Boring question! What time do you have dinner?

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Is it same or different to you dc? How old are your dc?

We eat as a family between half 5 and 6. DC are 11 and 7.

Between 6:30 and 7:30. Dc are 12 and 15. I'm doing 16:8 intermittent fasting, so I don't eat anything after dinner until lunch at 12 ish the next day. Snack about 3:30 with the dc when they get home, preferably fruit if I can resist the biscuits!

Between 5.30 and 6 usually. We have all our meals early - breakfast around 6am, lunch 12pm. We get up early and go to bed early. DS is 7 and goes to bed at 7.30pm, I'm always in bed before 10pm.

Have always eaten about 6pm. Ds's are teenagers.

I just always struggle to grasp people always eating late. Different for a one off special meal in a restaurant. What time do they get up, have breakfast and lunch, and go to bed, if they are eating at 9pm?
I'd rather eat dinner at 7.30 or 8pm and then drink a good bottle of wine before going to bed at 11pm or midnight. I don't want to be eating at 9pm.

We eat as a family between 5 and 6.30. The little two are starving and tired if we leave it any later.

I grew up eating at 7/7.30 and was always shocked at people eating at 5 but now it’s so much easier! I also like having everything cleared away before the little two go to bed because it means once they’re in bed my evening is my own. Will probably push it back later once they get older though.

As early as possible, soon as I get home from work from 5.30 to 6.30 as I believe in fasting at night for as long as possible. I have breakfast in my 10 o clock coffee break.

A lot earlier now than we used to even a year ago - when we were both WOH it wasn’t unusual for dinner to be at eight or sometimes even nine. But since lockdown started in March we’ve both been at home every day so it’s easier to get dinner on and sorted earlier.

Lately my DH also finds he doesn’t sleep very well if we eat too late so we usually aim to eat between six and seven.

No children living with us - my daughters are grown up. When they were little we usually ate at around six.

When my dc were children / at school we would eat as a family between 5.30 and 6.30 - depending on how organised we'd been to have food almost ready when we got in, and depending on where everyone was off to that evening (cubs, swimming, etc).
Now my dc are all adults, and now dh and I are working from home and no-one has places to go out to in the evenings, we tend to work later and eat later. Even more so at the weekend as we are now back to being able to lie in, and eat each meal later, then those days when dc get you up early.

This thread comes up fairly regularly on here, and you always get some MNers expressing faux surprise that anyone else's life might be different from their own little bubble btw.

Dinner 12 to 1230.
Tea 1745 at the absolute latest.

The dc have their meal at 5.30. DH had I eat st 7.30/8. This is the usual, but once a week or so we all eat evening meal together. DH and I just aren't hungry at 5.30 and the dc would be asleep in their dinner if we left it til 7.30 for all.

At some point they will stay up longer and we will push to eat a little earlier.

No way could I eat my last meal at 5.30.

If I'm doing my own thing, whenever I'm hungry, if I'm eating with my parents, generally about 6:30-7pm

Any time between 5pm and 6:30pm, but usually about 5:45pm in the week and 6pm or just after on Fridays and Saturdays.

Our days run early though - DH chooses to work 7am -4pm (flexi-office hours) when he can around my shifts and being home til the kids are on their buses, I often work 6am - 2:30pm (though I do lates and nights too, then I'm not home for dinner). The kids get up at or just before 6am and have to be at the school bus stop at 6:30am (secondary) and 7am (primary) - they're all home by 1pm.

So us eating at 5:30pm is equivalent to 9-5 workers eating at 7:30pm.

Kids are teens and a preteen.

we have dinner at dinner time about 1pm and tea at about 7pm at tea time. Obs

Between 5-6 I eat with 15 mo DS.

We've always all eaten together (or at least one parent with the child/ren if I'm on lates) ever since DC1 was first weaning. I do intermittent fasting now and a relatively early dinner fits in brilliantly with that.

Kids eat between 5 and 6.
Dh and I eat at 8ish once he’s finished work.
At the weekend/ non work days we all eat together at about 6.
Kids are 4 and 7 ( they go to bed at 7ish)

Now that I'm working from home and we have 11 month old DS we usually eat around 6. That varies though depending on what we're up to.

We usually eat at 6pm as a family. For clarity, I am an adult and I eat lunch and I am always hungry at that time and I am fine with this being my last meal of the day and rarely if ever feel hungry later in the evening.

Can't be doing with leaving it later in the evening to eat, 7.45-8pm, or whatever, and then having to clear up and not sit down to relax till 9pm or something. Shudder. No, no, no.

About 1pm.

Our whole evening is finish work/pick DS up from nursery depending on the day. Dinner on about 5. Eat 5:30/6. By the time everyone has eaten and everything is cleared up it's around 7. We then head upstairs to give DS a bath. He has some time with us playing and we do a story too. Then he gets his bedtime bottle and goes off to sleep. At the moment this is about 9pm.
Me and DH then put on whatever nonsense we fancy on the telly before we go to sleep too. Works well for us just now.

I love that so many people are eating as a family.

I get it when it’s not through choice, we can’t every day due to work or kids activities. Most of my friends choose to feed their kids 5ish and then eat (something totally different but that’s a whole other thread) once they are in bed. I think eating together as a family, when possible, is wonderful for everyone and worth tweaking the rest of your schedule to make it possible.

9;30-10pm but I live in Spain now. That's normal dinner time. Whem in the UK 6-7

@Ginfordinner

Between 6.30 and 7 usually. How do adults have an appetite at 5pm? Do they not have lunch?

That's exactly why I have mine at 5pm - I don't have lunch.

Lockdown has ruined my schedule, and completely changed my working habits, so now I'll have a sort of brunch at 11/11.30 rather than breakfast first thing, and I'll have that with a brew, and then I'll make dinner for 5.

DC are 10/12. They eat about 4.30-5.30

We eat at 9.30 once they're in bed

7:30pm and as we are in France this is considered very, very early! Most of DSs friends eat 8pm at the earliest.

It’s difficult when PIL visit and are looking for their tea at 5:30pm - and the DC are barely back from school!

Between 7-8 usually. I’m working then need to cook so that’s usually the time it appears!