Has anyone managed to wean themselves off tea and toast? What do you have instead?

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Because nothing as as good as tea and toast at this time of night

However, it keeps me up at night and I've lost weight since stopping it.

I've just had crumpets with marmite and pot of tea

Redbush tea and a weetabix spread with butter and marmalade?

This made me laugh as I misread it to be a single shredded wheat... but what the actual f... BUTTER on a WEETABIX? Cannot believe no one else picked up on this comment.

Peachrose did whilst I was typing! Amazing?? It sounds criminal!

Crumpets! Not had them in ages. Seem to have got a crush on pain au chocolate, warmed in oven for breakfast with chocolate drink. Only 2x week mind! Or those other chocolate things. Name escapes me, they are lighter but can eat twice as many 😋 😋

Crumpets??? Oh God.. I've not had them for about 15 years. They just slap themselves straight onto my thighs, the bastards. I miss them :-(

Weetabix with butter and toppings - do try it!
I promise I am not the only one that does this

My brother regularly had Weetabix with butter

All those of you commenting on how early the OP eats as if she were doing something weird and wrong - it's actually generally healthier to eat earlier rather than later. Around 6ish is meant to be the optimum time.

Cereal and milk. Wasted at breakfast time. Also the best midnight snack.

I've never heard of having another meal after dinner. Try having dinner slightly later and making sure it's big and filling.

I gave no breakfast, a small lunch at 12 as stuck with that timeslot at work, then eat dinner at about 5.30. I'm definitely peckish at about 9 or 10 and often have a few crackers or a bowl of porridge. I drink decaf so my hot drink doesn't keep me up.

Those eating their tea at 9pm, when do your kids eat?
We've always eaten as a family, used to be 5.30 but now the kids are older it's generally between 6 and 6.30. We'd all be bloody starving if we ate much later.

It’s not a word we use and I have an intestinal dislike of it, but I’m fairly sure that ‘supper’ is a term for an informal evening meal generally eaten at home, whereas ‘dinner’ would be used if you are going out for a meal, or being hosted (formally) at someone’s house. You don’t have dinner and supper

Tea and toast in the evening sounds excellent though. I imagine it’s far better for you to eat at 5, then have a snack later in the evening than it is it eat a full dinner (or supper ) at 9pm, sit on the sofa for an hour and go to bed! I think attempting to drop 100 or so calories from your evening meal and keeping the toast is the best plan, personally!

Eat later! We eat at 7 then have (decaf) tea afterwards. Always have done even when children were toddlers - always eat together

We eat early, between 5 and 6 pm. It's much better for you and we eat as a family.

My problem is I struggle not to eat at night. When I did well at dieting, I did things in the evening like paint my nails, have a bath, sort the laundry, have a herbal tea, brush my teeth. My husband likes chewing gum. Honestly what helped more often than not was to go to bed early 🙈

Unless you're a greedy person Bella (don't mean you of course!)

I usually eat by 6pm either in work ( 12.5 hr days) or at home. I couldn't eat past 7 in a normal day I need time to digest my food before bed and because I'm up early for work it's a 10pm bed time.

I do have a decaf coffee and a biscuit around 8, wouldn't eat toast tho. ( I love toast but only for breakfast sometimes !)

I’m laughing at all the posters faux shocked that some people have a meal at 5 then a snack later on. It’s what we always done when I was younger though I now eat my tea slightly later because of work.

Another fan here of weetabix with spread and jam 😋

Why do feel you need to stop,
b OP?
If it’s not keeping you awake or giving you indigestion, a late tea and toast snack sounds lovely!

My take on the dinner/supper thing is, (and no I've never researched it or looked it up in dictionary so I could have got it all totally wrong!) Supper to me seems to be like a later meal in well to to households, more so in the past perhaps? Dressing for the occasion so formal in one way but informal in another, with friends/family. Dinner can also fit into that category, but dinner to me is the evening meal, the main meal usually, time irrelevant really, just ones preference. Well to do households would have been later. Unless you're having a snacky/light meal, then it's tea! Having said that supper, can of course, just mean a light snack before bed 😋

^^ I guess it’s just what you are used to, the idea of having an evening meal at 5pm would just never occur to me. Growing up my DF commuted so the evening meal was around 7.30 when he got home (when we were much younger we would have a light meal at 6ish, having had school lunches).

To eat at 5pm means you would probably need to start cooking by 4.30pm which seems early if you are working, children have after school clubs etc.

But I agree I much prefer to eat by 7ish, my DH loves to eat around 9pm but I would hate to go to bed on a full stomach. Ideally I like a ‘main’ meal at lunch time but that is not always consistent with working hours.
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I eat at 5ish now. Used to be as late as 9 or so, but went to bed later, also things change, and its naturally got earlier and earlier. Yes Ragwort, that's the down side to it, the process starts earlier. About 20 years ago I was talking to an old friend (she was alot older than me too) and it was about 3pm. She said she must get home to start dinner. I did think it seemed very early, but now I'm doing the same!

I have a vanilla roibos tea as I can’t have caffeine after 5pm or I can’t sleep.
What about a bagel thin? They are really good. I have mine with coconut oil and marmite but a thin slice of butter would be heavenly.

I always have yogurt and granola mid evening, really filling.