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What time do you have dinner?

61 replies

noseyparkour · 14/02/2023 19:26

Tell me

OP posts:
mrsbyers · 14/02/2023 19:41

6 / 6.30 depending on complexity

maddiemookins16mum · 14/02/2023 19:43

6pm

Sucessinthenewyear · 14/02/2023 19:44

5 - we have young children.

Magenta82 · 14/02/2023 19:48

DP DD (16months) and I are eating ours right now

gemloving · 14/02/2023 19:49

Between 8-08:30pm

CinderellasBoot · 14/02/2023 19:50

Magenta82 · 14/02/2023 19:48

DP DD (16months) and I are eating ours right now

Out of curiosity what time does your DD go to bed?

We'd like to have more family meal times (fussy eater DC's here but that's another story) but impractical for our household

WaltzingWaters · 14/02/2023 19:50

I like it around 5:30/6pm. Any later and I snack too much before dinner.

Magenta82 · 14/02/2023 19:56

About 9-9.30ish.
We have dinner at around 7ish, (6.45-7.30) she then has a bath, some milk and cuddles and goes to bed.
Wakes up at around 7-8
She usually has a 2 hour nap mid afternoon, although it's sometimes split into two 1 hour naps if we go out in the car/pram and she falls asleep earlier.

Whitewolf2 · 14/02/2023 20:08

5ish when eating with kids, 7ish otherwise

ShandaLear · 14/02/2023 20:09

7.30-8.30pm depending on clubs/training/swimming…etc.

DappledThings · 14/02/2023 20:45

SquigglePigs · 14/02/2023 19:32

Anywhere between 5.30 and 8pm depending on work, plans, whether we eat with DD or not etc.

Same. But the later end could easily be more like 8.45 than 8 depending who has done bedtime. We alternate bedtime but DH does all the cooking so if we've not eaten with DC on his bedtime night dinner will be even later.

maddy68 · 14/02/2023 20:51

9-9;30. I dint live in the UK though. When I did it was around 8

TheTempest · 14/02/2023 20:57

Usually at about 7.30 ish when DH gets home. Unless I’ve had a nap (chronic illness) in which case it can be later or a fend for yourself situation. DD is 13 so sometimes we eat earlier together or separately. So not very helpful but mostly 7.30 i’d say 😂

fuckaroo · 14/02/2023 21:07

In between 4.30 and 5.30 as a family with the kids
Sundays we might eat dinner at 2 then have tea at 7ish

Curlyshabtree · 14/02/2023 21:15

7ish

NewChange · 14/02/2023 21:19

6 but when DS was small it was earlier

JaneorEleven · 14/02/2023 21:25

7pm. You can set you watch by us.

Allmarbleslost · 14/02/2023 21:29

6ish

FelixDoublyDelicious · 14/02/2023 21:34

CinderellasBoot · 14/02/2023 19:38

Around 8:30/9:00. Sometimes later if DH is cooking up a storm for us.

Used to be 7:30/8:00 but now with young children we get them in bed first which can dictate timings of the rest of our evening.

Same, any time it's ready !!

TitoMojito · 14/02/2023 21:37

5 usually

Inastatus · 14/02/2023 21:42

7.30 ish.

pilates · 14/02/2023 21:43

6/6.30

TheChosenTwo · 14/02/2023 21:46

between 7:30-9 depending on what’s going on.

DoubleShotEspresso · 14/02/2023 21:48

Anywhere between 8.30 and 11 if I'm honest. Far from ideal but the only way we can work it most evenings

LBOCS2 · 14/02/2023 21:49

Between 6.30-7.45. We eat as a family but don't get home until about 6.10 so can't start cooking until then.