Food

Hungarian

Breakfast

Sandwiches: ham, chorizo-like sausage, salami, cheese, with vegetables (tomato, cucumber, paprika), the bread is white bread. Sometimes boiled egg or fried egg.

Lunch

This is the main event and comprises two courses. The first one is a soup, the second one is a meat-based food with side dishes. Soups are: chicken soup, fruit soup, smokey kidney-bean soup, fisherman’s soup etc. The most famous soup is the goulash, which is cooked in a cauldron. 

 Goulash Soup

A traditional stew is made from meat, especially pork, beef, or chicken. 

 Chicken stew

Other popular choices are stuffed cabbage and stuffed pepper (which is filled with minced meat).

 Stuffed cabagge

The side dishes are dumplings (galuska or nokedli), couscous-type pasta (tarhonya), potato croquettes (krokett), and rice. There are hundreds of meals which I can not list.

Dinner

We usually eat the lunch leftover, or sandwich. 

English

Breakfast

Bowl of cornflakes and cup of tea, bowl of muesli and fresh orange juice, piece of toast with marmalade, yoghurt and fresh fruit with black coffee or tea. The traditional English breakfast is the ham (or sausages) and eggs. It is a cooked meal with toast. Nowadays it is served in hotels for foreigners. 

 Lunch

The lunch is light and it is eaten at school or work. Popular lunches: salad or sandwich, baked potato, beans on toast. Snacks are very popular, people eat it between meals. At schools and works there are a lot of vending machines which provide crisps, biscuits, chocolates.Sometimes they eat eels, pies, mash, fish and chips, crayfish, oyster, scallop, cornish pasty and pork pies.

Dinner

The dinner is the main meal. It is usually meat or fish and vegetables, and after it dessert or pudding. There are lots of precooked, and pre-packed food.

I don’t like the pre-cooked meals and snacks. Sometimes I eat snack, but it is not regular. At home I cook Hungarian meals, not English. It is difficult to find the Hungarian ingredients in England, but nowadays we can find these in Polish shops.

Reference List:
Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) The rough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides.
Mark Hix, (2006) British regional food. Quadrille publishing Ltd.