lunch as the main meal of the day...

[MaryIsA]

Unless on the rare occasion where I've had some kind of mega roast lunch or been out for a 3 course lunch....I'd just feel cheated having lunch as the main meal of the day.

What do you look forward to in the evening if its not dinner/tea/evening meal?

Thinking about tea is what gets me through the day...

I normally do this, but bare in mind I live in London and am in my early 20s. It’s easier for me to have lunch at a nice restaurant with my friends/colleagues with something lighter at home. I normally get home late so I have no dinner to look forward to, aside from a ready meal

Also not everyone is highly food driven

Having lunch as the main meal really helps me with intermittent fasting and keeping my blood sugars far more stable. I'm lazy in the evening and quite like something easy and light, poached egg on toast or similar.

Like you, OP, unless I've had the occasional lunch out or takeaway, dinner or breakfast is the main meal of my day. Lunch is typically very light, sometimes skipped if I had a heavy breakfast and/or I'm not hungry.

What I have for lunch is usually very similar to what I have for dinner, as my lunch is usually leftover dinner and the amount is similar too.

If I'm less hungry at dinner because I had a decent lunch, I just have less of it. After all, I''ll just eat whatever's left the next day.

I feel cheated if I have something like sandwiches for lunch, because they're rarely appetising especially if I have to buy it and don't have time for it to get to room temperature before I eat it.

having always had main meal in the evening, we made a big effort to have it at lunch whilst the kids were home schooled. it was great. I really looked forward to it, at less for breakfast, and looked forward to an evening without having to cook and clean/tidy away so much.

always got gin o'clock to look forward to....

I don't do it often but I quite like having a sandwich or cheese on crackers for dinner. I'd never bother cooking a proper meal if I'd had one at lunchtime, too much effort and unlikely that I'd be hungry for it.

I don't have lunch. Eating breakfast around 9am then dinner around 6pm sees me through the day.

If I eat lunch I end up wanting more food and moving my main meal to lunchtime just doesn't work for me at all.

Where I live lunch is the main meal of the day.

We have a siesta though!

IMO much healthier. I make more effort, by the evening I am exhausted and hate going to bed feeling full.

I try to have main meal at lunch now & look forward to less work at tea time. I'll have soup from the freezer & use the extra time for something else, reading, going for a walk, sorting some dire corner of the house out etc

We eat our main meal at lunch time 95% of the time. Evening meals are a large bowl of salad, then cheese/meats/egg and bread, yoghurt and fruit. In the winter, we often have a soup.