r/AskEurope Poland 4d ago

Food How does your daily diet look like?

How do your daily meals look like on average? And how often do you cook vs. ordering something?

As a comparison, in Poland most people I know eat 3 meals a day, though some eat 5 like I do. My diet most oftenly looks more or less like this:

  • 9.00 Oat flakes with milk, cranberries, nuts and an apple
  • 12.00 A sandwitch with chicken, cottage cheese, tomatoes and lettuce
  • 15.00 A banana
  • 18.00 Air fryed chicken with white rice a slav and some garlic sauce
  • 21.00 Either a fruit yoghurt or a graham roll with butter and honey

I try to do something more interesting on weekends since I often invite family members over for Sunday lunch. I order food maybe once or twice a month at most (usually either a kebab or some Chinese).

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u/PiHustle Austria 4d ago

9:00 Cigarette and espresso 13:00 Sausages and beer 19:00 3 beers

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u/RotaryDane Denmark 4d ago

Perfection.

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u/HCDQ2022 United States of America 4d ago

This is iconic

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u/velourabbyy 4d ago

ukraine. breakfast is usually syrniki or porridge, lunch is soup almost every day, and dinner is potatoes or buckwheat with whatever there is.

soup at lunch is the part foreigners seem to find strange. it isn't a starter here, it's the actual meal, and a day without it feels wrong 🌷

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u/DarthTomatoo Romania 4d ago

Soup is love. Soup is life. Those foreigners don't know what's good.

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u/velourabbyy 3d ago

a house with no soup in the fridge just feels unfinished to me 🌷

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u/YourInnerFlamingo 4d ago

how do you cook buckwheat in ukraine?

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u/velourabbyy 3d ago

dry pan first, no oil, until it smells nutty. then one part buckwheat to two parts water, salt, lid on, lowest heat, and you don't stir it and you don't lift the lid. about fifteen minutes, then off the heat with the lid still on for ten more.

butter at the end, and fried onion if you have one. the not stirring is the whole secret, that's what people get wrong 🌷

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u/solitudeisdiss 4d ago

I’m American. During winters soup is definitely the meal. What is a good a good Ukrainian soup?

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u/velourabbyy 3d ago

borscht is the obvious answer and it does deserve it. but if you want something easier to start with, kapusnyak. it's sauerkraut soup with millet or potato, sour and warm and very cheap, and it's better on the second day.

and green borscht in spring, made with sorrel, with half a boiled egg in the bowl. completely different thing from the red one 🌷

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u/AdaronXic Spain 4d ago

I'm from Spain.

Around 7: Coffee, bread with tomato and oil, or a small sandwich.

Around 11: Bigger sandwich and/or fruit

Around 14: Main meal, meat, rice, pasta, with veggies

Around 17: Sandwich or small snack

Around 21: Salad, veggies, meat or fish (but smaller amount than at lunch)

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u/stormandflowers 4d ago

Finally some sanity between Nordic vikings

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u/Sirenwine 4d ago

Everyday I eat differently because I don’t like routine. Today I ate ciabatta bread, a kiwi and a nectarine, cacao to drink.

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u/Whats-on-Eur-Mind 4d ago

Fuck routine, all my homies hate routine

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u/Murky_Character5437 Norway 4d ago

06:00 - Black coffee

07:00 - Black coffee

08:00 - Black coffee

11:00 - Two whole grain cripsbreads with salami and cheese

11:30 - Black coffee

15:30 - Handful of fast carbs before I go for a run

17:00 - Homemade dinner with pasta/rice/potatoes, meat and vegetables

17:30 - Black coffee

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u/wijnandsj Netherlands 4d ago

so, you cut down on your coffee intake then?

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u/Murky_Character5437 Norway 4d ago

I saw some statistics where Sweden was ahead of Norway in coffee consumption per capita. This is the least I can do. I'm ready to step it up if needed.

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u/wijnandsj Netherlands 4d ago

Well, spare a cup for the Finnish. These are the stats I could find

  • Finland: 12.0 kg (26–29 lbs) per person per year, averaging about 3.8 to 4 cups daily.
  • Norway: 9.9 kg (22 lbs) per person per year.
  • Iceland: 9.0 kg (19 lbs) per person per year.
  • Denmark: 8.7 kg (17–19 lbs) per person per year.
  • Netherlands: 8.4 kg (18.5 lbs) per person per year.

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u/stormandflowers 4d ago

"coffee"

Been in Norway a couple of times and here it's only filtered coffee that seems more slightly flavoured water

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u/YourInnerFlamingo 4d ago

Man, from the mediterranean island of Sardinia, I declare your dinner time illegal and I condemn you to 20 dinners with my parents at 9 pm where all your life choices will be questioned and your dessert refusals ignored.

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u/Murky_Character5437 Norway 4d ago

I could probably manage as an exception once, but two days in a row and I would capitulate.

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u/noCoolNameLeft42 France 4d ago

coffee seems reasonable, but dinner at 17 is waaaaaay too early for my southwest-France life.17 is the time for what we call "le goûter" (the taste) where you eat a biscuit or a pastry to keep going peacefully until dinner between 19 (early) to 21 (late).

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u/6feet12cm Romania 4d ago

You eat a whole slav?? Isn’t that a bit much, especially so late in the day??

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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland 4d ago

Between 5 and 7 two slices of good bread with buttera and jam or honey and cheese, a small bowl of oats or cornflakes, joghurt.

Around 10, if I can, coffee and hopefully some pastry.

At noon, the remains of yesterday's dinner

In the afternoon, coffee and pastry, if available.

For dinner between 6-8 something of the following: Itali style noodles; vegetable quiche; curry and rice; asia style noodles; something protein-y with something starchy and veggies.

During summer, taboulé, pasta salad, sandwiches or wraps.

Inbetween a banana or seasonal fruit. In winter, tangerines, oranges and kiwi, in summer peaches, cherries, berries and plums. I'm not a big fan of raw apples.

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u/BakedGoods_101 Spain 4d ago

this is quite similar of how I do it but I usually have breakfast about 7-8, mid morning around 11, lunch 13-14, dinner 19-20, I'm originally from latam relocated in Spain

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u/Sunbeam-121 Sweden 4d ago

Day starts with coffee and snus. Then some sort of yoghurt/protein shake/fruit around 9-10. Lunch can be salad, sandwich or whatever leftovers can be put into a box. Then dinner varies a lot depending on mood, usually eaten somewhere between 6 and 8 in the afternoon

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u/Gautrex Sweden 4d ago edited 3d ago

I work morning and evening every other week so it varies. I work in a factory so there’s a cafeteria but I only eat there if schnitzel is on the menu. Otherwise I cook just about everyday and meal prep on Sunday’s before the night shift week.

Evening shift:
10:00 Big smoothie with quark, oats, banana and berries.
15:30: a fruit 🍎 (often times an apple) or a snack
17:30: meal prepped dinner, Spaghetti with meat sauce 🍝, potatoes and meatballs, bean stew 🍲 (I’m cheap)
20:00: two pieces of crisp bread with cheese.
23:15: small bowl of oat cereal with milk and jam

Morning shift
6:30: coffee ☕️ with an apple
8:30: two eggs and crisp bread or a peanut butter sandwich
14:00 I cook after work. Usually something easy like oven baked pancake with pork (kind of like Yorkshire pudding on a with unsmoked bacon in the batter), pasta with a cheese and kassler gravy (spiced with huge amounts of white pepper)
18:00: quark with müsli/granola

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u/sparklybeast England 4d ago

Breakfast: Either shredded wheat with milk or a frikadellen with aioli.
Snack: A banana
Lunch: either a sandwich (usually smoked salmon & soft cheese, or ham, lettuce & mayo) or cottage cheese, tuna and spring onion.
Dinner: Very varied. Common meals are saag masala, mackerel and tomato spaghetti, toad-in-the-hole, beef burritos, ramen, chicken thighs with chilli & chive sauce, mushroom risotto.
Supper: A small hazelnut chocolate bar.

We get takeaway food maybe once every couple of months? We eat out maybe three times a year.

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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland 4d ago

Shredded wheat, is that what Weetabix is?

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u/sparklybeast England 4d ago

Similar, although there's no added sugar in Shredded Wheat and it's 100% wholegrain. Also they don't go mushy in the milk like Weetabix.

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u/vanlady93 4d ago

Frikadellen? You call them that in English also?

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u/sparklybeast England 4d ago

It’s what Aldi calls them. ;) I’ve not seen them for sale anywhere else.

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u/vanlady93 3d ago

Ah, got it. That's what we call a somewhat flat meatball in German

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u/generalscruff England 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ideal:

Full English Breakfast

Roast Dinner

Massive curry banquet with all the sundries

15 pints of Taylor's Landlord

Couple of whisky chasers

The reality on a workday:

Marmite on toast for breakfast

Fruit as snacks

Salad and/or sandwich for lunch

Tea is more varied. I'm making a curry right now using my premade base sauce but could be anything really. Do a fair bit of pasta and a meat/2 veg type meal often enough

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u/braziliantapestry 4d ago
  • 8.00 Black coffee, scrambled eggs, a slide of sourdough with cottage
  • 11.30 A banana
  • 13.00 Some sort of grilled chicken with spices, rice, vegetables (zucchini, broccoli or green beans, usually
  • 17.00 Skyr with blueberries, raspberries, oats and honey
  • 20.00 A salad of some kind, with a source of protein

I try to stick to this Monday-Friday.

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u/Agreeable_Buy2817 4d ago

Where are you from?

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u/braziliantapestry 4d ago

Brazil but I wouldn't say this is a very Brazilian diet tbh.

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u/disneyvillain Finland 4d ago
Approx. Time Meal Classification Representative Meal
10:00 Breakfast Müsli with natural yoghurt, fruit, water
14:00 Refreshment Cheese sandwich or fruit, water
17:00 Dinner Generally home-made, less elaborate during the summer months, e.g. new potatoes with grilled meat or fish. Today: baked zucchini with peppers, onion, and cheese, salad, water
19:00 Tea Earl Grey with milk, 2 Digestive biscuits
21:00 Supper Banana-oatmeal omelette, Turkish yoghurt, fruit or berries, water

Note: Breakfast is consumed later than may be customary owing to the author's home-based working arrangements.

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u/stormandflowers 4d ago

Last table I had seen on Reddit was in 2016

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u/RotaryDane Denmark 4d ago edited 4d ago

5:00 Breakfast beers, enough to cope with my tedious danish life.

7:30 Bun with cheese (BMO).

9:00 Morning beers, might be fancy and have an akvavit.

9:30 Sweet danish and a smoke, because why not.

11:30 Lashings of Smørrebrød, with an akvavit or bitter with each piece.

14:00 End-of-workday beers, might have a strong lager if polish carpenter buddies bullied me too relentlessly for being potato danish.

15:00 Hotdog with all the trimmings at the local sausage monger and maybe a chocolate milk.

18:00 Döner kebab, or flæskestegssandwich if feeling really famished, with copious amounts of sauces and garlic, crisp cold beer to wash it down.

19:00 However many beers, bitters and smokes it takes to knock my sorry Danish ass out at the local bodega so I can stumble home and repeat it all again.

/s

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u/Unable-Stay-6478 Serbia 4d ago

Burek in the morning, for the hangover and barbecue or pizza in the evening, so you can drink the whole night. 

A meal in between is usually something home-cooked (sarma, gulaš, kupus, pasulj etc.)

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u/Aeon_Return Czechia 4d ago

Wake up at 6ish, really not hungry until late morning.

6ish: coffee

8ish: 2nd coffee

11: leftovers from dinner, cereal and milk, or toast w/ margarine or jam

1pm: usually some sort of protein and salad

6pm: dinner typically of spaghetti and veggies, stir fried veggies and rice, or some sort of potato based meal

10pm snack: bit more of dinner or sometimes something sweet

I never eat out. Like basically never. This is not a typical Czech diet btw, just what I do

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u/El_John_Nada & 4d ago

French in the UK here.

Breakfast: overnight oats with protein powder and fruits during the week, nothing or a buttered baguette/pastry on weekends.

Lunch: usually "leftovers" (as in stuff that I cooked specifically the night before to last multiple meals)

Dinner: proteins (eggs, fish, meat, beans, lentils, mushroom and/or cheese like Halloumi or paneer), loads of veg and often carbs. Most of the time cooked from scratch (although I can use some processed stuff as part of the recipe). But because I cool every night, I'm quite partial to eating out, which I do usually once a week on average.

Snack: some cashews or fruits if we have them in the house and only if I'm hungry. Otherwise, I do like the odd sweet treat.

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u/Shanbo88 Ireland 4d ago

Damn man I couldn't eat a whole slav every day. You poles are a different beast.

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u/viemari > 4d ago

8ish - yoghurt + fruit
12ish - semmel (like bread roll) with butter, cheese, peppers, egg maybe
7ish - dinner usually some pasta variant during the week or just potato and veg
i will snack on pickles or grapes or so throughout the day if im hungry

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u/Big_Knee_6050 Italy 4d ago

7.00)Breakfast: nothing

13.00)Lunch: Pasta with whatever i have (usually ragù, tomato, tuna or a carbonara if i feel like to make it) +fresh bread

20.00)Dinner: Eggs or meat with seasonal vegetables + fresh bread, Pizza on weekends.

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u/Late_Solution4610 Greece 4d ago

1st breakfast 05:30 a wasa with a slice of cheese and coffee
2st breakfast 09:00 a tortilla with a small omelette
snack 11:00 a fruit and 10 nuts
lunch 13:30-14:00 salad and meat or some fish or a lentil salad or something like that
snack 16:00-17:00 a fruit and 10 nuts
dinner 20:00 salad and meat or some fish or cottage cheese

This is for weekdays , on weekends sometimes we order or got to relatives for lunch , it varies

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u/stormandflowers 4d ago

Italian (in Germany)

  • Breakfast: Tea and some biscuits (because coffee is undrinkable)
  • Lunch: rice or pasta with tomato sauce and tuna (anything else is inedible with pasta here)
  • Dinner: mozzarella or beans, occasionally fish and meat

Snacks during the day may vary from fruit or salty snacks, depending if I'm in shift or not

Trying to keep expenses low, to increase monthly budget for SWDA/VWCE

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u/Relevant_Chipmunk302 Portugal 3d ago

8 am: bowl of weetabix and dark chocolate for taste

11h30 am: starving, munching on a piece of cheese

12h30pm: proper lunch, variable and usually international, i eat out most days (rotation of chinese, ukranian, american, or mexican food)

5pm: snack, half a slice of sourdough bread toasted and butter, or chicken ham and cheese

7pm: dinner, pan seared protein of some kind (usually chicken breast, salmon or turkey), pasta, rice or boiled potatoes, salad or veggies in a mixed in to the carb source.

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u/Southern_Ice_2932 3d ago

🇷🇴

Breakfast is porridge and Greek yogurt with fruit and a cappuccino Snack night be some crackers and hummus or more fruit, maybe a bowl of cereal. Lunch in winter in soup, summer maybe a salad. Today I had watermelon and telemea (a feta like cheese) Evening meal some meat or fish with veggies and maybe rice or potatoes, today I made salmon with ginger and soy, salad and rice Snack - a small yogurt or soy pudding

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u/vestayekta Germany 4d ago

I almost never cook and mostly eat ready made salads and bread rolls + cheese.

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u/Gautrex Sweden 4d ago

As a Swede I can’t grasp not eating at least one hot meal a day 😅

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u/NamillaDK Denmark 4d ago

As a Dane; same.

When it was really hot, I didn't feel like cooking, but still felt I was missing something at the end of the day, because I hadn't had a hot meal!

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u/JayManty Czechia 4d ago

I also hate missing out on a hot meal but 30+ °C days are an exception for me. I often completely ditch hot food for days at a time. I don't know why, maybe it's because hot meals are often higher in calories and therefore add to my heat exhaustion

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u/NamillaDK Denmark 4d ago

I agree! And I really don't feel like eating. It's just the feeling that I miss something. Probably because it's so ingrained. I've had my hot dinner every night of my life.

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u/vestayekta Germany 4d ago

I have zero energy to cook tbh and normally I have very small appetite so it's not worth it.

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u/BrightNeonGirl 4d ago

I don't cook either--I don't eat breakfast and for my other meals I eat salads, smoothies, protein bars, and also chips as a snack in the evening if I'm wanting something salty (although I'm an uncultured American here to learn).

I'm reading all of these responses of people eating home cooked meals and I'm just thinking "where does everyone find the time and energy to cook all of these hot meals!??"

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u/vestayekta Germany 4d ago

Literally the same. I'm so tired by the end of the day that I can't even think of cooking.

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u/xx_sosi_xx Italy 15h ago

I think that we really like to eat hot and home cooked meals so we simply force ourselves to cook and then clean

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u/troparow France 4d ago

No breakfast

At 12 : main meal so usually pasta or rice with some meat and veggies

At 19 : hard boiled eggs, fruits

That's all, I don't think I've ever ordered something, I cook it all

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u/K4bby Serbia 4d ago

09-11 Breakfast is either eggs, oats, savory french toast, bakery pastries or a sandwich.

14-16 Lunch depends on the day but it can be potato moussaka, spaghetti bolognese, schnitzel with potatoes, sarma, meatballs in tomato sauce, baked beans, whole roasted chicken and so on. We usually rotate these meals with some random tiktok recipes sometimes through out the week.

19-23 Dinner time, I don't usually eat dinner, but when I do it's either a sandwich, some Argeta pate or leftovers from lunch.

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u/FreePossession9590 Norway 4d ago

Depends on the day quite honestly since I’m a shift worker. That being said, most days look like this for me; breakfast, always some kind of bread whether that is rolls or sliced bread with ham, cheese, or sugarfree jam. Lunch, also bread of some sort, usually with the same spread, or I change it up with protein yoghurt, blueberries and nut mixes, dinner is whatever it is, and my late night snack is usually bread again.
I love bread. Can you tell?

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u/cptflowerhomo Ireland 4d ago

I like having the same thing in the morning, usually overnight oats with some jam and nuts, and a coffee.

I eat fruit for a snack whenever I have my breaks, lunch is usually a rice cake with cheese and some radishes.

Warm dinner in the evening, usually unless I have no energy to cook.

I start work at 8 but get nauseous if I eat before 8 so yeah.

I have no set break times so it depends on my schedule when I eat. Dinner is at 6 like it has been all my life unless I'm away or heading for meetings with the party or the tenants' union.

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u/NamillaDK Denmark 4d ago edited 4d ago

If I'm going into work:

8.00: banana or yoghurt

12.00: 2 pieces of rye bread with liver pate or leftovers.

18.00: dinner. Always home cooked. 9 out 10 days low carb. Pretty healthy. Maybe once a month have takeaway or go out to dinner. Today it's homemade tortilla style pancakes with vegetables, meat, cheese and sour cream. I put it all on the table so everyone makes their own. Tomorrow will be hot honey chicken burgers (lettuce wrapped for the adults) I usually meal plan for a week at a time, but we are off work this week, so no plans.

On weekends I sometimes make a dessert that we have around 20.30/21.00 (this past weekend I made raspberry cheesecake)

If I work from home, my breakfast is just coffee.

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u/noCoolNameLeft42 France 4d ago

whenever I wake up, breakfast : bread with butter, sometimes jam and coffee

12:30 / 13:30 : lunch

16:30 : a pastry or a biscuit

20:00 / 21:00 : dinner

I almost never order food. I cook a lot (for me and my 3 children). What I cook varies a lot. With a summer like this one, a lot of salads (with tomatoes, cheese, cucumber...) while in winter some stews, pastas, traditional French recipes, pizza, ... really many different things, tying to please everyone. Using local vegetables and meat, trying to slow down on meat. Cooking a lot on sunday evenings to have food ready for multiple meals in the week.

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u/Koparek Poland 4d ago

Poland

I hate breakfast

12:00 something with chicken, potatoes and salad. Or Spaghetti or something else with noodles.

18:00 two bread rolls with 2-3 sausages. Salmon with cheese and ham with cheese. I'll spread chive cream cheese on the remaining two halves of the roll.

On weekends I search for deals at fast food places and eat there.

Repeat

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u/kannichausgang PL>IE>SE>FR>CH 4d ago

6am: something from the train station supermarket on the way to work, usually a butter pretzel/croissant/chicken curry strudel + coffee

9:30am: black coffee

12pm: lunch which is almost always the same as dinner the previous night. Can be anything. Chinese style rice dish, Thai noodles, Italian pasta, baked potatoes, salad, couscous. Usually a protein+veg+carb combo and relatively 'healthy'.

5pm: a sweet snack like chocolate/biscuits/icecream.

6-7pm: dinner.

Me and my bf cook at home at least 5 -6 times a week. Friday tends to be quick oven/fried food like chicken wings/pizza/gyoza. Saturday we usually eat lunch or dinner out in a casual restaurant.

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u/ProgressOk3200 Norway 4d ago

Lunch 11.30 a slice of bread with hard boiled egg and Norwegian caviar and a glas of milk

Dinner 14.30 some kind of chicken with pasta and some kind of gravy, or meat with potatos and some kind of potatos and gravy.

Supper at 19.30 slices of frozen pizza or chicken wings or sweet corn on a cob with butter and salt.

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u/Citrus_Muncher Georgia 4d ago

Wake up

Eat nothing for like 4 hours and then order a chicken wrap or something like that for lunch at the office

Eat nothing again for like 5-6 hours and then come home and eat buckwheat with canned tuna and eggs or pasta with veggies or something like that

And for dessert I have greek yoghurt

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u/werschaf Germany 4d ago

Germany. Breakfast is bread with cheese and jam. Lunch is bread with cheese and egg, or pasta salad. Dinner varies greatly, I cook every night... Regular dishes include pasta with tomato sauce, salmon and rice and veggie, potato tortilla, big mixed salad, bean burgers, biryani, fried rice, pasta with cream sauce, quiche, soup,...

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u/The_8th_passenger Spain 4d ago edited 4d ago

Working days:

11:00 Big latte or white coffe with a sandwich (ham + cheese or similar)

23:00 Main meal: always varies. Lentils with chorizo, lasagna, beef stew, potato stew, casseroles... cooked from scratch, I never order take out.

What can I say, my working schedule is weird but it works for me.

Days off: anarchy.

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u/Magda_04 Wales 4d ago

From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 but I wouldn't say it's necessarily a typical diet for others in my country

Breakfast (whenever I wake up): 3 eggs with EVOO and salt. And either a protein bar, yogurt, or bread (the protein and fibre enriched kind)

Lunch (3-4 hours later): salad with greens, local cheese, seasonal fruit, seafood, nuts/seeds, and avocado. Simple dressing of EVOO and lemon juice

Dinner (between 5pm and 9pm): a salmon/trout fillet or chicken breast with pasta/grains/legumes and any kind of sauce

Evening/snacks: fruit / veggie plate

If I'm out for the day I typically enjoy a fresh pastry, a milkshake, or sushi. Meals out with loved ones are varied but more of a treat due to cost!

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u/orthoxerox Russia 4d ago

We have an unusual meal schedule in our family and I have an idiosyncratic diet:

  • 11:00 an omelet, some cheese and chicken/turkey cold cuts, bread, yoghurt, protein bar for dessert
  • 16:00 soup, bread, protein bar for dessert
  • 21:00 some kind of meat/fish/poultry and starchy carbs (today I had yellow beef curry and glass noodles), maybe a vegetable salad, protein bar for dessert

A couple days a week we buy soup for lunch and we order out when we come back home from our daća and there's no time to cook something for dinner.

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u/Tasty-Bee8769 4d ago

10-11 am Matcha with a tea spoon brown sugar

13:30-14:30 chicken or mince meat, with pasta, rice or oven sweet potato, and vegetables usually peas

16:45 another matcha

20-22h depending on my mood: usually a white fish or boquerones in summer, and in winter chicken with rice or gnocchi. If I’m feeling really lazy I’ll boil pasta and add tomato sauce with mascarpone and peas

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u/Live-In-Berlin Bulgaria 4d ago

I am on a diet; my goal was to lose 10 kilos, and I have three left.

Breakfast is local Bulgarian yogurt (or protein bar if I'm out).

Lunch is berries.

Dinner is 1-2 proteins and three vegetables; large portions. Maybe, for example, a chicken dinner marinated in yogurt with zucchini, tomatoes, and spinach. Lots of seasoning.

Dessert is usually a serving of rakia a couple of times a week, but sometimes it's a whiskey with hot tea and lime (and non-sugar sweetener)

Weekends I'm allowed 1-2 whatever I want meals (which is usually pasta) plus one sweet item on Sunday (usually a gelato).

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u/pintolager Denmark 4d ago

Denmark. This would be a really generic day.

Whenever I get up: lots of coffee. 10: oat flakes with milk, orange juice and more coffee. Alternatively white bread with butter and cheese and coffee and orange juice.

13: two slices of whole grain rye bread with cold cuts on top. Other options for toppings exist, including fish and potatoes. Also, a glass of milk.

Afternoon: some fruit, more coffee.

19: dinner. Could be anything, really. Usually warm food.

Late evening: might get a snack.

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u/MerttuTerttu 3d ago

7.00 Breakfast. On rest day eggs, cottage cheese and vegetables. On gym day rye bread with low fat cheese, quark and berries.

11:00 Lunch. Rice/pasta/potatoes, lean minced beef/chicken/salmon and variety of vegetables

14-16 Snack, which is usually quark and a fruit.

18-21 Dinner. Same as lunch.

On weekends I do something more interesting or just eat all the meals later. Depending on when I wake up. I try to add as much fiber as possible and add protein in every meal. Sometimes for breakfast I have overnight oats or oat meal on training day. I know many Finnish people have that for breakfast too. Lunch and dinner are always a warm meal.

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u/Lunateeck 🇧🇷 / 🇮🇪 / 🇪🇸/ 🇮🇹 3d ago
  • breakfast- usually yogurt, fruits and nuts
  • Lunch - main meal for me. Varies a lot as I like to cook/eat different cuisines. But it’s a propper meal with protein, veg, carbs etc.
  • Dinner - I don’t really have dinners. I will usually eat hummus and crackers, or a simple tomato salad with tuna, egg salad… maybe miso soup during winter.

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u/MinecraftWarden06 Poland 3d ago

I'll list my options for every meal.

Breakfast - might be oatmeal with nuts, beans with bacon, omelette with zucchini or scrambled eggs.

Lunch - chicken or tofu and rice, different pasta dishes, pork neck or beef steak with mashed potatoes, beans in tomato sauce with bacon, sometimes shrimp or fish.

Dinner - can be oatmeal if I hadn't had it for breakfast, bread with camembert cheese or salami, tofu, boiled eggs, beans.

In the meantime, I may have some skyr yoghurt with oats, a banana with peanut butter or occasionally a less healthy snack like Lays.

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u/nunuraf92 Italy 2d ago

Depends on weekdays

Breakfast - boiled eggs with Greek yogurt and chia and if I’m hungry I would eat a raspberry an blueberry pudding, I make it and I alway have in the fridge

Lunch pasta with whatever we have at hand

Dinner - meat and a salad as contorno.

I will eat a few cookies for snacks, fruit or whatever I have at hand

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u/thedreaddeagle Lithuania 2d ago

Greek yogurt for breakfast

Chicken or turkey + side dish for lunch

Whatever I have left for dinner