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9.30 and we’ve not yet had dinner

140 replies

Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 21:36

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?

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twohotwaterbottles · 23/12/2024 22:37

I'd have flounced off to bed by now in a massive mood 😂

Billyvy · 23/12/2024 22:37

9:30 is PAST my bedtime as a 42 year old. I'd just faint and sleep

AsaHTitamazesme · 23/12/2024 22:37

Are they from a different culture or just disorganised?! Can you offer to help?

TooManyChristmasCards · 23/12/2024 22:36

Is it a standard thing or are they late today?

We don't really eat until that time at home, by the time we are both back home after work (commuter town) and we make diner, it's easily 9 or 9:30. Kids eat earlier, they need to go to bed.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 23/12/2024 22:35

Please let us know when and if you eventually got food!

JudgeJ · 23/12/2024 22:34

Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 21:43

9.45…… send help and cheese

The husband's probably eaten the cheese, see another thread!

GCAcademic · 23/12/2024 22:33

I'd be so hangry I'd have killed someone by now. There is no way I could live in mainland Europe.

Usernamenotavailabletryanother · 23/12/2024 22:29

Try having (chaotic) French in laws- dinner is never before 11…

RickiRaccoon · 23/12/2024 22:27

That's my bedtime. I'd head to bed and tomorrow go and get a whole bunch of snacks so you can not worry about their timing.

HermoinePotter · 23/12/2024 22:23

I’m in bed for 10.30/11 most nights. How can people have a meal and sleep on a full stomach?

ItsVeryConfusing · 23/12/2024 22:21

We went to stay with my Mum's school friend when I was 7 years old and they didn't give us dinner until 10.30pm. I was sooo tired. I hope they have given you something to eat now.

Our main weirdness here is that we're still getting over a tummy bug, and my period is due and is messing me right up, as it has done every Christmas for the last 15 years. God rot it.

BiscuitDreams · 23/12/2024 22:19

Oh god this gives me flashbacks from when we were in between houses and living with the in laws. They insisted on cooking for us every night but food would be served after 9pm. I'm from a country where lunch it at 11.30am and dinner around 4pm, so I was always dizzy by 7pm. Our DC was also 4 at the time and starving by 4pm. 🫣

I learned very quickly to have tons of snacks available so DC and I would quietly stuff our faces. I also offered to cook and when I did food was served by 6pm as a compromise. It was such an awkward time!

DutifulLark · 23/12/2024 22:18

Are your family Spanish? If not, this is madness.

Mamabear999 · 23/12/2024 22:17

That’s ridiculous, I would be away to bed🤣
have a friend who does this. Invites you for dinner at 7.30 and won’t actually get the food on the table to 9.30.

MidnightMeltdown · 23/12/2024 22:17

I have the opposite problem. Relatives who have dinner ridiculously early. Like 5:30pm, so not even evening time. I'm starving by bedtime.

AlertCat · 23/12/2024 22:15

Are you in Spain, if not this is not normal!

TeenLifeMum · 23/12/2024 22:13

Is the oven on at least? I think I’d be ordering dominoes.

TwinkleLights24 · 23/12/2024 22:12

Is there any plans for you to even have food?

ElderLemon · 23/12/2024 22:11

Ticktockk · 23/12/2024 21:43

9.45…… send help and cheese

Oh that's awful, I would so hate that.

TouchoftheTism · 23/12/2024 22:11

That's outrageous. Are they snobs who refer to it as "supper"?

Maria1982 · 23/12/2024 22:10

Ohmygod it’s like visiting my Spanish family! I was accused of being rude by my dad when I asked if lunch was forthcoming / I could have a snack to keep me going… at 3pm!
different cultural norms indeed

Growlybear83 · 23/12/2024 22:08

We never eat before 9, so this wouldn't be particularly late for us.

littlemissprosseco · 23/12/2024 22:06

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

That70sHouse · 23/12/2024 21:54

Some of my extended family eat very late and also have a habit of only eating once a day. If there’s a roast dinner at 2pm you might be offered some cereal at 8am if you’re lucky (can’t spoil your dinner!) and then after the roast you won’t be offered any food again for the rest of the day. I’m peckish again by 7 and have been know to sneak snacks in my guest bedroom!

AlmosttimeforChristmas · 23/12/2024 21:52

No Christmas madness here I’m afraid! Just the 4 of us with no relations u til Boxing Day, so sensible mealtimes and an early night all round! (we’re so rock and roll )