Today is the 4th day of the The A to Z Blogging Challenge, which requires you to publish an article for every day in April except for the 4 Sundays, with each article being related to the appropriate letter of the alphabet.
With it being the fourth article in this series of 26, today’s letter is D, and seeing as how I am feeling a little peckish, I thought you might like to come Dine With Me.
I love food, and it doesn’t matter whether I am eating in or eating out, I love them both.
With money being fairly tight these days, the same as with many of us, eating out is becoming more and more a luxury that we are able to afford maybe once a month, if that.
Debbie and I do enjoy fine dining once in a while, but both of us were brought up on good old style English Cooking, and that is what we still love to eat, although we do cook a lot of other things as well.
Breakfast is one meal that I really do enjoy, although most of the time I keep it pretty simple. I love once in a while to go to a good buffet restaurant like Golden Corral where I can enjoy anything and everything that I feel like eating, although it’s not a good idea to do this too often of course.
A while back I created a lens on Squidoo entitled What’s Your Favorite Breakfast Food and this has a lot of different types of breakfast foods listed.
Having lived in the USA for 15 years, I wanted to write something about how different eating out is in the USA as compared to the UK, with food being often a lot cheaper in the USA as well as there being a lot more choice of places to eat.
I published several articles about buffet restaurants, The Buffet Restaurant In The USA and The Buffet Restaurant In The UK, as well as Sweet Tomatoes A Healthy Buffet Restaurant Alternative.
Although I do love buffets, I love healthy food as well, and Sweet Tomatoes is one of the places that Debbie and I love to go to when we are in Florida. Their Soup and Salad Bar and other fresh items are to die for. Well, if you enjoy soup and salad that is.
Buffet Restaurants are also great places to go if you have small children or babies, which led to my publishing articles on Buffet Restaurants Perfect For Couples With Babies and Buffet Restaurants Ideal For Toddlers And Older Children.
But getting back to reality, and the lack of money, and once a week we usually end up eating what has become a staple English meal over the years, Baked Beans On Toast. Baked Beans have a completely different use in the UK to in the USA, and here you can serve them on toast for any meal of the day, making a quick and also cheap meal.
Cheese On Toast is also one of my favorites, and again in England we eat this for any meal, quite often with Baked Beans smothered over it. I tell you, this can’t be beat, and it kept me going through my university days.
I hope you enjoyed learning about my taste in food, and also had a chance to visit some of my food related articles. I would love to hear any comments that you have on both my taste in food as well as your favorite kinds of food.
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20 thoughts on “D Is For Dine With Me”
I’m not much of a foodie but I know what I like. Cheese on toast with beans. Or just beans on toast. I have such happy childhood memories of eating this. Nobody cooks like Mom.
Thanks for stopping by! My D post is a Delicious Dinner. I’m a new follower 🙂
I just love this post! Food traditions are so different all over the world. When I first moved here from the US I lost so much weight. I could not get used to the strange meals and way of eatig. Especailly breakfast. They eat open faced sandwiches with cheese and alot of fish.I do love beans but over here it is just beans in tomato sauce. I love baked beans. Boy now I am hungry!
Even though American born and raised I confess that the beans on toast and cheese on toast have been regular standbys for me too! Funny to read your post and see how “normal” this would be across the pond. Imagine the funny looks I’ve gotten from friends here over the years who could never imagine eating beans as a sandwich. 🙂
Thanks for visiting and following me Tony!
I really enjoyed Sweet Tomatoes too. Years ago my son’s baseball team played at a field across the street from the restaurant, so we always had something to look forward to after the game! Looking forward to popping in again. Julie
Thanks for following me Tony! I enjoy Sweet Tomatoes also. Years ago my son played in a baseball league that played across the street from the restaurant, so we always had something to look forward to after the game.
Looking forward to popping in again. Julie
Hi Tony .. great thoughts – on toasts were staples for us as kids .. and suet from the beef joint .. delicious!! Love food in general though – but not breakfasts .. I fall asleep afterwards!! I must have a look at your Squidoo lenses sometime .. lots to learn .. cheers and I’ll come Dine with you and Debbie sometime! Hilary
Golden Corrall for breakfast is dangerous! LOL. I enjoyed your ‘D’ post. Thanks for the follow and I look forward to your future posts!
I’m not much of an expert on food, but I am a fan. :O)
I’ve lived in the UK for nearly ten years (next month), but I have never been able to bring myself to eat beans on toast! The hubs does love those beans though!
You haven’t lived 🙂
It all sounds so yummy!
We also do all kinds of stuff with baked beans and most of our dishes came to us from the English.
I’ve not eaten beans on toast but it sounds like something my husband would enjoy. It is interesting to read about the differences between cultures. Nice post.
I have never tried eating beans on toast, but it sounds quite tasty. A great topic for the letter D! rcj
I love food too and am dining with you right now. Well, actually, I’m eating my dinner as I catch up on my blog reading.
Cheese on toast, smothered with baked beans? Never would have thought of combining them, but it actually sounds pretty good. I might have to try it 😉
Baked beans on toast sounds plain weird, but I’m thinking of the American version. I love eating out but we too have to watch our food budget. I usually cook up breakfast every day, but that’s about all that is usually cooked in our house.
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I love to eat breakfast for dinner. Last night I made Biscuits and Gravy, it was divine. I have a tendency to skip breakfast most of the time, so having it for dinner is a double treat. 🙂
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Your dream as a child would be an interesting painting or ink drawing, but also a horrifying dream for a child or anyone! I used to have a lot of end of the world dreams that would scare me when I was younger.
Have a wonderful E day, I will check back on your posts! Thanks!
I love to eat breakfast for dinner. Last night I made Biscuits and Gravy, it was divine. I have a tendency to skip breakfast most of the time, so having it for dinner is a double treat. 🙂
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Your dream as a child would be an interesting painting or ink drawing, but also a horrifying dream for a child or anyone! I used to have a lot of end of the world dreams that would scare me when I was younger.
Have a wonderful E day, I will check back on your posts! Thanks!