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That we still need dinner

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Littlebittiredoflife · 23/03/2025 18:54

DH is saying we don't need dinner tonight as we've already had three meals. Our "meals" were 2 or 3 American pancakes for breakfast with fruit and a drizzle of syrup, smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel with crisps, cucumber and tomato for lunch and a scone with jam and cream. Admittedly lunch was around 2:30pm and scone around 5:30pm.

I know it's not the healthiest day and we could do with a bit more veg for sure but aibu to think that we do all need an evening meal still? DH is often saying do we actually need dinner if we end up eating lunch late. I'm not the best judge of food as I overeat but I'm sure DC will still need feeding this evening

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Louise295 · 23/03/2025 19:05

You had breakfast lunch and a snack so I’d say you need dinner. If I was hungry I’d eat again if not I wouldn’t but I would definitely be making the kids something

DonutRings · 23/03/2025 19:05

ShillyShallySherbet · 23/03/2025 19:02

I wouldn’t be hungry to eat an evening meal if I had a cream tea at 5:30 and that sounds like a very large and late lunch. So I’m with your DH.

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A smoked salmon bagel is hardly "a very large" lunch

ShillyShallySherbet · 23/03/2025 19:05

TwentyTwentyFive · 23/03/2025 19:04

You honestly think a scone is fit to be described as a large late lunch...in what universe?

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Bagels etc was the large late lunch, the scone was at 5:30

YessandNno · 23/03/2025 19:04

None of those are proper meals. You've basically just had three snacks.

TwentyTwentyFive · 23/03/2025 19:04

ShillyShallySherbet · 23/03/2025 19:02

I wouldn’t be hungry to eat an evening meal if I had a cream tea at 5:30 and that sounds like a very large and late lunch. So I’m with your DH.

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You honestly think a scone is fit to be described as a large late lunch...in what universe?

IPM · 23/03/2025 19:03

Make them a sandwich if they're hungry?

JoyousEagle · 23/03/2025 19:03

Is he counting a scone as a meal? My appetite is normally more towards what gets accused of being competitive undereating on MN, but I wouldn’t class a scone as a meal!

ShillyShallySherbet · 23/03/2025 19:02

I wouldn’t be hungry to eat an evening meal if I had a cream tea at 5:30 and that sounds like a very large and late lunch. So I’m with your DH.

TwentyTwentyFive · 23/03/2025 19:02

ThejoyofNC · 23/03/2025 18:58

I don't know in what world a scone is a meal, but I don't want to go there.

Agreed!

A scone is not a meal! If you or the kids are hungry then of course you eat again.

Gundogday · 23/03/2025 19:01

Scone isn’t much fur an evening meal. I’d probably pizza, toasted sandwich, macaroni cheese or something else light and easy.

Powderblue1 · 23/03/2025 19:00

I’d have something light for tea

wherearemypastnames · 23/03/2025 19:00

Breakfast, lunch, mid afternoon snack
yip, dinner next

SleeplessInWherever · 23/03/2025 18:59

If I was hungry, I’d eat.

He doesn’t have to if he isn’t, but whether you do is up to you.

ohyesido · 23/03/2025 18:59

I don’t think that’s enough to warrant missing dinner, maybe if you’d had a lunch at Cosmo at 3pm then yea. Sounds like a normal breakfast and lunch with a cheeky cake

Amammai · 23/03/2025 18:59

That all sound perfectly normal for a weekend and not even hugely over indulgent!

If your husband doesn’t want anything else then that’s fine, just make something for you and your son? My DS who is 7 would definitely want to eat again. I would definitely have something too!

If you want a full meal, go for it or if not just have a sandwich/beans of toast/soups etc.

Enderwhere · 23/03/2025 18:59

Scones aren't dinner so I would definitely be having dinner personally

ThejoyofNC · 23/03/2025 18:58

I don't know in what world a scone is a meal, but I don't want to go there.

faerietales · 23/03/2025 18:56

I wouldn't do a full meal - maybe beans on toast or soup or something.

MissyB1 · 23/03/2025 18:56

Yes you do need to eat again, I would be doing something like a vegetable soup.

DrummingMousWife · 23/03/2025 18:55

It would be a light supper for the kids - cheese on toast or pasta , something light after the scones