Jacket potatoes and omelettes are not a dinner. Discuss.

[TwigTheWonderKid]

According to my usually fairly normal and reasonable DH, jackets potatoes and omelettes are not " a dinner". He is unable to expand upon this statement and when questioned, just keeps repeating "not a dinner".

Does anyone else have an opinion on this, and if you agree with him, do you have any evidence to back up this assertion?

Jacket potatoes absolutely are a dinner. Omelette could be, depending on what is put with it.

DH thinks soup is not a dinner.

Definitely dinner.

easy cheap meals are fine.

They are a dinner.

They may not be a 'man's dinner' which is what my mum recently declared macaroni cheese and steak pie (separately) to be, when explaining why they aren't favourites of hers, despite being grateful to my dad for cooking them.

I had a jacket potato for dinner last night, it definitely wasn't a snack so what would he say it was??

Goodness, eat what you like, life's way too short for nonsense rules about what constitutes a particular meal.

I'm sure a grown man can forage his own meal if he's that bothered.

Of course it’s a dinner.

Those can be both a lunch or a dinner.

What are his requirements for something to qualify as dinner? Genuinely interested 😅

A dinner is what ever you want to eat at dinner time. Some dinners are more traditional that others, some are more filling than others but I've never subscribed to tradition and expectation regarding food. If your DH doesn't want an omelette or baked potato for dinner, I assume he's capof making himself something more substantial.

Depends what you have with them.

Omelette, chips and salad can be quite a substantial meal.
Just a small omelette could be a light snack.

Small jacket potato with a light sprinkling of cheese... A light meal

Jacket potato with chilli or stew etc can be a big meal.

He sounds liked he’d be your old fashioned ‘meat and two veg man’.

I have either for dinner, usually with salad to make it more of a meal. What's he on about?

I am sure it is a substantial meal.

Omelettes are a great dinner.

I'd see jacket potatoes and omelettes more as a lunch food rather than a dinner one. Mainly because omelettes are light and not very filling and the other is just a potato with a bit added to it.

was it an omelette with a jacket potato or are you talking separate meals?

Separately find, bit odd pared together.

fine!

Omellette and chips sounds like a fine dinner/tea/evening meal to me. But I know my husband would think that it was a 'light' tea.

Omelette and jackets doesn't sound like it goes though.

Jacket potato seems more like a lunch than a dinner to me.

I'd eat soup for dinner but DH would be sniffy.

I agree with DH sorry.I would call these lunch or a late Supper .Dinner is a substantial meal with meat/veggie option.Veg and potatoes .Reminds me of my DGF who in the Summer months would tell my DGM that "Salad is not a dinner!"Just how I was raised I think .Meat and 2 veg and quite often a pud as well!

@justanotherneighinparadise

He sounds liked he’d be your old fashioned ‘meat and two veg man’.

Yes, that's what this sounds like to me.

Is the issue that it's vegetarian or that it's not 'substantial' enough?

I know what he’s driving at - it feels light a light meal upgraded to dinner rather than a properly cooked meal eg stir fry / shepherds pie / curry

None the less if there’s enough of it, it’s dinner, so he needs to make something else for himself if he’s not happy w it. Plenty of people eat toast and beans for dinner after all.

Both seem fine to me (as separate meals). TBH I don't have a problem with Frosties for dinner either, on the odd occasion. It's not like the Queen's coming round.

Definitely depends on context.

A small jacket potato with butter on it's own is not dinner. A large jacket with fillings is. Same with an omelette, depends on the number of eggs, the filling and the sides.

A 3 egg omelette with cheese and mushrooms, chips and side salad is one of my favourite dinners :)

Anything can be dinner I suppose. But I see his point. You see omelette and JP on lunch menus, but you’d not go out for dinner and have one. They are definitely filed under (substantial) ‘lunch’ in my head. I do have frittata for dinner sometimes though.

Its dinner if you say it is. Wouldn't eat an omelette if you paid me but I'll take a jacket spud.

Put the potato in the omelette - frittata, definitely a dinner.