Lunch problem

I meet two difficulties since I start my work. The first one is language of course, I do not speak good Dutch, but I can at least understand what my collegues are talking about during lunch break. So it is not really boring for me, when they laugh, I can laugh as well.

The second problem is LUNCH!Or food...they eat bread everyday...but I do not like bread. I feel it even more difficult to let me eat bread everyday than to learn Dutch. Frankly after 5 years stay in Netherlands, I get used to everything here except food. Dutch people can eat bread morning and noon, then finally they eat something warm in the evening, every day after day... I do not like bread, so I feel terrible to have bread daily. When I look at the ham, cheese, salad on table, I still do not have wish to eat them with bread... Sometimes I eat cucumber or tomato or apple instead of dry bread... I am not keeping slim, but there is nothing else to eat. I ever planned to bring my own lunch to work, but we get free lunch from company and everybody eats together at a big table, I do not want to be apart from other collegues.

My collegues asked me what do Chinese eat for breakfast and lunch, if we eat noodles everyday. tja~how could I describe all kinds of Chinese lunch to them? As they know about noodles, there are many kinds of noodles in China, noodle with soup, fried noodle, noodle salad...haha, I really do not know how to make English name for every of them. Pancake with smoked meat and vegetable, a little bit black bean saus was my favourite lunch, or warm dishes with rice, or different Chinese snacks... I could eat everyday different lunch. But Dutch people think warm dish is only for dinner, not for daytime. I ever asked my boyfriend why cannot eat warm dish for lunch? He could not find out the reason. So it is just a culture I think.

Anyway, I am satisfied with dinner coz I make Chinese dinner myself and sometimes we go to restaurants for a change. I like Dutch restaurant as well, the only problem is bread... I hope I can get used to eat bread daily before I get sick of it.