To ask what time you eat your supper?

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I prefer 6.30 but DH reckons 8ish.

We usually call our evening meal tea or sometimes dinner. When I was a kid, it was "supper", but we weren't posh!

We normally have it at 6pm or 6.30pm. That's because I work from home and can start cooking early. When I worked in an office and didn't get home till 6.30 we ate at about 7.30pm.

We don't have a pre-bedtime snack!

Dinner between about 7.30-8 for us during the week. Kids will have had tea around 5. At the weekend we all eat together around 6/6.30. Definitely no 'supper' here! I'm South East too but supper is what posh people have!

I agree with Lonny. He needs to be cooking something much quicker and easier, or batch cooking on a weekend.

Is supper as a light snack before bed universal in the UK where it's not used for the main evening meal (which is Lancashire only if I remember rightly) or is that also regional?

I'm up north and have breakfast lunch and tea. Whichever of lunch and tea is our main meal is dinner.

And we have tea, which is usually dinner, at about 6pm.

Supper as a light snack before bed is universal everywhere except in County Posh fred

Someone at uni asked me round for supper and I genuinely thought they meant 'turn up at 10pm for some tea and toast'.

My family would laugh if you called us 'posh' but it's always been supper to us (nearish London).

We eat at 7 on the dot and I'm very particular about it unless we go out or similar obviously.

If you have tea (as in high tea at about 3-4pm) they you have supper at 7pm onwards

If you have dinner (7.30pm onwards) then you wouldn't have supper. You also wouldnt usually have a high tea.

Now some people have a meal at about 6pm onwards that they may call Tea (but it tends to be cooked)

I do work, but no canteen, only a microwave so it's packed lunches or soup for me. Weekday evening meals need to be quick and easy IMO, nothing that takes more than half an hour to cook. I'm happy to eat dinner at 8ish because neither of us goes to bed till midnight. I would add, going back to my first post about a biscuit before bedtime - at the moment we eat our dinner anytime between 5 and 8. If it's 5 I have a biscuit before bedtime more often than not, if it's going to be 8 I'll have a snack at 5, not both.

I'm in the SE (but have northern parents), it's breakfast, lunch and dinner here, supper is definitely a biscuit before bedtime. Very rarely hear the evening meal referred to as supper.

Never heard dinner called supper before. I'm from Yorkshire so I'm used to it being called tea but to us supper would be a bedtime snack.

Anyway we eat dinner between 5 and 6 pm.

OP here...

I probably am posh, but I'm not rich, and I get hungry just the same as everyone else!

Perhaps I will eat the can of worms I have opened as my 5pm snack

'Supper' isn't posh! Think of posh references to the evening meal: dressing for dinner, Dinner at Eight, Thirteen at Dinner. Nancy Mitford definitely says 'dinner', so it must be right…

FWIW we eat at 6ish, since DS dropped his nap 18 months ago. As he gets older I hope to bring it later again.

OK maybe not posh but deffo MC. Kitchen sups, anyone?

Dinner at 6.

Supper at 9.30 (crisps, cheese, wine, naughty shit)

We have supper as a main meal around 8ish. No tea earlier in the evening, no snack later.

I've started feeding the DC the moment they get home from school at about 3.30-4.00.

They have a sort of "high tea" something like pasta with sauce and some cut up veg, or maybe sausages and mash....they just don't like what I cook for DH who is a vegan....he eats at about 6 and sometimes they will have part of it...salad or rice with veg if they like it....they seem much calmer being fed immediately and don't get time to ask for 20 biscuits!

I then eat with DH or sometimes with DC. At weekends I cook roast lunch on Sunday which DH eats with vegan gravy and the DC and I eat meat with it. Often Saturdays are sandwiches and a takeaway in the evening

Time - do they not wake at 4am hungry having eaten last meal at 3.30pm? We sometimes have lunch at 2/3pm on weekends!

About 7.30.

I call it dinner, but I always think Supper sounds lovely. I would love to be a supper person. Here in Ireland it's a biscuit before bed, but when I was growing up it was often used in books I read to describe the evening meal.

If by supper you mean tea - about 7/8pm.

We have a similar scenario to you OP in that DH gets home from work and then cooks. We could eat earlier if I cooked (on mat leave at the moment) but as he cooks we don't eat til 8. I don't feel like I can moan without offering to take over the cooking (not physically possible for DH to make it any earlier) so I'm happy with 8pm. You mentioned you can't compromise... What would you like to happen then?

Main evening meal at 6-ish.

Sometimes a little something at 8.30 or so if I fancy.

Sorry yes I personally can compromise. I will just eat later when he cooks I think.

What I meant is what would your ideal scenario be? . If your DH can't cook any earlier would you prefer to cook and eat as soon as he comes in?

I do that half of the time.

No - on the basis of this thread I have decided to keep quiet and eat at the time he can cook for. I've just had a mega lunch at work. Ravioli, salad and bread and butter pudding.