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What time do you have your largest meal?

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GoldenRosebee · 12/11/2025 14:39

Could you indulge me and say what time do you have your largest meal, what do you call your largest meal and where are you from? I ask because I heard some users call dinner tea and lunch dinner.

My largest meal is dinner and I have it around 17h and I'm from Croatia.
I have light lunch around noon.

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IBorAlevels · 12/11/2025 18:02

South England - used to be dinner when I worked in an office but now I am home more in the daytimes I like a bigger hot lunch and something smaller around 8pm. I don't like trying to sleep on an overly full stomach as it's often painful and I think as I have aged my stomach has shrunk a bit.

PuppyMonkey · 12/11/2025 17:53

We have our tea at about 6pm - East Midlands - and that’s our largest meal of the day.

RecordBreakers · 12/11/2025 17:49

Around 6pm usually, but are a bit more flexible now we no longer have dc at home.
Where I am from the evening meal is our tea.

JohnTheRevelator · 12/11/2025 17:26

I do intermittent fasting as it's the only way I've found that I can lose weight. I have my main meal at around 7pm then a snack before going to bed at around midnight. I live in west London.

Hollowvoice · 12/11/2025 16:55

Tea, sometime between 6pm-8pm
I'm Scottish, living in SE England

Prelim · 12/11/2025 16:47

Dinner is around 2100, we live in London

MO0N · 12/11/2025 16:46

Just before I go to bed, usually around 1am.

Nopicturesallowed · 12/11/2025 16:44

Largest meal is in the evening, depends what time I get home from work. We call it tea. I do live in the North but was born and lived in the South as a child and we called it tea then too.

Spent my teens living abroad, and my family there tend to have the biggest meal early, about 11:30!! But that was because they were farm workers who didn't have breakfast 😆I was at school at that time, but weekends and holidays I would have my big early dinner with everyone else.

Cheersminesalargeone · 12/11/2025 16:07

Lunchtime but we’re retired

mamagogo1 · 12/11/2025 15:44

Around 6pm these days as I finish at 2pm and dh is retired, find it better for digestion than eating later. The word dinner to mean lunch is regional, midlands and north, and not as common as it was, mostly dinner refers to a full meal eaten late afternoon or early evening

CoubousAndTourmaIet · 12/11/2025 15:41

North West England.
Breakfast around 8am, lunch at midday, dinner is our largest meal, we eat that at around 6pm.

Arlanymor · 12/11/2025 15:27

Either brunch around 11am or a late lunch before 3pm.

Catpiece · 12/11/2025 15:25

Dinner or tea. Around 5-5.30pm. London.

PeonyBulb · 12/11/2025 15:20

Dinner which can be anytime for me from 3pm - 10pm depending on when I get home from work

I currently don’t have breakfast and I don’t eat at work. This is a new way of eating for me and may change but I cook and eat a proper dinner as soon as I get home.

DS are old enough to cook their own food or I cook enough for them to have later

maddiemookins16mum · 12/11/2025 15:16

6pm.

Tdcp · 12/11/2025 15:16

Dinner for me, tea for dp (I'm from London and he's from Yorkshire). Anytime from 17:30 - 19:00.

Peonies12 · 12/11/2025 15:14

We have our largest meal, dinner, at around 7pm

Missey85 · 12/11/2025 15:11

Tea at about 7pm I'm from Australia

Ygfrhj · 12/11/2025 15:07

As kids in the north of England we had breakfast before school, dinner at 12, and tea at 6pm. If still hungry we'd have toast or cupasoup at 9pm and that would be called supper.

Since I moved away I say breakfast, lunch, dinner. The last meal is usually always the biggest meal of the day.

BadgernTheGarden · 12/11/2025 14:59

Sit down dinner at about 6pm. Lunch is whenever, leftovers or sandwiches usually everyone just helps themselves. Used to eat later at 7-7:30pm, but seem to get hungry these days and we're in earlier than we used to be. Tea doesn't usually happen, would be at 4pm then dinner later, if it's a birthday or a holiday tea would be cake and tea or a glass of something to go with the cake if it's adults.

KitchenDancing · 12/11/2025 14:58

It depends, if I’m free then I’ll sometimes have my biggest meal at lunch time around 1pm. Mainly I’m too busy at that time so I’ll eat my biggest meal for dinner at around 6.30/7pm. I’m in the UK.

Depending on where you are from, people call different meals different names.
I use breakfast, lunch and dinner, some people say breakfast, dinner and tea, or breakfast, dinner and supper etc.

Zanatdy · 12/11/2025 14:58

I eat more at lunch (12) then evening. But eat small dinner at 5ish

WeJustWantYouToBeHappy · 12/11/2025 14:58

Sometimes I prefer my largest meal late morning, ie brunch. I hate having the biggest meal of the day much after 4pm but of course it often can’t be helped.

purplecorkheart · 12/11/2025 14:58

Dinner is normally around 7pm and is my largest meal of the day. It used to me later more like 8pm but have started to move it forward.

Cork, Ireland

heartofsunshine · 12/11/2025 14:57

8pm ish, I don't really eat other than that in the week I have a stupidly busy schedule. DH calls me "the crocodile" with my one massive meal a day. I eat breakfast at the weekend, about 11 and then dinner at 6ish.