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Breakfast, dinner and tea

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fisil · 06/02/2005 15:07

That's what I eat, every day. Someone on another thread was saying you only have dinner in the middle of the day if it's your main meal. I don't, tea's my main meal.

So what do most people have?

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Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:00

Used to be breakfast, dinner and tea growing up.

Now I'd say breakfast, lunch and dinner - not sure how that happened!

Sometimes say 'tea' for the kids 'dinner' as it's earlier than ours if that makes sense!

JanH · 06/02/2005 16:10

Breakfast, lunch and tea here...blended household. (N/S I mean!)

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:12

JanH only Express readers say 'tea'

JanH · 06/02/2005 16:14

Express readers and me, then

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:14

Edam, your diatribe on school dinners strikes a chord. I was appalled with the crap on offer at my boarding school which was mainly mince,'smash' and baked beans-none of which ever passed my lips in 7 years.
We were bullied and harangued at every opportunity. Bulimia and Anorexia were rife.
I was once marched up to the head cook (the word 'chef' sticks in the craw somewhat) and told off for taking TWO pickled onions instead of one! He then sent me to the head!!

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:15

I LOVED school dinners as a pupil AND as a dinner lady - good job I was into jogging at the time!

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:21

Yes, JT. Should have seen the thighs on those of us who weren't bulimic/anorexic. Took a LOT of lacrosse to shift all those suet puddings.
My dh reckoned the same with his school dinners. Enjoyed thm more than his mum's!

No wonder he married me. If there's one thing I CAN do, it's cook!

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:22

moondog - oh I still have the thighs believe me!
I too preferred school dinners to my mothers cooking!

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:24

JT....

Lonelymum · 06/02/2005 16:25

I ate school dinners all my school days until I reached about 15 when I used my dinner money to buy a Mars bar and an ice cream from the visiting ice cream van every single lunchtime. I think at that age you can afford the huge intake of calories.

I do remember dragon like dinner ladies though. I became adept at hiding inedible prunes under my spoon!

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:26

at school it was 'dinner' and 'pudding'

I HATE GOOSEBERRIES!

Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:27

Lonelymum - I did similar. I spent my money on kola kubes at the newsagents so could only afford a 12p roll with butter at lunch time! No wonder I was stick thin!!

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:27

I think dinnerladies are a mutant subculture. The ones I remember were all thoroughly unpleasant. Bullies actually.
(present company excepted JT)

lou33 · 06/02/2005 16:28

my mum was a school dinner lady as well at one point.

Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:28

It was great having Mum at school - great big pieces of chocolate sponge and custard and tiny portions of spam fritters

Moomina · 06/02/2005 16:28

I have just one word to say about school dinners and that word is...liver.

Ameriscot2005 · 06/02/2005 16:29

We have dinner at around 6.30pm - supper if it involves guests and is invariably closer to 8pm.

My girls have skool dinners; my boys have school lunches at the normal time, and tea at 4pm. I have lunch (leftovers or something snacky), and DH has lunch at work.

Our evening meal is the main one for us.

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:30

nah - the kids loved me - always gave em the skin of the custard (bleuurgghhh!) they called me Supergran - picture it - I had a red scooter - wore a green mac and an orange helmet - I used to zoom everywhere (don't know where the gran bit came from tho!)

Lonelymum · 06/02/2005 16:30

I remember one DL who would put the fear of God into all of us. At the annual Christmas party she would yell at us that we had to eat the sandwiches befor we had any cake or biscuits. COW!

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:31

I used to HATE liver until I became a dinner lady and had it sliced thinly and braised - delicious!

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:31

Spam is a crime against humanity.
My sister lives in France. You should see the meals her kids have at school! I slaver at the refctory door reading the menus whenever I am there. Delightful little salads to start with. Perfectly executed cuts of meat with elegant vegetables to follow and exquisite puddings.
They EVEN have foie gras at Christmas time!

moondog · 06/02/2005 16:32

JT..like the idea of you in your getup. Why didn't we have dinnerladies like that?!

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Lonelymum · 06/02/2005 16:33

School puddings were nice though weren't they? (prunes excepted) I loved chocolate crackles and those slices with coconut in. Even jam roly poly..... Custard was yuck though, lumpy and made with water I think.

Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:34

Cornflake Tart - you can't beat it - yum!

Potty1 · 06/02/2005 16:40

I love prunes......

School dinners - cheese pie, chips and beans followed by chocolate crunch and mint custard. Yum, yum.

And it's breakfast dinner and tea here.

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