Breakfast is generally at 8 am. Breakfast content varies from region to region. A simple breakfast, possibly for fruit juice, cereals, baked bread and coffee. The rich breakfast may also have pancakes, corn slices, sausage, ham and eggs. Americans often drink oatmeal is boiled with oat porridge, against the milk, sugar. Jade slices are made of cornmeal yellowish brown chips, with brown sugar soaked after eating soft brown.
American breakfast is usually eaten at home. But sometimes also by breakfast machine to discuss business or fundraising, known as "working meal". Business and politicians sometimes work with their colleagues with breakfast to start the day's work. The president always goes to the breakfast with the congressional leadership, and he can understand the prospect of completing the legislative process when he comes to the bill. The church and the community often hold a donation breakfast, and the volunteer staff prepares a sumptuous breakfast for the guests who pay a fee.
Lunch time is usually from 12:00 to 1:00 or 2:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Because the time is short, coupled with people's workplace generally away from home far, so work or school people rarely go home for lunch, but from home with rice. American lunch is the simplest of three meals, often eating vegetables and sandwich, hamberger or pizza, hotdog, plus a drink ).
Dinner in the evening around 6 pm, generally more abundant. Usually preceded by a fruit juice or soup, then entree. Eat the main course is beef, pork beff, roasted beef, roasted chicken, roasted shrimp, ham and lamb chops. With the main course to eat vegetables (vegetable), bread (bread), butter (butter), rice (rice), noodles (noodle) and so on. Europeans used to eat a fruit (fruit) or cheese (cheese): This is not fashionable in the United States. Most Americans like the restaurant to eat a dessert, such as cake, homemade pie or ice-cream, and finally drink a cup of coffee.
Americans taste more light, like to eat raw, cold food, such as shabby dishes, tender meat, etc., hot soup is not hot. The taste of the dishes is generally a bit sweet in the salty. Fried, fried, fried, baked as the main cooking methods, no braised, steamed, etc.. To meat, fish, vegetables as the staple food, bread, noodles, rice is a non-staple food. Dessert with cake, homemade patties, ice cream and so on. They like to eat green beans, cabbage, bean sprouts, concanavalin, mushrooms and other vegetables. The meat used to remove the bones, fish to the head and tail and bone spurs, shrimp and crab shell.
Most families in the United States have the habit of eating snacks before going to bed. The children usually have a cup of milk and eat a homemade cookie. Adults eat fruit and sugar. Weekend or holiday, many families eat only two meals. They will be breakfast and lunch into a meal, called brunch, generally rich, as a meal. Some families do not cook on Sunday, the family went out to eat light meals, or eat in the restaurant.
Every day, the American family often has a picnic and an outdoor barbecue. The picnic is a kind of cooked chicken cooked in the basket and brought to the wild to eat; barbecue meal is in their own courtyard or suburbs from the charcoal, the raw meal hot and then eat. Some parks and even for this specifically for the swim to provide barbecue with cooking utensils.