To think these are typical meal times/bed times in the UK

My children sleep 7-7 which is ideal as they are up for nursery / school and at the weekend we can be out and about by 8,:30/9ish and enjoy being outside in the daylight. We aren't wasting the day waiting for them to wake up.

We eat 7:30/ 12:30/ 5:30

Adults go to bed 9:30 up at 6. We stick to routine every day including on holiday and it really helps my children regulate eating and moods.

My MIl was like this- absolutely horrified by standard British mealtimes. She used to eat lunch at 3 and dinner at 10 😂

I don’t eat breakfast so am always starving by lunch, so have it early (12.30?) which my husband thinks is hilarious, having eaten a massive breakfast at 9.30. We are really out of sync.

“How do they get up for school” keeps being asked on here - most countries don’t put kids to bed at 7-8pm. I grew up going to bed at 10pm (as early as primary) and we had to be out the door at 8:30am

Spain has a national issue with children being too tired at school:
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/18/spanish-children-tired-in-mornings-new-study-finds/#:~:text=A%20NOCTURNAL%20lifestyle%20is%20causing,going%20to%20bed%20too%20late.

In some countries where children go to bed late there is a culture of a long late nap in the afternoon which increases overall sleep.

We have a very early waking toddler here so currently my normal is:
Breakfast 6-7am
Lunch 11-1 (depending on if it's before or after nap)
Dinner 5-5:30
DD bed 6:30-7pm
Me bed by 9pm most days

Also if you didn't feed my 7 year old any lunch I'd wish you luck in the afternoon, he'd be starving, even after a big breakfast.

Not for us or anyone I know. We never do lunch and my children have never ever been in bed at 7pm, much closer to 10/10.30, the same time as us. I'd hate my kids to be stuck in bed that early.

Have to assume you don't have children in school. If i put mine to bed at 10.30pm they would wake at 9.30am at best. The earliest I'd get them to school would be 10.15, 1 hour 40 minutes late. If youngest (reception) went to bed at 10.30 she could wake as late as approaching 11am, i'd struggle to have her at school before lunch!

Or...and I know it is a wild idea, she brings her own lunch because she doesn't want you to mess up your very rigid schedule or inconvenience you by requesting a separate lunch at the time she is ready to eat.

People being different. Shocking!

I have lunch at 3 most days so yes, I wouldn't eat with you at 12-1.30 even for social brownie points because I am just not hungry. Generally, we eat when we are hungry and we don't check the clock when it happens. Dinner can be at any time between 5pm and 9pm. I may even skip lunch altogether and go straight to dinner, or have a late lunch at 4 and just a small snack later on.

“How do they get up for school” keeps being asked on here - most countries don’t put kids to bed at 7-8pm. I grew up going to bed at 10pm (as early as primary) and we had to be out the door at 8:30am. It was never an issue - wake up would be around 7:30 which gives plenty of sleep, that’s 9.5 hours which is not that little for a primary aged child.

Your timings seem absolutely reasonable / typical for me.

We eat breakfast at 7.30 on weekdays, lunch at 12, dinner at 5, bedtime for 9 year old Is 8pm and 10 year old is 9. I’m usually in bed about 8.30 and asleep by 9.30/10 😂

Your timings are quite early for me but everyone is different. You do what’s suits you she dose what suits her. You have already said she’s on a much later schedule then you.

Breakfast 7.30. Lunch 12.30, Tea 5.30. Bath and in bed for 7pm was the rule when my DC were small (they are now in their early 30s).

As they got older tea moved to 6pm as I didn't get in from work til after 5, and obviously bed times stretched out, but were always before 9pm til they hit teenage years.

I guess people do what suits them, but your timings sound pretty normal to me.

I think because she has pre school age kids and a non standard job

Bingo. Due to my job, lunch is usually 3pm and dinner anything between 8 and 11pm. Even ignoring my (“continental”) background of growing up eating at different times than in the UK, it’s still because of my job that I have a skewed view of what’s normal.

Your timings are the most average I would say, yes. Doesn’t mean your friend’s timings aren’t just as real, to her. I know I don’t eat at normal times, but I still joke / insist with my friends about how early they eat. Although I don’t think either one of us spends so much headspace on the topic 😅

I don't think they sound abnormal but I prefer things pushed back personally so lunch around 2ish and dinner 8.30/9. I have a 5 year old and he's relatively flexible at the weekend. Today he had breakfast after swimming so around 10.30, lunch about 3pm and has just had his tea.

You don't know anyone who has small children in bed before 10-10.30 .... Or eaten lunch at 12 (don't these children go to school?) not one person you know...I find that impossible to believe to be honest.

Oh wow, I wouldn't like that at all. My evenings after the kids go to bed at 7 (or 6 until they were at school) are precious. And how do they get up for school? But like many other posters say, everyone is different, and as long as it works for your family then it's right for you.