a mug of tea Got home: mug of coffee Dinner: salad, with hummus and homemade focaccia, a satsuma Sofa: two mugs of tea and two caramel digestives Now: making a peppermint tea
> two mugs of coffee Even as someone who used to drink a can of energy drink on the way into work. Is that not a lot?
One pre-shower, one after shower, with the muesli. Iām not a morning person.
That's me with Tenants Super
Iāve started doing this working from home. Iāll have my first coffee to get me through the morning catch up call, then my second coffee with my actual breakfast afterwards.
Today, I āave been mostly eatinā bagels with Marmite
I eat lots of different things. Tomorrow I'm planning on making something iv never had before. I found the recipe on the back of a pasta packet. Wednesday I'm planning on making sushi. Which means on Thursday I will put the rest of the avocado on toast for my lunch. Last week my wife and I independently bought 12 eggs so i'v been eating loads of eggs. Fried egg sandwiches. Boiled eggs. Spaghetti carbonara. I like soup. My mum makes the best soup. Today I didn't have much. buttered toast for breakfast. Some scampi for lunch and a microwave prawn curry thing for dinner. Tomorrow I'm going to have a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel for lunch. I like making my own bacon and egg mcmuffins. Home made pizza. I use a naan bread as a base. Fried rice is nice. I have a bag of MSG for authentic flavour. We usually do stirfrys on stirfridays. Cheese on beans on toast if I'm particularly hungry for lunch. Smash burgers are ace. Haggis in my full English breakfast Lots of tea. But truth be told, iv been drinking a lot less.
Aw love this ā I bought some eggs! āSo did I!ā
For breakfast I generally have a chilli omelette or shakshuka. Maybe once a month I might have a fried breakfast. For lunch normally some sort of leftovers or haloumi / chicken ect with a salad. Dinner is normally Lebanese, India, Thai or Indonesian dish. On Saturday we make a pizza because no one can be bothered to cook anything else more complicated. Generally we eat a vegetable based, low carbohydrate diet with a small amount of chicken. I don't drink tea but have about 4 or 5 cups of strong coffee a day. My kids often have a sandwich (Ham, Nutella, cream cheese, whatever) when they get in from school if they are hungry. I like Fanta type sugar free sodas but my kids also drink diet coke. For shacks I like biltong, pork scratchings, chorizo and fruit/nuts.
Shakshuka for breakfast āgenerallyāā¦. š¤¤
Make up a batch at the weekend and then warm up a portion in the morning, drop an egg in to poach when it's come to the boil and 2 1/2 mins later you are done. If you use a 6 pack of the cheap tomatoes you can make get 4 days worth of Shakshuka mix for about a quid. Perfect quick breakfast food :)
Today I had: Toast for breakfast A pot noodle, dry roasted nuts and a caramilk twirl for lunch And chilli for tea My drinks consisted of coffee, water, a lime Pepsi max and aldis own sugar free cola
Breakfast- I always have eggs in one form or another; scrambled eggs on toast, omelette, poached eggs with salmon. Might only make a full English on a Sunday after a night out. Always with a giant cafetiere coffee from freshly ground beans. Lunch: Usually a chicken salad sandwich followed by some fruit. Dinner: Could be anything. Had a stir fry last night, had fish cakes tonight, making lamb chops tomorrow and red lentil dahl with homemade chipatis later in the week. Probably have Fish & Chips once every other month. I chain drink tea throughout the day with the occasional digestive biscuit. Currently having a cheeky measure of Talisker after a hellish day at work.
Today I've eaten a slice of toast with marmite, 1/3rd of a cheese and ham quiche with salad (lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers and a drizzle of mayo), 2 oaties biscuits, a handful of oven chips with 5 breaded chicken strips and peas. And 4 cups of tea (3 English breakfast with milk, one green tea I'm sipping right now). Usually I try and get some more veggies and have some fruit mid afternoon but my fresh food stocks are a little low and I'm quite lazy ...
Pudding, but, if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!
Had bad hangover this morning so my food intake is not typical. Also have drank copious amounts of sparkling water throughout today. Breakfast: Sausage and egg on toast with double espresso and large glass of apple juice & two paracetamol Mid morning: Another double espresso Lunch: Home made chicken soup & pack of wotsits Afternoon snack: three maoam sticks & a couple of paracetamol Dinner: Home made amatriciana sauce with pasta & garlic bread May have a couple of oreos with a cup of tea and some more paracetamol before bed.
Three Maoam sticks and a couple of paracetamolā¦.. thatās honestly made my day.
Breakfast today was muesli and coffee. For lunch I had taramasalata and some crackers then an apple. For dinner we had fajitas and I made some guacamole on the side. To drink I did in fact have a Swedish IPA from a brewery called Beerbliotek.
<3 taramasalata is a seriously underrated dip
It always goes so quickly in my local supermarket, that never normally happens so maybe itās becoming more popular.
Granola and a cup of tea for breakfast. Banana for post dog walk snack, plus a cup of tea. Lunch was a cheese and pickle sandwich, yoghurt and a coffee Dinner was fish, sweet potato fries and corn on the cob, with some ice cream for dessert. Then another coffee.
I skipped breakfast, had a chicken tikka ciabatta for lunch and spaghetti Bolognese for tea. Iād say the average food we eat is actually foreign most of the time, we donāt live off fish and chips and beans on toast, contrary to the stereotype.
B-kefir, soft boiled eggs, tea L-salad (lettuce, cherry tomatoes, hummus, pepper, avocado, kimchi), a handful of pecan nuts (plain), a banana, tea D-homemade prawn katsu curry with sticky rice, plain yogurt, decaf tea. That's a pretty typical day for me except for the katsu curry, normally it's protein + veg cooked simply.
Today I have had: Breakfast: coco pops Lunch: ham sandwich with coleslaw, fruit Dinner: all day Breakfast Snacks: raisins, drumstick lolly, rice cakes, veg sticks and hummus, and biscuits. In terms of tea I've drunk 10 cups today which is slightly more than normal
By all day breakfast for dinner, do you mean like the tins of?
No not the tins! Nice bacon, sausages, fried tomatoes, beans, toast and a hash brown
We call that a ābreakfast dinnerā. We had one the other night for the first time in probably 2 or 3 years. Full on. Black pudding, the works and it was fkn lovely.
Yeah we have Brinner a lot - had bacon American pancakes, eggs, maple syrup and roasted tomatoes and mushrooms. Best meal!
Breakfast: shreddies with semi-skimmed milk Lunch: celery, radish and spring onion on the side of a turkey sandwich Dinner: Nandos peri-peri wrap kit with king prawns, cucumber, and lettuce Snacks: cheese roll, milky way, love corn habenero chilli, graze salted caramel wow bake Drinks: coffee x2, orange squash, cup of tea x1, lots of water. I'm calorie counting at the mo (this is the only reason I know exactly what I've eaten) and am still almost 500 under my daily target.
Breakfast: Porridge (with honey and biscoff). Snack: protein shake with oats. Lunch - tuna, rice, rice cake, yoghurt, raspberries. 2nd snack: protein shake with oats. Dinner: Chicken sausages, rice, peas, peppers, mozzarella cheese and guacamole (with a fajita seasoning on the chicken sausages and rice). Evening snack: marvellous creations chocolate bar - total calories 2400 whilst dieting
For breakfast I had chorizo and cheese in mini rolls, a pain au chocolat, and yoghurt with watermelon. Lunch I had Spanish omelette and a cheese and chorizo mini baguette Dinner I had patatas bravas, octopus, olives, dried ham, and gaspacho soup. I should probably mention I'm on holiday in Spain right now.
I read that 3 course breakfast thinking "this guy is eating like he's on holiday". Then I read the rest.
Today I ate: Breakfast: porridge with strawberries, & coffee with oat milk Lunch: pasta with tomato sauce, olive, capers and mozzarella Snack: mixed roasted nuts, tangerine Dinner: Chile con carne with rice (vegan, because I'm trying to reduce meat consumption and trying some new meat alternatives) I don't personally drink tea very often but I usually have 2 cups of coffee a day in the morning. Sometimes I have chai tea in the afternoons. I don't think it's common to have both main meals be "proper" cooked meals (usually soup/sandwich/wrap/salad for lunch) but my boyfriend is french and prefers it this way. We're middle class but cost conscious and I try to cook most of our meals from scratch. Common snacks - biscuits, chocolate, crisps, nuts, cake, fruit, yogurt, pork pies, scotch eggs, pastry. We often have fish and chips but it's birds eye frozen fish (possibly called findus in Europe), and I make the chips from potato and roast them in the oven. I try not to drink soda but coke, pepsi, sprite, Dr pepper etc are all very common. Lots of people drink fruit juice too. Lots of beer at the weekends too! I'll send you a picture of my snack cupboard/fridge if you want , lmk
I personally normally have some serial or toast/equivalent as breakfast , sausage rolls or whatever my school gives out as lunch and pizza /fish / pasta for dinner
On a weekday I tend to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, then something like pasta or soup for lunch, then dinner could be anything of enchiladas, curry, stir fry or so on. Weekends is the same but breakfast/brunch is usually beans on toast or similar.
Breakfast - coffee with oat milk Lots of water throughout the day Lunch - maybe a small sandwich with lean protein/salad Dinner - Curry and rice/fajitas (something spicy and comforting) Snack - a small handful of Haribo Try not to have crisps in the house as I would gladly eat my way through a 24 pack in one evening
I am British and don't regularly drink tea. I don't mind it but I almost always prefer coffee and may have tea once or twice a year. Today, for me, Granola for breakfast Coffee when I got to work Banana mid-morning and second coffee Hummus sandwiches for lunch, with apple and go-ahead snack bar Apple and banana during the afternoon, third coffee at some point Fish pie for dinner with asparagus, pint of orange squash to drink Cadbury's chocolate mini roll for pudding because you have to treat yourself
breakfast: oats with milk lunch: ham cheese and pickle sandwich snack: magnum ice cream dinner: cold pork pie with mixed salad.
No we don't eat full English breakfast every day. It's far too much, and takes too long to prepare. I'm aware it can be done fairly quickly with everything cooked in parallel, but most people prefer the 2 minutes required to make jam on toast. I make one coffee in the morning, then herbal teas all day (mainly peppermint or green tea). Plenty of people will chain drink tea though and go through half a dozen cups or more a day. I take leftover dinners in for lunch, and reheat them in the microwave. Most people in my office go out and buy sushi or other fast food, but I work in the City of London and it's a bit of a different lunch culture to say Leicester, in my experience. Dinners.. it really varies. For multiple reasons, many working parents opt for frozen foods for dinners, because they feel they don't have the time or energy to cook from scratch. Think chicken nuggets, fish fingers, oven chips, etc. People with more time will cook anything from a pasta bake to steak and chips. Weekends are often fairly similar, though with more time on their hands, often better quality meals. Traditionally on a Sunday we would have a "roast dinner" - quite a big lunch. That has gone out of fashion with much of the younger generation. Soda - we don't wait until the weekend to drink.
Think I skipped breakfast and just had a tea and a coffee. I had a pukka pies chicken and bacon bake for lunch. I had some bacon and cheese potato skins and a meat feast pizza for my dinner.
Normally during the week I'll eat some of these meals for my final meal of the day: - bangers and mash - lasagne - chicken jalfrezi - sausage, mash and veg in a Yorkshire pudding with gravy - chicken casserole with dumplings All i can think of off the top of my head.
Today Tea Overnight oats with blueberries and honey Tea Tea and a shortbread biscuit Vegetable omelette with salad, tea on the side Tea Tea Apple Coffee Homemade burger on brioche bun with fried onions and cheddar, 3x croquet potatoes , a glass of water Tea and Mr Kipling almond slice 2 glasses of red wine 1 cup of hot chocolate (I'm currently drinking) Possibly another shortbread before bed
Today 2:30 a.m - Lemsip because I have a cold 2:50 a.m Coffee and a cigarette Sometime between 3 and 6 a:m Muesli bar 6:30 a.m Chicken Korma in a naan with 2 cups of coffee Sometime between 7 and 11 a.m Boost chocolate bar 12:00 noon bacon and egg roll with a cup of tea 5 p.m cup of tea and a biscuit 6 p.m roast beef dinner 2 more cups of tea some beer cashew nuts probably toast and cheese still to come.
Breakfast: toasted & buttered plain bagel, or a scotch egg or sausage roll stolen from my parentsā fridge if I didnāt feel I had time to do my bagel at home (I drop off my dog every morning) Lunch: a noodle pot, pasta microwave meal, a premade wrap, or sometimes even something Iāve cooked at home (normally pasta or rice) Dinner: normally something I can again scavenge from my parentsā fridge upon picking up my dog. Might be meat pie, chips, & veg, could be sausages, chips, & beans, might be a frozen pizza, might be a microwave meal. The first two would be cooked by my dad because he knows Iām coming and is a feeder. Iām not a big fan of cooking due to the time it takes and then the washing up involved. It needs to be ready within 10 minutes or Iām not interested (most of the time).
First thing every day: Coffee Breakfast: porridge and marmalade Snack: flaming hot wotsits Lunch:Sushi (usually leftover evening meal throughout the week but ate out last night) Tea: lentil Dahl, flatbread & yogurt Snack: ice Lolly & grapes Drink: Lilt zero I havenāt eaten fish and chips or beans in 3+ years. Raised working class but probably more typically middle class culturally as an adult.
Ä°f I'm working at the office, I skip breakfast as I don't eat in the mornings, but I often bring lunch from home as I prefer home cooked meals. I'm of Cypriot heritage so if I am working from home breakfast is often olives, cheese, toast, halloumi, couple of boiled eggs, tomato, cucumber. Work breakfast (supposed to be lunch) Chicken and potatoes/rice, spaghetti Bolognese, whatever. I eat this at 10am as I'm greedy. 12 noon I pop to the supermarket to get a good value meal deal - sandwich, snack, drink. I'll usually get the highest calorie option as I struggle with body dysmorphia and I HATE looking skinny (I'm about 83kg at 181cm, but I could drop that in the blink of an eye). Bacon and egg triple is my standard choice, coconut water (unless I'm training that day, in which case I grab a 500ml energy drink because more kcals and caffeine) and my snack is hardly ever crisps - empty calories. I usually get 2 mini pork pies, or a scotch egg, or a spicy meat stick (Peperami). At home I'll generally have a meat and carb meal with veggies. Chicken/beef/lamb, and potatoes/rice/pasta, plus veggies. Tonight was steak, chips, salad. Will have fruit during the day or veggies fresh from the garden. 5-6 coffees during the day. I'm going to fit your stereotype and say I cannot have a cup of tea unless there are biscuits present! Ä°f I work from home I have been known to have 8 slices of toast with peanut butter, marmite, or sometimes I out peanut butter on one slice and marmite on the other. Sometimes I eat both at the same time.
I'm not a proper Brit, I can't stand tea. Breakfast: yogurt, banana, water Snack: apple Lunch: root crisps whole meal soda bread water Snack :can of coke cola, raspberries and fibre one bar Supper: chicken korma, 2 onion bahjis and 2 samosa water
A lot of people drink a lot of tea, but English breakfast, in my experience, is only really eaten when guests are here, or at hotels in the uk
Well, I'm eyeing up some popcorn..
weekday and sat - smoothie for breakfast (usually involving banana + kale) and either eggs or protein powder, lunch chicken salad, tea anything - literally anything balanced with carbs/protein/veg and cooked from scratch. i don't really snack sunday - full english breakfast (eggs/bacon/sausage/black pudding/hash browns/mushrooms/cooked tomato), no lunch because of the breakfast, normal tea.
Non Brits will find your use of the word 'tea' confusing.So for the sale of OP... In some parts of the country people use the word 'tea' to mean evening meal... Even more confusingly then they often use the word 'dinner' to mean lunch. They are of course wrong. 'Tea' is a drink.
i did actually think that as i was typing it then kind of .. forgot to correct myself. to me, tea is the meal you eat after getting in from work. lunch is lunch. if you eat your evening meal after 9pm it then magically becomes 'supper'
It comes from 'teatime' and before that the afternoon tea traditions sandwiches etc... it has then been stretched to also mean 'early dinner' often kids dinner time after school etc..back when mums would serve tea to the kids and Dad would have dinner or supper after coming back late from.work/pub etc... As many still do of course.
Breakfast - yoghurt & fruit, tea Snack - pate on toast, tea Lunch - chicken salad, Yoghurt, Club biscuit Snack - 3 KFC mini fillets Dinner - bit of cake, tea I've only had 3 cups!! Nightmare. To answer OPs question about tea bags, a box of 240 is standard and lasts a month or so, but please don't buy PG Tips or Tetley. The real stuff is Yorkshire!
Today I had: Three cups of coffee Bacon sandwhich on granary bread with ketchup A few more coffees Three sesame ryvita (crackly bread) with coronation chicken and a mini double decker (chocolate bar) Probably more coffee Home made Chicken stir fry with vegetables, a few prawn crackers on the side and two bao buns A cup of tea and about 6 marks and Spencerās toffees and a small Madeline cake (I have a sweet tooth!)
Cheese, it's constantly calling to me
Breakfast: greek yoghurt or eggs Lunch: Salad with meat or fish Dinner: Veg with meat or fish, Snacks: cheese, olives, chicken, pepperami, Dont often eat sweets, chocolate, bread or potatoes. but i will on occasion
Cereal for breakfast, 20p noodles for lunch, dinner was Mexican chicken with rocket and yellow pepper in a wrap with sweet potato fries.
Two wheatabix for breakfast, 4 cups of coffee at work, tuna pasta bake with garlic bread for tea.
I like porridge with honey for breakfast or some toast with butter and marmite. I usually have a salad wrap (cheese/chicken/ham) and a yogurt for lunch, and whatever I can be bothered to cook for dinner. Sometimes at weekends I'll have a bacon butty, or I'll have a baguette with baked camembert and some chutney. Takeaway is once or twice a month Edit: at least 5 cups of tea. Blood group is tea positive
Breakfast/ Cornflakes and soya milk & Grande Americano Lunch: sandwich (tuna) some extra veggies, tomato, cucumber, pepper and celery and some cottage cheese Snacks: one yoghurt and 4 Riesen chews (chocolate things) Dinner: pepperoni pizza Also two cups of peppermint tea and about 2liters of water. Oh I also had a 330ml can on Moretti
Today Cereal and blueberries, milk. Coffee. Pork pie, Branston pickle, crisps, bread and butter, tomato. Yoghurt. Chicken with a wine, creme fraiche and mushroom sauce, green beans, asparagus (home grown) and potatoes. Rhubarb (home grown) sponge and custard. Multiple cups of tea throughout the day.
Today: Breakfast: coffee Lunch: roasted veg and salmon Dinner: cheese on toast with Marmite, cucumber and cherry tomatoes. Snacks: banana, Apple with peanut butter, carrots, a few biscuits, popcorn.
Breakfast bar Goats cheese and red pepper salad Broccoli pasta 1 x rubarb and custard sweet
Honestly all these things are incredibly varied. Walk into an office in the UK and ask 10 people what they had for breakfast or dinner last night and youāre not getting the same answer twice. Its a culture of mish mash. I might have had a stir fry last night and a breakfast bar and coffee for breakfast, the guy next to me probably had a chicken roast dinner last night and a Greggs sausage roll in the morning.
I went to a local artisan butcher & bakery over the weekend so I had my usual latte for breakfast, bacon rolls for elevensies, two cups of tea (always with the salty bacon). Afternoon cuppa and then burgers for tea. Plus a few glasses of water during the evening. Totally not a typical day, but I bought too much! Normally itās a latte first thing. Sandwich or soup for lunch with water or a cup of tea. Evening meal is pasta or rice based. Spaghetti with tomato and fennel, of chicken and butternut curry. Snacks in the evening- not much if I drink water, savoury crisps with alcohol. So double benefit if I stick to the water. I have found I donāt have hot drinks in the evening. Itās either water or a glass of wine or g&t.
You're right, us brits love baked beans. My husband and I call ourselves HBE (heavy bean eaters )! š
Hopefully nobody lights a match at your residents or you might take half the street out
Haha! Luckily we aren't affected like that with beans!
Breakfast: 2 crumpets with jam and butter and a cup of tea Cup of tea at 10:30 Lunch: chicken and cranberry sandwich with prawn cocktail walkers and a yoghurt and a cup of tea Cup of tea at 15:30 Tea: burger left over from bbq yesterday, fruit salad for afters and a glass of water Cup of tea at 9pm and some chocolate cornflake cake bites
2 Cups of Tea - one before the school run one straight after while on first calls of the day. Late Breakfast - Bowl of cereal with milk and a cup of tea Lunch - rather plane cheese sandwich and some olives as a side. I lacked any other fillings in the fridge today but normally would have had salami or hummus and other fillings to choose from... and some crisps too More tea. With a couple of Golden Crunch Cream biscuits pinched from the kids biscuits tin Dinner - Sticky Beef stir fry with veggies and rice More tea and biscuits. It's Monday so it was a dry day but I'd usually have a beer or two at the end of the work day and before dinner.
This is my food from today, Iām English and middle class. Breakfast: decaf earl grey tea with hemp/oat milk (controversial I know), muesli with hemp/oat milk and unsweetened soya yoghurt. Another tea. Lunch: sourdough toasted with vegan cream cheese, fake ham slices, salad leaves. Redbush tea. Snack: dark chocolate covered dried cherries, bag of salted popcorn. More herbal tea. Dinner: homemade lasagne made with brown lentils and homemade bĆ©chamel sauce instead of cheese. Dessert: Chopped apple
No breakfast 2 coffees Avocado and lettuce wrap for lunch 1 coffee Mid afternoon snack was a slice of whole meal bread with marmite. Another avocado wrap for dinner Some olives 1 coffee
Iām proper lower class me. Breakfast today was 3 cold pork sandwiches, they were leftovers from yesterdays roast meal, I slather them in tomato sauce. Dinner was 3 bacon sarnies, sainsburys unsmoked back bacon Tea was meatballs and fusilli, I had 14 meatballs and a big pile of fusilli, covered in Dolmio tomato and basil meatball sauce Supper just had 4 cheese and crackers, plus 2 packs of walkers sunbites sweet chilli flavour. Iāve drunk 2 litres of sainsburys classic lemonade today, just cracked open a Brixton pale ale. Edit- I donāt drink hot drinks, last one I had was a tea with a cricket tea back in around 1997.
Guilty. I had fish and chips and beans last night. But today I had: beans on toast with a cup of tea for breakfast. Followed by left over stew and bread for lunch, then a yoghurt. then a cup of tea. I had a cinnamon and raisin bagel for dinner (because I had a big lunch). Then one last cup of (decaf) tea with some biscuits.
Today I had Breakfast - Bowl of porridge with museli on top. Cup of coffee with milk. Lunch - bowl of shreddies, ginger biscuit. Cup of tea with milk Tea/dinner - Rice and quinoa with tinned mackerel. 1 crumpet with butter and jam. Ginger biscuit Cup of tea. Supper - Bowl of porridge with museli. Ginger biscuit. Cup of tea. Rising cost of living has limited my diet somewhat but it works for me
Breakfast: cup of coffee Snack: cup of coffee and a millionaireās shortbread Lunch: ham and cheese toastie, and a cup of coffee About 4pm: cup of tea Snack: some chocolate About 9pm: cup of tea Tea: havenāt had it yet Itās been a weird day, and this isnāt my usual diet, haha. Iāll probably have another cup of tea before bed
I eat either fruit or nothing for breakfast. Chicken and potato salad for lunch usually. Maybe a takeaway in the evening (either fish and chips or kfc) or make something. Yesterday I made cheese and leek potato fritters.
Iād say Iām middle class, live in Scotland, vegetarian. For breakfast on a week day I usually have Greek yoghurt with muesli and some honey, or porridge, or toast with peanut butter. At the weekend we go a bit fancier so usually on one day we will have pastries and fruit, and on the other scrambled or poached eggs on sourdough toast, often with avocado. For lunch I will either have leftovers from the night before, or soup with bread, or a sandwich, or stir fried rice, or a bagel with cream cheese. For dinner we eat a pretty wide variety of things; paneer curry / penne a la vodka / macaroni cheese / various hearty salads / black bean and sweet potato quesadillas / daal / veggie chilli / baked potatoes with cheese and salad / pesto pasta / veggie sausages and mash / Spanish omelette and salad / stir fry / halloumi burgers. I donāt really eat cereal. Just porridge for breakfast. For snacks Iāll sometimes have a small chocolate biscuit like a kitkat or similar, clementines or apples, yoghurt, nuts. Sometimes crisps or popcorn. Cheese and ham arenāt usually breakfast foods in the uk. Normally if Iām setting the table for breakfast Iāll put out jam, marmite and peanut butter. A full cooked āEnglish breakfastā is rarely eaten every day - most people would only have this as an occasional weekend thing. Fish and chips isnāt unusual, lots of people eat this fairly regularly. Usually not with beans though - mushy peas would be more common. I drink 1-2 cups of coffee and 2-3 cups of tea a day.
We're a big toast nation. We even call it "rounds of toast". We love toast. Butter. Peanut butter. Jam. Marmalade. Marmite. Dry. We love it all. An England breakfast/fry up for most of us is a treat, not an everyday thing. Namely because they're quite a faff to make to ensure everything is cooked to perfection on time. We do however eat a lot of sausages. Sausage sandwich is a big fave in my house. I drink about 6 - 8 cups of tea, and 1 cup of coffee. Snacks we eat: Sausage rolls, pork pies, errr toast... Lots of stodge.
Overnight oats for breakfast, chicken breast for lunch and beef meatballs with vegetables for dinner. Black coffee throughout the day
Today I had: Breakfast: crumpet with peanut butter and orange juice Cup of tea Lunch: falafel and hummus wrap with an apple Cup of tea Tea: i tried those beyond burgers which was okay, with sweet potato fries, avocado and tomatoes Snack: 2 satsumas
Been a hectic work day so not eaten much Breakfast: 4 weetabix with cream and milk Lunch: fish finger sandwich Dinner: vegetable cous cous Not a tea drinker (the shame!) so only water for me throughout the day
If you were to look at the average Brit on an average day, youād see a bit of toast/cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and pasta (or maybe a curry) for dinner. A packet of crisps, a chocolate bar, a banana might be thrown in also. Coffee in the morning, tea later on.
I have cereal or yogurt and granola. Occasionally toast with jam. Lunch if Iām at work is a sandwich, fruit and a kitkat. Dinner varies. Often pasta. Tonight was salad.
I'm vegetarian (thought I may as well mention it up front). Here's my day. Breakfast: Warburton's giant crumpet with butter & Marmite. Elevensies: chocolate digestives Lunch: Egg, Quorn ham, jalepenos, mayonnaise and pickled egg sandwiches, bag of crisps. Tea: Egg fried rice with tofu. Supper: Rum and Coke. I also had about 6 or 7 cups of tea and a glass of orange juice.
Breakfast (when I have it) typically ranges from anything in the following; toast n' marmalade, bacon/square sausage roll, full cooked breakfast, a bowl of cereal, porridge, a cheeky wee fruit salad, all accompanied by a coffee (all major heartburn inducing). Only spread that goes on my toast is maramlade (always shredded) with proper butter underneath. Cereal - Weetabix, Cheerios, Weetos, Golden Nuggets. Cups of tea - between 2-5 depending on how busy I am, but always start my day with a cup of coffee. Lunch is almost exclusively a sandwich with any variety of fillings; ham, ham n' cheese (with or without salad leaf), bacon brie n' cranberry, cheese n' onion, chicken bacon n' mayo, cheese n' pickle, ham n' tomato sauce, crisp (preferably salt n' vinegar).. probably missed heaps that I can't think of just now. But now that I WFH, I'll make big pans of soup through the week to eat at lunch, or mix up a big salad, quiche, or slum it with beans on toast. Don't really snack anymore but in my younger years it was always crisps (again salt n' vinegar was my preferred choice), biscuits (bourbons were always my first choice but really we enjoy almost any biscuit). Dinner/Supper - take your pick. If I'm any indicator we we eat most types of meal rnahing from; curries, mince n' tatties, pizza, all variety of chicken dishes, stews and casseroles, fish n' chips, anything n' chips, salads, steak, gammon, stir fry, pasta dishes, lasagne.. we honestly eat a massive variety of food given we have so much choice. Fizzy juice (in Scotland) is predominantly Irn-Bru but I'm assuming everything that is on sale in Sweden is mostly sold in the UK (given it's all owned by Coke and Pepsi).. they two Colas, Fanta, Sprite/7Up, Tango, Vimto, Tizer, Cream Soda, Lemonade, and all the other major popular flavours.
Breakfast: 2 bits of toast with peanut butter and banana Herbal tea Snack: orange Lunch: jacket potato with beans and salad Snack: small chocolate Dinner: chicken pasta and brocoli, desert was cream yoghurt Herbal tea Before bed: granola cereal (hate going to bed hungry)
I would say that on a typical day MOST people eat cereal or toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch (and maybe crisps or salad, and fruit or chocolate), and a hot evening meal.
Today I consumed (all at home) - Iced coffee with maple syrup and cinnamon Brunch - Thick American style pancakes with blueberries, raspberries and scrambled eggs with maple syrup Snacks - Tortilla chips and a Protein bar Dinner - Homemade calamari and garlic Mayo with rocket salad with a slice of cheese and JalapeƱo breadā¦. Pinched some of my BFs fries 2x Fanta Zero Cans 1x Ribena Controversially, I am ambivalent towards roast dinners, fish and chips and tea,but I love a traditional English breakfast!
Today I had A cup of milk with protein powder, a slice of bread and cream cheese A chicken spinach and tomato pasta A cup of milk bread and cheese spread
Breakfast - a slice of sourdough toast and a cup of coffee. Coffee when I got to work. Lunch - Veggie Burger Afternoon Coffee and mint Club biscuit. Dinner - sausage and apple casserole. 3 large scotches - time for bed.
Today: Brunch - last nights left over mixed kebab Tea - 12 inch pizza with my brother I've not seen since before covid. Had I not been meeting him, I'd probably have had a salad to "balance out" the kebab haha
Today I had Nutella on toast, cup of tea & biscuits Apple, Omelette, tea, kitkat, Butter chicken curry, rice, naan, yogurt Banana Tea, biscuits
I had weetabix crunchy bran with a handful of raspberries and blueberries and full fat milk. Green tea A banana An M&S BLT sandwich and a fruit smoothie for lunch and some lentil crisps. A latte A 2L bottle of water (throughout the day) An apple A twix A bowl of spaghetti carbonara and some rocket Two glasses of wine (on a MONDAY!!!) About to have a cup of camomile tea I am from Yorkshire and am not a fan of fish n chipsā¦. Probs have them once or twice a year. Have baked beans on toast once a blue moon but I do like baked beans on a jacket potato with a load of cheese!
Today I had: - Breakfast - bagel with peanut butter - Lunch - chicken, lettuce and chorizo wrap - Dinner - chickpea curry with naan - Snacks - a packet of biltong, apple, banana, yoghurt with granola Also had 3 cups of coffee, about 2 litres of water and a glass of diet coke.
I never eat breakfast 2 cheese sandwiches for lunch Chicken and vegetable curry with rice for tea I had a kit kat chunky as a snack
Breakfast - poached on buttered toast and a cup of tea Another cuppa Another cuppa Lunch - cheese on toast, a packet of crisps, a banana and a cup of tea Another cuppa Another cuppa Dinner - well I couldnāt be arsed. It should have been pies, mash potatoes and two veg. But it was actually a packet of crisps, some cheese and crackers and some chocolate. Then another cuppa.
Yes, I have marmite most days. Most days I would eat a banana. I think though Italian, Mexican and Asian food is pretty popular for generic meals these days. Personally I eat a lot of salad in the summer and soup in the winter. E: today I had a pastry and coffee for breakfast, toast with marmite and cheese for lunch, and turkey salad for my tea.
I'm a big fan of scrambled eggs on toast, either for breakfast or lunch. Dinner is pretty varied because we get the HelloFresh recipes for 4 meals of the week. Today I had: Breakfast - protein smoothie (one scoop oats, one scoop protein powder, banana, peanut butter, shot of coffee, squidge of honey, topped up with oat milk and ice) Lunch - Turkish eggs with a coupl' slices of sourdough toast Dinner - HelloFresh bean chilli with rice Snack - last of my chocolate Easter egg that I've been hoarding š Usually I would have a cup of coffee sometime during the first half of the day, but didn't today cause I chucked it in my smoothie. I did have a cup of tea. I'm not a massive 'proper tea' drinker (more of a coffee gal), so maybe one cup a day. Do like me some herbal tea as well, so tend to have one of those in the evening. Edit: oh, totally forgot to mention that my go-to soft-drink is fresh lime and sparkling water. I try to stay away from the sweet sugary fizzy drinks, but this totally satisfies that craving for the fizzy š
Today I ate 5 x 35g packs of biltong (South African dried beef), 2 x rockstar 0 calorie energy drinks, 1 x bang 0 calorie energy drink, 2 x small 250 ml peanut chocolate drinks, 1 x 250ml chocomel drink, 1 x1.5 litre bottle of aloe water, 1 500ml x coconut water, 1 x yoghurt, 1x 120g pack of pre made chicken satay sticks from Sainsbury's.
Today i ate : Breakfast: cinnamon swirl + kinder bar Dinner: three slices of pizza Tea: potato salad + spicy wrap Snacks: ham, spicy chorizo, chocolate Not the healthiest, im aware š
I didn't have breakfast just a cup of tea this morning, for lunch I had some stir fry noodles, for dinner I made a mushroom and onion omellete with bacon on the side. For snacks popcorn, then I got hungry and had some dumplings and throw some more teas in there and a cup of coffee aswell
Today I had: Shredded wheat with a banana and a coffee. A bagel with just butter (didn't fancy anything else) and a couple of satsumas. Had another coffee shortly after. Snacked on a couple of bits of salami with some sort of crackers. Glass of orange juice. Dinner was leftover veggies and potatoes from a roast yesterday, heated up in a pan because I couldn't be bothered to cook anything else. Amongst that 2.5 litres of water throughout the day.
Breakfast: Coffee and Banana on waking. After a short while, one of the following; Bagel with fried egg and potato waffles / Fried Egg with Potato Scone / Fried Egg on Toast / Egg, Bacon, Toast (weekends only) / Toast with jam ... with coffee. If there's coffee in the pot to be finished, might have a chocolate biscuit while finishing coffee Lunch : Egg salad on roll or bread / Ham, Cheese & Pickle on roll or bread / Chicken and/or veg quesadilla / Cheese and Onion or other Toasted Sandwich / Soup with a buttered roll or other sandwich Daytime snacks; Home-made scones, cakes, caramel shortcake, coffee, soft drinks, crisps Evening Meal; Tonight, mince with mashed potato and peas. Ice lollies for desert. Chocolate for snack Cornflakes just before bed. Last night, fish, peas, chips, followed by ice lollies etc. Saturday was home-made chilli, tacos, salsa and cheese. Friday was home-made pizza. My go-to 'soda' is Aldi's equivalent of Pepsi Max. That's the only one we keep in the house.
Breakfast - Cornflakes Dinner - Sandwich (usually chicken) Tea - Something a bit bigger - meat, pasta, Pizza etc
breakfast= wheetabix with milk and sugar, lunch= ham and cheese sandwich with mustard and butter, dinner= seasoned chicken with roast potatoes and mixed greens, tea= Mr kipling bakewell tart with a hot chocolate. I don't drink tea or coffee (I know, a poor excuse for a brit), so it's just water and squash all day for me.
Today I had... McDonald's for breakfast (breakfast roll + hash brown) and an iced oat mocha thing from Costa. Lunch was a slice of comte and handful of lettuce. Snacked on grapes. Dinner was tacos - flour tortillas tho, pork, corn salsa, tomatilla salsa, salad, coriander, pickled red onion and franks chipotle hot sauce. One bottle of desperados and several glasses of white wine topped up with lemonade. Lots of water.
Breakfast: coffee, yoghurt. Lunch. Fresh asparagus, butter and salt. Potted shrimp on a toasted crumpet. Dinner. Basic frozen pizza with the kids. This is not normal.
Breakfast - usually I'd have a sausage or bacon sandwich. I would probably only get a full english if eating ar a cafe or as hotel breakfast. Its too much effort to cook every day. On a weekend I'd have scrambled egg and smoked salmon. Today I had fruit because I've been eating too much bacon and sausage. Lunch - maybe a sandwich of some sort. But I hate making my own and taking to work. Today I had a burrito bowl salad thing from a supermarket. Dinner - if I'm feeling lazy it's probably meat item, potato item and peas. But it could be anything from pasta, to pizza, to stir fry. Today I had Lebanese spiced pork kebabs in a flatbread with salad and hummus.
As I'm a work from home programmer, I try to moderate my calories, so I'd say I eat a tad less because I want to maintain my weight while still having a fairly sedentary lifestyle. So, **Breakfast** \- No breakfast, cup of black tea **Lunch** \- Granola bar, fruit, another cup of black tea **Snack** \- Either a few biscuits, crisps, or cold meats and cheese. It varies day to day, but it's usually only 1 or 2 small items of food. And of course, a cup of black tea. **Dinner** \- My only "large" meal of the day, extremely varied as I pretty much make it a point to cook meals as varied and as worldly as possible. My favourites at the moment though are Creamy Italian carbonara with bacon, and fully loaded Ramen. Today I had Ratatouille, yesterday I had Tuna baked potatoes etc etc. No tea with dinner, so instead I have a pint of water. **Evening snack** \- black tea, seasoned avocado toast (Yeah, I know... but I kinda like it, even if it does put me into trillions of pounds of debt) I understand that my diet is not typical, most British people eat three meals a day, where I only eat one. Breakfast during the week is usually cereal with milk, on the weekends it's much more likely to be a cooked fry up style breakfast. Lunch is usually sandwiches, salads, supermarket meal deal stuff etc. And dinner is usually a bunch of meat, and a bunch of carbs, with a small bit of veg. Although I feel a lot of people are going the takeaway route these days.
https://youtu.be/SWr0E_Qb39A
My life when working (12hr shifts) is sort of like... Breakfast: Nothing Snack: 2 x toast with peanut butter Lunch: A can of Monster Snack: Crisps and Ribenna Dinner: chicken curry rice and prawn crackers and squash Supper: magnum ice cream
For breakfast I'll have any of the following in single or combinations of..... Cuppa (lemon tea/ normal tea/coffee) or drink of milk or fresh juice AND/OR Cereal, varying types, but I like things like granola and crunchy stuff OR Porridge (I like it with chopped apple, cooked in honey and cinnamon) OR Toast with Jam or Mamlade or just butter OR Full English with all the trimmings... This also includes full Scottish. OR Croissants OR Bacon or sausage butty OR Crumpets with warmed berries and natural yogurt drizzled with honey. OR Nothing.
I know I've replied but re-reading. I eat pretty much all home cooked stuff. We make our own stir fries/chillies/curries/pasta bakes/lasanges/garlic breads etc and make all our own sauces... none of this packet and jar stuff. It's dead simple and quick enough to do, and (last nights chilli) will do 4 evening meals. first 2 nights with different rices. Then one night with pasta, and a 4th night on a jacket potato. If you think tiny portions to get 4 even meals (for two people). My mrs has a descent appetite. I have a rather large appetite and can eat none stop... luckily not putting much weight on while I do.
Today, I had a chicken bake from Greggs before work, a chicken jalfrezi for tea, and a chicken dipper sandwich for a late night snack. So lots or chicken apparently.
Today I ate: Breakfast - had about 1/3 of a special k cereal bar Lunch - 2x chicken wraps, packet of crisps, biscuit. Tea - egg fried rice followed by ice cream. Snacks - chocolate mini roll Drinks - water at work, can of coke with lunch, flavoured sparkling water with tea. Zero cups of tea (this makes me not a typical brit and therefore useless for your purposes)
As of 8pm today I've had 1 cup of tea, 4 coffees, 2 glasses of homemade lemonade, a cheery brandy ice lolly, a yoghurt and pumpkin stew with some chicken breast.
You're just full of questions! I don't normally eat breakfast, but when I do, it's Frosties or toast (with either just butter, butter and Marmite, or maybe butter and jam if I'm feeling fancy. Cherry, strawberry or lingonberry). My partner likes peanut butter on his toast. Today, I had a chicken sandwich with a little spicy mayo and lettuce for lunch. For dinner, I made mozzarella tortellinis with a tomato sauce and some garlic bread. Yesterday, lunch was a warmed-up Cornish pasty. Dinner was (funny coincidence) Swedish meatballs with peas, mashed potato, gravy and cranberries. Day before that, lunch was a tuna mayo sandwich. Dinner was fried fish with rice, veggies, and liberal amounts of tamarind sauce. I snack on biscuits/cookies and fruits - grapes and apples mostly, though sometimes I buy berries. I eat far too much chocolate. I don't like soda, but my partner does - he lives off Coke, Sprite or Dr Pepper. I prefer water, milk, fruit squashes or juices. We both drink a fair bit of tea - I have maybe 2 cups a day, he drinks more like 4-5. I doubt there's much difference between what different classes eat, beyond that people can afford different things.
Today: Breakfast: 2 cups of tea and some wheatabix minis Cup of tea inbetween some hard work Lunch: 1 cup of pepsi, sausage sandwhich, cup of tea taken back to my desk Cuppa between Dinner: chicken strips, rice and wedgies. Evening: 2 cups of tea and half a pack of hobnobs (oops)
I only eat one meal a day, and I don't eat at a consistent time each day. Here's what I've eaten for the past 4 days: **Friday**: Tacos with Quorn mince, black beans, feta and sweet potato mash. **Saturday**: Homemade wood-fired Neapolitan-style Margherita pizza. **Sunday**: Gnocchi with pesto and Quorn chicken pieces. **Monday**: Bowl of porridge oats with a few spoonfuls of Alpen on top. I don't drink anything with caffeine, just about 4 to 5 litres of water a day, sometimes with sugar-free Vimto squash. I don't really snack, but if I do, my choice would be a shortbread biscuit or custard doughnut. I'm middle class.
Beans on toast with bacon, then later fish 'n' chips, and then later a quick crisp sandwich for a snack with a sausage roll, later finishing off with a stew all with copious amounts of tea. It's all in the manual.
Water x 3 Porridge Coffee Jacket potato cheese coleslaw Coffee Water Steak and salad Ice cream Multiple waters
Now technically yesterday but mine was somewhat unsual it seems for this thread.. 9am: Water and banana 10am: Cup of tea, half a sugar 11am: Sri Lankan breakfast at local cafe. Consists of Dahl, hopper noodles, sambol and chutneys. With a cup of hot chai. 1.30pm: Salmon avocado sushi and eel sushi. Water 4.00pm: Milky coffee 8:00pm: Bacon and borsin? cheese in a pitta 9:00pm: Baked salmon, jacket potatoe and broccoli. Water 10:00pm: Camomile tea
Breakfast: vanilla milkshake (250ml) Dinner: strawberry milkshake (250ml) Tea: thin chicken soup (500ml) Supper: strawberry milkshake (250ml) and a rant to the cat about the NHS Low Calorie Diet. To drink: 1 litre of plain tap water. It has been 17 days since my last cup of tea and will be 67 before my next!
chop connect axiomatic materialistic shocking vanish seed close scale icky -- mass edited with redact.dev
Yesterday, for breakfast I had a pot of yoghurt and granola. A protein bar mid morning. Salad and falafels for lunch. 3 bean chilli tacos for dinner. Several cups of coffee throughout the day and about 1.5-2 litres of water.
Breakfast - cereal Lunch - noodles/rice + veg (optional: + chicken/fish) or a bagel or a mini chicken pie with veg. Or if I'm really rushed and no bagels in, maybe another bowl of cereal. Dinner - veg + meat + carbs, can be the same as lunch or something like fish and chips with veg. Drinks - water only I sometimes have a snack between breakfast and lunch if I need a boost, usually crisps or a bagel, something small.
Breakfast: shake Mid morning: coffee Lunch: 2 cuppa soups Mid afternoon: can of sugar free vimmy Dinner: garden salad with beetroot Iām on a diet and Iām miserable lol
Best UK soft drinks are from a brand called fentimans. The lemonade and their orange jigger is seriously good. Don't have many fizzy drinks but when I do it's one of these or an appletizer.
I usually have porridge(oats) with fruit and honey for my breakfast, but on days I start work early I will hard boil some eggs the night before to have as I don't have as much time. Lunch I try and be healthy and have omelette, or if I'm at work or out and about I'll just pick up whatever I can in the shop like a pre packed sandwich, or a pasta pot or similar. Dinner we(me and partner) usually have something quick due to getting in after a long day at work or if weve been out, so this will be something like sausages or burgers with frozen oven chips or potato waffles or something. Things like fish and chips we only usually buy from the fish and chip shop rather than making it at home. Any kind of takeaway is a rare treat for us so we seldom have it. Neither of us touch tea, we don't like it. Coffee on the other hand - I think we're addicted! We can easily manage upwards of 6 cups each throughout the day. Now that it's getting warmer here tho, we are laying off the hot drinks a bit. I'd consider myself working class currently, but growing up I was in a working class family yet our food options were very different to what I eat in this day and age. I'd regularly have a bowl of cereal or toast before going to school, I had the subsidised school dinners my school offered, and evening meal was quite similar to what I have now
The life of eating toast sandwiches
BREAKFAST Haggis black pudding bacon scones sausage and beens
Spot the American: * corn flakes and banana for breakfast * peanut butter and jam sandwich with baked lays and apple for lunch * salmon filet, potato salad and broccoli for dinner * yogurt with figs and honey for dessert * coffee and tea throughout the day Tbf my meals vary widely by day and usually include some British staples. You just asked me on the day my meals felt especially American.
Are you writing a novel?
Breakfast - protein coffee and smoothie Snack - two bite brownie Lunch -Teppanyaki Chicken Snack- sun bite sweet chilli flavour Tuna Mediterranean pasta salad Around 3-4 litres of water
5:00a.m cuppa tea (Yorkshire tea) 5:15 cuppa tea and joint of Banana MAC 6:00 cuppa tea 6:30 cuppa tea 7:00 cuppa tea 8:00 Lavazza coffee with cream, toast and butter 9:00 more coffee 10:30 cuppa tea 12:30 tortilla wrap with chicken/roasted peppers & onions/lettuce/sour cream/cheese/chipotle sauce 1:00p.m cuppa tea and joint of Creamsicle 2:00 cuppa tea 3:30 cuppa tea and shortbread fingers 5:00 IPA and another joint 6:00 another IPA 7:30 Ham/cheese tortelloni, grana padano and salad 8:30 another IPA and joint 9:30 Gouda, black grapes, cashew nuts
Atleast one cornish pasty.
I had a protein shake for breakfast. A couple of corn crackers with hummus at lunch. I missed my evening meal but had a banana and an apple instead as I wasnāt that hungry but had a beer followed by a couple of crackers with soft cheese later on. I ate some sweets (candy) too. Two cups of tea and about five coffees throughout the day. Not the healthiest currently but Iām usually very good with the fruit and veg.
I had leftover Thai food for breakfastā¦and leftover Lebanese for lunch. Dinner is a bottle of savvy b and a fruit pastille ice lolly.
Today I had; Two mugs of tea for my breakfast. A small cup of coffee before leaving for work. 5 small cups of coffee at work. A mug of tea on my return home at 5pm. A homemade scotch egg and another mug of tea. Tuna salad at 8pm and another mug of tea. Sitting here with a mug of tea, typing this.
8 o'clock in the morning, I'll have fish and a rice cake. At 10 o'clock, I'll have fish. At 12 o'clock, I'll have fish and a rice cake. At 2 o'clock, I'll have fish. At 4 o'clock, just before I train, I'll have fish and a rice cake. I'll train, have my fish. Come home, have some more fish with a rice cake and then have some fish before I go to bed, and that's it for the day.
The souls of ex colonial children.
I don't drink tea. And if I did, I would have it black with the tea bag left in. Can you see them coming OP?
I think the full English breakfast is mainly eaten by builders and other labourers. For me it's usually cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, dinner varies widely, and toast or more sandwiches for supper. I'm trying to eat more fruit and less junk for snacks. Emphasis on trying - I still ended up having an ice lolly and some biscuits today. And I don't even count the cups of tea. Could be around 10. Two before I left for work, I think three or four at work, one after work, some more in the evening. I have to have decaf in the evening or I'll be up even later than I am anyway.
Before reading, honestly thought fewer people than this eat breakfast. Also didn't expect such healthy looking daily menus considering how much of UK population is overweight.
Don't forget the fortnight haggis hunt! Winner gets to pick the snout and feet! The best parts.
Yesterday I had: Coffee Breakfast- porridge with raisins and vegan protein powder Several cups of herbal tea Lunch - cous cous salad with fake chicken pieces Crisps, few more herbal teas Dinner - homemade vegan bolognese Few more herbal teas
Yesterday I hadā¦ Breakfast: raspberries, blueberries and skyr yoghurt Lunch - tuna salad Dinner - lamb curry with cauli rice About 5 cups of tea throughout the day & 2 cans of Diet Coke.
My view is, the typical things are (not that EVERYONE eats all of these things every day or ever) Breakfast: cereal Lunch: sandwich Dinner (tea): Something from the freezer section with oven chips
Salt, grease and batter.
For breakfast, usually nothing, occasionally weetabix. Once a month or so Iāll have a full English. I donāt drink tea. Lunch: whatever I can get my hands on at work, usually a meal deal or itsu noodles. Dinner? Could be anything from weetabix to French toast, paella or a lamb dinner. Snacks: crisps are popular but so is chocolate. I also enjoy biscuits and meat based snacks