This may win the prize for the most trivial post of the day.

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DH and I are going to a quiz night. It's organised by one of my colleagues and we'll be in a team with some of my workmates.

It's bring your own drinks and nibbles. Starts at 7:30 and for various reasons neither of us will have eaten beforehand.

Would it be unreasonable to take drinks and nibbles to share, as well as something more substantial that is our "dinner". If it's OK, what?

Plastic container of potato salad, cold chicken etc.

Eat a sandwich on the way and take it easy on the drinkies!!!
Where is it? At someone's house or pub?

I would just eat LOADS of nibbles (but then I would do that even if I had had my dinner...)

Can't you make do with nibbles as a dinner? Is it really necessary to have a full dinner? Have a bigger lunch, eat nibbles for dinner, late snack when you get home if necessary. I would think it rather weird if I went to something like this and everyone was eating the nibbles and a couple pulled out their lunchbox. If you must, take something a bit more substantial for the nibbles - marinated chicken wings, mini quiches, sausage rolls, all make a perfectly serviceable dinner.

Yes from experience, I would say it would be.

However if you know the others in your team why not ask them if they will have time to eat before the quiz, if not why not suggest you all bring something more substantial. If they will have eaten then explain you won't and so you will also be having something a boit more.

It's the turning up without explanation that's odd. I'd take easy non messy food, like a cous cous salad and maybe pitta breads. (yess I know cous cous can be, but not if you're an adult with an ability to use cutlery)

Yes, it would be.

I agree with others, eat a sandwich in the car, and take lots of nibbles.

Sandwich in the car or chips on the way and lots of nibbles to soak up alcohol.

boit = bit (fail)

Yes - this post could be the most trivial of the day but the day is still young. I'll give it until 6pm and if anyone comes up with something so easily rectified but has to ask MN that is even more trivial - then yes you could be the Winner. Good luck - you might clinch this one unlike Murray or the England Team

You can't miss ONE meal? Unless you have a condition making it necessary to eat at specific times can't you just fill up on the nibbles and have some toast when you get home?

The quiz is less than 1 min walk from home, so no opportunity to eat on the way and I will have been doing 2 hours of very strenuous exercise immediately beforehand. Will just have time to shower, probably be a minute or two late.

Usually I might manage to miss a meal (although it's really not in anyone's interests to let me get hungry ) but this time I will be very hungry and copious amounts of alcohol will be involved.

I wasn't really proposing that we take "dinner" just something more substantial, like the sausage rolls Midnite suggests

depends whether you mean you're going to rock up with a plated up roast or just grab a pasty.

pasty - yes
roast - no

Have a big lunch at lunchtime? Fill up on nibbles and have some cereal or toast when you get home?

Take big nibbles, like mini pork pies, pakoras etc. I wouldn't think that was weird.

And make sure you drink plenty of water, if you're dehydrated from strenuous exercise you will get very sick from too much alcohol.

I wouldn't care what others thought. If you're hungry, you're hungry! I won't make do.