The food in the United States is not just hamburgers and hot dogs! We also have a lot of traditional foods and large variety of berries, fruits, and vegetables. At home, we typically eat cereal or toast for breakfast, or, sometimes on weekends, a big traditional breakfast with eggs, bacon, and hash browns (grated potatoes) or pancakes or waffles.

We are typically in a hurry to eat lunch. Our lunch is pretty small and we usually eat it around 12:00. We may eat a sandwich, or a salad, chips or another salty snack, and fruit. Sometimes we will have dessert like a cookie. People who work outside the home have lunch outside their home. Students have lunch in the dining room of their school. You can bring your own lunch made at home or you can buy your lunch there. They offer a variety of foods.

Finally, dinner is the biggest meal of the day and is eaten at 18:00 or 19:00. We usually eat hot food, like lunch here. We may eat soup, meat, chicken, turkey, or pasta as the main dish. We might have a salad, vegetables, and fruit with it. We eat fruit with the meal, not as dessert. We like to mix savory (salty) flavors with sweet flavors. For dessert we might have a small bowl of ice cream, cookies, or a piece of chocolate.

Some foods that we eat a lot in the United States that are not tyipcally eaten in Spain:

Blueberries

Sweet potatoes (boniato)

Peanut butter

Raspberries

SpinachSalad dressing (salsa para ensaladas)

TurkeyBrussel sprouts

Cranberries and cranberry juice