In Belize, mealtime is very important and schools and some businesses close at lunch. They open later in the afternoon.

 Breakfast mostly includes bread, flour tortillas or fry jacks.  Fry jacks are homemade with various cheeses, refried beans, different types of eggs or cereal.  They drink milk, coffee or tea with their breakfast.

For lunch, they eat something lighter like rice and beans, tamales , panades ( fried meat pies), escabeche (onion soup),  chirmole ( soup), chicken stew and garnaches.  Garnaches are made with fried tortillas with beans, cheese and sauce.

The most popular dish is called Caldo. In English those are tortillas that can be used to wrap other foods like meat and beans.

Many of the desserts are made with coconut like coconut pies, tarts, fudge and ice cream.