Part of the Meals series

Common meals...

Breakfast

Second breakfast

Elevenses

Brunch

Tiffin

Lunch

Tea

Dinner

Supper

Dessert

Snack

See also...

Cuisine | Kitchen Look up Tiffin, tiffin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the coarsely ground flour, see flour. ... Breakfast is the first meal of the day, typically eaten in the morning. ... Second breakfast is a meal eaten after breakfast, but before lunch. ... In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning. ... Brunch is a late morning meal between the typical time for breakfast and lunch, as a replacement for both meals, usually eaten when one rises too late to eat breakfast, or as a specially-planned meal. ... Lunch is an abbreviation of luncheon, meaning a midday meal. ... This article is about tea, the meal. ... An amount of formality may be present at a dinner Dinner is a meal eaten in the evening. ... Supper is the name for the evening meal in some dialects of English - ordinarily the last meal of the day, usually the meal that comes after dinner. ... Not to be confused with Desert. ... A snack food (commonly shortened to snack) is seen in Western culture as a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) but one that is intended rather to assuage a persons hunger between these meals, providing a brief... Cuisine (from French cuisine, cooking; culinary art; kitchen; ultimately from Latin coquere, to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. ... A kitchen is a room used for food preparation and sometimes entertainment. ...

In South India, especially Tamil Nadu, the term Tiffin is generally used to mean an in-between-meals snack. Most road-side restaurants in Tamil Nadu will have a board displaying 'Tiffin Ready'. It is customary to be offered a 'Tiffin' as a courtesy when you visit a Tamil residence. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Languages Tamil Religions Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism Related ethnic groups Dravidian people Brahui people Kannadigas Malayalis Tamils Telugus Tuluvas Gonds The Tamil people are a multi-ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ...

In other areas like Mumbai, the word is mostly used for light lunches prepared for working Indian men by their wives after they have left for work, and forwarded to them by Dabbawalas who use a complex system to get thousands of tiffin-boxes to their destinations. The lunches are packed in steel or tin boxes, also sometimes called tiffins or tiffin-boxes. A common approach is to put rice in one box, dal in another and yet other items in the third or fourth. The other items could be breads, such as naan, vegetable curry and finally a sweet. This system delivers thousands of meals a day and does not use any documents as many Dabbawalas are illiterate. It has been claimed that the tiffin delivery system of Mumbai is so efficient that there is only one mistake for every million deliveries[1]. Another modern usage of the word also applies to lunches that may be packed by parents for children attending school, to provide a lunch during the school day if the student eats lunch at school. , “Bombay” redirects here. ... A dabba A dabbawala (one who carries the box, see Etymology), sometimes spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers. ... RICE is a treatment method for soft tissue injury which is an abbreviation for Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. ... Masoor dal Masoor dal prepared using traditional yellow dal recipe Dal (also spelled dhal, dahl, or daal, daar) is a preparation of pulses which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split, as well as a thick, spicy stew prepared therefrom, a mainstay of Indian and Pakistani cuisine. ... For other uses, see Bread (disambiguation). ... A bakery near Kabul, Afghanistan Naan (Urdu/Persian: نان, Hindi: नान, IPA: [næn] or [nan]) is a round flatbread made of white flour. ... This article is about the dish. ... Dabbawalas collecting the lunch boxes and loading them in trolleys. ... Parenting comprises all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... Lunch is an abbreviation of luncheon, meaning a midday meal. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ...

In some former British colonies, the stacked porcelain or metal round trays with handles are called tiffin carriers (similar to the dabba transported by a Dabbawala / Tiffin Wallah), and small-scale caterers use them for delivering meals to individual homes. “Fine China” redirects here. ... This article is about metallic materials. ... A dabba A dabbawala (one who carries the box, see Etymology), sometimes spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers. ...

In the film Carry On Up the Khyber, "having a bit of tiffin" is used as a euphemism for sex. Carry On up the Khyber is the sixteenth Carry On film, released in 1968. ... Sexual behavior is a form of physical intimacy that may be directed to reproduction (one possible goal of sexual intercourse) and/or to the enjoyment of activity involving sexual gratification. ...

See also

• Bento
• Lunchbox

Bento served at a restaurant Bentō ) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. ... Categories: Stub ...

External links

• Auntys Tiffins Is a London based company that supplies 100% vegetarian Tiffins
• The Wonder of Tiffin-patiwala Network Management in Mumbai
• A Bombay lunchbox
• Tiffin Club Southampton