Lunch,Dinner and Tea.What do you have when?

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Some people are confused as to what time I have my dinner
What do you eat after breakfast and before supper?

Do you know the Julia Donaldson book 'Day Monkey, Night Monkey'? When DH reads it to the DTSs (21 months old) he changes the ending to read

And now and again and sunrise
When it isn't quite dark or light
They share half a banana, half way up the tree
Day Monkey calls it Breakfast, and Night Monkey calls it tea
SUPPER, because he is correct like Daddy

Breakfast when we get up.

Lunch in the middle of the day.

Tea if we eat our main meal early (5-6ish) with the DCs.

Dinner if we're eating later (7-8ish).

Supper a snack before we go to bed - usually only necessary if we've had tea rather than dinner.

Breakfast
Lunch
Tea is either the drink or an afternoon tea (cake, sandwiches etc), or early meal given to young children in early evening (4 or 5ish)
Dinner - main evening meal, either at home or in restaurant/ at friends'
Supper - later, lighter meal - at home, or after theatre/cinema (sometimes replaces dinner if lunch was big!)

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Irrespective of time, hot/cold, kids or adults.

7am
12
6pm

Roughly. Not set in stone. sometimes we have breakfast at 6am, sometimes huge fry up at 10 am. Normally we eat at 6. sometimes we put boys top bed and eat at 8pm.

Tis not set in stone.

Dh drinks as many mugs of builders tea, as is physically possible, throughout the day.
Thus , like others, tea only has one meaning to me : copious amounts of boiling drink.

It's an english irregular verb.

I take lunch, you have dinner, he is quite beyond the pale.

7-8am breakfast
12-2pm lunch
5-7pm tea/dinner use either term to mean same thing

Breakfast is before 9.30am

Lunch is between 12 and 1.30

Afternoon tea is tea, cakes and sandwiches at about 4

Tea is an informally served meal between 4 and 7 - usually in the kitchen.

High tea is a more formally served cold meal between 4 and 6 which includes cold savouries and cakes.

Dinner is after 7 and includes guests,at least two courses and is served quite formally. Here in the dining room and using the posh irons and china.

Supper is for friends or family after 7 and informal and here we have it in the kitchen.

That's what I think anyway.

I have
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Yes I am a pig, sometimes I even have a 2nd breakfast if I get up early enough, I would love to be a hobbit

Although looking at onceamai I would like her daily eating schedule.

I only ever have lunch when with my sister, ideas above her station that one

My son has his dinner when he gets home from college, that could be 3pm or 4.30pm, when I worked my children ate dinner at 5.30pm

We always had lunch at school, dinner at home.

Just set table for the DC to have supper - late home tonight. IMO dinner or supper are late enough to have a glass of wine, tea not necessarily so. We don't have tea often

Breakfast

Lunch

Tea with the children at around 4.00 which is a lighter meal such as sandwiches and soup...or scrambled eggs and a cake ie "Nursery Tea" as both eat large hot lunches. They have supper at about 6.30...toast/yogurt/fuit kind of thing

7.00 or later Dinner is DH and I.

We never need supper.

When I was a (northern) child I had breakfast, dinner and tea.

Having been with (southern) dh for many years, I now have a breakfast in the morning, a cold lunch or hot dinner in the middle of the day and a cold tea or hot dinner in the evening.

Supper (although neither of us call it that) would be crisps/cereal/snacks in front of the telly . I have NEVER been to anyone's for supper, so find Nigella's enthusiasm for it a bit weird .

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Tea is sarnies and cake, taken at around 4pm by posh people

No clue what supper is and have never had it. Cringe at the word.

Breakfast - in the morning
Lunch - midday
Dinner - evening

Northern roots, so Dinner followed by Tea :)

but we live South, so it threw up an interesting one with DD when she started School

every evening I would ask her what she ate for dinner, always got the same reply...."I don't know" ,

it got to the stage where it was really winding me up, as her stomach problems coupled with her being a militant vegetarian made it extra important I balanced her food to make sure she ate a good diet

several months down the line, she finally piped up..."why do you always ask me what I've had for Dinner, when I haven't given it to me yet....it suddenly dawned on me, DD is a Southerner, & we sometimes speak a different language

Ha ha! I had the same thing with ds!
Except I would ask him what he had for lunch, and he would shrug and say "I dont know"
I twigged and asked him what he had for dinner...

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Only have tea if we have a huge 'dinner' and then tea consists of sandwiches or snack.

Dinner simply means the largest meal of the day which why many of us have Christmas dinner, not lunch.

nice to know its not just me

Breakfast, lunch, tea or dinner interchangeable. Dinner may be a bit later than tea, without DD. Always dinner at a restaurant. But tea can be hot.

Was invited to a friend's house for tea with DD and waited patiently until 6.20pm when I realised that she had meant a cup of tea and slice of cake, served around 4pm. Had to get back home quickly to cook DD her tea. I'm from the Midlands, she's from the south, not sure if this has anything to do with it.

Breakfast - morning
Lunch - 12-1pm ish
Dinner 6pm
Tea (same as dinner but cold - eg sandwiches, sausage rolls etc)

Breakfast - just after you get up
Lunch - 1 pm
Tea - 4.30 Mug of tea and biscuit or cake
Supper - 8 pm just family
Kitchen Supper - 8 pm informal meal with friends (served in kitchen)
Dinner - 8 pm more formal meal with friends (served in dining room)