Are two hot meals a day better?

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Two foreign ladies (from different countries) in a month complained to me that British people are depressing because they eat cold lunches. They both like a hot lunch and a hot dinner.

So some boring questions.
Are hot meals better?
I feel that two hot meals a day would be nice but I often don't have time. I'd always be cooking! I do like a hot meal in the evening. I have seen some mothers on here complain that their children aren't getting hot meals at nurseries so obviously it's really important to some people!

Are British people famous for cold food?

Do you eat two hot meals a day?

Define hot meal? I often have soup for lunch and then a cooked dinner at night. I also enjoy salad which is not a hot meal, unless i have cooked fish cakes on my cold salad. It's all just food at the end of the day.

Home made soup for lunch,I make lots to last a few days.Eggs on toast type lunches.Evening meal always hot except in summer if high temperatures.

I’d never thought about it before but I definitely always have a warm lunch and a warm dinner. I don’t like sandwiches at all, so I always just pack leftovers of previous dinners. I cook in bulk and it doesn’t feel like much effort at all. I would really not enjoy a cold lunch.

At nursery (Canada) my kids also have a warm lunch.

My daughter who is in school doesn’t have access to a microwave so often has cold lunch. She makes it very clear to me that she feels hard done by! I should probably just buy her a thermos…

No it all ends up the same temp once you've eaten it.

Much prefer 2 hot meals a day generally.

I cook stew, dhal, and 1/2 portions chilli en bulk, freeze them and defrost them as required. Both the stew and the dhal are basically shove in the slow cooker meals. I find I eat faaaaar more vegetables (and cheaper vegetables) this way

I would class soup and eggs as a hot meal so I do sometimes two hot meals.

One of the ladies said in her country they'd have chicken and pasta for lunch and then similar for dinner.

I’m a 3 warm meals a day person, dh could live off salads and sandwiches happily, I don’t think we’re particularly famous for cold food?

I feel like I should aspire to make two hot meals a day.
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Prefer a warm lunch unless it's a lovely fresh salad in the summer. But I'm not really a fan of cold sandwiches in general and I can't really think of what else I'd have cold other than a salad.

On the depressing thing - I don’t think it’s anything to do with hot versus cold, but I’m sure there is a correlation between stressed, grab a meal deal between errands or speed eat a sandwich at your desk versus take the time away from other things to cook yourself something for lunch. Which is the cause and which the effect we could probably argue all day!

Would you have a toastie? One said she couldn't bear a cold cheese sandwich but likes cheese toasties.

It's not about the temperature though is it, presumably the mean that the type of food you'd have as a hot meal is more substantial

Sometimes I eat no hot meals a day! When I can't be arsed making dinner I just have sandwiches or cereal.

I usually have three hot meals a day except in summer. Toast for breakfast, soup or leftovers for lunch, then dinner. I'd say that's fairly typical?

I prefer my kids to have two hot meals and I rarelty eat sandwiches etc myself. Typically hot meals are more nutritious and filling (they are when I've made them anyway).

I have friends whose kids eat packed lunch food for both lunch and dinner and I wouldn't be happy with that myself.

"Two foreign ladies" should stfu. They can eat what they want to eat. Everyone else can do their own thing. Are foreign people depressing because they whine about ridiculous things?

Yeah I love toasties, but that's a warm meal to me?

I eat about two hot meals a week. I don't particularly like them.

Same as you prefer to cook something that also fills them to

My DC always seem to want 2 hot meals a day but I don't always have time or just don't want to cook twice a day. They get plenty of choice for lunches but after about age 10 or 11 I said if they wanted hot meals they could make it themselves so they made simple things like pasta, jacket potatoes, pizza or heated up leftovers from the day before. Now DD finishes school at lunchtime 3 days a week so often cooks herself an omelette or some chicken. (I work outside the home most days )

I found their point of views interesting and funny. Not particularly offensive.

I think I'd feel hard done by if I had no hot meals in a day unless it was the height of summer.

I don't like cooking so I find it quite liberating just to put together something cold. Less washing up as well. If I want a hot something I just have a cup of tea or coffee.

I very much felt that, when my children were small, two hot meals a day were necessary. Largely because meals that you have cooked yourself from scratch are, invariably, more nutritious. As they've got older and busier, things have changed but they both prefer a proper meal to anything else

I eat 3! I cook every meal, I don’t like cold food so rarely choose it.