It consists of three main dishes: the breakfast, the lunch and the supper; the smaller meals are snacks, usually eaten in the morning or in the afternoon. The breakfast is given usually in the morning (from 6 to 9 o'clock), the lunch is served about noon (from 12 to 14 o'clock) and the supper is prepared usually in the evening (from 17 to 21 o'clock).

The meal is eaten on various places. The breakfast is eaten at home, in the work or in the school. The lunch is eaten in the work (or school) canteens or in the restaurant. The supper is cooked most at home, sometimes in the restaurant or street stalls (Mac Donald's, KFC etc).

Now I will describe, what does each meal consist of. The breakfast is divided into the cold one and warm one. The part, which is the same for both types, is the drink. Drink could be also cold and warm. Cold on is e.g. fruit juice, cider, maple syrup, mineral water, milk, ice tea, ice coffee, milk cocktails. Warm one is e.g. tea (black or fruit), cocoa, coffee (espresso, Turkish coffee), cappuccino, chocolate and warm milk. The other part of breakfast is the food. The cold one is bread (wheat, garlic, sunflower, toast, whole-grain), pastry (rolls); the milk products are often butter (vegetable or animal fat), cheese, yogurt (white or fruit), cottage cheese. The meat products are salami, ham, sausage, bacon, paté. The other products as the eggs, corn flakes, cereals, honey, spice are also used. The spice is used to change the flavor of the food; e.g. sugar, salt, pepper, red pepper. The warm breakfast consists approximately of the same ingredients as the cold one.

The snack is usually eaten in buffets, street stalls, or it is prepared from home. It can be e.g. hamburger, baguette, hot dog, sandwich.

The main meal from the day is lunch. It consists of hors d'oeuvre, soup, main dish, dessert and drink. At first it is served hors d'oeuvre, which can be e.g. kipper, oil sardines, tuna, ham. Then the soups are eaten. They can be vegetable (mushroom, celery, carrot, pea, parsley) or tea (beef, hen,chicken, deer). Then follows the main dish. Its ingredients are meat (beef, pork, mutton, tripe, veal, lamb, poultry, deer, fish), vegetable (carrot, celery, parsley, pea, leek, cabbage, sprout, spinach, tomatoes), complement (potatoes, rice, pasta, dumplings) and spices (pepper, salt, red pepper, marjoram, cumin, onion, garlic, vinegar, mustard). The preparation is following: the meat could be boiled, minced, smoked, baked, stewed, roasted and fried. Except the meat dish we know the sweet dish (fried cheese, potato pancakes, semolina etc.). After the main dish it follows the dessert (pancakes, gingerbread, doughnut, baked yeast dumpling) as the last part of the lunch.

The last dish is supper. It is cold or warm. Cold one is e.g. kipper, trout, sprat, sardines, carp (especially on Christmas), the warm one is e.g. goulash soup, semolina.

Here are some typical Czech meals: pork with sauerkraut and dumplings, rolled beef meat with pickles, mustard and eggs and rice, roasted sirloin with dumplings, baked yeast dumpling etc.

There exist two groups of drinks – soft and alcoholic. Soft ones are cold and warm; cold ones are e.g. mineral water, milk and lemonades (e.g. Coca-Cola, Sprite etc.). Warm ones are e.g. tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate. The alcoholic ones are mostly cold – beer, wine, rum, vodka, liqueurs; the warm one is maybe only grog.

If we want to compare our cuisine with the other ones, we can say our cuisine is influenced by Europe; we consume more fat meat than vegetable, but the diet habits are accepted nowadays too; our cuisine is more traditional than in the Western Europe.