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 potato is for tea time. Once it's got beans and cheese or tuna mayo, plus a salad then it's really filling! I wouldn't be hungry for tea if I had all that for lunch and I'm a big eater!

Omelette more lunch time but could be made into tea by having chips and salad or something like that

I'd call an omelette a light meal unless it had stuff with it, a jacket potato with filling (even if it's just cheese) is a meal. An omelette is what you have if you only have half an hour before you have to go back out again (those were the days!)

Jacket potatoes are one of our favourite dinners! We have all of the sides set out - garlic butter, cheese, bacon, mushrooms, spring onion, sour cream etc etc and then pile on what we fancy. Can never do more than one. Delish!

We had omelette, chips and salad last night for tea. Northern so dinner only happens Sunday. Rest of time it's lunch and tea.

My dh likes a good man's tea but is happy with omelette, chips and salad. He wouldn't be happy with omelette, jacket spud and salad mainly because he's not a fan of jacket spud anyway. Calls them diet chips.

So if seperate I'd call them lunch or kids tea or light tea after a substantial lunch. I would eat either seperate for tea with salad or beans, dh would want both.

In this house jacket potatoes are dinner-only (too filling for lunch), omelette is lunch-only. So they don't belong on the same plate!

DP & I are having jacket potatoes with tuna & sweetcorn for dinner this evening - yum!! Sometimes we have omelettes for dinner

twat XH wouldn't consider any of this "a suitable dinner for a working man" - dinner had to be "proper" food not something he'd consider "lunch"

As for "working man", he's a doctor not an effing lumberjack

"Just a small omelette could be a light snack."

So you'd have your normal three means PLUS an omelette?!
I agree, it could be a smaller meal lie breakfast, depending on amount of eggs and filling, but it's not something you'd have IN ADDITION to your meals.

If you ate it at dinner time it’s a dinner

Tell him to illustrate to you what he thinks of as a dinner by cooking one several times a week - at least 3 dinners weekly I should think.

Definitely counts as a dinner.

Really depends what is served with them. If they come with a bunch of other stuff (jackets: chili, salad; omelette: chips, veg), they could be a dinner. But on their own with little extra, I'd view them as a light meal, a lunch or light dinner.

Just depends how hungry you are surely.

We had omelette for dinner last night, we’re having jacket potatoes tonight for dinner. Good hearty meals and easy to make. We have Brownies and Girl guides Monday and Tuesday so easy meals those two days.

I can just imagine my husbands face if I produced either as our main meal for the day!

I think a jacket potato is a lunch/ light meal but not a dinner.

An omelette, with chips and salad would be a main meal. But again I do think of omelette as more of a breakfast or lunchtime meal.

Anything you eat for your dinner is a dinner.

I dealt with an ex detailing what foods were and weren't acceptable for serving him for breakfast, lunch and dinner by ignoring him and leaving him to look after himself foodwise.

For him, dinner was a 'masculine' traditional hot meal or curry or chilli. The curry had to be vindaloo strength as a korma would be a woman's choice. Salads, Omelettes and Jacket potatoes (depending on the filling) are women's food!

Soup is a women's lunch - men can only have soup as a starter. Tomato and hummus sandwiches are not acceptable for a man as they are too gay!

Men order beef/steak hearty dishes in a restaurant - not chicken, fish or seafood.

"I can just imagine my husbands face if I produced either as our main meal for the day!"

This makes me so glad I'm single.

Jacket potato with maybe some Linda McCartney sausages and veg definitely dinner - baked potato with say cheese definitely lunch

IT's a lunch. But if he doesn't like it, guess he knows how to shop for and grill a steak.

H'mm. I would see jacket potato as lunch or tea - so I would give it to the kids for an evening meal but they would have had dinner (yes I call it dinner if it is the main meal whenever it's served, sue me) at school. I would not have a jacket potato myself as dinner unless it came with steak for example, or a quiche, or chilli, or a really spectacular salad.
Omelette depends. A thin omelette thats just eggs and bacon or eggs and mushrooms - lunch/ kids' tea. A Spanish omelette with salad, or the omelette I do with chickpeas and spinach in it - dinner.

I bet he thinks that because it doesn't have meat in ot, or at least most of the meal being meat. Tedious.

I eat a three egg omelette every day for breakfast and it keeps me going til 4

They definitely can be substantial

I had a spinach and mozerella omelette for dinner last dinner, DH gave me a strange look and if I'm honest it was mainly so I could have extra cheesecake for dessert.

I would also have jackets for dinner for similar reasons. MIL would be horrified but anything less than 5 courses isn't dinner to her.

There more a lunch in my mind, as is soup, but eat what ever you fancy for dinner.

I just want a decent serving of protein with my dinner. An omelette is perfect. A jacket potato on its own, not as much, but just because none of my preferred toppings are high in protein so it’s definitely a side not an entree. DH happily eats them as a dinner.

(I have a bit of a fixation with protein at meals but that is because I’ve finally found a desperately needed sustainable weight loss plan that works for me)