AT THE RESTAURANT

• The waiters can be
• Off-hand, sullen, brusque
• Sluggish
• Courteous, go out of their way  to be helpful
• The service is 
• impecable
• Off-putting
• The  portions are  small
• Do you like  seconds / second helpings?
• To have a sweet tooth
• To split  the bill
• To be  wined and  dined every night
• It's on me ( I'm paying the bill)

TYPES OF FOOD

• Wholesome food
• Juicy meat, bone  / gossip
• Free range eggs /chickens /turkeys
• Battery farming
  

• Gluten-free dish /bread /recipe
• Half-baked (plan, scheme, idea)
• Convenience foods (easy to obtain)
• Traffic-light labelled
  

• Fair trade
• Additives

EXPRESSIONS WITH FOOD

• a  recipe for disaster
• All the ingredients for success
• To spice up a party
• A situation  turns a bit sour when...
• To let sb to stew on their own juice
• They are not my cup of tea
• a storm in a teacup
• a half-baked plan, scheme
• He cooked up a story  ( made up- invented)

TALK ABOUT FOOD

• Veggie options
• A slap-up dinner
• To go casual and get some fast food or street food
• Tastes and textures
• It's very spicy / salty/ sour / acidic / sweet
• crunchy and  crispy  (chips) (crujiente)
• Too chewy
• Tough (overcooked)
• It melts in your mouth
• Good food
• Delicious,  tasty
• Yummy (childish)
• mouth-watering
• Decadent =  rich (for food with a lot of butter)
• It's tender / juicy  (for meat )/dry
• Fresh vegetables
• Negative opinions
• Terrible
• Disgusting,  revolting
• It turns your stomach
• bland =  tasteless
• It's underdone
• The staeak is overdone / the  pizza  is burned / it's oily - fatty- greasy

EAT

• What to eat
• Nuts
• dried beans
• Mussels (mejillones)
• Shrimp 
• Fish is a staple food
• Oily fish  (pescado azul)
• Raw vegetables
• Wholesome food
• Organic food
• I don't touch meat or dairy products
• A pot ( cazuela)
• A Chinese delicacy
• Chicken goes well with salad 
• The leftovers
• Nothing was left over
• Diet                                                       

• To keep fit
• To put on a diet
• To put on weight   
• to cut down ON burgers
• To start to count the calories
• a good source of proteins
• high proportion of fat
• all high in carbohidrates
• high fat, salt and sugar content
• An unhealthy diet 
• To be a teatotal
• to be a fussy eater (milindringuis)
• Actions
• To stir, to pour, to chop
• to bake (hornear)
• To eat
• starvation
• to starve
• to lose weight
• hunger strike
• To fast
• To break her fast
• to put and end to her fast
• to put on weight
• To nibble  ( picar algo)
• to grab a bite to eat  comer algo)
• I don't want to overdo it

• How to eat
• To eat out 
• The food "onthe go"
• A takeaway