Meal time | |||||
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Breakfast | Mid-morning meal | Main meal | Dinner | Snacks | |
8–10 am | 10–1 pm | 1–6 pm | 6–9 pm | In-between meals | |
Rural context | |||||
High BMIa | Nothing or a drink: coffee, milk or atoleb. Sometimes a piece of bread. | Potatoes, meat stew or eggs or fried beans Tortillasb. Soda | Nothing if they ate late at mid-morning. Rice or soup Meat stew Tortillasb. A side dish: mostly fried beans and/or nopalesb. Soda or fruit water. | Coffee A piece of bread or maize tortillasb with left-overs from lunch or beans | A piece of bread Chicharrónb or churritosb with lime and chilli sauce, Soda Fruit or vegetables (apple or cucumber). |
Normal weight | Coffee, milk or atoleb. RTEC, or eggs, or a piece of bread. | Nothing or eggs with ham or sausages, or meat stew, Tortillasb. | 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 churritosb |
Urban context | |||||
High BMIa | Coffee or milk or atoleb. A piece of bread or sandwich or quesadillas or RTECb or “tacos” or fruit. | Eggs with beans, or grilled meat, or nopalesb, 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 carnitasb. | Sandwich, or tacos If eating out: tacosb from a street stall. | Nothing or fruit, bread or churritosb. |
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 tortillasb. 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 RTECb or fruit. Occasionally meat tacosb. | Did not mention snacks. |