Traditional British meals follow a "meat and two veg" format and include full English breakfasts, fish and chips, Sunday roasts, and dishes like shepherd's pie. Desserts are also an important part of the culture, with regional specialties like Manchester tart. Typical daily meal times are breakfast between 8-10am, lunch from 12-2pm, and dinner from 5-7pm, though routines may vary. A normal diet involves cereal or toast for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and meat and vegetable-centered meals like shepherd's pie for dinner, often followed by tea and biscuits or cake. Christmas dinner is a large meal around 2pm featuring multiple roasted meats, potatoes,

2. Traditional Food
• The most typically British dishes are:
A full English Breakfast (fry up), Fish and Chips, a Sunday
roast, Toad in the Hole, Beef Wellington, Shepherd’s Pie etc
• Most meals abide by the “meat and two veg” rule
• Dishes tend to consist of hearty portions of meat with
gravy!

3. Desserts
• Desserts are very important!
• There are hundreds of British desserts that are loved nationwide,
and it is not uncommon for towns and cities to have their own
classic desert. (E.g. Manchester tart)
• We tend to eat a lot of sweet stuff and we would generally always
follow our main evening meal with a dessert.

4. When we eat
• Our eating times seem to be more relaxed than here, and people tend to eat when they
are hungry, but a typical daily routine would be:
• Breakfast = 8am to 10 am
• Lunch = 12pm to 2pm
• Dinner = 5pm to 7pm
• For me the routine would normally be 9am, 1pm, 5pm, but that has changed completely
since moving here
• Also note that people in the North refer to the meals as follows: breakfast, dinner, tea!

5. My normal diet
• Typically for breakfast I would eat a crumpet or some toast with a cup of tea.
Cereals or toast are a typical breakfast, and a full English is something that we
tend to have on weekends.
• For lunch I don’t eat much, but a typical lunch is a sandwich, a packet of
crisps, some fruit and/or chocolate and a drink.
• Evening meals normally have a meat and two veg style. At home I would
normally have something like Shepherd’s pie (minced meat with chopped up
carrots and gravy, topped with mash with more gravy on top!). More or less
every Sunday we have a roast.
• Afterwards my family always have some tea and biscuits or cake.

6. Christmas
On Christmas we eat our main meal
around 2pm.
This year my meal consisted of: 3 types
of roasted meat (turkey, pork and beef),
roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots
and turnip, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in
blankets and gravy!
It is a huge meal that is followed later on
by a typical Christmas pudding which is
covered in Brandy and set on fire.
My auntie prepared a chocolate cake
alternative made with the popular
chocolate, Maltesers.
At night time we tend to have a buffet
with sandwiches made with the left over
meat, and cheese and crackers.

7. What I have brought to Vic!
With me I have brought lots of tea bags, a
mountain of chocolate and classic foods
like crumpets, Heinz tomato soup and
cheese from the region I am from!