To ask what British people have for dinner usually

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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.

sunday roast dinner
minday bubble and squeak with cold meat from roast
tewsday mince meat meal, cottage pie with beef mince or Shepard’s pie with lamb mince.
Wednesday chicken casserole or curry
thursday beans on toast or ham, egg and chips
Friday fish and chips

Fry up (We normally have this for either lunch or dinner)

Steak and kidney pudding with mash and veg

Roast dinner

Battered fish, chips and mushy peas

Tatty hash with a suet crust with red cabbage

Sausages, mash and onion gravy

Toad in the hole

Ploughman's lunch

Desserts: spotted dick, rhubarb and custard, apple pie,

I don’t think there is a typical ‘British’ dinner! Due to our culture, we have a history of embracing pretty much every cuisine!! Traditionally there are similarities to Germany (sausages, slow roast meats), and Spain (fried fish/seafood in a light batter, a love of cured pork, eggs, and fried potatoes). These days (based on my friends/family and popular recipes in newspapers/tv shows), most Brits like a varied cuisine.

There is also not really a consensus on timings either. Most eat lunch between 1200-1500 and dinner 1700-2200.

Lunchtime varies for us depending on work or if we are out and about at the weekend. Weeknights we eat around 2100 (children asleep in bed and we can relax), weekends we often go out and merge lunch and dinner and eat around 1600, maybe some cheese around 2100 if we are still peckish.

Popular meals in our household are:
Sushi
Steak and watercress salad
Paella or similar one pot rice dish
Indonesian rice dishes
Various stir fries of differing cuisines
Thai curries
Pho
Vietnamese curry

Breakfast: between 07:00-08:00 on a weekday, between 09:00-10:00 on the weekend slice of toast, peanut butter and banana / porridge / cereal / fruit and yogurt on a weekend may have pastries, or bacon I never do a full fry up but would eat it if we went out for breakfast

lunch: between 12 - 14:00 soup, houmous and veg or pitta, sandwich, possibly with a bag of crisps, piece of fruit.

Dinner between 16:00 and 18:00 here no particular 'british dish' really although I do love sausage, mash and onion gravy and DDs favourite is Korma

Snacks / dessert normally fruit / fruit and yogurt midweek and then a pudding with custard in the winter on the weekend.

Supper 7pm if we had an early dinner or been out to a sport - very light meal, peanut butter on apple slices, a slice of toast and beans, cereal

I'm British and have just batch cooked a vegetable dhal with madras spices. I will somehave it with white rice and ice cream for afters.

I eat food from everywhere, but classic "British" dinners for me would be:

Shepherd's/Cottage Pie
Fish Pie
An actual pie pie with a pastry crust
Roast dinner
Fish and chips (but from the chippy really)
Something like bubble and squeak
Corned beef hash (bit of an acquired taste I think, corned beef)
Something like a pork and cider stew/casserole
A beef stew with dumplings
Toad in the hole
Ham, egg and chips

I wouldn't want to live on this stuff all the time, but most of it is pretty nice as long as it's seasoned properly etc.

Yes was coming on to say that too.
Other recipe pages of well known uk telly chefs - Delia smith, Jamie Oliver, nigella Lawson, Nigel slater?

Typical weeknight meals for us with teens -

Pasta (lots of types, eg spag carbonara, various tomato/veg/tinned fish / sausage type combos). Either dried pasta or fresh tortellini.
Quiche / pie, veg and new potatoes
Fish, veg and brown rice (fish baked in oven with herbs / lemon / spice paste, veg generally steamed or lightly boiled, or a salad)
Baked potatoes and salad and various toppings
Curry and rice (veg or meat or fish)
Stir fry with noodles or rice
Omelette chips/potatoes and salad/veg
Maybe pizza and salad
Sausage and mash and baked beans
Spanish omelette

Those are all things we can do v quickly after work / school. At the weekend if we have more time, we might do a “nicer” version of some of the above, or other things:

Sometimes a roast (maybe monthly?)
Risotto
Fish and chips
Ramen bowls
Toad in the hole
Middle eastern type lamb or chicken things with interesting rice
Thai seafood curry
Spanish type chorizo / meat / chickpeas / peppers casserole
Beef casserole
Chicken and spring veg casserole
Gammon, cauliflower cheese, chips, salad
Traybake - veg, gnocchi, chicken thighs or feta
Baked eggs with veg
Shakshuka
Lasagne
Fish pie
Paella
Make a pie of some sort
Kedgeree
Cheese and biscuits

These are all “main meals” and we usually have them in the evening, though sometimes at the weekend we’d have main meal at lunchtime. Lunches would be soup, salad, sandwiches etc.

Are you looking for recipes for classic British dishes? Or trying to get ideas for what you could make for an evening meal.

British people don't just eat British classics the whole time. In fact very few eat classics most of the time.

I love a suet crust/pudding with a roast dinner yummy

not ever had tatty hash- does it come with gravel for the suet to soak up?

I tend to have dinner between 6 and 7. Anything from chilli, soup, salads, pizza, curry, tacos, a fish dish.

Unable and squeak is potato and cabbage - left over greens from roast

mashed up ( I put in food processor, then fried in a big round fry pan

it bubbles as hot and squeaks due to the cabbage

It's made with corn beef, onions, carrots, potatoes, beef stock and has a suet lid.

We eat the other way round from you... sandwich/soup/salad/pasta salad /wraps at lunch time as we are both at work, and main meal (Dinner) in the evening, normally between 7 and 8 pm. Monday we had chicken, noodles and veg stir fry, Tues was Greek - chicken and feta meatballs with lemon orzo, last night was shepherds pie with cavolo nero and carrots. Tonight we are going to have roasted beetroot and chicken tray bake with cous cous (have a load of beetroot from the allotment to use) Tomorrow will probably be salmon with baby potatoes, carrots and asparagus. Saturday is takeaway night and Sunday will be Roast Chicken. (always a roast on a Sunday unless the weather is good, then we BBQ)
Typical dinners in our house are jacket potatoes with salad, cheese and coleslaw. Sausage and mash with a veg (red cabbage, tenderstem) Salmon/tuna/other fish with either potatoes and veg or salad, or cooked with soy, ginger and served with jasmine rice and pak choi, rice dishes like Jambalaya, Chinesey things like beef or chicken with mushrooms with rice and pak choi. Tray bakes with sausages or chicken, red onion, peppers, baby potatoes and anything else i can chuck in. Chilli with rice or tipped over nachos with grated cheese on top, Bolognese, curry, Beef casserole in the slow cooker if were out all day.
Agree with others who have recommended the BBC Good Food web site.

For me it depends on seasons, spring and summer mostly salads for lunch and dinner but with fish/chicken/eggs etc. breakfast is yoghurt, fruit and homemade granola.

Once the weather cools down I switch to pasta either with bolognaise or a tomato based sauce, again with fish/chicken/bacon and vegetables. Also casseroles of various ingredients depending on my preference, sausages with mashed potatoes and broccoli/cabbage/green beans. Pork chops with boiled potatoes and vegetables
Curry, either chicken, lamb or cauliflower with boiled eggs. Roast dinner with roast potatoes and vegetables. Breakfast is often porridge or eggs.

That said, today breakfast was a croissant in a coffee shop and lunch was bacon and eggs. Dinner with be a shop bought pie with vegetables.

We eat dinner between 6pm and 7pm. Recent dishes have included:

Chicken and prawn paella
Roast pork loin with roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffing, carrots and broccoli, with gravy
Home-made fish, chips and mushy peas
Salmon and broccoli pasta
Moussaka
Pasta bolognese bake topped with cheese
Chicken Madras and rice
Home-made pizza
Chicken thigh bake with leeks, new potatoes and peas (Nigella recipe)
Chilli with potato and sweet potato spicy wedges
Fried eggs and bacon on toast
Boston baked beans with jacket potatoes
Ribeye steak with chips, mushrooms and pepper sauce
Home-made steak and kidney pie, mashed potatoes and greens
Cottage pie, topped with cheese, with baked beans
Tagliatelle carbonara

Really? How do you do that around/ work/ school etc? That's not the norm if people are out and about surely?

I'd start by going to the local library and taking out any recipe books you like the look of.

Then you can flick through, try a few things, and you'll start to get an idea of both what kind of food you want to try, and what writers you like.

You might like to have a look at the Hairy Bikers, lots of more traditional british recipes.

British people don't just eat British classics the whole time. In fact very few eat classics most of the time.

I agree. As much as I enjoy a roast dinner I enjoy loads of different cuisines. There is nothing we "typically" eat because we like to try new things.

Jambalaya
Various pasta dishes
Vegetarian traybakes
Curry
Korean food
Thai food
Toad in the hole
Chinese food
Various salads
Roast dinners occasionally
Sausages and mash
Risotto
Pizza
Mexican food

We eat our main meal in the evening as we both work, so lunch is just a quick sandwich, soup or salad. On office days it is the same as we no longer have a staff canteen. We tend to eat between 6.30 and 7.30 in the evening and usually at about 12 at lunchtime.

When I can be bothered , liver & bacon .

Has to be with onion & red wine gravy, buttery mashed potatoes & greens.

This thread make me think of the Goodness Gracious Me sketch "Going for an English".....

I live in the Frozen North, and I have lunch about one o'clock and dinner about seven to eight o'clock.

Generally, I have a light lunch, soup or sandwiches, and something cooked in the evening. I eat mainly pasta, chicken and fish dishes.

The population as a whole seems to eat a lot of curry dishes, also Mexican, Chinese, Thai and Middle Eastern cuisines are very popular, so that traditional British meals like hotpot, sausage & mash, mince & dumplings etc are not eaten all that often.
Also there are trends in flavours, at the moment everything has chilli flakes, coriander or chorizo in it!

In the UK, sandwich or snack type lunch, usually something on toast. Dinner is a hot meal, usually a larger portion. Overseas, we eat the other way around. Hot, large lunch and smaller, snack type dinner (unless the daytime temperature hits 30°+ in which case we revert to smaller lunches and larger dinners).

I'm British and I eat food
Think Pierce film lid, cook on high for 7 minutes.

British food is stews, roasts, pies, crumbles, salads. All with seasonal produce, so at the moment a lot of root veg, cabbage, leafy greens, potatoes, and strong herbs like rosemary and sage. If you're lactose intolerant the British diet might not be for you (lots of butter and cheese). The Hairy Bikers are very good at British food with modern twists.

That's a heart warming dish right there. Ham Egg and Chips is another.