To ask what British people have for dinner usually

Bbc good food is a great site for recipes.

Typical evening meals in our house are sausage casserole, Thai curry, hunters chicken with mash & veg, spaghetti & meatballs, chilli & rice, griddled chicken & veg wraps, pie with roasted veg. We eat at around 630pm

We pretty much always cook from scratch taking it in turns and eat at 7:30 pm.

This is what we had last week:

Mon: Pasta with mince and tomato+onion+garlic sauce
Tue: Chicken curry made from leftovers with spinach and rice
Wed: Baked potato sausages and beans
Thu: Baked salmon with rice and veggies
Fri: Chicken casserole with chorizo, bacon lardons and new potatoes
Sat: Pad Thai
Sun: Roast chicken with roast potatoes, stuffing balls and veg

Dinner used to be 6pm. Has veered closer 7pm now youngest is 13. DF joins in often. It’s a family meal. Usually 5 or 6 of us. This is what I have cooked over last 14 days:

Chicken stew and dumplings
Lentil cottage pie and carrots
courgette lasagne (BBC good good recipe)
chicken noodle soup (BBC good food).
prawn pad Thai
beef lasagne and tomato and feta salad
fish pie and peas
mushroom wild rice soup (forks over knives)
sausage casserole mash and greens
roast chicken with cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes, carrots, mashed Swede, parsnips and cabbage
mushroom risotto with green salad
macaroni cheese with green salad
mushroom stroganoff with wild rice
steak and chips and salad

looking at it it’s a bit more meat than usual. But fairly representative of what we eat.

What you have for hot lunch would make an evening meal in the uk

And vice versa

We have moved from the main meal being midday to evening except for Sundays perhaps probably because work won't let you out for a big dinner in the middle of ten working day

Sorry to add our main meal is dinner / tea at 6pm.

Lunch is just soup or a sandwich or a salad

Recipes - BBC Food is not a bad place to start if you want to get ideas. If you see that a particular recipe has a very large number of reviews, that's a good indicator that lots of people have cooked it.

Mince and potatoes
Spaghetti bolognese
Chilli con carne
Stir fries
Various curries both meat and vegetarian
Roast dinners
Haggis, turnip and potatoes
Chicken breast and salad
Steak pie
Mince pie
Fajitas
Steak and veg

We use gousto! So eat stuff from all over the world.

But favourite "British" classics would be shepherd's pie.

Cheese omelette and salad for lunch today and got a beef rendang slow cooking for dinner later.

Beyond the "I aint eating no foreign muck" stereotype, British people are generally quite receptive of other food cultures so ours is always different each week. We eat usually around 7pm.

We generally try to mix cuisines, textures, meats etc through the week to keep things different. Pasta arrabiata, thai green prawn curry, Moroccan beef tagine, a tray of roasted veg with feta and some crusty bread, Indian chicken curry, baked potatoes with beans and cheese, simple Chinese stir fry, halloumi burgers, enchiladas. a bowl of porridge if we're rushing about between work and after school activities.....

Tonight we're having chicken in chipotle sauce served in wraps.
Regular dinners are fajitas, Thai curry, Indian curry, pizza, pasta dishes such as arrabiata, in autumn and winter sausage/beef or chicken casseroles done in the slow cooker, roast chicken or pork on a Sunday, bacon and leek or chicken and asparagus risottos, chilli, cottage pie.
Sorry not many British options there.
We eat soup or sandwich for lunch, dinner is around 6:15

Today is beef casserole with mash cabbage carrots.
Yesterday was a fry up for dinner.
Tomorrow is a roast chicken dinner as friends coming.
Saturday will be a curry of some sort, haven't thought beyond that.
But homemade beef burgers, cottage pie, lasagne, toasted sandwiches with soup, pasta with chicken in a sauce, toad in the hole.

Pasta, lasagna, shepherds pie, pizza, fish fingers, fish and chips, steak pie, chicken with veg, stew and dumplings

In our home we have our main meal in the evening (usually hot food) and soups, salads, sandwiches at lunchtime.
My granny had a great phrase, “I had my dinner [at] lunchtime” meaning her main, hot meal. Then she’d have a sandwich later.
Nowadays we call our main meal “dinner” but when I was a kid we called it “tea” even though it was our main meal. And I still use “teatime” to mean 5-7pm.
Apparently the main meal is dinner whenever it’s eaten. Sunday dinner is at lunchtime because the servants had Sunday afternoons off and so the rich people would have to eat cold food on Sunday evenings 😆
Tea as a meal is sandwiches and cake, and may be followed by supper (no idea. A pre-bed snack? Any meal eaten after 7pm?)

We most often eat pasta for our dinner. Different sauces. Sometimes we have curry, frittata, casserole, roasted veg, or risotto- especially on week nights it’s usually a one-pot meal. We rarely have a meat-and-two-veg type meal but we do have fish like this from time to time. Fish with green vegetables and some sort of potato. We eat more meat and more involved dishes at the weekends but that’s just because of work and relaxation.

Up north they have dinner in the middle of the day, and call the evening meal tea.
Down south dinner is at night. I personally eat quite late, between 8.30-10pm. which I think is more common in warmer countries like Spain.

I think British people eat a lot of toast. Beans on toast, toasted sandwich, toast with soup. 🤣

Most of the meals I make are greek or Mediterranean inspired. So maybe not so traditional.

Most British people I know eat a mix of all sorts. Our usuals are Curry (Katsu or tikka masala), burritos, chilli, sausage & mash, pesto pasta with roasted tomatoes, mixed roast veg with couscous & tahini cream, salmon with rice & stir fry, pizzas and pasta Napoli. I think only the sausages are really traditionally British and the tikka masala (pretty sure that was originally made in UK)

Other traditional British food we make is mainly comfort winter stuff like Broth, mince & dumplings, cottage pie, haggis, beeps & tatties, toad in the hole, steak & ale pie, Cornish pasty, Irish stew (with beef or lamb), corned beef hot pot, roast dinner followed the next day by bubble & squeak and we love pan haggerty (potato, onion and cheese dish).

It depends on a whole range of things . When I was young Sunday lunch (which we called dinner) was a roast eaten at lunchtime (1pm) but every other day lunch was sandwiches (or soup or a toastie), and "tea", the hot meal was eaten between 4 and 6.

Nowadays we have lunch (the kids tell us off for calling it dinner) any time between 12 and 2 and it is usually sandwiches of some sort, or scrambled egg or beans on toast. Dinner is between 6 and 7 and could be shepherds pie, chilli con carne, spag bol, curry, stir fry, fish pie, baked potato with fillings and salad, quiche and salad, meat pie (shop bought, pastry is my nemesis) and vegetables, tagine, jambalaya, risotto, casserole, stew, burgers and chips, toad in the hole - I think those are the main things. Fishfingers and chips or frozen chicken kievs or shop-bought fishcakes on days we really can't be bothered.

Scampi and chips and peas tonight
Sausage and mash
Lasagne
Cottage Pie
Fish and chips
Omelette
Cheese on toast
Beans on toast
Roast dinner

Do you read a national newspaper every day, @AnxietyLevelMax? I don’t mean cover to cover - but if you subscribe to The Times or The Guardian and glimpse through it every day, you won’t be able to avoid continuous discussion of meals and recipes to ring the changes. They often have cookery supplements as well.

In addition your favourite supermarket may issue a regular magazine, which will offer even more guidance on what’s considered normal / strange / outrageous for dinner / supper.

Or you could simply buy a recipe book that has the work ‘Dinner’ (or similar) in the title, and work your way through it.

Oooh Scouse. I haven't had that for YEARS and now I want a lovely thick overly salty scoop of it in a take away container from the sandwich shop that was around the corner from the company I used to work for in Bootle!

We have the main meal of the day at lunchtime, so dinner time is usually just a sandwich or something light. I think that's quite normal!

Mexican, curry, Chinese, pasta, pizza, fish, anything goes, although if had a hot lunch I wouldn't have much for dinner vice versa

We eat like that, but with the lighter meal at lunch time. It can be soup though :)

I don't think my evening meals are very typical of what anybody else ever British people eat, so I won't bother posting my evenings, but I tend to have a smoothie for breakfast, and soup or salad for lunch.

The Brits eat a fair bit of curry, but perhaps not recognisable ones that people from cultures focussed around curries and aromatic/spicy food would recognise!

Oh and I cook a lot from here

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