What do you call the meal times in your house?
Having just spent 10 days with the inlaws I really began to notice the names they gave to the mealtimes they had. In the morning they had breakfast, at noon-ish they had dinner, and at 6pm they had supper. In my house they were always called breakfast, lunch and dinner - supper was only if you had toast or something later on. And at every single meal they had a salad, unsweetened iced-tea and dessert - usually Klondike bars or similar. I didn't ever have dessert growing up unless it was a treat.
You?
Dinner was the hot meal, lunch/tea was the cold one. Two hot meals was confusing. Pudding (desert) was occasional. Supper was an extra something before bed.
Here the evening meal is always dinner, what I call the midday one depends on the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest. but the locals call it lunch, so I try to remember to do that.
Breakfast as most people, in the morning. Lunch is the standard midday meal usually cold but not always. Can sometimes be something on toast...like cheese, sardines, beans. Dinner is the evening meal and is usually hot and often followed by pudding. Supper never existed when I was growing up.
Breakfast in the morning.
for me its always been a big one . cereal , and something cooked like eggs, toast , sausages , and coffee .
lunch is as lunch is.
could be a cold sandwich , or if meeting my wife in a eatery anything from soup , salad, or even a slice of pie and ice cream .
dinner
Usally a hot meal with wine , and desert ,
supper i try to avoid, that was a bad habit i got into, eating before bed and as a result of which it helped inprove the size of the flesh belt that started to form around my belly as i got older and became less active .
Breakfast in the morning.
for me its always been a big one . cereal , and something cooked like eggs, toast , sausages , and coffee .
lunch is as lunch is.
could be a cold sandwich , or if meeting my wife in a eatery anything from soup , salad, or even a slice of pie and ice cream .
dinner
Usally a hot meal with wine , and desert ,
supper
I try to avoid, that was a bad habit i got into, eating before bed and as a result of which it helped inprove the size of the flesh belt that started to form around my belly as i got older and became less active .
Breakfast is often brunch, we drink coffee and water but can't face food until we're well awake.
Lunch is usually mid afternoon, and supper, or dinner is about 7.30 or if it's hot, 9ish.
We don't have supper as a before bed meal, we get round that by having nibbles.
Pudding rarely appeared when I was a kid when we had breakfast, dinner and tea, followed by supper just before bed. Lunch was what you called sandwiches in a bag or box that you took to work or school with you.
I suppose it's an "oop north" thing but we always called it breakfast, dinner and tea. Supper was an occasional thing when my brother and I escaped to my nan's house across the farmyard and there was always a table laden with good stuff!
"Afters" was also done on an occasional basis, usually something with custard, fresh fruit or "Instant Whip" if mum decided we could have it as a treat!
Debs x smile