Meal combines with several prepositions depending on whether you mean purpose, company, or time.
Use meal for to show purpose or recipient, meal with for company or included items, before meals for timing, and between meals for snacks or intervals. Of meal is not a common fixed combination.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use meal for when a meal is intended for someone or an event.
Use meal with to mention who joins the meal.
Before meals commonly appears in medical and dietary instructions.
Between meals refers to the time separating regular meals.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Of normally connects another noun to meal rather than forming a standard combination.
✕ We discussed of meal plans. ✓ We discussed meal plans.The two expressions refer to different times.
✕ Take this pill between meals if the label says before meals. ✓ Take this pill before meals.Use with to mention the people sharing the meal.
✕ I had a meal my cousins. ✓ I had a meal with my cousins.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is especially common on medicine labels and health advice.
Yes. Here with introduces an included food item rather than company.
Not usually as a fixed phrase. Of normally belongs to another noun structure.
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