What does your family eat in a day if you are not British?

[Flauralaura]

Just curious. Please tell me where you are from and what a typical day's meals would be in your household.

I’m French and I like Jamie Oliver
i dint cook many French recipes simply because it’s impossible to find a lot of the ingredients (cheese!!). Or nit at a decent price.
JO is a good compromise there.

German and Estonian here. Bread is a big thing in our countries of origin, I bake around 4 loafs of rye sourdough a week. We have that for breakfast with cold meat and cheeses, jams or honey and again for a cold dinner. Usually accompanied by fruits in the morning and salad veggies in the evening.
We also eat quite a lot of pickled and fermented stuff, sauerkraut, gherkins, kefir and the like. I absolutely love the Estonian version of a potato salad my MIL taught me, with herring, ham, beets and apples.
Lunch is usually hot and can be anything really, from a barley vegetable stew to Schnitzel to something quintessentially British like cottage pie.

Last night's dinner was:
a salad of orange bell pepper, grape tomatoes, cucumber, evoo, pecorino, a bit of salt and some dried Italian herbs followed by pasta which was linguine tossed in a sauce of sautéed mushrooms and grape tomatoes, anchovy, a glug of oil from a jar of sun-dried tomatoes, some pasta water and a generous grating of pecorino. Dessert was a handful of dark chocolate chips from the baking cupboard. 😋😋😋
This morning was half a plain bagel with PB& raspberry jam and a sweetened soy latte.
Then made a banana bread with slivered almonds, dark chocolate chips and flavoured with vanilla and a touch of almond extract. Having that now with another latte. Lazy Sunday morning watching a doc.
Dinner will be salmon, roasted veggies, brown/wild rice blend.

Canadian with a mixed bag heritage: 3rd gen both sides western/eastern Europe (England/Ireland, Poland/Ukraine; Norway/Italy/Russia).

Born British, but of south Asian and Middle Eastern heritage.
We also have boring breakfasts and lunch (wrap/paninis jacket potatoes etc), but the evening meal is where we go all out. On a typical day we have “normal” food such as: pasta and meat/fish or lasagne/shepherds pie or chicken pie with chips veg etc. But, when we are wanting spicy food, I’ll make lamb/chicken pilau rice with veg and meat karahi. Usually we have pilau rice and naans with our curries. I also do masala fish and Chapli kebabs which are different to the “British kebab” my kids love them.

Some interesting meals on here - I need to be more adventurous! We are quite mundane in our meals - cereal for breakfast, sandwiches/soup for lunch and the usual suspects (roasts, cottage pie, spaghetti bolognese,pasta bakes etc) for dinner

British of indian descent here.

Weekday breakfasts are regular cereal/toast due to time pressures but on the weekend we have paranthas (like chappatis but stuffed with potato, onion, seasoning, or filled with fresh fenugreek and spinach).
Or we have indian/Pakistani style baked beans on toast (regular baked beans added to sautéed onions and spices)

lunches-
Vegetarian Manchurian
scrambled egg Portha
Potato curry with puri
Pan fried chicken tossed in cumin seeds and oil with a little butter- eaten in a wrap

Dinners-
Paneer and pea curry
Chickpea curry
Aubergine and potato dry sabjee
Dhal Makhani
Aloo Gobi
Mixed vegetable Sabjee
Kidney bean curry
The above served with dumplings in spiced yoghurt, or simple raita, naans, chapati, rice whichever we fancy.

This is a fantastic idea for a thread OP.
Boringly British here but love food.
Recipe for African stew would be great@Loraloralaughs

Gosh British food is so boring compared to the amazing recipes on here... I'm so jealous (and lazy).

So far my favourites are the west African/carribean foods followed by the Indian/Pakistan food.

Brilliant idea for a thread!

Definitely going to be looking out some recipes for these lovely meals! Does anyone here have a Mediterranean style daily diet? I think that's a way of eating that my family could easily adopt, especially in the summertime.

British as British can be, but living in v mixed area of North London with predominantly Turkish/Kurdish and Greek Cypriot food outlets. Were just off the high street and they're open 24 hrs, so we mainly shop there.
Breakfast was a chopped salad: cucumber, feta, black olives, tomatoes and red onion, fresh mint with tiny, spicy lamb meatballs. Olive oil.
Lunch will be left over salad, halloumi and flatbread.
Dinner is a pork belly, fennel and potato stew.
There will be vodka.

What a fabulous thread.

Rye bread smoked makral cabbage salad cheese green beans . Not all at once necessarily

We have some neighbours from Zimbabwe, I walk past their house every lunch time and it always smells amazing, I'd love to knock on the door and ask what it is but feels a bit inappropriate

great idea for a thread!

I am british origin and so things are pretty British. But I spent some time during my university years in Israel (A long long time ago now) and adored the Israeli breakfasts - chopped cucumber; tomatoes. red peppers, radishes, black olives and olive oil with fresh pita bread and maybe some cheese or eggs. I am sure you can't go far wrong if you have a salad like that every day in some form!

We have some neighbours from Zimbabwe, I walk past their house every lunch time and it always smells amazing, I'd love to knock on the door and ask what it is but feels a bit inappropriate 

I remember that someone on MN did exactly this with a neighbour and it turned out that she was boiling her husband's overalls.

Also I want to make all of these now.

🤣🤣🤣

@WallabyWay haha, evidence as to why you shouldn't knock on the door!

Both me and husband are Polish.

Breakfast
Porridge with almond milk fruit and some walnuts or so, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, Greek yoghurt with berries and almonds, toast with houmous and some vegetables etc., sometimes toast with peanut butter and jam (more husband than me)

Lunch
salad with cheddar/feta/kidney beans/chicken, some rice cakes, crackers or piece sourdough bread
fruit
Husband likes to eat soup or baked beans for lunch, as he does intermittent fasting and doesn't eat until 2PM.

Tea
vegetable soup, stew with buckwheat, once a week spaghetti, roast chicken etc., sometimes we order pizza or noodles

We barely eat Polish food, maybe few times a year, at Christmas or when we visit family. It's not typical diet Polish people eat (there's lots of fried foods, flour which make me bloated and I put on weight) it's my result of trial and error what works for us health and weight-wise.

I am a British born Indian. Husband is india born
We eat Gujarati food in the evenings unless we r going out then it's whatever..
Weekdays r rushed but weekends I spend more time in the kitchen and make the traditional breakfast lunch n dinners...
dhokla
Khaman
Khamni
Patra
Paturi
Aubergine potato curry
Chickpea curry
Chicken curry
Daal bhat

Pls feel free to ask for recipes... I'm also a chef with my own catering business..

I am American by birth (though dh and by way of him, dc are). I think I eat exactly what everyone else eats, but I do tend to occasionally cook some very 'American' meals - sloppy joes, meatloaf, certain mexican/tex mex things that you probably have here but not as frequently (quesadillas, taco salad, enchiladas), and I make a mean hot artichoke and spinach dip, which is a popular 'appetizer' in America.

On a day to day basis, I think I eat the way your average British person does, except I have udon noodles in miso broth nearly every day for breakfast. That's nothing to do with my nationality or cultural background, just a weird food preference.

*Dh and dc are British.

I'm from a Hong Kong Chinese family. Breakfast was overnight oats with fruit. Went out for lunch and had a full English breakfast. Tonight will be a lemon chicken dish with rice.

For lunch, I usually have either leftovers or Japanese bento type lunches. For dinner, about half are Cantonese Chinese food. Main difference to home is we use chicken (not pork) and boneless thighs (instead of with bone). I never order Chinese takeaways and can't stand them. The only Chinese food I will eat out is in Chinatown in the big cities.

@RestrictiveCovenant - is there a Persian cook book in English that describes the techniques as well as the recipes?

These dishes sound fantastic. I’ve eaten Persian food but only in restaurants, never in a home.

I taught immigrants and asylum seekers English and while you shouldn’t stereotype nationalities, it just so happened that I never taught an Iranian student who wasn’t dazzling charming, polite, generous and lovely, and while I’m being a big racist I never met an Ethiopian student who wasn’t really studious, courteous and kind. I realise there will be Iranian and Ethiopian twats but my own limited experience has given me pro bias!