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?

I think we do need to know if they were served together though cos that is a bit weird.

...a thought I would keep in my head if served omelette and jacket potato, but not something to be paired imo.

I have jacket potatoes and ratatouille at least three times a week as I'm a veggie watching my weight and this is the only thing that fills me.

Has been the way for 20 odd years now, so I totally refute the idea that baked potatoes are not a dinner. How very dare he!

Dinner can be anything so long as it fulfills whatever hunger you have

This too. I eat when I'm hungry and base the size of my meals on how hungry I am. I tend to eat more in the daytime and less in the evening, because that's what suits me.

So far today, I've had two egg sandwiches, a twix and some beans and waffles. I've got some Thai basil pork ready for the evening meal, but will only have a small bowl full because that's all I will want to be full. I have no concept of omelettes, jacket potatoes or anything else being suitable for lunch but not dinner and the 'eat little or nothing all day in anticipation of a bigger dinner' method doesn't work for me, so I don't do it if I can help it.

I regularly have an omelette - sides would be green vegetables of some kind - for dinner. Favourite is 2 eggs, filled with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, onion and feta cheese. Fills me right up.

(And omelette for dinner).

I do see what he is trying to get at. Unless served alongside other food items, I'd see these as a light lunch item, not my main meal of the day.

Jacket potato is one of my DHs favourite dinners. He often asks for it. With tuna and cheese or chilli. Omelette to me is a breakfast food.

Last night we quiche (warm) with a jacket potato and some veg on the side, I definitely consider it "dinner". (Although I'd call it tea but that's a different, and well trodden, AIBU).

On their own I suppose he has an argument, but certainly they are a perfectly good lunch or dinner if served with a decent filling and something like a salad on the side.

Maybe it's not 'dinner' for him, in which case he should be free to supplement what is served to him or to make his own dinner from scratch. I'd be fine with it if there was some vegetables or salad included.

I have a tiny bit of sympathy as I struggled a bit with 'breakfast' when visiting my husband's family in the far east. I'm never that hungry first thing in the morning anyway and would just have two cups of coffee by choice, maybe with a slice of toast. The substantial nature and strong, complex flavours of the breakfast that they had was just a bit of a struggle even though it was exactly the kind of thing that I would have loved for lunch. I did get used to it and my MIL also got used to me having a very small portion of the blandest option.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

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.

exactly.

we are having omlettes and wedgies tonight, as I have a ton of eggs

Omelettes and jacket potatoes are definitely a dinner in my house as is soup.

I think I'll have omelette & salad tonight now actually.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar - my husband struggled with breakfast in India - pea curry or masala dosa - so spicy potato in a crepe - I loved it. He'd be smiling wanly and asking 'is there any toast?'.

Well, on the subject of things not being something I would just like to say...

marbles are not fossilized cat's eyes.

Jacket potatoes in our house most definitely are dinner. The kitchen island is full of different fillings and plenty of salad when it’s baked potato night. It’s one of our favourite meals to be honest. If it’s the lack of meat that DH feels is lacking perhaps a chicken or tuna filling might alleviate his reluctance.
Omelette I’m more on the fence, but then again with the right fillings and sides there’s nothing stopping it being a substantial meal.

Yeah it's dinner. My ex-H was weirdly prescriptive about stuff like this. He properly malfunctioned once when I had a portion of chips mid-morning. Is your DH conservative with a small c about other stuff? I came back from walking the dog wearing joggies once, only to be told "we're not those kind of people" and he thought I should wear jeans for casual stuff outside the house as it was "more appropriate". Note the ex- part.

I can be seen wearing joggies outside while eating chips occasionally now on long happy walks with the dog.

Of course, it is. As is soup.

Please take a look at this thread 'the word Discuss at the end of a title'. It's pretty obvious you want opinions.

Those things, including soup, are lunches. You will find them on lunch menus.

Dinners usually have a main and sides (meat/veg/rice etc). Things you would find on a dinner menu in a restaurant.

I'd consider them both to be lunches or a light dinner if I didn't want to have a proper/full meal at night, unless the jacket potato was a side for a stew.

YANBU but it is very difficult to get someone to change their food rules. (My mum says that fishcakes are dinner but not a Saturday night dinner, for example! No, not even posh homemade ones.)

Is he cooking up something more meal-worthy, when it's his turn to cook? I don't think there's a right and a wrong here, it's a matter of opinion.

But if it's his response when you put a meal in front of him, there's more going on here.

They're dinner foods. Your DH is wrong.

Both are lunch only in my house.

Add plenty of nice fresh veg or salad, and of course they are a dinner.