To ask what British people have for dinner usually

[AnxietyLevelMax]

Not british, married to one but he grew up abroad and dont know a lot about own culture besides common things such as roast dinner etc 😊

what do you guys eat and at what time usually? Its so different where i am from - our lunch is hot and usually between 2-3pm (think like soups, pasta, chicken, fish etc etc). In the evening our dinners are cold - sandwiches, salad or whatever.

i am looking for some british meal ideas 😀 kids born in uk and growing up here so we would love to mix all 3 cultures.

Sausage, mashed potatoes and beans
Spag bog
Cottage pie, carrots and peas
Fish and chips

Tonight we're having fish pie with beans
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish/best-fish-pie/

I made a shepherd's pie yesterday.

I’m British and our main meal is ‘dinner’ eaten anytime between 5.30-8pm usually either spaghetti with bolognase sauce, salad or salmon fillet roasted served with rice and green beans, steak, potatoes and roast veg, roast chicken, lasagne, lamb curry with pilau rice, fish pie, chicken soup, scotch broth, Cullen skink. If unwell toast and tea.

Lunch is often a sandwich or something light. Dinner is the hot meal - pasta, curry,Chinese, Korean, Thai and occasionally meat and 2 veg. It's pretty multicultural with food these days. Times vary depending on work hours- any time after 5, up until 9pm ( probably 6-7pm mostly)

Like a lot of British people we eat a fair bit of international food too.
British food like:
sausage, gravy, veg, potatoes
cottage pie
fish pie
stew of varying types
fish, veg, potato

More international food:
chicken or other curry and rice
chilli and rice or jacket potato
fajita wraps with salad, guacamole etc
stir fry

Dinner is usually the main meal of the day, we eat around 7-8ish but did eat earlier when my son was small. Most British people like to eat a wide range of food so pasta, Mexican, ect is very popular and of course the beloved curry.

I kind of mix up lunch and tea so
Lunch might be a sandwich and then tea a hot meal or lunch a hot meal and then just something light for tea depending when I am more hungry
No set routine

Lunch - between 11.30-2 depending on work
Tea - between 5-8pm

So I have anything from
Stuff on toast - scrambled egg, beans, avocado and feta etc
Sandwiches
Omelettes
Casseroles, pies, meat and veg, pasta
Soup

Usually lunch is soup or sandwiches around 12-1pm, and dinner (main hot meal of the day) will be in the evening around 6-7pm. Dinner might be, e.g.:
Fish pie, with a green vegetable (e.g., broccoli),
Any sort of meat pie (steak and ale/mushroom/kidney, chicken and mushroom/leek/ham) with mash and veg,
Beef stew with plenty of root veg and dumplings,
Lancashire hot pot,
Scouse.
We also have other things - curries, pasta, pizza, tagines, stir fries - but these are the most traditionally British things I can think of off hand.

Sometimes our lunchtime meal will be a hot meal, e.g., a roast dinner on Sundays, and then the evening meal is more likely to be a lighter affair, either cold or soup, toasted sandwich etc.

Oh and I cook a lot from here

www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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

Thanks guys! Do you have any go to websites with recipes? @StrictlyAFemaleFemale thanks i will have a look at it!
i am actually making my first even chicken pie tmrw and i know how to make banging shepherds pie so this is a start😆

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.....