Dinner at 9pm.

[LookAtTheFlowersKerry]

We are going out for dinner tonight as it's my sister's birthday.

The table is booked for 8.45pm. I'll be chewing my own arm off by then! We're meeting at 7.30 for drinks. So I'll be starving and probably pissed by the time we sit down to eat.

Am I just really out of touch? Is this how the world works now? Bearing in mind I'm usually in bed by ten.

Am I just an old fuddy duddy? Dsis is a hip young thing despite only being a year younger who has a vibrant social life. She says it's normal to eat that late and that I'm weird for always booking tables for 7pm ish.

Aibu?

We frequently eat between 8 and 9.30, DH doesn't finish work till 7pm and I am often travelling from London to the Midlands, so he collects me at the station after work. If DS is at home before us he will cook so it's ready when we get in but usually he's out and about himself. I couldn't eat at 5, I would be so hungry by 9pm that I wouldn't be able to get to sleep.

9.00 is absolutely normal for us. I really dislike eating early. Just have a snack or something? There's no rule about not eating anything before dinner!

we av us scran at 4

Sounds normal to me but I don't understand why you had lunch at 12:00 though, sounds like you want to be hungry?

Fairly normal for us to eat between 8.30-9pm. Finish work for 6pm, 45 min commute, gym, home & showered for 8.15 ish and start cooking.

I'd be a bit if someone in my circle had booked a table for dinner before 8pm - for us, it is early. Drinks for 7.30, dinner for 9 is the norm at the weekend.

At home we eat at 5.30 to 6.00. Sometimes have a snack later though.

9.00 is late but no biggie; just have something light early on.

DP and I hate eating before 8pm at home. Restaurants are always 8.30pm or 9pm, with an hour for drinks beforehand. Pre-drinks are an essential part of the night out!

i am always amazed at the number of Mn'ers who are tucked up in bed/dropping asleep by 9pm.

Unless they are getting up at 5 am it's a bit childlike IMO

5 is too early for us. Some days not back in until after 6 after working and doing a few others things. Dinner usually anytime after 7. So wouldn't have a problem eating at 9.
If you're bothered, have a sandwich at your normal dinner time.

Unless baby dd is coming with us we always book the table for 8/8:30pm depending on baby sitter etc. I like my dinner late evening

if you booked for 7 nobody with kids could come!

9 works for most people, and allows parents to make sure their kids ar e settled for babysitters

hod I think only one pp has mentioned going to bed early. Eating early doesn't mean you go to bed early; I'm rarely in bed before midnight.

We usually eat as a family at 8-9pm tbh. My kids are all teenagers and by the time everyone is in from what they are doing (athletics training, footy training etc) and I have made the food that's what time it is. The only alternative is a quickly put together meal at about 7pm an even that's impossible some days.

I think 8.45 is lateish for a booked table, but maybe that's what was on offer? I'd prefer that to 7pm myself. I would usually book a table for 8pm if I could pick any time.

If I eat at 7pm I need to eat again before I go to bed

Have a bowl of vegetable soup before you leave the house! That's what I do as the French think we're weird for eating at 7 p.m..... Here ordinary evening meal-time is 8 p.m. and if it's a function (that sounds rather grand, but in practice means the Rugby club meal and party) then the apéro starts at 8 p.m. and you can expect your starter around 10 p.m. .... 9.30 P.M. if you're lucky... I don't really enjoy this kind of event for precisely this reason, so you have my sympathy.

Totally normal here (Spain) I was at a childs bday party (8) much later than that, last night

9pm is a perfectly reasonable time to go to bed- I've done that before when really really tired and I'm a young adult.

If I'm going out to eat with friends it's usually meet at 6, ordered by 6:30. Dinner at home is usually 7pm, but 8pm at the latest. If I eat any earlier then 6ish I'm hungry again later and later then 8pm I feel uncomfortable.

In my corner of the world, it would be at 8. 7 is too early and 9 gets too late. Because nobody ever arrives on time and the food will take some time to arrive.

Just make sure you eat something a couple of hours before dinner.

I usually eat a bit earlier (don't like to go to bed with a full stomach).

But for a celebration? That's fine imo.

Have an apple, a sandwich or some youghurt or an other snack around 6 so you won't be too hungry?

So have a little something before you leave the house.

" I often don't finish work until 10-11pm (and then go to a restaurant after that)."

Only Indian restaurants would be open at that time where I live (medium-sized city).

We normally eat around 9. DC in bed by 0745, then start cooking around eight. We would book a table for nine too.

Frequently don't finish work till 7.30/8pm having started around 8am.

Meeting friends for dinner in the week would be 8pm.

At the weekend, we'd meet at 7.30 / 8 for drinks, with a table booked anywhere between 8 and 9.30. If the table was booked for 8pm, we'd probably meet at the restaurant and not be ready to order food till 8.45pm.

hod, I wish I could go to bed at 9. I have chronic insomnia. It's pointless even trying to go to bed before 1am and often I'm awake till 3 or 4.

still find I eat more early in the day, also I work out first thing which probably has some kind of effect on earlier appetite. Then again, one of my closest friends works out at 6am and frequently eats at 9 or 10pm so I don't know really!

it does mean eating twice when I'm eating out later - which does happen of course - but OP is just having a moan, fair enough. I'd be interested to know if OP sis has gone along with a timing that suits the majority of attendees.

I bet a lot of MNers are up at 5 or 6 btw.

gwen

We luckily have food in the office. I sometimes sleep in the office (that probably makes me sound like a miserable cow... but time differences, working late etc). So that's useful. I have also ordered food before...