The eating schedule of a Finnish person:
6:00 a.m.: breakfast
10:00 a.m.: snack
11:30 a.m.: a huge warm meal which is like dinner. The Finns are really hungry at this time. If it’s 11:30 a.m. they really want to have lunch. The restaurant of the school is really crowded at this time.
15:00 p.m.: snack
17:00 p.m.: diner, which is a warm meal again for the decent Finnish citizen. People who are too lazy to cook or so will just eat a bread.
Pre-bed snack: a bowl of yoghurt.
This schedule differs from a Dutch person. Most of the Dutch people eat bread for lunch.
The first days when I was at school, I really had to get used to the different eating times. At 11:30 a.m. I really didn’t feel like eating a hot meal. After a few weeks I was also getting hungry at 11:30 a.m. But still I don’t eat a warm lunch every day. Sometimes I prefer to just have a ‘cold’ meal.
An explanation that the Finnish people have a big lunch at 11:30 a.m. is that the original Finns walk a lot. They’ll walk to their work every morning, even if this is 5 kilometers.
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