Table 2 Summary of reported habitual meals during the day by study groups

High BMI^a

Nothing or a drink: coffee, milk or atole^b.

Sometimes a piece of bread.

Potatoes, meat stew or eggs or fried beans

Tortillas^b.

Soda

Nothing if they ate late at mid-morning.

Rice or soup

Meat stew

Tortillas^b.

A side dish: mostly fried beans and/or nopales^b.

Soda or fruit water.

Coffee

A piece of bread or maize tortillas^b with left-overs from lunch

or beans

A piece of bread

Chicharrón^b or churritos^b with lime and chilli sauce, Soda

Fruit or vegetables (apple or cucumber).

Normal weight

Coffee, milk or atole^b.

RTEC, or eggs, or a piece of bread.

Nothing or eggs with ham or sausages, or meat stew, Tortillas^b.

Soup or rice

Eggs

Fried beans

(Meat dishes were not often.)

Left-overs from lunch, or RTEC, or a glass of milk.

Nothing

Few ate fruit or churritos^b

High BMI^a

Coffee or milk or atole^b.

A piece of bread or sandwich or quesadillas or RTEC^b or “tacos” or fruit.

Eggs with beans, or grilled meat, or nopales^b, or a soup, or meat stew.

Maize "tortillas".

Or RTEC or sandwich.

Vegetable cream soup or pasta or lentils soup or rice.

Meat stew or potatoes or broad beans stew.

Sometimes hot dogs

If eating out: Roasted chicken or carnitas^b.

Sandwich, or tacos

If eating out: tacos^b from a street stall.

Nothing or fruit, bread or churritos^b.

Normal weight

Fruit shake or coffee

A piece of bread; or RTEC with milk or fruit or tacos

Nothing or meat stew or fried beans or eggs with tortillas^b.

Or sandwich or fruit.

Vegetable cream soup or pasta or lentils soup or rice

Meat stew or potatoes stew; Salads or boiled vegetables.

A glass of milk with a piece of bread or RTEC^b or fruit.

Occasionally meat tacos^b.

Did not mention snacks.