To think you should eat outside in summer

I prefer eating inside 🤷🏼‍♀️ let your family do what they want.

I hate eating outside. I hate squinting, insects. Random breezes.

It is such a shame that your husband and daughter don't share your enthusiasm for eating al fresco. Even if they dont like eating outdoors it seems a pity they are eating whilst watching t.v. They really should be having a conversation and then join you after they have eaten for a chat outside. We are stuck indoors for so long in the u.k with our never ending autumn and winters they should make the most of outdoor living!

I'm a huge fan of eating outside and have eaten most meals outside this summer, but I'm fairly indifferent to bbqs. I'm not convinced that cooking food outside makes more enjoyable, and I'm not as confident cooking on a bbq as cooking inside. In fact, in a traditional manner, I tend to delegate it to DH. It's also a fair bit of faff (unlike just taking food outside) .

We ate outside at a gathering yesterday. There were so many wasps that I really couldn't enjoy my food at all. Didn't bother eating much in the end at all as it was too stressful!

I think it's fine to eat outside if you enjoy it, but not reasonable to say that people "should" eat outside if they don't want to.

I dont like hot sunny days as I feel like I should be outside “enjoying” the weather, but in reality I dont like it. I hate the faf of sunscreen, being sweaty, dealing with flies, etc. I would much rather sit inside reading as a way of relaxing. Looking forward to the cooler weather so the pressure is off!

( as I am sure you can guess, I also dont like eating outside)

I think the eating outside brigade assume people love it, no idea why. I also hate bbq's actually

I live in Spain. I eat outside for most of the year and have never seen a wasp and very few flies. Mosquitos in the evening but we have deterrents for that. I love eating outside!

Not unreasonable to want to. I do too. Unreasonable to think everyone else should want to.

To be fair, having visited Lancashire in July this year, I don't think I'd be eating outside quite so often there either. It's a complete different climate from the South. It was so green!! Beautiful, but much cooler and wetter.

Wow I'm amazed by how many people hate eating outside! I'm not surprised that some people don't like it (I do realise not everyone has the same preferences as me) but I assumed the majority would like it, when it's not too cold. In the UK I don't think it's ever too hot to eat outside, provided you have a nice big shade set up. I think this year we've had at least one meal outside in the garden (in southern England) on 90% of days since spring. It's been amazing! Don't really understand why people think it is a hassle. Again, I know it will depend on your house and garden set up, but in our house the outside table is only about 4 steps further than the inside table, and I don't think it is that unusual to have doors from the kitchen out to a patio? Maybe there was something about this thread that attracted the naysayers. Wonder what a representative sample would look like?

Clearly we are not going to agree on this. Obviously I think eating in front of the tv is not family time and you do.. my reason is when eating you can talk about things, food what going to do for the rest of the day etc. Each to their own on less you want to do this all day😂

I only eat outside if there’s shade, if it’s hit. I don’t want to burn myself eating my dinner. Equally I don’t eat in front of the tv.

Yes, I agree with you @godmum. I have had this fast forward random thought about OP's daughter looking back on family holiday memories and thinking about these relaxing times with her dad watching tv with him whilst eating lunch
Not the crime of the century and even more relaxing for both if they knew OP was enjoying her lunch outside rather than being cross.

Yes, but the majority want to eat inside.

Of course it is nice for us to have people comply with what we want. Not for them though.

does that not count as family time?

They’re watching the tv🤷‍♀️

I hate eating outside. I suffer badly with hayfever, even with medication, so I end up with puffy eyes and a steaming nose. I’m terrified of wasps, a genuine phobia. The idea of being trapped in a garden table chair (they’re always hard to move) when wasps inevitably appear is horrible. Then there’s the fact it tends to be me going in and out to fetch things needed, it takes longer to clear up at the end than it does inside, if it’s too hot it’s too uncomfortable.

well daughter is having family time with her dad....what a pity the OP won't join them......

Holidays are for family time and I never have the tv on when eating. Just my rule. It’s only half an hour.

"It’s really important to get plenty of sunlight where you can too.
Not actually true...and these figures are for the Uk, not in sunnier climes

www.britishskinfoundation.org.uk/sunlight-and-vitamin-d

why? aren't holidays for doing what you want?

this

No tv while eating lunch. They’ll soon come outside!