to not want to eat the minute I come home from work?

[Ormirian]

DH has this thing about serving up a meal about 5.30 - I get home just before 6 so he will dish up in a big rush as i walk through the door. I am not hungry. I have been sitting on my backside all day, and then been stuck in a car for 20 mins and the last thing I want to do is eat. I want to relax, potter a bit, possible take dog for a walk or go running, and then eat.

We eat together at the weekend so I think it's perfectly reasonable for the DC to eat early and for me and DH to eat later. If he is starving, he can eat with the DC and I'll sort myself out later. Or we can all eat later - the DC don't mind.

So tell me, is that really unreasonable?

Evening meal at 5.30??? Of course YANBU. Civilised adults don't eat their evening meal before 8pm.

When our DD's were younger we ate at around 5.30. If DH was home he'd eat with us if not I dished his meal up and he heated it up when he got home. The meal times got later as the children got older. We now just have one older teenager at home. We eat around 7pm. How old are your DCs could you all eat at say 6.30

Totally agree bonsoir! DH doesn't. So at weekends we compromise around 7.30.

mumeeee - they are 12, 14 and 8 so perfectly capable of waiting until 6.30 - they always do when I am cooking anyway (if not later!)

I agree with you then. At that age our DC's were eating at around 6.30. I thought you might have had very little ones.

why dont you just bung it back in oven for a while

im assuming you have told him and not just expecting him to mind read

civilised adults

what a load of bollox

In fact, I really take exception to the comment that I'm not a civilised adult just because I eat my evening meal at 6pm in the evening

I do hope that was slightly tongue in cheek

on my behalf it was velvet

But my scary auntie Pippa would have been outraged that I eat earlier on a regular basis. And not only that, I sometimes eat in front of the TV But 5.30 is still way too early.

I have just had the opposite conversation with DH. We tend to get home from work at about 5, almost always completely starving, but because it doesn't seem right to eat straight away we sit down, have a cup of tea and a snack. The trouble is that we are so hungry that the 'snack' can be a whole bag of Kettle chips or a packet of biscuits between us and then we feel obliged to cook and eat dinner at 8 so we consume some veg and protein, even though by then we aren't hungry any more. We have decided that in future it will be sod the accepted meal time and in with eating when we are hungry.