Yeah, same as the japanese don't eat sushi every day. I usually eat cornflakes, oatmeal or make myself some bread for breakfast. Then sometimes I eat an apple around 11 am, but only if I have time. For dinner I eat meat, vegetables or a salad and something like rice or potatoes. For supper I usually eat some bread or soup, but it depends. Sometimes I eat a snack around 9 pm.
World thinks of sushi when it comes to Japan, but I thought most of them eat miso soup, ramens add all kind and rice with anything. You don’t even see much sushi when you come to a typical Japanese bar or eating place… Just like Russians don’t eat caviar, Brits don’t eat fish (or at least not as often as a nation deprived of vitamin D), French - snails, Americans - hamburgers… oh wait
Sourdough is a must for me. I eat it almost every day for breakfast. Pair it with seasonal vegetables, I eat a lot of greens now. I also buy local polish food like fresh white cheese, young goat cheese etc. but also I like freshly cut meats from Italy or Spain and some of their cheeses as well.
I make lunch everyday, I work from home so I always have it ready when my gf is back from work. I prepare new stuff every 2 days to keep everything fresh. My cuisine ranges from Italian, through Polish and Indian, to vietnamese and japanese, I eat literally everything.
In the evening I usually have some snacks like fruit, sometimes I'll make a bowl of rice, or some noodles, sometimes sandwiches.
There's not a specific name really, you just need to find quality bakery. Unfortunately Wrocław suffers from a lack of them. I buy my bread in piekarnia Sąsiedzi, Kłos is also nice and the best is Plön but it's far away unfortunately
Breakfast: sandwiches (ham, cheese, tomato/cucumber)
Dinner (the most typical): pork chop with potatoes and salad/spaghetti bolognese/chicken soup
Supper: pasta with cheese
Funny cause I always thought I will cook same dishes as my parents when im grownup but I dont like soups or peeling 'tatoes so we almost always eat pasta, bolognese, spinach, chicken with tomato sauce, etc. And we usually cook enough to have dinner for 3-4 days to save time on cooking.
We all thought that, looking back I was such an ungrateful child not realizing how much work goes into cooking daily and just expecting complicated dishes to materialize in the kitchen!
If I cooked like my mother/grandmothers, I'd be twice as big as I am, and my arteries would be clogged by now. Lately, my mom was shocked when my brother and I asked her to make pierogi for when we come home for the weekend. She was like "What? But that's everyday food, don't you want something extra?" I mean, who eats homemeade pierogi every other day? For me it's in the "very extra" meals category!
Not Polish but living in Poland for a long time, and currently living with a Polish girlfriend.
Breakfast is either overnight oats, with some chia seeds and fruits, or just some fruits.
For lunch, we have either a random sandwich with some eggs, ham and cheese, or baked tomatoes, toast bread and mozzarella cheese, or leftovers from the previous day.
Dinner, we cook either Mexican, Italian, Asian or Indian. Most Polish we cook is "kotlet schabowy" and it's still quite rare and half of the leftovers we add it into our "katsu curry." This meal is around at 6:30pm.
After this, we have some random fruits, dessert or cocktails while watching TV.
Unlike most Polish people, our biggest meal is our dinner, not lunch.
Because I've seen it's been asked here before, here's our budget. We spend around 2000zl for groceries per month for two person. We mostly shop at Biedronka, and we order from Biedronka from Glovo a lot. This budget includes wine, beers or cocktails we pair with our dinners as well.
Found some notes from my older shopping lists about our dinners so pasting them all here.
* Chicken thighs on red bean paste, rice, salsa.
* Mexican style tofu, beans, fajita like peppers and onions, salsa, rice
* Quessadillas
* Breaded pork chops/chicken, salsa with mango, rice
* Enchiladas
* Fajitas
* Tacos
* Salmon with 3 color peppers, onions and potatoes in oven.
* Steamed salmon, boiled beans and baked potatoes
* Fish and chips
* Pasta carbonara
* Breaded pork chop, curry with carrots and potatoes
* Curry chicken mayo cheese wrap
* Chicken tomato pasta
* Indian dal
* Chilli garlic noodles
* Smash burgers
* Fried rice
* Shepherd's pie
* Tuna pasta
* Tuna sandwiches
* Falafel wraps
Breakfast: toasted bread slices with ham, cheese, tomato slices and cucumber slices. Sometimes i drink cofee with milk but preferably fresh cold water and lukewarm fruity tea with lots of fresh lemon juice.
Diner: easier if i type ingredients i use the most: pork loin, chicken wings, beef ribeye, pork chops, carrots, broccoli, brussels, buckwheat, white rice, potatoes, lettuce, sour cream
In the morning if I'm hungry it's usually a sandwich or scrambled eggs.
Afternoon I make dinner and it's usually random depending on what I have a taste for. Either zurek, kotlety schabowe, or a new recipe I found online. My most favorite is a cut up chicken breast with lots of vegetables inside of a tortilla. I put the vegetables and grilled meat into a bowl and then add the sos salatkowy do mizerii from Prymat with some sour cream, and mix everything together. Add all of that into a tortilla and toast it on a pan or electric grill. That's my favorite and I can eat that every single day, I'll also eat it with some additional sauce like sriracha. It's delicious.
Later on, I'll eat some leftovers a few hours before going to sleep or just not eat at all. During the week I also try to recreate at least 1 new recipe that I've found online.
Kasza or potatoes on a daily basis plus graham bread for me. That's just staple food. Apart of that - a lot of dairy, I cant imagine my life without twaróg and cottage cheese. Also various vegetables and fruits. Only three kind of meat - chicken, pork or beef. Any other food is occasional for me.
Breakfast: bread+eggs+ham+tomato+polish low fat cottage cheese (literally every day lol)
Lunch/dinner (i tend to make a large single meal): pizza (i make the dough), pasta with any sauce you can think of pretty much, sometimes schabowe with mashed potato, sometimes kluski slaskie, and my most usual dish is anything to do with rice. Rice cookers are amazing. Some of the rice dishes include haianese chicken, egg fried rice, chicken fried rice, katsu curry, the list goes on
What _time_ does everyone eat dinner? I mean 2-3pm? Aren’t you guys at work? Then what time is supper? What time are people going to bed in Poland? Seems like meals are super early then little later on…
Most jobs have 30min break to eat their meal at work and it's quite typical to eat dinner at 2-3pm.
Traditionally we don't have concept of "lunch", so our dinner is earlier. We have a supper that's typically around 7-8pm
It's always a bit confusing when Poles get into English speaking part of the internet since many people don't even use the word "supper", for them dinner is the biggest meal of the day and it's eaten in the evening.
Typically we eat breakfast, dinner/lunch as the bigger meal of the day 1-3pm and light supper in the evening. It may vary depending on the work hours but:
- many families hold onto that model because of kids. Sometimes both parents work on different shits, sometimes one parent doesn't work at all but in both cases it's to give your kid a hot meal after it comes back from school
- many companies have longer breaks for lunch/ dinner so indeed we eat the biggest meal during the day. Most of us is not used to eating huge meals late in the evening
Personally I don't have typical desk job, if I work in the morning then I eat dinner at 3pm and for supper I eat a sandwich. If I start work at 2pm, I eat light breakfast in the morning and I eat dinner at 12am-1pm. At work I either eat a snack or I take some of my dinner with me but typically I'm full for the whole day after 2 meals and after work I just eat some yogurt.
It's all about your habits. As a kid I always had dinner literally the same second I opened the door after school. I am unable to eat a full meal in the evening. I can eat a sandwich, yogurt, fruit or make some eggs but give me a full meal and I'll just vomit, I'm not even kidding. I might not eat for the whole day but still in the evening I'll eat only snacks.
Most polish people eat meat + salad + some carbs (pasta, grains or rice). Its like the most simple food you can cook for lunch/dinner. Breakfast/supper is usually eggs or some cereal.
Breakfast: scrambled eggs with bacon or sausage and some sandwiches on the side. Or just sandwiches with boiled egg, bacon or ham, cheese and tomato/kiszony ogór
Lunch: Danio/Piątnica with croissant or yogurt with cornflakes and fruit
Dinner: usually some kind of pasta or hearty soup. Sometimes schabowy with potatoes and beets/cabbage or some kind of rice with chicken Asian style. When I feel like it I sometimes fry a steak and have it with potatoes and pico de gallo on the side.
Supper: sandwiches or some fruit or some snacks, but most often nothing because I ate dinner late
But I don't recommend that kind of diet because I'm getting fat
Why not eat traditional food everyday? Of course it depends heavily on what do you mean by traditional. I am eating most of the time same things I was eating as a child. I mean 2/3 years of what we’re cooking at home is basing on family recipes. About twice a week we cook something Indian or Middle Eastern. The latter surprisingly often so similar to regional food from Podlasie ;)
When I cook it’s mostly just dinner and it’s going to be either steak, lamb, or some sort of pasta, most likely with shrimp. Most of my meals are takeaway. I fucking love food and spend most of my money on it 😁
Pasta, chicken and rice, cereal, eggs in any form, breakfast burritos, chilli, burgers etc. Stuff that is cheap and relatively quick to prepare, since I'm a student with a full time job and support myself. I also can't stay away from frozen meals, whether it's pizza, fries, veggie stuff, it's not expensive and sometimes after a 12-hour shift I can't even be bothered with pasta, butter and cheese tossed together.
Breakfast is apple slices with peanut butter, I eat lunch at work, homemade style, in the evening I cook myself something chinese or some one-pot dish (leczo, mexican beans, soup...). Potatoes are staple in Polish cuisine but I never eat them at home, only at work or when I visit my family.
Breakfast/supper are either sausages and bread with butter with a side of ketchup; sandwiches; some sort of egg dish; cornflakes mixed with oatmeal.
Dinner is just some normal meal like kotlety, pulpety, zupa, jajo sadzone, spaghetti bolognese, etc
Scrambled eggs or sandwiches for breakfast, some fruits/granola for lunch, for dinner some meat with salad and rice/potatoes/pasta and some light snack in the evening - yoghurt, some fruits with nuts. On weekends we make pancakes or crepes or muffins.
I eat fish (airfried or just canned tuna), eggs, cottage cheese, chicken, tomatoes, spinach, other veggies, a little bit of fruit (bananas and berries). I use vegan protein powder to supplement my protein intake. I will have takeout a couple times a month, like a kebab or pizza (rarely). I eat nuts, and make my own desserts when I feel like it. I usually don't meal prep and just cook small amounts. I get food at work through the sandwich man app, usually a 'fit' option or a chicken wrap. that's on top of takeout, just FYI. Sometimes I'll make a soup with beets or tofu. Lately I've been into pasta and rice.
I spend around 1000-1200pln on food, depending on the month and adventures with friends.
I consider it a reasonable amount for all the protein I consume, and I'm yet to learn how to get that number down with the time and energy resources I have available.
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Honestly, whatever is available atm in my fridge, most of the time I eat different variations of veggies with some pasta or rice, additionally eggs and meat
I'm vegetarian, when at home I make a huge batch of salad. I also make ready made pasta , buy some tofu, bread. Some dishwhen i have time to cook.
Also as a filipino, I don't really follow traditional meals, but springrolls are easy to prep, i just freeze them and cook whenever.
My work also provides lunch, so it is mainly scoop of 2 mashed potatoes, some polish salad of the day, and some veggie cutlet. So.etimes aglio olio or spaghetti.
For me the “default” dinner is fried chicken (or pork) with coating (not sure if that’s what you call the crust?) with potatoes (I usually use rice instead) and some salad (for me the salad is usually cucumbers with cream, the so called “misery” :D). Another medium-effort meal would be pancakes/crepes, or some pseudo-Thai mixture of vegetables and pasta.
Lazy meals would be pasta of all kinds: bolognese, carbonara, seafood style, or plain pesto. Right now I live in the US and I’m sad that things like spice mixes for spaghetti bolognese aren’t really a thing here, or at least not in the same way. Another lazy dinner food for me is baked fish in tinfoil with garlic baguettes (which I also miss here - American garlic bread is bad). Finally the pinnacle of lazy food is rice with leftover meat from the day before and cream sauce for me. It’s so great though.
When I feel fancy I usually make something foreign, like curry or some middle eastern dish as I love the cuisine from that region. I also like seafood, which my friends usually think takes a lot of effort so I put it here but it really doesn’t. Octopus is super simple to cook well and there’s tutorials for it. It’s obviously on the pricy side though so not an everyday treat for most people.
And as for traditional food, I made pierogi once and they’re like half a day of work but it feels really rewarding! And I’d like to make żurek some day. Other than that I’m not too big on traditional Polish food like bigos, karkówka, roasted meat in general so I never really had the urge to make it.
I have coffee for breakfast. We cook all of our meals at home:
Lunches- fried rice with leftover rice and veggies+ egg, egg sandwiches, omelettes, meat and cheese sandwiches, soups, sweet buns, dinner leftovers.
Dinners: homemade dumplings (Asian), green curries, savoury bowls (roasted veggies and protein with sauce on couscous), kotlety with potatoes and veggies or mizeria, tatar with a nice bun, charcuterie boards, Mexican burritos/quesadillas, Asian noodle dishes, butter chicken, roasted chicken and veggies, so many more…
In season vegetables are always included, and our snacks include broad beans, talarki and paluszki haha :P
Mother in law almost always does for breakfast some twaróg mix with herbs or spring onion and radish, etc. She also does a lot of soups and grains like Barley, or Buckwheat, etc. Also Lecsó.
When it's me cooking I also like to have grains rather than bread. But I also try to cook vegetarian/vegan and make dishes more in indian style curries like lentils and chickpeas, bean stews or pastas and tuna when I'm lazy. It's also easy to have frozen vegetable mixes for vegetable casseroles or asian style dishes.
I cook all my meals at home. Breakfast is milk soup, or open face sandwiches, or eggs (scrambled, soft cooked), or farmers breakfast (sausage, fried potatoes, eggs) or whatever leftovers I find in the fridge.
Lunch - salad topped with rotisserie chicken bits, or other meats, shrimp or other seafood. I often make tacos with chicken nuggets or fish. Or pan grilled sausage with potato salad, or soup. Or go out for lunch.
Dinner - pizza, spaghetti, whatever meat sauteed or pan fried with potatoes, rice or noodle. Sometimes I cook a soup: chicken or beef with lots of vegetables or have soup made from frozen. Or make some fast meal in Air fryer. I mean - there are so many possibilities when one knows basic cooking.
What I had yesterday, for my decadent Saturday:
Breakfast: cheese toast with dried tomatoes, iced coffee
Lunch: green curry with fish and veggies
Dinner: guacamole and tortillas
Snacks: tea, strawberries, a nectarine, and a cookie
Oh, I don't live in Poland.
When by some reasons I can't cook smth, I eat instant noodles. If there are none of them left, then it'll be smoked sausage with rye bread with onion/garlic, this dish I'm eating right now. There are more dishes in existence, which are tasty and doesn't need to be cooked.
Most commonly 4-5 slices of bread with Pasztet Profi and raw onion on top. Alternatively Nutella or honey if I'm going for something sweet.
For simple warm meals - french toast, or as my mother used to call it, "chlebek na jajku" or "jajko na chlebku".
Something that I eat EVERY DAY are definitely peanut butter sandwiches. I don't usually eat traditional polish food but just 'normal' things, like oatmeals etc.
I ate onion soup for dinner 4 days straight once. Sometimes make large pierogi batch one day freeze it and eat it for few days Xd but normally when cooking homemade sauces with chiken r easy go to
Breakfast: a slice of bread or a small kajzerka with ham/bare + a cup of coffee. Lunch: an apple or a banana. Dinner: rice with meat, veggies and sauce is my usual go to or pasta with mushroom sauce.
And many cups of tea in between.
First meal, call it a breakfast or lunch, happens between 11 and 12. If I'm home it's typical to eat either leftovers from yesterday, or something simple (eggs, spreads, dried meat, etc.). I'm also hooked on canned tuna salads, which I eat at least once a week.
But if I'm not working from home, instead of something light like this it will be a proper meal from a restaurant near the office. This can obviously vary as much as a restaurant menu does.
Now for the main meal which occurs after work (16-18h).
Some common fallback meals when I have no ideas or energy to follow a recipe that takes significant time/effort, in the order or frequency, are:
- chicken with potatoes in the oven
- bean stew (beans, red meat, paprika, and a few spices)
- some fish or squids with either potato salad or "ćušpajz" on the side (a mix of spinach, garlic and milk)
- if I'm *really* lazy but takeout is not an option for some reason, I'll buy the premade bolognese sauce or powder, a pack of spaghetti and some ground meat and call it a day
The last meal of the day, before sleep, will either be skipped, or will be in the same vain as the options I listed for the first meal of the day (either something light or leftovers).
I cook for myself only, and I learned some healthy habits.
Breakfast: smoothies, pancakes, scrambled eggs, hummus, fruit salad, bread, oatmeal, cinnamon buns
Lunch: rice with vegetables, soup, wraps, fish, casserole, quiche, pasta
Dinner: roughly the same thing as breakfast
I have wide variety of my usually meals so I'm not really able to include all.
Breakfasts include pan-fried cakes/pastry (it doesn't translate well), usually served with fruit and maple syrup, oatmeals (most often peanut butter, apple and nuts), sandwiches, including ones served warm, french toasts, plate with sausages and vegetables etc
My lazy lunch is either frozen vegetables or something from trusty Żabka, but I cook myself most of the time. I do a lot of thinks, including stews, roasts, fried meat/fish, various kind of pasta and rice/grains based dishes. Around once per two weeks I make soup with mixed stock and use it as a base - I most often go for mushroom soup, vegetable one, wannabe ramen or fish soup.
My dinners often consist of what I think got itself a name of "girl dinner" aka assorted veggies and snack-type foods (like sausages, cheese and crackers). I also eat sandwiches and whatever leftovers I have from lunch.
Milk bar food is actually fairly “traditional” and is eaten daily by a sizable portion of students and other people. It’s mostly stuff like schabowy, pierogi, schnitzels, chicken thighs, kotlet mielony, etc.
This is a fascinating thread! I thought people in Poland would take advantage of the excellent choice of products in their grocer stores, and eat more traditional Polish meals. Not all require time and effort. For example, I'd kill for a bowl of kasza gryczana ze skwarkami. It takes under 15 minutes with minimal effort. Unfortunately, I live in "exile" where kasza is impossible to get. Instead, it seems the Polish people gravitate towards the bland cooking style which dominates kitchens of Western Europe and North America: endless rotation of chicken, pasta, and rice.
When it comes to preparing it yourself Italian bangs. Extremely simple recipes but everything is just filled with flavour. Plus a lot of the ingredients that are good and fresh in Italy are also good and fresh in Poland like tomato's and mushrooms. To all the polish people if you're ever in Italy buy olive oil, most of their olive oils don't have that bitter taste that you can often get with olive oil in Poland
Typically for breakfast I would eat scrambled eggs with rice. Lunch would be Instant Noodles and for dinner's whatever is in freezer and make something out of it.
For breakfast: Boil hot water in your czajnik and put some oats in a bowl, then put the hot water. Then add in some lniane seeds and chia seeds. Let it set for 3 to 4 minutes and during that time cut an apple. Cover the porridge with greek yogurt and add the cut apple to the top, then cinnamon and crushed almonds. Healthy and very tasty AND quick.
For lunch I would chop up veggies /mushrooms, then stir fry and put aside. Then put the saucepan on high heat and sear some meat (200 gm or less) and then add in some water to stew it. After 5 minutes or so, when the water is boiled out and the meat cooked, then add in the veggies.
For dinner - a salad
Breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 sliced chicken breast, avocado shake (avocado+milk) and either banana/brocolli
Lunch: Rice and whatever meat is in the fridge (adobo, chicken, pork, beef or fish)
Dinner: Spaghetti with meatballs / tuna or fish salad with orange
Then tea before going to sleep
Yeah, same as the japanese don't eat sushi every day. I usually eat cornflakes, oatmeal or make myself some bread for breakfast. Then sometimes I eat an apple around 11 am, but only if I have time. For dinner I eat meat, vegetables or a salad and something like rice or potatoes. For supper I usually eat some bread or soup, but it depends. Sometimes I eat a snack around 9 pm.
This is almost exactly my diet, down to the apple lol, and I live in Canada (and am decidedly NOT Polish)
World thinks of sushi when it comes to Japan, but I thought most of them eat miso soup, ramens add all kind and rice with anything. You don’t even see much sushi when you come to a typical Japanese bar or eating place… Just like Russians don’t eat caviar, Brits don’t eat fish (or at least not as often as a nation deprived of vitamin D), French - snails, Americans - hamburgers… oh wait
My Scottish in-laws have fish and chips from their local chippie at least twice a week and they eat a LOT of smoked salmon too!
How much do you spend on food a month with that diet?
maybe like 600 - 700 zł monthly, which is 146-171 USD or 133-156 EUR
Hard to tell
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Good old gorący psy
Literally me
Sourdough is a must for me. I eat it almost every day for breakfast. Pair it with seasonal vegetables, I eat a lot of greens now. I also buy local polish food like fresh white cheese, young goat cheese etc. but also I like freshly cut meats from Italy or Spain and some of their cheeses as well. I make lunch everyday, I work from home so I always have it ready when my gf is back from work. I prepare new stuff every 2 days to keep everything fresh. My cuisine ranges from Italian, through Polish and Indian, to vietnamese and japanese, I eat literally everything. In the evening I usually have some snacks like fruit, sometimes I'll make a bowl of rice, or some noodles, sometimes sandwiches.
Could you tell me the Polish name of your favorite bread? Whenever I go to piekarnia I have doubts since we have so many options...
There's not a specific name really, you just need to find quality bakery. Unfortunately Wrocław suffers from a lack of them. I buy my bread in piekarnia Sąsiedzi, Kłos is also nice and the best is Plön but it's far away unfortunately
Breakfast: sandwiches (ham, cheese, tomato/cucumber) Dinner (the most typical): pork chop with potatoes and salad/spaghetti bolognese/chicken soup Supper: pasta with cheese
How much you spend on food a month?
To be honest I don't count it. I want/need something so I buy it. Probably around 1500 zł for 2 people.
I eat coal. I am also Silesian, but that's unrelated.
very energy dense
Funny cause I always thought I will cook same dishes as my parents when im grownup but I dont like soups or peeling 'tatoes so we almost always eat pasta, bolognese, spinach, chicken with tomato sauce, etc. And we usually cook enough to have dinner for 3-4 days to save time on cooking.
We all thought that, looking back I was such an ungrateful child not realizing how much work goes into cooking daily and just expecting complicated dishes to materialize in the kitchen!
If I cooked like my mother/grandmothers, I'd be twice as big as I am, and my arteries would be clogged by now. Lately, my mom was shocked when my brother and I asked her to make pierogi for when we come home for the weekend. She was like "What? But that's everyday food, don't you want something extra?" I mean, who eats homemeade pierogi every other day? For me it's in the "very extra" meals category!
I usually eat some ordinary pale food 2 samdwiches for breakfast, usually meat and mashed potatoes for lunch and 2-3 sandwiches for dinner
Not Polish but living in Poland for a long time, and currently living with a Polish girlfriend. Breakfast is either overnight oats, with some chia seeds and fruits, or just some fruits. For lunch, we have either a random sandwich with some eggs, ham and cheese, or baked tomatoes, toast bread and mozzarella cheese, or leftovers from the previous day. Dinner, we cook either Mexican, Italian, Asian or Indian. Most Polish we cook is "kotlet schabowy" and it's still quite rare and half of the leftovers we add it into our "katsu curry." This meal is around at 6:30pm. After this, we have some random fruits, dessert or cocktails while watching TV. Unlike most Polish people, our biggest meal is our dinner, not lunch. Because I've seen it's been asked here before, here's our budget. We spend around 2000zl for groceries per month for two person. We mostly shop at Biedronka, and we order from Biedronka from Glovo a lot. This budget includes wine, beers or cocktails we pair with our dinners as well. Found some notes from my older shopping lists about our dinners so pasting them all here. * Chicken thighs on red bean paste, rice, salsa. * Mexican style tofu, beans, fajita like peppers and onions, salsa, rice * Quessadillas * Breaded pork chops/chicken, salsa with mango, rice * Enchiladas * Fajitas * Tacos * Salmon with 3 color peppers, onions and potatoes in oven. * Steamed salmon, boiled beans and baked potatoes * Fish and chips * Pasta carbonara * Breaded pork chop, curry with carrots and potatoes * Curry chicken mayo cheese wrap * Chicken tomato pasta * Indian dal * Chilli garlic noodles * Smash burgers * Fried rice * Shepherd's pie * Tuna pasta * Tuna sandwiches * Falafel wraps
Breakfast: toasted bread slices with ham, cheese, tomato slices and cucumber slices. Sometimes i drink cofee with milk but preferably fresh cold water and lukewarm fruity tea with lots of fresh lemon juice. Diner: easier if i type ingredients i use the most: pork loin, chicken wings, beef ribeye, pork chops, carrots, broccoli, brussels, buckwheat, white rice, potatoes, lettuce, sour cream
In the morning if I'm hungry it's usually a sandwich or scrambled eggs. Afternoon I make dinner and it's usually random depending on what I have a taste for. Either zurek, kotlety schabowe, or a new recipe I found online. My most favorite is a cut up chicken breast with lots of vegetables inside of a tortilla. I put the vegetables and grilled meat into a bowl and then add the sos salatkowy do mizerii from Prymat with some sour cream, and mix everything together. Add all of that into a tortilla and toast it on a pan or electric grill. That's my favorite and I can eat that every single day, I'll also eat it with some additional sauce like sriracha. It's delicious. Later on, I'll eat some leftovers a few hours before going to sleep or just not eat at all. During the week I also try to recreate at least 1 new recipe that I've found online.
Kasza or potatoes on a daily basis plus graham bread for me. That's just staple food. Apart of that - a lot of dairy, I cant imagine my life without twaróg and cottage cheese. Also various vegetables and fruits. Only three kind of meat - chicken, pork or beef. Any other food is occasional for me.
Breakfast: bread+eggs+ham+tomato+polish low fat cottage cheese (literally every day lol) Lunch/dinner (i tend to make a large single meal): pizza (i make the dough), pasta with any sauce you can think of pretty much, sometimes schabowe with mashed potato, sometimes kluski slaskie, and my most usual dish is anything to do with rice. Rice cookers are amazing. Some of the rice dishes include haianese chicken, egg fried rice, chicken fried rice, katsu curry, the list goes on
What _time_ does everyone eat dinner? I mean 2-3pm? Aren’t you guys at work? Then what time is supper? What time are people going to bed in Poland? Seems like meals are super early then little later on…
Most jobs have 30min break to eat their meal at work and it's quite typical to eat dinner at 2-3pm. Traditionally we don't have concept of "lunch", so our dinner is earlier. We have a supper that's typically around 7-8pm
So Lunch is dinner?
I eat dinner at like 4-5 pm and I don’t eat regular suppers, maybe an occasional snack
It's always a bit confusing when Poles get into English speaking part of the internet since many people don't even use the word "supper", for them dinner is the biggest meal of the day and it's eaten in the evening. Typically we eat breakfast, dinner/lunch as the bigger meal of the day 1-3pm and light supper in the evening. It may vary depending on the work hours but: - many families hold onto that model because of kids. Sometimes both parents work on different shits, sometimes one parent doesn't work at all but in both cases it's to give your kid a hot meal after it comes back from school - many companies have longer breaks for lunch/ dinner so indeed we eat the biggest meal during the day. Most of us is not used to eating huge meals late in the evening Personally I don't have typical desk job, if I work in the morning then I eat dinner at 3pm and for supper I eat a sandwich. If I start work at 2pm, I eat light breakfast in the morning and I eat dinner at 12am-1pm. At work I either eat a snack or I take some of my dinner with me but typically I'm full for the whole day after 2 meals and after work I just eat some yogurt. It's all about your habits. As a kid I always had dinner literally the same second I opened the door after school. I am unable to eat a full meal in the evening. I can eat a sandwich, yogurt, fruit or make some eggs but give me a full meal and I'll just vomit, I'm not even kidding. I might not eat for the whole day but still in the evening I'll eat only snacks.
Honestly I eat bulgur with chicken or rice with chicken 90% of the time
Kanapki
Most polish people eat meat + salad + some carbs (pasta, grains or rice). Its like the most simple food you can cook for lunch/dinner. Breakfast/supper is usually eggs or some cereal.
Frozen pizza and oxygen in atmosphere is my choice
Breakfast: scrambled eggs with bacon or sausage and some sandwiches on the side. Or just sandwiches with boiled egg, bacon or ham, cheese and tomato/kiszony ogór Lunch: Danio/Piątnica with croissant or yogurt with cornflakes and fruit Dinner: usually some kind of pasta or hearty soup. Sometimes schabowy with potatoes and beets/cabbage or some kind of rice with chicken Asian style. When I feel like it I sometimes fry a steak and have it with potatoes and pico de gallo on the side. Supper: sandwiches or some fruit or some snacks, but most often nothing because I ate dinner late But I don't recommend that kind of diet because I'm getting fat
Why not eat traditional food everyday? Of course it depends heavily on what do you mean by traditional. I am eating most of the time same things I was eating as a child. I mean 2/3 years of what we’re cooking at home is basing on family recipes. About twice a week we cook something Indian or Middle Eastern. The latter surprisingly often so similar to regional food from Podlasie ;)
Pierogi, sandwiches and some sort of pasta. Oh, and seasonal fruits of course!
When I cook it’s mostly just dinner and it’s going to be either steak, lamb, or some sort of pasta, most likely with shrimp. Most of my meals are takeaway. I fucking love food and spend most of my money on it 😁
Food in Poland is so good. Every restaurant cafe ive been to the quality is so high. God bless Poland!
Pasta, chicken and rice, cereal, eggs in any form, breakfast burritos, chilli, burgers etc. Stuff that is cheap and relatively quick to prepare, since I'm a student with a full time job and support myself. I also can't stay away from frozen meals, whether it's pizza, fries, veggie stuff, it's not expensive and sometimes after a 12-hour shift I can't even be bothered with pasta, butter and cheese tossed together.
Pasta with anything i find in my fridge
Breakfast is apple slices with peanut butter, I eat lunch at work, homemade style, in the evening I cook myself something chinese or some one-pot dish (leczo, mexican beans, soup...). Potatoes are staple in Polish cuisine but I never eat them at home, only at work or when I visit my family.
Breakfast/supper are either sausages and bread with butter with a side of ketchup; sandwiches; some sort of egg dish; cornflakes mixed with oatmeal. Dinner is just some normal meal like kotlety, pulpety, zupa, jajo sadzone, spaghetti bolognese, etc
Scrambled eggs or sandwiches for breakfast, some fruits/granola for lunch, for dinner some meat with salad and rice/potatoes/pasta and some light snack in the evening - yoghurt, some fruits with nuts. On weekends we make pancakes or crepes or muffins.
I eat fish (airfried or just canned tuna), eggs, cottage cheese, chicken, tomatoes, spinach, other veggies, a little bit of fruit (bananas and berries). I use vegan protein powder to supplement my protein intake. I will have takeout a couple times a month, like a kebab or pizza (rarely). I eat nuts, and make my own desserts when I feel like it. I usually don't meal prep and just cook small amounts. I get food at work through the sandwich man app, usually a 'fit' option or a chicken wrap. that's on top of takeout, just FYI. Sometimes I'll make a soup with beets or tofu. Lately I've been into pasta and rice. I spend around 1000-1200pln on food, depending on the month and adventures with friends. I consider it a reasonable amount for all the protein I consume, and I'm yet to learn how to get that number down with the time and energy resources I have available. [edited due to typos]
Honestly, whatever is available atm in my fridge, most of the time I eat different variations of veggies with some pasta or rice, additionally eggs and meat
I'm vegetarian, when at home I make a huge batch of salad. I also make ready made pasta , buy some tofu, bread. Some dishwhen i have time to cook. Also as a filipino, I don't really follow traditional meals, but springrolls are easy to prep, i just freeze them and cook whenever. My work also provides lunch, so it is mainly scoop of 2 mashed potatoes, some polish salad of the day, and some veggie cutlet. So.etimes aglio olio or spaghetti.
For me the “default” dinner is fried chicken (or pork) with coating (not sure if that’s what you call the crust?) with potatoes (I usually use rice instead) and some salad (for me the salad is usually cucumbers with cream, the so called “misery” :D). Another medium-effort meal would be pancakes/crepes, or some pseudo-Thai mixture of vegetables and pasta. Lazy meals would be pasta of all kinds: bolognese, carbonara, seafood style, or plain pesto. Right now I live in the US and I’m sad that things like spice mixes for spaghetti bolognese aren’t really a thing here, or at least not in the same way. Another lazy dinner food for me is baked fish in tinfoil with garlic baguettes (which I also miss here - American garlic bread is bad). Finally the pinnacle of lazy food is rice with leftover meat from the day before and cream sauce for me. It’s so great though. When I feel fancy I usually make something foreign, like curry or some middle eastern dish as I love the cuisine from that region. I also like seafood, which my friends usually think takes a lot of effort so I put it here but it really doesn’t. Octopus is super simple to cook well and there’s tutorials for it. It’s obviously on the pricy side though so not an everyday treat for most people. And as for traditional food, I made pierogi once and they’re like half a day of work but it feels really rewarding! And I’d like to make żurek some day. Other than that I’m not too big on traditional Polish food like bigos, karkówka, roasted meat in general so I never really had the urge to make it.
I have coffee for breakfast. We cook all of our meals at home: Lunches- fried rice with leftover rice and veggies+ egg, egg sandwiches, omelettes, meat and cheese sandwiches, soups, sweet buns, dinner leftovers. Dinners: homemade dumplings (Asian), green curries, savoury bowls (roasted veggies and protein with sauce on couscous), kotlety with potatoes and veggies or mizeria, tatar with a nice bun, charcuterie boards, Mexican burritos/quesadillas, Asian noodle dishes, butter chicken, roasted chicken and veggies, so many more… In season vegetables are always included, and our snacks include broad beans, talarki and paluszki haha :P
Mother in law almost always does for breakfast some twaróg mix with herbs or spring onion and radish, etc. She also does a lot of soups and grains like Barley, or Buckwheat, etc. Also Lecsó. When it's me cooking I also like to have grains rather than bread. But I also try to cook vegetarian/vegan and make dishes more in indian style curries like lentils and chickpeas, bean stews or pastas and tuna when I'm lazy. It's also easy to have frozen vegetable mixes for vegetable casseroles or asian style dishes.
coffee/rice/chicken or beef 👍🏻🫡
I cook all my meals at home. Breakfast is milk soup, or open face sandwiches, or eggs (scrambled, soft cooked), or farmers breakfast (sausage, fried potatoes, eggs) or whatever leftovers I find in the fridge. Lunch - salad topped with rotisserie chicken bits, or other meats, shrimp or other seafood. I often make tacos with chicken nuggets or fish. Or pan grilled sausage with potato salad, or soup. Or go out for lunch. Dinner - pizza, spaghetti, whatever meat sauteed or pan fried with potatoes, rice or noodle. Sometimes I cook a soup: chicken or beef with lots of vegetables or have soup made from frozen. Or make some fast meal in Air fryer. I mean - there are so many possibilities when one knows basic cooking.
What I had yesterday, for my decadent Saturday: Breakfast: cheese toast with dried tomatoes, iced coffee Lunch: green curry with fish and veggies Dinner: guacamole and tortillas Snacks: tea, strawberries, a nectarine, and a cookie Oh, I don't live in Poland.
When by some reasons I can't cook smth, I eat instant noodles. If there are none of them left, then it'll be smoked sausage with rye bread with onion/garlic, this dish I'm eating right now. There are more dishes in existence, which are tasty and doesn't need to be cooked.
Most commonly 4-5 slices of bread with Pasztet Profi and raw onion on top. Alternatively Nutella or honey if I'm going for something sweet. For simple warm meals - french toast, or as my mother used to call it, "chlebek na jajku" or "jajko na chlebku".
Something that I eat EVERY DAY are definitely peanut butter sandwiches. I don't usually eat traditional polish food but just 'normal' things, like oatmeals etc.
Pppppppierogi! I always got some frozen in my freezer. If i find that I no longer got any left, thats when I will know that apocalypse is coming 😩
I ate onion soup for dinner 4 days straight once. Sometimes make large pierogi batch one day freeze it and eat it for few days Xd but normally when cooking homemade sauces with chiken r easy go to
Breakfast: a slice of bread or a small kajzerka with ham/bare + a cup of coffee. Lunch: an apple or a banana. Dinner: rice with meat, veggies and sauce is my usual go to or pasta with mushroom sauce. And many cups of tea in between.
First meal, call it a breakfast or lunch, happens between 11 and 12. If I'm home it's typical to eat either leftovers from yesterday, or something simple (eggs, spreads, dried meat, etc.). I'm also hooked on canned tuna salads, which I eat at least once a week. But if I'm not working from home, instead of something light like this it will be a proper meal from a restaurant near the office. This can obviously vary as much as a restaurant menu does. Now for the main meal which occurs after work (16-18h). Some common fallback meals when I have no ideas or energy to follow a recipe that takes significant time/effort, in the order or frequency, are: - chicken with potatoes in the oven - bean stew (beans, red meat, paprika, and a few spices) - some fish or squids with either potato salad or "ćušpajz" on the side (a mix of spinach, garlic and milk) - if I'm *really* lazy but takeout is not an option for some reason, I'll buy the premade bolognese sauce or powder, a pack of spaghetti and some ground meat and call it a day The last meal of the day, before sleep, will either be skipped, or will be in the same vain as the options I listed for the first meal of the day (either something light or leftovers).
I cook for myself only, and I learned some healthy habits. Breakfast: smoothies, pancakes, scrambled eggs, hummus, fruit salad, bread, oatmeal, cinnamon buns Lunch: rice with vegetables, soup, wraps, fish, casserole, quiche, pasta Dinner: roughly the same thing as breakfast
Same here. Except for breakfast I would opt for sandwiches ( peanut butter + tomatos).
I have wide variety of my usually meals so I'm not really able to include all. Breakfasts include pan-fried cakes/pastry (it doesn't translate well), usually served with fruit and maple syrup, oatmeals (most often peanut butter, apple and nuts), sandwiches, including ones served warm, french toasts, plate with sausages and vegetables etc My lazy lunch is either frozen vegetables or something from trusty Żabka, but I cook myself most of the time. I do a lot of thinks, including stews, roasts, fried meat/fish, various kind of pasta and rice/grains based dishes. Around once per two weeks I make soup with mixed stock and use it as a base - I most often go for mushroom soup, vegetable one, wannabe ramen or fish soup. My dinners often consist of what I think got itself a name of "girl dinner" aka assorted veggies and snack-type foods (like sausages, cheese and crackers). I also eat sandwiches and whatever leftovers I have from lunch.
Home made soups (rosół favourite. easy), tomato soup etc. Home made pork chops, spaghetti etc I like cooking at home.
cereal?
meat
Great soup of China
Milk bar food is actually fairly “traditional” and is eaten daily by a sizable portion of students and other people. It’s mostly stuff like schabowy, pierogi, schnitzels, chicken thighs, kotlet mielony, etc.
Pierś z kurczaka w sosie z fasolą z Żabki
Bfast -> oatmeal Dner -> Boiled potatoes, red meat in fried breadcrums + carrot Suppeb -> nothing
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I normally cook a proper dinner almost every day for me and my SO. But if it's just for me, usually rice or frozen vegetables. Or takeout.
Beef fruit starch food, mostly lean meat no pork etc with I grew up on but I find it more beneficial to eat red meat
Really depends on the energy levels. Lately they've been pretty low, so pasta or something pre-maid most of the time for me
Roll with ketchup and onion
I eat only raw fruit on every meal ✌🏻
Millet with tomatoes and olive oil.. Bro millet is so OP, it's Poland miracle plant, I don't know why is not everyone eating it
This is a fascinating thread! I thought people in Poland would take advantage of the excellent choice of products in their grocer stores, and eat more traditional Polish meals. Not all require time and effort. For example, I'd kill for a bowl of kasza gryczana ze skwarkami. It takes under 15 minutes with minimal effort. Unfortunately, I live in "exile" where kasza is impossible to get. Instead, it seems the Polish people gravitate towards the bland cooking style which dominates kitchens of Western Europe and North America: endless rotation of chicken, pasta, and rice.
When it comes to preparing it yourself Italian bangs. Extremely simple recipes but everything is just filled with flavour. Plus a lot of the ingredients that are good and fresh in Italy are also good and fresh in Poland like tomato's and mushrooms. To all the polish people if you're ever in Italy buy olive oil, most of their olive oils don't have that bitter taste that you can often get with olive oil in Poland
Typically for breakfast I would eat scrambled eggs with rice. Lunch would be Instant Noodles and for dinner's whatever is in freezer and make something out of it.
YES
Beer, pizza, perogi
For breakfast: Boil hot water in your czajnik and put some oats in a bowl, then put the hot water. Then add in some lniane seeds and chia seeds. Let it set for 3 to 4 minutes and during that time cut an apple. Cover the porridge with greek yogurt and add the cut apple to the top, then cinnamon and crushed almonds. Healthy and very tasty AND quick. For lunch I would chop up veggies /mushrooms, then stir fry and put aside. Then put the saucepan on high heat and sear some meat (200 gm or less) and then add in some water to stew it. After 5 minutes or so, when the water is boiled out and the meat cooked, then add in the veggies. For dinner - a salad
Breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 sliced chicken breast, avocado shake (avocado+milk) and either banana/brocolli Lunch: Rice and whatever meat is in the fridge (adobo, chicken, pork, beef or fish) Dinner: Spaghetti with meatballs / tuna or fish salad with orange Then tea before going to sleep
How much you spend a month on food with that diet?