What time do your kids have dinner (evening meal)?

[EmM1189]

If you have kids 2-10yrs old, what time do you feed them in the evening?

Someone i follow on Instagram had posted a photo of her child eating dinner at 4:30pm… to me that seems really early?

Trying to figure out if i’m the odd one out here!

5pm - 5:30pm when DH is working nightshift and leaving at 6pm.
6pm - 7pm on nights where DH is home.
7:45pm - 8pm if we're waiting for DH to get home from a day shift.

Nothing to do with having to do what husband wants, I just can't be arsed cooking different meals at different times. And although I love to cook, even the days we can eat before DH gets back, end up later cos my cooking is great but timing is shit. It always takes longer than I expect.

5.00pm -5.30pm

I would say between 5:30 and 7:00pm is a good time, so that you still have some you time. 😉

Agreed. We've always eaten together about half five to half six ish

All of the above is a choice.

Between 6 and 6.30pm. Although I'm standing by the oven and it isn't ready yet!

A school in Southern Europe probably doesn’t feed a ten year old two basic budget range fish fingers, one potato waffle, a teaspoon of peas and a tiny sugar free cookie at 11:45 am and call it lunch either.

I’m dealing with autism, extreme pickiness (see autism), allergies and DH working long hours so I cook multiple dinners in multiple sittings. I really couldn’t care less about eating as a family, I just want my underweight child to consume enough basic nutrition and everyone else to get a decent nutritious dinner they enjoy, doesn’t put them in hospital and that is served at a time they are at home and awake to eat it. Bonus if I manage to do it without them snacking on junk.

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3yo. We eat together at 6pm on none nursery days. Has his tea at nursery at 4:30. If we tried to do that he’d be having none of it!

We eat together about 6:30 when DH gets home.

Kids are 8 and 10. We sit down to eat between 6 and 7pm, depending on what I've cooked and how long it's taken to make.

We've been eating dinner at 5:30pm since DD started on solids. She's now 9 and DS is 4. DH finishes work (WFH) at 5:30 so we all eat together then.

All together 5pm.
Because otherwise they nag for endless snacks then dont eat properly. School lunch is 12pm

Bed 7 and 7.30pm.

So 5pm dinner ( 6 if after an activity) bath then puffing before reading book etc.

Why?
why do you care what other families do to the point of saying what they "should" do??
what do you think will happen if they don't?
I usually don't eat at the same time as my kids and never really have, and literally nothing bad has happened.

4:30-5:30, depending on what we're having really.
DD's are only 2 & 4 so they go to bed around 7. Bath etc around 6ish

As soon as we get in from school about 4:30/5.

4pm, straight after school to prevent the million snacks issue.

We all eat together if work routines allow. DH from another culture where families regularly eat dinner together at 4pm.

Usually 5pm, maybe closer to 6pm if it's the weekend so we can all eat together.

We live in the south of Europe.. ds is 2 and we eat around 8pm in the winter, summer it's usually closer to 9pm by the time we get home from work. It's too hot to eat any earlier in the summer anyway!

Once Dd was in yr1 I introduced a "sourced earth" policy on substantial after school snack (crumpets or toast, crackers and cheese sometimes something baked) then dinner at 7 with Dd going to bed straight from the dinner. table. I had job where I had to be up at 5:30 I couldn't be doing with cooking and eating after 8.

Depends. Anytime between 5-8pm. Dc swims several times per week so we work around that.

They eat about 5.30, we usually eat later after they've gone to bed (2 and 5).

I imagine by the time they're 10 and 7 we might all eat together later. But DH works shifts so it depends. If he's at work and I eat with them I'm always starving again by 9.30 and end up making myself a fourth meal of the day.

I had my tea at 3.45pm until I was 19. Then I got with an Italian and we now eat our dinner at 10pm most evenings

Have a 7 and almost 4 year old. I like them to be say down for dinner between 4-430 because they are slow eaters and always faffing around.

I always eat with the kids but DH isn’t usually home til 7pm so sometimes he joins us and sometimes not.

@SoAnxiouss What time do you go to bed? My big struggle with late dinners is going to bed on a full stomach and then not getting enough sleep… I know entire populations do it so genuine question about how that time shift felt?