There are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast consists of porridge with milk, eggs-boiled or fried, bread and butter with marmalade or jam. Some people drink tea, but others prefer coffee. The usual time for lunch is 1 o’clock. It consists of soup, some meat or poultry with potatoes, carrots and beans. Tea is between 4 or 5 o’clock, it comes with milk, sugar, bread, cakes and jam. Dinner is the fourth meal of the day. It consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables – potatoes, green beans, cabbage, fruit salad, ice-cream or cheese and biscuits.