Which food or ingredient is the main focus on your dinner plate?

We eat a little bit of everything. We went to rotate our foods, so we don't get fed up with one food. I prefer chicken the best, but mostly we have beef, as we get our own beef meat from our farm. We make everything from beef and use it to everything, and its normally served with macaroni or potatoes. Chicken is the second most used. We have chicken very often too. Chicken is always served with rice or noodles. Noodles very rarely tho. Fish we have once a week or once in two weeks, It's not so popular. It's served with what ever comes to hand. I need food with a lot of proteins, and what could be better than meat. I'm never been into vegetables..It not what I need so I eat them very few, but I always eat them. None in our family likes vegetables so much, so we rarely have any salad in dinner table, everyone just makes their own, I just usually take some tomatoes and cucumber. Also I take a little bread while eating other food, just one slice and little butter and maybe cheese on it, but in total meat is the main focus on my dinner place. Healthy, much protein and energy, that makes me feel good, and that way I gain weight just the thing I need.

For us it is mostly pork or chicken. We do still eat beef but usually it's ground beef :) If my wife had her way I think it would always be chicken because she loves chicken LOL

It really varies a lot here. My son and I eat a lot of bean dishes. My husband is pretty picky with beans, and will just eat them from time to time. Elliott and I have something with beans in it at least 3-4 times each week, though. We eat a lot of chicken, too. That's one of the things that we all enjoy eating. I fix it several different ways. We also eat rice fairly often. Usually when we eat it, we have chicken of some kind with it.

We settle around the meet or the salad and then the meat. in the summer is settling around the salad then adding the meat.

I'm an omnivore, but my meat choices are mostly fish and fowl. I also eat a lot of brown rice, whole grain pasta, and beans.

The majority of my meals do focus on a meat of some sort, beef, chicken, pork... it all depends. I try to do a couple different meats each week, and do them a few different ways. I buy my meat in bulk at Sam's club, so each package of meat gets 2 or 3 or 4 meals. This way I only have to buy 2 packs of meat a week, and just think up different ways to serve them. I will also do like 1 pasta night which doesn't usually involve meat.

While I do eat meat, I'm more interested in vegetables. Some days I'm happy with just a big bowl o salad for a meal.

Meat is usally my main ingrdient when I eat meals. Of course tonight I had spegitti noodles with ragu sauce and I mixed in chicken with it and melted cheese. It tasted pretty good. I try to stay away from starchy foods most of the time but tonight I did mess up and ate noodles.

Since we are Chinese, the main food is rice with some dishes like vegetables and meats. The meats are usually chicken, fish, pork and beef. And sometimes we will eat seafood like shrimps. I love China

We eat a lot of rice and vegetables too. For meat, we eat very little red meat but will sometimes have lean beef. We eat mostly chicken. I tend to give most of the meat to my husband when I cook. With his workouts he needs the added protein. I have never been much of a meat eater but will eat small portions. I prefer fruits and veggies. Our 2 year old daughter likes diced up chicken and will eat some fish too. Her favorite veggie is corn so we have that a lot. I usually make more than one vegetable with every meal.

My main part of my meal is my vegetables and then my meat. And then my fruit for dessert. I don't eat carbs, or not many, so I don't have any potatoes or rice or noodles or bread. Only once in awhile. Today I made a pot of homemade soup with fresh vegetables from the garden. One of our clients, we clean houses, has a big garden and he lives on an acreage so it is big, and he allows us to pick whatever we want when we are there cleaning and today was the day so I picked green and yellow beans and onions and carrots and beets and peas, and when I came hiome I made a pot of bean soup with ham. I don't use those fancy beans for my bean soup, but garden yellow and green beans. Then when it was ready I put some dumplings in it. We also put a little bit of vinegar in our bowls when we eat it. And right now I am eating some cantelope while I am mylotting.

I grew up in a house where red meat was served in just about every meal. I went on some medications that blew me up almost 100 pounds a few years ago and in the past year I have gotten serious about losing it. I now try to eat less red meat and more chicken and pork. I have to admit I'm a pasta freak so I do give in and eat the carbs sometimes. I have lost 35 in a little over a year so it is working. We still eat some red meat, but not nearly as much as we used to.

Before we used to eat beef, pork, chicken and fish in random. but now as we grow old, sometimes its hard to digest those beef and pork and made us feel bloated. We've decided to have fish, vegetables, seafoods and chicken. Chicken in moderation only.

For health reason avoid eating to much red meat sucah as beef. Eat more white meat like chicken or fish. Fro lunch and dinner we eat rice plus other dishes. I will alternately cook chicken dishes with fish. That goes along with vegetables. Me have simple meals at home as long as it contains the balance nutrition. My husband and I loves vegetables a lot. We limit ourselves to a small portion of rice but plenty of vegetables.

We have a very wide range. We only buy meat when it is on sale. So we have beef, pork, chicken, turkey and lamb always in the freezer. For starched, we use a lot of rice and potatoes and some pasta. Tonight we had cheese enchiladas with flour tortillas, very yummy!

Tonight for supper we had grilled chicken thighs, pea salad, corn on the cob and french bread. I usually make at least two vegetables for our meal. I try to have one of them in a salad form. You are supposed to have so many servings of vegetables per day and this is the only way that I seem to work them in.

It used to be red meat for us and it's taken me a very long while to get my mom to transition to more turkey and chicken. We also do things around lean pork tenderloin cuts too. My thing was mom's heart health. The other thing we center around is rice. It just doesn't feel like a meal without it, lol. It's such a cultural thing for us, no Hispanic meal is complete without that side of rice. And we've got like a million and one ways of preparing it.

I budget really well so we can still afford all the foods we want - even though we have four kids now. We eat red meat three times a week, tinned salmon once a week (as I am allergic to other fish) and chicken the other nights. I would have to say that the meat on our plate is the focus and then there are lots of things that go around it. So for example, if I want to think of a dish to cook next monday night, I think about what cut of meat I have and how I would like to cook it. Say I decide on curry, I will use a cut like gravy beef and then use vegetables that go with it and most probably cook rice. I tried for a long time to make my meal balanced and healthy but that became boring! So now I try and make it colourful! The kids love their colourful meals and also love healthy food. For a family of six we include about 500g of meat, at least 1kg of vegetables and either a packet of pasta or 2 cups of uncooked rice or six large potatoes mashed/roasted. BQ - you saw that recipe that I posted, so you have an understanding of the kind of food I cook

We are rice eaters so basically, we eat rice almost every meal and just a little viand or anything to compliment rice which are usually chicken, fish, beef, pork, vegetable in smaller portions. In our province (Pangasinan), we don't eat without vegetable. We can survive even without meat for a week but not without veggies. Here in my hubby's house, they always serve meat so I always dread to have veggies.

Rice, in China this is the main food of us. We think rice can make us strongle. And we eat some pork and vagetables with rice, then we think the food is good enough to make us health. In north of China, they like steamed bread and noodle which made by flour, that is their main food.