A typical German breakfast includes cold cuts, cheeses, breads and spreads. An Italian breakfast is light, often just coffee and a pastry. A full Scottish breakfast contains eggs, bacon, sausage, beans and tea. A Spanish breakfast is also light, with coffee and crackers or muffins. For lunch, Germans may have potato salad and schnitzels while Italians eat pasta dishes and fried pastries. Scots enjoy creamy soups and haggis and Spaniards eat garlic soup. For dinner, Germans and Italians center meals around sausages and pastas/risottos while Scots have meat and two veg with gravy and Spaniards eat salads, eggs and fruit.

1. EUROPEAN MEAL SCHEDULE

2. GERMAN TYPICAL BREAKFAST
A typical German breakfast
(Frühstück) falls between what we'd
call a deli platter and a continental
breakfast. Cold meats (including their
famous sausages) and cheeses are
served along side a variety of breads
and sweet toppings like jam,
marmalade and honey. Soft-boiled
eggs, cereals and fruit would round
out a large breakfast.

3. ITALIAN TYPICAL BREAKFAST
This is very light, often just a
cappuccino or coffee with a pastry
(cappuccino e brioche) or a piece
of bread and fruit jam.

4. SCOTTISH TYPICAL BREAKFAST
In Scotland the full breakfast; as with
others contains eggs, back bacon, link
sausage, buttered toast, baked beans
and tea or coffee. The breakfast is made
Scottish by the addition of Scottish style
black pudding, sliced sausage and tattie
scones. It commonly also includes fried or
grilled tomato and/or mushrooms and
occasionally haggis, white pudding, fruit
pudding or oatcakes. As with other
breakfasts it has become more common,
especially within home, to grill the meats,
puddings and tomatoes and to only fry the
eggs and tattie scones. Another more
historical Scottish breakfast is porridge
and may occasionally be served as a
starter in smaller portions

5. SPANISH TYPICAL BREAKFAST
Breakfast (el desayuno) for most
Spaniards is light and consists of just
coffee and perhaps a galleta (like a
graham cracker) or magdalena (sweet
muffin-like bread) or churros. Later,
some will go to a cafe for a pastry
midmorning, but not too close to
lunchtime

6. GERMAN TYPICAL LUNCH
Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen oder Frikadellen
(potato salad with sausage or meat balls),
Spätzle mit Geschnetzeltem (Spätzle noodles with
stir-fry)
Schnitzel mit Buttergemüse (Schnitzel with buttered
vegetables)
Apple strudel consists of an oblong strudel pastry
jacket with an apple filling inside

7. ITALIAN TYPICAL LUNCH
Orecchiette with vegetables. is a kind of home-
made pasta typical of Puglia made from durum
wheat.
Panzerotti with tuna. Small versions of the calzone
or closed pizza, but produced with a softer dough
Zeppola, doughnuts usually topped with powdered
sugar and filled with custard, jelly, cannoli-style
pastry cream or a butter-and-honey mixture

8. SCOTTISH TYPICAL LUNCH
Cullen skink, a creamy soup made with smoked
haddock, cock-a-leekie, soup made with leek, chicken
and prunes
Haggis is Scotland´s most famous dish, made
with liver, offal, oatmeal, onion and spices,
traditionally served with chappit tatties, mashed
potatoes, and bashed neeps, mashed turnips,
washed down with a whisky dram.
Blueberry pie

9. SPANISH TYPICAL LUNCH
Castilian Garlic Soup is a mellow, saffron-tinted broth
with the mingled sweetness of garlic and sherry. Add a
poached egg and some good bread, and it's a light but
warming meal.
Roasted suckling lamb
Flan or caramel custard is a custard dessert with a layer of
soft caramel on top

10. GERMAN TYPICAL DINNER
Sausages Germany is known for its broad variety and
long tradition of preparing sausages. German sausages
include; Würste Frankfurters/Wieners, Bratwürste,
Rindswürste, Knackwürste, and Bockwürste.
Griesspudding Grits Pudding make it in an interesting
pudding form like a heart shape top with a hot fruit sauce
made of raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries or
cherries,

11. ITALIAN TYPICAL DINNER
L'antipasto (an assortment of appetizer meats,
cheeses, olives and such served with bread)
Risotto, is a class of Italian dishes of rice cooked in
broth to a creamy consistency
Buttermilk-Battered Calamari Serve with marinara sauce for
dipping.
Tiramisu is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered
with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone, and
flavored with liquor and cocoa

12. SCOTTISH TYPICAL DINNER
Meat and two veg. We put hot brown
gravy, (traditionally made from the juices
of the roast meat, but more often today
from a packet!) on the meat and usually
the vegetables. One of the vegetables is
almost always potatoes.
Citrus Cake, a tasty, tangy cake which is
best made with pure juices of the citrus fruit.

13. SPANISH TYPICAL DINNER
Green salad with lettuce, tomatoes and
tuna fish
Fried eggs with jam or chorizo
Fresh fruit, as bananas, oranges,
apples, grapes, tangerines, etc...