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.

Fish and chips every day, obviously.

Bread pudding (not bread and butter pudding) it's a stodgy fruity moist yummy cake type affair.

...bread rolls.

For evening meals
Vegetable pasta bake
Chicken and leek pie with a filo pastry topping
Cottage pie
Quiche and chips
Chicken and chorizo tray bake
Dauphinoise potatoes with salmon and asparagus.
Meat, roast pots, peas,beans

Lunch is a sort yourself out thing.
Husband has hummus on toast with chopped salad veg.
In summer I have a cheese and tomato open sandwich ( no top)
Winter is different flavours of soup. I batch cook them and put in the freezer.

Some popular options at ours:
Steak chips and a Greek salad
Homemade curry
Shepherds pie and peas

We eat 6ish or 7ish depending on when children are home.

I'm cheating just now - have been on Hello Fresh for a full year now and love it!

Their introductory boxes are reasonably priced and very easy to stop the subscription before it goes to full price. Why not give it a go to see a full range of British eating?!

Although many of the dishes are 'inspired' by a different cuisine (indian, american, indonesian, chinese) but again, this is typical in the UK.

For traditional British, you're really looking at a meat and 2 veg diet.

Meat pies
Baked beans on toast
Shepherds/cottage pie.
Sausages, toad in the hole (sausages in batter - very easy to make at home)

Peas and carrots would have been the most common veg at one time but now there's a much wider range in supermarkets.

You can't beat home made apple pie with custard/ice cream as a trad dessert.

But rhubarb crumble, jam roly poly, choc fudge cake , syrup pudding also classic.

Rice pudding (sweet milky) try Ambrosia rice pud in a tin as an alternative to home made.

We eat our evening meal 6pm

tbf chips go with everything, especially curry.(fusion food😁)

Also yorkshire pudding with every roast these days, not just beef.
Apple sauce with pork.
Mint sauce with lamb (really good when mixed with peas)
redcurrant jelly rather than cranberry sauce with chicken (sweeter but more british)

Lots of people like mustard or horseradish sauce with beef but I'm not a fan.

sage, onion & chestnut stuffing with most meats too.

Also yorkshire pudding with every roast these days, not just beef. 3 courses, mini ones for starter, big ones with your roast, big one filled with fruit and cream/custard for pudding.

Apple sauce with pork. somerset pork - chops cooked in an apple cider sauce served with colcannon

We eat food from all over the world. I especially enjoy curry, risotto and stir fries. I tend to eat salad a lunchtime, or soup. And we love a pot roast with asian or bbq flavours. I'm half French, so obviously have a seen better days baguette and round lettuce with vinaigrette with every meal (joke, at my mother's expense) We don't eat much meat during the week.

But when we are eating more typically British food at the weekend, and at this time of year, a meal might be:

Roast chicken with lemon and thyme, with potatoes and salad or vegetables
Roast venison with cumberland sauce, mash and red cabbage
Slow roast pork belly with plums or apples, with mash and roasted squash
Toad in the hole
A brace of pheasants with cumberland sauce, dauphinoise potatoes, hispi cabbage with bacon
Roast vegetable and goats cheese tart
Pot roast brisket with root vegetables
Goats cheese and walnut salad
Endive and stilton salad
Lamb shanks slow cooked with red wine
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on a muffin
Fish pie with peas
A pork crackling join with apple sauce and mash
Sausages braised with lentils and squash

For pudding, fruit crumbles with cream in winter, or cheese.

This weekend we are having:

Thai seafood massaman curry
A vast macaroni cheese and salad (teen party)
Harissa lamb shanks with garlic baby potatoes and roasted veg.
So not very British (or French!) at all.

I'd say that's very rare tbh, certainly among working people. May be different among retirees. Do you work?

I having a good run on dinners at the moment

We had honey baked salmon, cauliflower cheese and baby roast potatoes last night. Twas lush

Tonight is pad Thai

Dunno what the kids'll think

I'd love to eat at your house @LesTroisSorcieres
It all sounds delicious.

with rhubarb crumble...creme anglaise 😁

Just remembered ambrosia rice pudding, perfect 'camping in the british summer' food.

A brace of pheasants

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I'd be tempted to say this isn't typical of British households but you never know

Only one pheasant per peasant.

Though pigeon is easy to come by around here.

A roast (meat, roast potatoes, veg gravy etc.)
Sheppards Pie
Spaghetti bolognaise
Carbonara
Jacket potatoes with variety of toppings - cheese, homemade coleslaw, beans, tuna, sweetcorn
Chicken and chorizo traybake
Omelettes and chips
Casseroles in the winter

@Anisty the cheapest I've found is £40 for 3 meals for 4 people.

We tend to eat between 7 & 8pm and rotate meals between fish, meat and veggie dishes.

Common meals are curries (meat, fish or vegetable, with rice or Naan), spiced chicken or lamb or falafel with roast vegetables or salad plus flatbreads, fish pie, cottage/shepherd's pie, sausages (butchers only - we don't eat UPFs) with mash and veg, homemade pizza, Quesidillas, omelettes, baked potatoes with eg vegetable chilli and salad, stews (traditional British with fresh bread or eg Tagine with grains), gnocchi with pesto, pasta dishes (usually with a ragu or eg cacio pepe for quickness), Greek salads and gyros, scampi/breaded fish with chips and peas, marinated prawns or salmon with rice and veg, fish cakes and roasted veg, sushi platter with miso, Thai green curry with rice, beef in black bean sauce with rice and stir fried veg,...

I could go on and on BUT I think the general picture for most British families is that we eat a fairly rounded menu of meals influenced by many cuisines, not really traditional British foods every day.

Mac n cheese with mackerel or prawns in
pizza with salad
tofu fried rice
baked potato with beed stew
curry
fish and veg
cottage / shepherds pie
egg and chips
lentil soup
roast chicken with trimmings
noodle soups

The Taming Twins website is good for simple recipes.

A roast is a fairly rare event in our house, maybe once a month. Most of our meals are based round rice or pasta and we eat a lot of (british) curry. "Meat and two veg" or equivalent (eg breaded fish with oven chips) I'd say twice a week max.

When kids were on school dinners sometimes I'd count that as their hot meal and just have sandwiches in the evening.

This weeks list is

• Pasta primavera
• chicken pad thai
• Turkey meatballs
• Scrambled eggs on toast (swimming night)
• Home made pizza and salad (play date night)
• Roast dinner
• Chicken pesto pasta and salad

FWIW you sound so British in the way you type 😂

Curry
Pasta
Roast chicken
Fish
Soup
Baked potato

A variety of curry dishes & from different parts of the world. Different pasta sauces and fish dishes. Always the same filling for baked potatoes and always the same sides with the roast chicken

Our usual meals:

tuna steak, rice and veg
spaghetti bolognese
stir fry
chilli
chicken fajitas
sausage and mash
beef stew
salmon, sweet potato
curry

I think you can't go wrong with the BBC Good Food website - lots of recipes and they always work. You can search for a specific dish or ideas for an ingredient. Also Delia Smith has done so much to modernise British home cooking and has introduced the nation to many foods and ingredients over the years. I have a well-used copy of her Complete Cookery Course which I love.