What do you eat in a day if you're not originally from the UK?

[snauralaura]

Just interested in your daily food routine and recipes if your family background is not typically British.

I think the biggest difference is - we don't have tea with milk, don't use potatoes and beans, and sandwich is for breakfast or on the go meal and lunch and dinner are supposed to be hot meal.

Breakfast - poached eggs on toast with guacamole / omelette with turkey ham and cheese and/or onion and tomatoes/ greek yoghurt with protein cereal /sandwich (1 slice of bread + butter + cheese or salami)
Lunch - some fried meat or sausage (bavarian or british) with salad (just lettuce tomatoes and balsamic), or shnitzel or homemade chicken nuggets. Chicken curry. Sometimes bolognese or just pasta with pesto genovese. Rice or pasta and vegetables as a side for DC.
Also homemade burgers or hotdogs.

Just salad for dinner for me - with tuna or salmon or smth like this, or the same hot meal as lunch for DC.

Macarons or icecream (solero/magnum/haagendatz) or raspberry trifle for dessert as most supermarket cakes are too sweet. Sometimes bake frozen croissants from Pret/Waitrose/M&S.
DC likes British biscuits.

Also meatballs for lunch/dinner and nicer supermarket pizza. We never have takeaways because it's just easier to buy and airfry and eat fresh than to wait for 40 minutes and get cold food.

Genuine question, why no sandwich for dinner as it should be a hot meal, but salad is okay?

Is it just an illogical quirk (which is totally fine!)? I wouldn’t have a sandwich for breakfast, but that is also an illogical quirk as I have no reason not to, as I would have toast or meats for example.

Salad for dinner - because I'm trying to lose weight. I started it only this year. Before it was the same hot meal as for lunch.
We also don't eat breakfast cereals because they are mostly sugar and fat so probably not very filling. I don't know how common they are here. Porridge (but only the sweet one) is fine. And I forgot salmon sandwiches with Philadelphia cheese or guacamole for breakfast. That's what I put poached eggs on top of.
We don't eat egg sandwiches, never heard of them actually before.

And crisps are not a meal or daily snack, it's considered "fun food", like Haribo or smth., so OK for a movie/with beer.

For the first few years British sausages used to taste funny to us because of the whole different set of spices. What is called Frankfurters here were a norm. But we got used to it.

Once a day,usually for dinner we have basmati rice, some kind of daal, quick vegetable stir fry with light sprinkiling of Indian spices, a meat/fish or egg curry as a side. Everything else is pretty normal Brit household food.Only thing we don't eat is sausages, salamis, pork etc as traditionally we didn't have them back home and its not something we would add to our menu due to health and cultural reason. Celebratory food for weekends would be biriyani with salads and potato kebabs. Haven't had that for a while as requires quite an effort. We look forward to going to London to eat at Brick Lane authentic south asian restaurants every few months.

Big yes to sandwiches for breakfast. Always open sandwiches, just one piece of bread per sandwich. The sandwiches are typically with ham, cheese, tomato and cucumber. Crisps don't go with sandwiches, they are a snack on their own. Toast bread doesn't count as bread, it should be sourdough, baguette or, at a push, crusty bread roll. To drink it's tea without milk.

I don't think it's anything special really on daily basis when it comes to routine. At least not anymore. Lunch used to be warm meal, dinner light, but after years in UK it got swapped around.
Weekend breakfast (we don't eat breakfast during work week) is usually ful with eggs and sourdough or nice rye. Once a week we enjoy homemade sauerkraut with chicken and potatoes in various forms. Broth soup once a week. Plenty of meat and veg. I never really got on with the thick ones here, nor did dh. In winter I could live on soups and gulash😂 Homemade kefir, glass every day.
Quite regular menu item is kabsah. DH can make REALLY nice one. Usually enough that we eat it over 2 days. Into that we do the usual like stir fries, teriyaki fish with wasabi mash etc.
My fave summer no fuss dinner on a weekend is beer, grilled klobasa, pickles, nice bread, mustard and horseradish (separately!) platter.
It also depends on a season. Some months we eat lots of chili, gulash and warm meals, some months I survive mainly on salads.

I agree with pp above. Toast bread, doesn't count as bread. 🙈 Where I am from it's sold literally as "toast bread" and used for toasties. You know, the triangle ones from press machine. Soz

Most days for me it is

brown pasta in homemade sauce (don’t buy container sauces) and veggies tossed in, sometimes have bread depending on how I feel.

Vegetable stir fries with rice

Omelettes or scrambled eggs with veggies

Lots of fruit, strawberries, bananas, melon, apples, pears, grapefruit.

I eat meat if I need to use some up or it is on offer. I don’t eat meat daily.

Not a snack person nor drink alcohol, love my soda stream so I can have the water as fizzy as I want

I’ll have a few biscuits or cookies if I have a craving for it, but quality in shops have gone downhill to mes so I bake/make my own stuff if I want something enough.

Do like Haagen Daas Vanilla ice cream and their Coffee ice cream when I can find it (Coffee is often sold out in my area).

Sometimes I’ll have sandwiches, depends on my mood.

Love a nice order of chips on occasion.

Personally I would cook or buy Italian dishes few times a week - like pasta Alfredo, different kind of rizottos, lasagna - if my DC was eating them, though we are not Italian. Also I would cook gulash or beef stroganoff. Or some Georgian dishes. Or piri piri chicken.

Chicken tikka is good though! And British!

I often cook Italian food too.

Growing up, pasta wasn't on the menu, we didn't eat "foreign foods". For dinner we had soup and meat, potatoes and veggies most days. I lived in that mythical era when everything was cooked from scratch from local ingredients that happened to be in season. My mum bought fruit and veg from local farmers market and meat from the local butcher. Now it sounds wonderful but in reality it was mind numbingly boring and monotonous. My mum wasn't a very good cook 🙈

I was 15 when I first tried pasta with tomato sauce. My English teacher cooked it for me when she learnt that I had never had spaghetti 😂 I was in my 20s when I first tried curry.

These days I like to try foods and recipes from all over the world.

Born in the uk but both my parents not from uk. One German other Italian.

growing up breakfast was eggs with toast or a yogurt and fruit. Lunch was homemade soup or meats and bread.

dinner was never typical British. Would be pasta, stews or salads. always family style as in bowls of main meals with veg or salads in middle of table to help yourself. But they were great a taking you to new restaurants to try different foods. They then tried to recreate it at home.

now I don’t cook typically British and do add bowls of food in the middle of the table to help yourself. DP did grow up with typical British food so I do cook sometimes. But he loves the family style cooking and now eats more adventurous.

I’m from Gilgit-Baltistan, I’m half Burusho half Punjabi, dairy isn’t a huge thing where I’m from. Meat also isn’t common due to cost, supply and a lack of cold storage, the same reason due to the lack of diary I guess. The meat people typically eat is goat, mutton and chicken. Although yoghurt has become much more common.

We eat a lot of buckwheat pancakes, we also sometimes have pasta I make from buckwheat. We have a lot of what would be considered soup, really thick noodle soups, not thin soups like minestroni (sorry, no idea how to spell that). We eat a lot of grain and pumpkin, lots of apricots too. I do make punjabi Pakistani food too, purely because its a bit quicker, so thats our usual food.

We do also eat western food, my husband isn’t Asian, so we’re used to different foods growing up. Breakfast is usually rice or pancakes, sometimes it will be an omlette. Lunch is virtually always leftovers from the night before, I can’t be bothered to make another meal and neither of us are really fans of sandwiches or wraps. Dinner in the week is usually a more punjabi dish, but at the weekend its usually gilgit food, if I’m feeling lazy I crack out the quorn nuggets, chips and peas. We sometimes make Swedish food too, but that isn’t typically vegetarian, so thats a bit limited really.

All meals are hot meals and cooked from scratch. Breakfasts are usually eggs, omelettes, crepes, open face toasted sandwiches, leftover soup.

Lunches and dinners are cooked from scratch - usually meat and veggies, potatoes or rice. Pasta is not used very often unless it’s the rare lasagna or spaghetti bolognaise but the sauces are made from scratch so it’s a 2 hour weekend dish. Our meals are stews, soups, usually something with a sauce or liquid. We also do grilled meats and salads (love the air fryer for chicken thighs, pork shoulder stakes, etc.). Crisps are not part of the meal, they are an occasional treat for the kids. My family does not like fruit very much but we eat lots of veggies.