The document discusses typical eating habits in Britain, including common foods consumed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as popular drinks like tea, beer, and cider. Meals generally consist of items like eggs, toast, cereal, sandwiches, fish and chips, meat and potatoes. The document also covers some British food idioms and offers additional topics to learn more about British food culture.

1. Eating
in
Britain

2. Contents
0. Introduction
1. How to move around
2.What do they eat?
3.What do they
drink?
4.Food Idioms
5. Do you want to know more?

3. Introducti
on
Eating habits have changed a great deal and nowadays you can
eat almost any kind of food in Britain, from Italian to
Indonesian, but there are certain things that are considered
typically British. Do you know what the British have for
breakfast? Do you know the name of the different meals? Have
you ever tried Yorkshire pudding?
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4. How to move
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5. What do they
eat?
Breakfas
t
Lunch
Dinne
r
Supper

6. Breakfas
t
The typical English breakfast usually consists of
Mushrooms
Tomato
Sausages
Bacon
Oatcakes or toasts Baked beans
Fried eggs
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7. But they also have other things on weekdays
Cereals with milk
Toasts with marmale or jam
Porridge
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8. Lunch
You can have lunch between 12 and 2 in the afternoon. On
weekdays it consists of something not very elaborated, like
a packed lunch, or fish and chips with some salad.
A sandwich, a packet of crisps and some fruit
Fish and chips
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9. Dinne
r
On weekdays dinner is usually between 6 and 8 in the
evening. It is the main meal of the day. It normally has
some kind of meat or fish, vegetables and potatoes.
vegetables
meat
potatoes
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10. However, on weekends dinner is eaten in the
afternoon and apart from meat, vegetables and
potatoes, they usually have Yorkshire pudding, all
covered with Gravy sauce.
Gravy sauce Yorkshire pudding
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11. Suppe
r
Supper in Britain is a sort of snack after the evening
meal and before going to bed. It normally consists of a
warm drink and some biscuits.
Warm milk
Biscuits
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12. What do they
drink?
Tea
Beer
Apple
Cider
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13. Tea
Tea is the most popular drink in England, and you can have
it strong and dark, with a slice of lemon, or with milk
The most common tea breaks are at 11 in the morning, and
at 4 in the afternoon, but it is always a good moment to
have cup of tea
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14. Beer
Beer is also very popular and there are different
kinds produced in Britain, like ale, cask ale and stout
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15. Apple Cider
Although it is called apple cider it can also be made of pear.
It can be sweet or dry, fizzy or still and it doesn't have a lot
of alcohol.
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16. Food Idioms
Here you are some expressions using food:
(to have) a bun in the oven = to be pregnant
cheesy = silly
a piece of cake = very easy
(not my) cup of tea = (not) something you enjoy a lot
(to be) full of beans = (to be) full of energy
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17. Do you want to
know more?
Of course there is much more to say about British food
and British eating habits. If you want to know more,
here you are some ideas:
Desserts
Eating habits
Tea
Beer
Other recipes