What meals have these people prepared?

The man in the first picture is working in a fast-food restaurant. He's putting a burger into a
box and serving a customer. He might have cooked it himself but I don't think so. It's a take-
away meal, the kind you buy if you're in a hurry and you want something quick and cheap. It's
probably not very healthy though - or very filling. I'm not really sure what the other meal is - I
can see vegetables and some kind of bread but I don't really know what it is. It's definitely a
family meal though, a home-cooked meal and they've got a bottle of red wine as well. Maybe
the father's been cooking - he's still wearing an apron. The man in the middle could be their
son, or perhaps their son-in-law. I think this is some kind of special meal, a birthday or
something like that.

Do you prefer to eat at home or to eat out?

Well, in my culture food is very important and people love to eat out. Especially at the
weekends. That's when people get dressed up, go out with the family. It's a bit of a celebration
and I enjoy that a lot. Most of the time though I eat at home. My mother and my sisters do the
cooking and they'll spend hours shopping and preparing all the different dishes and of course
at special times of the year, like the end of Ramadan, they spend days preparing special
meals. I can't cook but sometimes I'll peel the vegetables, simple things like that. We all eat
lunch together, that's the main meal of the day, and it's usually very good. We have one main
dish and lots of salads, lots of bread and we just sit round and serve ourselves. So I like both -
home-cooking and restaurant cooking - just as long as I don't have to do any of the cooking
myself, or any of the washing up!

Do you think it's important for families to eat together?

Absolutely. That's when everyone talks and relaxes - it's family time. Sometimes I just want to
watch TV, especially if the football's on, but my mum always makes us turn it off before we sit
down.