Meal
Cooked Rice
noun
The ご just makes this word more polite and fancy. When it comes to food, it's nice to be those things. This has the same meaning as the kanji (meal) making it meal, but it also refers to cooked rice as well. So, "Come eat your ご飯" can be both "come eat your rice" and "come eat your meal." Really, since most Japanese meals come with rice, though, you can see how the overlap happens.
The reading is the same as the one you learned with the kanji. Now how about you "hand" me another bowl of rice?
ご飯の用意
meal preparation
ご飯のおかず
dish to go with cooked rice
ご飯のしたく
meal preparation
ご飯にのせる
to put on top of cooked rice
ご飯にかける
to pour over cooked rice
ご飯にまぜる
to mix with cooked rice
ご飯を作る
to make a meal
ご飯をたく
to cook rice
ご飯を食べる
to eat a meal
昼ご飯
lunch
朝ご飯
breakfast
晩ご飯
dinner
最近わたしたち、ご飯を食べるタイミングが合わなくてすれちがってばかりだよね。
Recently we haven't been able to get our meal timing right, have we?
しまった！ご飯こぼしちゃった。
Damn it! I just spilled my rice.
どうしてコウイチのデスクの引き出しには乾いたご飯の塊が入っているの？
Why is there a big ball of dried-up, cooked rice in Koichi's desk drawer?