Food Vocabulary

Eating and enjoying a meal together provides the opportunity to speak English and
enjoy yourself. The relaxing atmosphere of sharing a meal together helps the
conversation flow. Cooking and shopping for the food to prepare the meal in English is
almost as much fun. There are many words you need to learn in order to speak about
food, purchase food (buy), cook food and more. This guide to food vocabulary will help
you express not only different types of food, but also how you prepare and cook them,
and what sort of food containers (pakovanje) there are when you go shopping.
Types of Food

Beverages soda coffee water Tea Wine (mulled Beer (pint – Juice -
(Pica) / Drinks (herbal krigla) Lemonade
tea-biljni
caj)
Dairy *mlecni milk cheese butter cream Yoghurt Quark half and half
(sweet) (izmedju
jogurta I
kefira)
Dessert cake cookies chocolate ice-cream brownies pie creams

Fruit apple orange banana grapes pineapple kiwi lemon

Grains wheat Rye raz Cereal toast Bread Roll Rolnica Potato
Zrnevlje / zitarice
Starches
Skrob
Meat / Fish beef chicken pork Salmon Trout pastrmka lamb Buffalo Bivo
(pate) Tuna (can-
konzerva)
Vegetables beans lettuce carrots broccoli Cauliflower - Peas grasak Eggplant –
karfiol Aubergine
Plavi patlidzan

Adjectives used to Describe Food

acidic
bland bljutav
creamy
fatty
fruity
healthy
nutty hrskavo
oily
raw sirov
salty
sharp ostro, gorko
sour kiselo
spicy zacinjeno, ljutkasto
sweet
tender mekano
tough tvrdo
Cooking Food

Vocabulary for the Supermarket

Preparing Food Cooking Food Utensils Posudje

Chop seckati Bake blender
Peel guliti fry frying pan tiganj
Mix Steam para, kuvati na pari Colander cediljka
Slice seci na parcice, boil Kettle/ Ketler Tea pot,
parce coffee pot
measure Simmer dinstati Pot lonac

Departments Staff Nouns Verbs

Dairy stock clerk onaj koji meri aisle push a cart
produce Manager Counter deo kod kase reach for something
dohvatiti nesto
Meat Butcher mesar Cart Kolica compare products
frozen food Fishmonger zaposleni u Display Izlog scan items skenirati artikle
ribarnici

Containers for Food - Pakovanja

Bag Sugar Flour brasno

Box Cereal Crackers krekeri
Carton Eggs milk
Can – Canned food Soup beans
Jar – tegla Jam Mustard senf
Package Hamburgers noodles
Piece Toast fish
Bottle Wine Beer, liqueur,
Bar tabla, red, cokoladica Soap Sapun chocolate

 Make a shopping list and compare products

  Write a recipe in English, be sure to include ingredients, measurements,
containers and instructions
 Describe a delicious meal you've had in writing
 Discuss your food likes and dislikes with a partner

Sunflower Suncokret

Olive oil

Oven rerna

Pasta

Reach – dohvatiti, doci do nekoga, necega

Item – proizvod, artikla, Stavka

Powder Prashak

Washing powder Deterdzener

Softener Omeksivac