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Originally Posted by duo797
Is there a similar case with the other two major meals of the day?
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For some reason, no. We don't say お朝 or お夜/お晩.
But many of us do avoid using the word (suffix) ご飯, meaning that you won't hear 朝ご飯 or 晩ご飯 as often as you might expect.
If someone says in Japanese, "朝（or 今朝）はトーストとコーヒーでした。", you know he's talking about his brealfast. We just tend to avoid direct-sounding words like "eat" and "meal". Direct transltion of that, of course, is "Morning (or This morning) was coffee and toast." Strange as it may sound, that is just about the most natural way of saying, "I had coffee and toast for breakfast this morning."