The most common traditional Slovakian breakfast is Salami and cheese, eaten with bread rolls and butter. Some people like to use mustard. Sometimes there is also chopped onion. Alternatively, people eat omelette or scrambled eggs, made with onions and sometimes vegetables. The meal is accompanied by hot tea or coffee (often with milk and sugar), or cold milk.

Traditionally the main meal of the day is lunch, eaten around noon. However, changing working habits have forced this to be changed in recent decades; today, it is not uncommon for many Slovaks to eat their main meal in the evening.

Traditional lunch often includes soup, such as Kapustnica (made of sauerkraut) or Fazulová (beans). "Bryndzove halusky" is is the Slovak national dish, made potato dumplings, cheese from sheep milk, flour and bacon (slaninou). It is usually served with a drink called zincica, which is made from fermented sheep milk. Common accompaniments are vegetable (most often broccoli), or a mixed salad of lettuce, tomato, peppers and cucumber.

This is followed by a fruit salad - although that can also be eaten as a snack, between lunch and dinner. Sometimes people will snack on sweets during the afternoon.

Slovakian dinner is eaten in the late afternoon, and includes cabbage rolls, green beans, picked beets, filled dumplings, cabbage, and rye bread. People drink wine or beer. It is followed by dessert and coffee.

Slovakian breakfast usually consist of bread, salami, ham, cheese, butter, honey, fruit or vegetables. It can also be hot one, scrambled eggs or porridge are common. Typical drink for breakfast is hot tea, milk or coffee. Coffee is mainly served with sugar, sometimes with milk.