What do you eat?

debodun

debodun

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Breakfast is pretty much a pat word for the first meal of the day, but after that do you eat lunch and dinner or dinner and supper? Around here, it's breakfast and lunch pretty much. Dinner and supper are interchangeable.
 

Dinner and supper are interchangeable here too, but dinner is stressed when it's particularly large, fancy and/or include guests, or when it's at a restaurant or on a holiday or birthday.

I know in Britain they always say "Christmas Lunch" because it is served earlier in the day. But I can't get used to it because even if it's served at noon or 1 pm, to us, it's "Christmas Dinner".
 

In my house...it's Brunch ( because I can't eat when I get up)... then lunch which could be any time of the afternoon....then dinner...but again dinner and supper are interchangeable..just depends what time we eat..
 
Breakfast, lunch, and supper. But like others have said supper are interchangeable although it'usually only called dinner if it's a special meal such as Thanksgiving dinner. In that case it's called dinner even if it's served at lunch time. Life is so complicated.:confused:
 
Breakfast, dinner and tea. Even if it is only a sandwich or soup, midday meal is usually called dinner in this neck of the woods and a big meal in the evening is still called tea unless going out to a restaurant then we would call it dinner ...lol As for Christmas, that is always Christmas Dinner and never ever lunch. The only time lunch is used is in reference to the packed lunch that kids take to school.
 
Breakfast has been the same for the past 40 years. 2 eggs and one cup of coffee. Lunch varies, meat on a gluten free rice cake with mayo or mustard or some yogurt or a banana, sometimes soup during the winter. Dinner is usually some type of meat, fish,veggies and a starch. No dessert,we save that for our snack around 8 pm. . One day of the week we have pasta and another is a homemade soup night. The beverage is always iced tea except for breakfast.
 
Depends on how hungry I happen to be @ any particular time of day + whatever is in the house/pantry/ fridge.

+ whatever I'm hungry for. Might even be some hot buttered popcorn with a little Parmasan cheese sprinkled on top.

Whatever.....NOTHING after around 7 0r 8 PM.
 
Breakfast was always breakfast.

When I was a kid my grandmother always called the main meal, served in the middle of the day, dinner and supper was the leftovers from dinner warmed over at night. I think that pattern worked for my grandmother because she was the last generation in my family that was raised without mechanical refrigeration and the men in the family were employed at home. I think dinner turned into lunch when most Americans started working in factories and offices.

My mother always called supper tea as a nod to her English ancestors.

These days I usually eat breakfast, lunch and supper.

Some days my meals defy any classification and I just graze.
 
We eat breakfast useally yoghurt I make myself ,Lunch depends if we feel like anything to eat ..and Tea in the evening is our main meal ...that varies with the seasons ..in the winter ( it’s summer here ) we have soup,and a hot desert 2 nights a week
veggies and meat the rest of the week ...summer we eat a fair bit of salads with hot meat as we are not fond of salted meats like hams corned beef ect

We are finding we don’t eat nearly as much as we did when we were younger
 
Usually breakfast around 7 while I watch part of GMA. Then around 2-3 in the afternoon I have a main meal and then around 8 some cereal with my night meds.
 
My breakfast is just a tiny Aussie Bite with my coffee or half a croissant. I don't eat lunch, and my main meal is supper. Like others here, it will be called dinner if it's Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter.
 
Here most people seem to say breakfast, lunch, dinner. Where I grew up it was supper instead of dinner. But I don't usually eat breakfast, or any other meal on a schedule now. In public school, I ate lunch regularly, because you were forced to eat it on schedule. And like it! :p
 
I can never get my head around the word "TEA" which the (usually the Brits)

call FOOD ! To me tea is a beverage; Like a cup of hot tea OR a big glass of ICED tea on a hot summers day.

Has NOTHING to do with FOOD. Yet, they say "4 o'clock tea" and it includes FOOD ! Sheeesh !
 
Breakfast, lunch (when I lived in S. Dakota it was called dinner) and dinner (when I was a kid it was supper).
 

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