To ask, Do you eat in bed?

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... and if so, what do you eat?

For the past several months, I've noticed that as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm suddenly starving. Even if I've eaten a proper dinner, I sometimes wake up ravenous in the night. Then if I don't get up and seek out food, I'll just lie awake for ages. What is up with this?

I've mentioned it to colleagues and a couple have confessed to keeping chocolate bars or crisps by the bed for midnight munchies or coming downstairs for cereal in the wee hours of the morning. Is this something that happens to lots of people?

Never eat in bed; the thought of it makes my control freak stomach churn. Crumbs! On the Egyptian cotton linen and White Company eiderdown?! Heaven forfend!

I wouldn't turn down a cup of tea but DH still isn't trained.

Running - I regularly have breakfast in bed and I'm not even fat, let alone obese.

DP and I used to have breakfast in bed together every Sunday then laze about til 2pm watching crap tv.

Now we have a toddler and no tv in the bedroom and soon a newborn so don't see that happening again anytime soon.

I kept some cereal bars next to the bed when I was suffering from morning sickness, but otherwise no. It wouldn't even occur to me to take food upstairs.

DP on the other hand has been known to eat a packet of crisps on the loo

DD eats her breakfast in our bed pretty much every morning.

I'm amazed that most of you think it's a terrible idea - it never occurred to me to listen when DH objected!

Always take the plates downstairs and clean my teeth before sleep.

See, food on the loo or in the bath is just a whole other level!

What's wrong with eating in the bath?

Eat a banana and a handful of almonds before bed. It helps you sleep better and should stave off the middle of the night hunger pangs...

To answer the question, no I don't usually eat in bed but did when I was pregnant with my first. I had a whole drawer beside the bed dedicated to snacks . I couldn't get out of bed in the morning without eating a couple of crackers in the first trimester and then in the third trimester I'd wake during the night so would scoff a banana and breakfast bar or something.

No, we have a "no food upstairs" rule. There's also a cultural thing with eating here so it's only ever at the dining table. Even a snack is eaten sitting at the table.

Hate the idea of crumbs and sticky sheets too. I sometimes have a cup of coffee in bed at the weekend but mostly we're up early so no time.

No. I would take breakfast back to my bed as a teenager/student but not any more.

I do occasionally realise that I am very hungry when I go to bed. Happens less often now as the children are older and dinner has moved from about 6 to 7. I don't snack in the evening, so by 11 it's been quite a long time without food. Especially if it was rice!

I then lie there for a while and decide whether I am too hungry too sleep. If so I would get a banana - but it would be basically finished on the way back to bed.

DEFINITELY no food stored in the bedroom. Yuck!

We don't eat in bed except for a very rare breakfast in bed

We do have morning coffee in bed at the weekend fairly often

Yuk

I'll happily eat marmite on toast for breakfast if I can twist someone's arm to bring it up to me. I'll snack on bits if I'm reading in/on the bed but never full meals. Never woken up hungry either.

I only ate in bed when suffering from terrible MS. Other than that all food is consumed in kitchen diner or lounge (snacks only).

Breakfast in bed most mornings as I wake early and want to keep warm.

I'll eat anything in bed if I fancy it. DP and I have pizza in bed sometimes.

I've never really grown out of that teenage/student lifestyle of my bedroom being a living room/everything room too.

Some days I don't go into the living room/dining room at all.

In my bedroom I always know where the control is, it's always my DVD in the DVD player. All my stuff is there. And I can ask the DCs to leave if they are being pests!

So quite often I eat in there. 3 meals a day. Sometimes DP brings me breakfast in bed.

But I don't eat after 7 or 8pm.

No, can't stand bits in my bed, bits of crisps would be horrible. I drink coffee and tea in bed but that's it.

YANBU to ask, but no.

If you're not getting to sleep because you're hungry, then try having a light supper a couple of hours before bed, or simply a better dinner with more protein.

In this house we eat everywhere. Ds1 has breakfast in bed every morning from a special folding bed tray.

I used to make the DC "treat plates" when they had baths, with little snacks like tangerines or biscuits and a drink with a straw. They now make them for each other and bring it up as a surprise occasionally

If I am feeling bad, (have chronic pain) sometimes I spend a whole Saturday in bed, watching Saturday Kitchen and then an old film and Casualty, with assorted DC. In between watching TV, I read or nap or MN. It's heaven. DH very kindly brings me snacks and tea. Sometimes the DC bring me a surprise treat plate

Cup of tea in bed as often as possible. Very occasionally OH will bring up toast when he's trying to stave off my 'but I'm hungry for breakfast' pangs so we can have a 'lie in'.

Yes, all the time.
Nothing sloppy though, mostly drinks and snacks.
My bedroom is my cave. It is where my very own sky box, dock for iproducts, vapey shit and potions live. DH has the kitchen and the DC have the living room where the other sky box lives. And their bedrooms.
No one uses the spare room or the dining room.

I like how polarized the responses are. It's either "Awww yeah!" or "OMG, no way!"

Rarely. If I do its usually toast.

I don't think there's anything wrong with eating in the bath. It's just... I've just about come to terms with the idea that at some point during any nice long bath, one of my kids is going to come in and want to poo. Fine, they're kids, they can't help it.

But if I'm having breakfast in the bath and they come in to poo? I would just lose it.