What are Italians daliy food plan?

Question

Do they eat breakfast, do they have a snack during hte afternoon, ect.

Answer 1

There are different ways of planning our feeding here in Italy.
This is depending on many factors as if we are working, if we go back home for lunch, if we are on a diet, if we have children in the family,ect. ect.
Then if you mean the food plan of working days it may differs a lot from the one we have during holidays or the week-end.
However typical daily plan is :
1.- breakfast - = a cup of milk and coffe or of tea with a few cookies or 1-2 slices of toasted bread with butter and jam
2.- lunch = a pasta dish and a second course of meat or fish or cheese with salade or frites.
3.- dinner = a soup (or again a pasta dish) and a second course of meat or fish or cheese with some side dish.

We generally don't eat any intermediate snack, just a coffee break at around 10/10,30 am and sometimes at 4,30/5 pm

It's obvious that working people can't have the same feeding and lunch is usually replaced by a sandwich or a pizza.
People following a diet are generally not eating pasta and they eat just a second course with vegetables.
Children are usually having a snack at the same time adults have their coffee-break.

Answer 2

Hey, im italian too.. well my dad, but i've lived there a few good years too...

the norm would be :

morning= cappucino and croisant (briosce) or even just a normal cup of coffee and a few buscuits or something of the like, weekends even pancetta and eggs...

lunch=pasta (any type) and its usually followed by chicken or chops(or anything of the like) we may even have fruit and cheese after and my dad finishes off any meal with a coffee or espresso...

dinner= once again a first course that could be anything from pastas, to gnocchi to soup to lasagna and the likes, its followed again by a second course that is once again either meat of chicken of fish/ what ever, and fruit after, salami's(or is that befoore a meal? cant rmbr!) if we feel like it now and then we may have dessert, any type..and coffee

please note that most lunches consits only of the 1st corse: if we have a full meal during lunch we eat lighter at dinner and vice versa...

there are also some kinds of foods that one would eat just as a one and only course, such as...(damn! da name slips me now) and followed by fruit and maybe dessert such as

a glass of wine with the meal is not unusual at all, the meal is usually accompanied by bottled water, either still or sparkling and small rolls such as ciabata cut in pieces..

sundays the 1st couse is predeceeded by what we call an antipasto, this can be anything from pickled veggies such as artichokes in brine(my fav) or sweet melon wrapped in prosciutto crudo or salticrax and a variety of spreads(pate ect...) ect...

look we dont eat like that much anymore, because we have returned to my mom's home country a few years ago, (that's why some things slip me) but on special occasions or now and then on a sunday we have a "typical italian meal"

hope this is enough info(",)

Answer 3

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