Home-cooked food in Britain
In Britain, some people like to "go to work on an egg"--they eat an egg for breakfast before going to work, But more people like cereal(谷物), toast with butter and jam. But, whatever they eat, most people drink tea or coffee.
At weekends, many people have a more traditional(传统的), cooked breakfast. If you stay at a hotel, you can have a breakfast like this.
Some people have their biggest meal in the middle of the day and some have it in the evening, but most people today have a small mid -day meal--usually sandwiches, and perhaps some crisps and fruit.
The evening meal is usually called "tea" or "dinner". A traditional British dinner is meat and two vegetables. The most popular meat is chicken, beef, pork and lamb. Vegetables grown in Britain, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are very popular, but today you can buy vegetables from many countries all through the year.
The traditional British meals are: sausages, beans and mash, stew(炖肉), and the Sunday roast. Sunday is a day when many families like to enjoy a big meal together. They usually have a big piece of meat which is roasted with potatoes. Beef is eaten with hot horseradish sauce(辣根沙司), pork with sweet apple sauce, and lamb with green mint sauce.
After dinner, people eat desserts something sweet like fruit, chocolate cakes, or apple pies.
Have you heard the expression "You are what you eat"? Well, do you like who you are? If not, break some bad eating habits and feel better about1 .
Bad habit 1 = All your meals come in packages.
Many packaged (=in small bags) foods, such as 2dumplings, rice rolls and instant noodles have lots of fat and calories.
The solution= Read the instructions to find the 3 foods that are low in salt and high in fiber. Also check to make sure they have ingredients such4 vegetables and grains. When possible, use packaged foods as part of a "home-cooked" meal. For example, frozen dumplings with fresh vegetables are better 5dumplings alone.
Bad habit 2: You often don't eat breakfast.
People6breakfast don't have enough energy they need to get through the morning. Eating breakfast improves your concentration, 7 and mood.
The solution: Always keep a kind of quick foods like yogurt. Or have a standing order at a breakfast place.