1. ACTIVITY 4 CZECH REPUBLIC
EATING HABITS
ACTIVITY 4
CZECH REPUBLIC

2. CZECH FOOD AND DRINKS
Czech people really like eating. When they gather together for some festive occassion they usually prepare a lot of food and drinks.
Although we start to eat healthier now, there are still very popular traditional meals, which are high in calories, fat and sugar. But they are very, very good…

3. BREAKFAST

4. Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day
Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. There is a Czech proverb:
Eat your breakfast yourself, share your lunch with your friend and give all your dinner to your enemy…

5. TYPICAL CZECH BREAKFAST
We eat:
A roll or a slice of bread with butter, salami, cheese, paté or you can have jam or honey
We drink:
Tea with sugar and lemon
Cocoa
Milk (hot or cold)
Coffee

6. Some people want to eat healthier, so they have for breakfast cereals, yoghurt or cornflakes with milk and they drink orange juice, but this is not very typical
There are still people who do not have breakfast, but it is not good.

7. LUNCH

8. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day.
It usually consists of two courses:
· soup
· main course
We sometimes eat a dessert after the lunch.

9. THE MOST TYPICAL CZECH SOUPS
Potato soup
Beef soup with liver balls
Chicken soup
Bean soup
Lentil soup
Garlic soup
Sauerkraut soup
Dill soup with sour cream

10. MAIN COURSES Roast pork meat with cabbage and dumplings
Roast beef sirloin with cream sauce and dumplings
Beef goulash
Pork escalope with potato salad
Roast chicken with rice
Potato pancakes filled with meat
Fried cheese with chips

11. SWEET MAIN COURSES
Cheese dumplings filled with fruit (apricots,plums or blueberries)
Noodles with poppy seeds
Pancakes filled with jam or cheese filling
Potato dumplings with poppy seeds
Bread pudding with apples

12. DESSERTS Ice cream with cream and topping Custard with fruit and cream
Fruit salad
Some kind of cake

13. DINNER

14. Some families usually have hot meals for dinners, the same ones as for lunch
In other families they prefer lighter meals, for example bread with cold meat, ham, salami, sausages or cheese and vegetables
Those who want to lose their weight have only some fruit or they go running instead 