Just curious - what time do you have your evening meal?

[Winterissolong]

My women's group has started a restaurant activity. I'd like to join them, but they schedule the meal at 5p. For me, that's a bit early.

Of course I could make the exception just to participate, but I was wondering when MNers typically have their evening meal.

I can literally eat anything at any time and if I’m on my own I tend to just ignore meal times and eat when I’m hungry which would probably be 11am and 5pm or maybe 8am 2pm and 8pm. I’d probably book a restaurant table for 8pm by choice. If the sc are around I tend to do dinner around 6:30/7. Will be close to 7:30 tonight as I forgot to put the oven on! I’ve dished out emergency bananas.

5.30-6.30pm. Hate a late meal.

I get home from work at around 7pm - so 7:30pm ish.

if meeting friends for dinner it’s usually between 7pm and 7pm.

i do eat earlier if i am home all day - say around 6pm. Rarely earlier.

Same.

We both still work so I usually eat at 8.30, DH later.

At weekends, about 7pm.

When we retire, I'd like to have brunch at about 10.30/11 and an early evening meal at about 5.30/6.

I'm the same, a Northerner. Here, it's breakfast, lunch and dinner are interchangeable terms and evening meal is Tea. Supper is most definitely toast/a sandwich/snack towards bedtime. I think referring to Tea as Supper sounds very Victorian!

Even my toddlers don't eat dinner at 5pm.

They eat around 6-7pm and if we don't eat with them we eat around 8-9pm.

6pm if OH is on early shift, 6.30 if he's late.

We never eat out at night but when we did it would be 6 or 7.

5 or 6pm and then something again at 10 or 11pm

6pm

Between 7 and 8. I like to unwind between 5 and 6ish, then start preparing dinner. I always cook from scratch though sometimes it's something I've prepared earlier and frozen. I'd get too hungry in the night if I ate at 5!

During the week, we eat on the earlier side, due to kids bedtimes and we like eating together, so it’s usually around 5pm. In the holidays or at the weekends, it’s usually slightly later, 6pm. Any later than that, is practically supper!

Why are you baffled?
My kids are doing stories or already in bed at 18:45 so no way would they be having dinner then!

Always used to be 6.30-7 but we have a toddler and all like to eat together, so it's now about 5.30. We mostly WFH which facilitates this early dinner.

Usually between 7pm and 8pm at home. If I meet friends to eat out in the evening it tends to be 6.30 to 7.00, even 6pm, as we all have to travel to / from Central London. Local friends, I usually meet for lunch.

Between 5-6pm

Between 8 and 10. We always had our tea on the table ready for us after finishing school and I’d struggle to eat it.

Because if they're in bed more than 2h after dinner they'll probably wake up from hunger at a ridiculously early time ? Also if they have dinner at 16h30 after having lunch at 13h they can't possibly be hungry. Enough for a snack, sure, but not for a whole meal ?

You do you, nothing wrong with that, it's just so different from what my circles do that I found it surprising. When I visited friends in new zealand they would eat tea at 5pm. I was never hungry at 5pm so had to force myself to eat, and then they'd eat again later at night instead of just having one meal at a reasonable time. And also the whole concept of "eating" tea surprised me (for me tea is a drink, not a meal).

Again, nothing wrong either way, just cultural differences...

6.45 ish. 5pm.would be too early for me , but would make an.exception. I have lunch at 1.30.

When the DSC are here I try to feed them around 6.30/7
On the nights they're not here DH and I will have something around 9 ish

This.

I once had a conversation with a friend and found out that she did Children tea at 4.30pm, a snack of weetabix or toast at 6pm and then to bed.
then she did dinner for herself and her husband for 7.30pm.

it just sounds far too much work.

Do you wake up from hunger if you’ve had dinner less than 2 hours before going to bed? I think most people try to have at least that gap between eating a large meal and lying down in bed.
My kids have lunch at 11:30.
Its 11:45 right up to Y3 here.

7pm during the week, usually a bit later at weekends. One of my friends eats at 5.30 (grown adult child living at home, plus her and her DH who is retired) and I wonder how they are not starving by 10pm - I’d be in amongst cheese and biscuits. She says it’s a hangover from when her children were little.

Rarely before 7 30pm or I'll be hungry going to bed. In that situation I'd probably eat a light snack/starter at the venue then have something more substantial later on.

Ideally 5pm. Sometimes I work later so it can be 7pm