Breakfast starts with juice, and the staples are usually porridge, eggs, eggs benedict, French toast, and pancakes.
Lunch varies from person to person. People who eat lunch at restaurants often eat sandwiches, hamburgers, and hot dogs. At lunch, children tend to drink milk or soda. Adults like to drink coffee, tea or beer. Commuters or students basically eat sandwiches brought from home. Also, to save time, many people go to self-help restaurants. There are vending machines from which customers can buy soup, sandwiches, drinks, fruit and sweet food.
In the United States, the most substantial meal of the day is dinner, which usually consists of several courses: an appetizer (fresh fruit, fruit juice or a portion of fish soup, a salad), an entree (meat, fish, potatoes, rice, noodle and so on.), and sweets. Most Americans enjoy sweets such as cake, pie, cookie, and ice cream. Since dinner is usually eaten early, midnight snacks have become a habit in most families. Children often drink some milk or eat some cookies before going to bed, and adults eat some fruit or sweets.
Americans also eat three meals a day, but usually eat fastfood at noon.
Breakfast time, usually at 8:00 am. Breakfast varies from region to region. A simple breakfast may consist of fruit juice, cereal, baked bread and coffee. A heartier breakfast (Breakfast) may also include pancakes, corn chips, sausage, ham, and eggs in a variety of ways. Americans often drink oatmeal porridge is made from oats cooked into a thick porridge, blended with milk and sugar. Corn flakes are small, yellow, crispy pieces of corn flour, softened with sugar and milk and eaten. American breakfast is usually eaten at home. However, breakfast is sometimes used as an opportunity to discuss business or fundraising, known as "working breakfast". Business and political figures sometimes start the day by having breakfast with their colleagues. The president often has breakfast with congressional leaders, where he can learn about the prospects for completing the legislative process for bills he has introduced. Orders and societies often hold fund-raising breakfasts, where volunteer staffers prepare a hearty breakfast for guests who pay a certain fee.
Lunchtime is usually 12 to 1 p.m. or 2 to 2 p.m. in the late afternoon. Because of the short hours and the fact that people's workplaces are usually far from their homes, people who work or go to school rarely go home for lunch, but instead bring food from home. American lunch is the simplest of the three meals, often eat some vegetables (vegetable) and sandwiches (sandwich), hamburger (hamberger) or Italian pie (pizza), hot detention (hotdog), plus a drink (beverage).
Dinner starts around 6 p.m. and is usually more substantial. Usually a fruit juice or soup is served first, followed by an entree. Commonly eaten entrees are steak (beef), pork chops (pork beff), roast beef (roasted beef), fried chicken (roasted chicken), fried shrimp (roasted shrimp), ham (ham) and roasted lamb chops and so on. With the main course to eat vegetables (vegetable), bread (bread), butter (butter), rice (rice), noodles (noodle) and so on. Europeans are accustomed to eat a fruit (fruit) or cheese (cheese) at the end: this is not fashionable in the United States. Most Americans like restaurants to eat a sweet (dessert), such as cake (cake), homemade pie (cookie) or ice cream (ice-cream), etc.: and finally a cup of coffee (coffee).
Most families in the United States have a snack before bed. Children usually have a glass of milk and a home-cooked cookie. Adults eat some fruit and sugar. On weekends or holidays, many families eat only two meals. They combine breakfast and lunch into one meal, called brunch, which is usually richer and treated as a regular meal. Some families don't cook on Sundays and go out for casual meals as a family or eat at restaurants.
Whenever the wind and sunny holidays, American families often hold picnics and outdoor barbecue meals (barbecue). Picnic is a kind of roast chicken cooked food in a basket to the field to eat; barbecue meal is in their own yard or suburban charcoal fire, the raw food grilled hot and then eat. Some parks even provide cooking utensils for grilling meat.
Generally speaking, the American meal is both casual and simple. For breakfast, it is often juice, eggs, milk and bread. Eggs are cooked in hot water or on an electric stove, and milk is taken straight from the refrigerator. Lunch, more often than not, takes half an hour to be consumed in a hurry at the workplace. A few slices of sandwich, a banana, and a cup of coffee are taken from a small paper bag that people bring with them for lunch. For dinner, it is often one or two dishes, with some snacks, fruit and so on. Sometimes, even though there are many items on the dinner menu, they are just ingredients. The favorite is steak or pork chop, a large steak is more than 150 grams.