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Ticktockk · 2024-12-23T21:36:35+00:00

Staying with family for Christmas and oh my, am I hungry?! I tend to eat with the kids at home and this is now my bedtime 😅 What madness are you currently experiencing over Christmas?

oakleaffy · 23/12/2024 23:40

CurlyhairedAssassin · 23/12/2024 22:39

I used to hate that when we had to stay with the inlaws. She liked to start dishing up at 5 ish. I think the earliest was 4.50pm. Then at 9.00 she'd go out in the kitchen again and start making plates of ham sandwiches. Nightly. Just really odd.

I remember going out clubbing while staying in theirs having eaten very early. By the time we got in at nearly 3am I was so hungry and DH just went to bed and fell asleep immediately. I lay awake freezing cold and starving and fuming 😆

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Being hungry at night is horrible.
I read a book when I didn't have enough to eat {teenager}

The book was ''The upper berth'' and it mentioned Welsh rarebit as a cause for the protagonist seeing a Ghost.

Oh my goodness Welsh rarebit...the tangy cheesy goodness of melted matured cheddar cheese on toast with Worcester sauce... I was so hungry after reading that.

Food porn.

LondonLawyer · 23/12/2024 23:40

We had dinner at 8.30pm, but to be fair, we only arrived at 7pm, and then I cooked it, because my Mum was making stuffing, one sister was at work, the other sister was outside somewhere, and my brother was sorting out spuds and onions in the shed. There were no complaints, and if there had been, people were welcome to eat biscuits or something.

ACynicalDad · 23/12/2024 23:32

Are you at my Mum's house?

HermoinePotter · 23/12/2024 23:31

Shimmyshimmyshimmy · 23/12/2024 23:22

I am in bed by 8pm normally

are you a tween? What adult goes to bed at 8pm ffs

Tired ones. I often go to bed at 8pm especially during lambing season when we can be up from 3 or 4am.

ByHardyAquaFox · 23/12/2024 23:25

In Spain you'd be laughed at for saying that thing.

Shimmyshimmyshimmy · 23/12/2024 23:22

I am in bed by 8pm normally

are you a tween? What adult goes to bed at 8pm ffs

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 23/12/2024 23:18

My brother used to do this. Fantastic cook but he'd only get started after 6pm, with much quaffing of wine and waving of cigarettes. If you were lucky it would be on the table at 10 and everyone would be wankered by then.

I did at least start buying in crisps to have when the first evening beers were cracked.

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Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 23:14

Lillixyng · 23/12/2024 23:12

Tomorrow’s plan…………8 am to the cafe for huge fry-up. 9am stock up on loads of snacks.Secret them about your person. 10 am find hiding place in your room for said snacks. 3pm ask if any one is up for a long walk. Hope they refuse for more secret shopping. After tonight’s dinner draw up a chart of scheduled loo breaks to disguise visits to your secret larder.

Yes! This is an excellent plan for the day!

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Lillixyng · 23/12/2024 23:12

Tomorrow’s plan…………8 am to the cafe for huge fry-up. 9am stock up on loads of snacks.Secret them about your person. 10 am find hiding place in your room for said snacks. 3pm ask if any one is up for a long walk. Hope they refuse for more secret shopping. After tonight’s dinner draw up a chart of scheduled loo breaks to disguise visits to your secret larder.

Ginmonkeyagain · 23/12/2024 23:11

@Ticktockk yeah 10pm is late, but not unknown in our house.

Mr Monkey has just finished his dinner but he didn't finish work until 9pm this evening. I ate before he got home at about 8.30pm

legallyblond · 23/12/2024 23:10

TooManyChristmasCards · 23/12/2024 22:48

6pm to 6.30pm is a perfectly normal time. That's the time me and DH have dinner.

normal time for YOU. Even my kids don't eat that early! They are rarely back home so early for a start. They have clubs and after-school activities.

Plus the food is not instantly ready the minute we walk home, even something quick takes a few minutes! No one is hungry at 6 pm here. It's too early.

Yes this! How can people work full time and/or have clubs etc after school and cook a meal from scratch for 6pm?? We both work and have three busy kids - we eat at 7/7.30pm on school nights… 6pm often no one is home! During holidays I assumed 8pm is normal for most families once kids are a bit older? That’s the norm for us!

mitogoshigg · 23/12/2024 23:09

Opposite issue at my parents, dinner is served up by 6pm, which based on large breakfasts and lunches is early!

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Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 23:09

Ginmonkeyagain · 23/12/2024 23:08

Umm we often eat dinner at 9pm, especially at weekends.

But… but… 10pm!

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ilovepixie · 23/12/2024 23:08

That's why I very rarely stay with other people. And when I do it's for the shortest time possible and I keep emergency snacks and drinks in the car.

Ginmonkeyagain · 23/12/2024 23:08

Umm we often eat dinner at 9pm, especially at weekends.

Starlightstarbright4 · 23/12/2024 23:08

MidnightMeltdown · 23/12/2024 22:49

6pm is still ridiculously early if you ask me. Most people haven't even got home from work by then! Maybe ok for kids!

I would say a reasonable dinner time is about 7:30 or 8pm

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I am in bed between 9-10 so far to late for me

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Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 23:07

They are not Mediterranean. We are in Surrey. But it was a pasta dish, so maybe just getting into the spirit of the culture?

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coxesorangepippin · 23/12/2024 23:05

I always, always, always take snacks when staying at people's houses

Always

coxesorangepippin · 23/12/2024 23:05

Lol that's late

I always remember SIL put a full side of pork chops (must have been about 15lbs of meat) in at 6pm for a 7pm sit down

Not a chance

littlemissprosseco · 23/12/2024 23:04

Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 23:03

I was! Enthusiastically!!! I sincerely hope this isn’t a festive theme.

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Glad you’ve a full content belly now to start the festivities. Long may it last!

NewMe2024 · 23/12/2024 23:04

I hope OP has gone quiet because s/he is eating and not fainted with weakness

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Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 23:03

littlemissprosseco · 23/12/2024 22:06

Well @Ticktockk hasn’t responded, hopefully they’re eating…..

I was! Enthusiastically!!! I sincerely hope this isn’t a festive theme.

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Tintackedsea · 23/12/2024 23:02

Are you staying at my mum's?!

She has form for this.

SabreIsMyFave · 23/12/2024 23:01

PyongyangKipperbang · 23/12/2024 22:54

dinnertime is subjective depending on your life. But surely we can all agree that 9.45 with no dinner is late!

Hopefully the OP has some food now, unless she gets the double whammy of a late "dinner" that turns out to be "oh we dont eat much, one potato and spoonful of peas is plenty"

It's ludicrous. Nearly 10pm and still no food/no dinner? WTAF?! 😆

SabreIsMyFave · 23/12/2024 22:59

Serious question, why are people saying French people eat at 11pm? Is that even true?

DH and I (and our DC) have travelled to a number of European countries in the past 2 decades. France, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy. Austria, and Portugal. Not ONE of these countries has started serving dinner at 11pm. Or 10pm. I don't think 9pm either. Luxembourg was the latest. (all inclusive hotel.) Used to bring the starter at 7.30pm-7.45pm. Main around 8.15pm. Dessert at 9pm. Germany and Austria and Netherlands were about half our earlier.

All the other hotels started dishing out the food - some were pick your own buffet types - at around 6pm-6.15pm. They'd keep pushing the food out (when the the pots and tins emptied) til around 8pm.

USA and Canada both started serving dinner at around 7pm. My DC have travelled even more than me, and to more countries, and sometimes stayed with their friends family(s.) Dinner with these families was usually served 7-8pm. Lots of different countries they went to.. 5 or 6 other European countries, and also Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Chile.

Never STARTED dinner at 11pm .. NEVER. Nor, as I said 10pm. Not even 9pm actually.