Czech cuisine and eating habits

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Czech cuisine and eating habits

• Although Czech cuisine is not exactly a synonym
  for healthy cooking, everybody will probably find
  at least a couple of meals "to die for". It may
  be the potato soup, the traditional roast pork
  with dumplings and sauerkraut, the fruit filled
  dumplings, or the apple strudel.
• Czech cooking and eating habits have been
  shifting in the general direction of a healthier
  lifestyle, but traditional Czech recipes are
  still extremely popular - and those tend to be
  high in calories, fat and sugar. Sauces and
  condiments are popular.

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Soups

• A Czech meal often starts with soup (polévka).
  Some popular Czech soups are
• - potato soup (bramborová polévka or
  bramboracka)- garlic soup (cesneková polévka or
  cesnecka)- chicken noodle soup (kurecí polévka s
  nudlemi)- beef soup with liver dumplings (hovezí
  polévka s játrovými knedlícky)- sauerkraut
  soup (zelná polévka or zelnacka)- dill soup,
  made from sour milk (koprová polévka or koprovka)

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The Main Course

• The main course (hlavní chod) usually consists of
  meat (maso) and a side dish (príloha). The most
  popular meats are chicken (kure) and pork
  (veprové), followed by beef (hovezí), usually
  served with some kind of sauce (omácka). Fish is
  not very common although trout (pstruh) or cod
  (treska) are sometimes served. Salmon (losos) and
  seafood (plody more) are served in better
  restaurants. The mackerel (makrela) is a popular
  fish to grill over open fire in summer. Carp
  (kapr) is traditionally served on Christmas Eve.

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Side Dishes

• The most common Czech side dishes are
• - boiled potatoes (varené brambory)- roasted
  potatoes (opékané brambory)- mashed potatoes
  (bramborová kaše)- French fries (bramborové
  hranolky)- rice (rýže)- bread dumplings
  (houskové knedlíky) or potato dumplings
  (bramborové knedlíky) with sauce (omácka)- bread
  or potato dumplings with sauerkraut (zelí)-
  potato salad (bramborový salát)

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Desserts

• Desserts (moucníky) come in many varieties and
  tend to be heavy and fatty because butter (máslo)
  and whipped cream (šlehacka) are often used. Some
  popular desserts are
• - pancakes(palacinky) filled with jam (džem) or
  strawberries (jahody)- and whipped cream- honey
  cake called Medovník - blueberry dumplings
  (boruvkové knedlíky)- apple strudel (jablecný
  závin)- ice cream sundae (zmrzlinový pohár)

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Drinks

• Czech Republic is the only one all over the world
  where beer is cheeper than water in the pubs
• Czechs drink a lot of beer (on average 160 liters
  for one person)
• If you're not in the mood for beer, you can have
  mineral water, orange juice (pomerancový džus),
  coca-cola and other commercial drinks or a soda
  (specify its name because soda in Czech means
  "soda water"). Czechs also like to drink tea
  (caj) with sugar (cukr) and lemon (citrón), and
  coffee (káva) with or without milk (mléko) or
  cream (smetana).

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Eating habits

• In our country we have three main dishes
• breakfast, dinner (around midday)- its the
  biggest dish, lunch (smaller dish in the
  evenning)
• But a lot of children miss breakfast and at
  school they eat some sweets and similar unhealthy
  food and moreover, they spend majority of their
  free time in front of computer screen.
• That is why we (teachers) can see problems with
  movement skills and obesity (every 5th child is
  overweight in our country)

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Obesity reasons

• Lack of movement, lack of opportunities
• Bad eating habits - sweets, caloric food, fast
  food, lack of vegetables and fruit, TV,
  computers
• My opinion We should change it!!!