What time is dinner (or tea, whichever you prefer) time?

[GreenTeaBlackCoffeeAndRedWine]

Visiting a relative today, and she was making dinner for her children (and herself) at 3.30pm.

Just made me wonder what time you have dinner in your house? Just curiosity really.

I usually make dinner around 7pm but then again I have no kids myself.

After 8pm. Often around 8.30pm.
But my D.C. are adults.
I’ll feed younger foster kids when they get in from school.

Anywhere between 6.30-7.30. We have teens but even when they were little 3.30 would have been ridiculously early.

We eat around 5.30/6 otherwise dc bedtime will be late & I think it's better to have a gap between dinner & bedtime. I used to do the dc & then eat later but now we tend to just eat all together earlier.

OK I don't live in the UK, but, fuck me, 330 is lunchtime where I live!

6pm. I prefer eating later, but this time means the whole family can eat together, including toddler and baby.

Usually 7pm

6pm so we can eat together with 19mo DD.

3:30 is after school snack time, not tea time!

Roughly 8pm, sometimes 9.
3dc.
They usually have a good sized snack when they get home, my ds might have a piece of toast and some fruit. Dds usually a packet of crisps or slice of cake or something.
I hate eating any earlier to be honest.

Usually half 7ish

3.30pm would be a late lunch for me!

When the kids were really little it was breakfast at 6.30am (because they were up at dawn), lunch at 11.30 and dinner at 5.30, bed at 6.30pm.

Now they are primary age everything is shifted about an hour later. I will sometimes make dinner for all of us at 6.30pm, sometimes I'll just have a drink with the kids and eat at 7.30 or later with DH (especially if we fancy something I know the kids won't like that's spicy).

Around 6, no young DC anymore but it's just what we've become used to.

5-530 for all of us. We're farmers and Dh usually goes back out for an hour or two after dinner and has some pudding when he gets back in

@BarbaraofSeville thanks, I'm just hanging on to dc school bringing back hot meals in the very near future and then I'll most likely do some batch cooking for my lunches.

Usually 5:30 - 6pm

I feed my DC at 3:30pm.

Although it’s early, it works for our family. DC have clubs most nights which don’t finish until around 7pm.

Fitting in dinner after clubs , showers and winding down for bed just doesn’t work for us. I’m also chronically ill so cooking late at night is not possible.

DC are given a snack and drink about an hour before bed.

@dudsville

I prefer two meals a day, and much prefer a late breakfast at around 10.30 and a late lunch at around 2 or 3. My ideal world would stop there and just have something like cheese and biscuits or fruit in the evening.

Me too.

Blimey, I haven’t finished work by most of these dinner times! We are early risers (0530), but we don’t have dinner until between 2030-2200. I just don’t fancy eating as soon as I get in. Also, I don’t tend to have breakfast, so a later dinner suits.

@GreenTeaBlackCoffeeAndRedWine

Visiting a relative today, and she was making dinner for her children (and herself) at 3.30pm.

Just made me wonder what time you have dinner in your house? Just curiosity really.

I usually make dinner around 7pm but then again I have no kids myself.

Sometime between 7 and 8 I think - kids are 14 and 17. Sometimes I feed them earlier and dh and I will eat later e.g. on nights he plays football

3.30 is school pickup time. The DC all have snacks when they come in but we don't eat together until much later. DH and I are bad grown ups and it varies. Sometime between 7 and 8 during the week usually, often later at the weekend although we ate at 6.30 yesterday and the evening felt very long!

Between 6 and 7 usually, unless clubs get in the way. Children are 8&10.

When we lived abroad, DDs were in bed for 6.30 so dinner was 5ish. (School was 7.30am-1pm, with a light meal at 11.30)

3.30 is a light snack after school.

3.30pm is a late lunch! Main meal is lunch at 2 ish pm (3 plates) in Spain.

Around 7.30/8pm for dinner. DD is 13 but has been this for years.

530ish, we all eat together. I find it utterly mind blowing that some folks can wait til 8pm or cook two separate meals.

Breakfast at work at 9am, dinner around 1pm if possible, coffee and a biscuit or something similar 6pm after work, tea at 8.30pm

If kids were involved they would have a kids tea at 6ish - when I was a child we used to eat as a family around 6.30pm about three times a week the rest of the time we had pizza and chips, beans on toast, cheese on toast, jacket spud etc at 6 o clock and parents had some sort of ‘fancier’ tea later

Weekends are a free for all 😂 normally tea out one night, and breakfast out one morning

6-7pm. There’s dh, myself and 1 year old. 3.30pm is when Ds is just waking from nap and has a snack. He goes to bed around 8pm so seems mad to feed last meal 4 1/2 hrs before bed.