What time do you eat dinner?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

What is your preferred time for your evening meal? We’ve been drifting later and later, I don’t mind on weekends but midweek I feel between 8 and 9pm would be good. Last couple of nights were 10.30.

When do you have dinner?

5-5.30pm. Rain or shine.

I’d be starving waiting until 8pm

Yes 10.30 meant we were pretty hungry last night, and I'm starting to not be keen to go to bed soon after eating. Have not been bothered by that before.

If we're cooking late, we might have cheese and crackers around 7 or so depending on what time lunch happened.

Do the people who eat at 5 or 6 not get hungry later in the evening? Although if you're in bed and asleep by 9 then probably not!

Currently we eat at 17:00 as a family (4 and 6 year old) as DH and I are both working from home, DD is still off school and DS is at nursery but only have a packed lunch. Pre-lockdown kids would have cooked dinner at school, light tea at nursery and after-school club then a quick snack tea (toasted tea cake, beans in toast, etc) when we all got in at 18:15 and then DH and I would eat about 19:45 after they'd gone to bed. Much prefer an earlier tea, we don't snack in the evening and have more time to exercise.

Pre kids it was 7.30/8 usually, often later though if I was working late.

Now 6ish as we like to eat as a family and DS goes to bed at 7.

Between 5 and 6, any later and I'm up half the night

Somewhere between 8 and 10

Between 5 and 6 , I would be starving if I left tea till 8 / 9 o clock .

My neighbour has ‘supper’ about 9:00 pm. Always lights table candles. Makes me smile as she is ver Mrs Hyacinth Bucket in other ways too.

I’m like you OP. I have breakfast at about 10-11am. Lunch anytime between 1-4. Dinner anywhere between 8-11. No kids, and I work flexibly from home. Eating late doesn’t stop me sleeping.

It's changed over the years depending on the dc's ages and bed time routines. It's getting later and later, usually about 10pm but I'm guessing within a year that will come forward to accommodate us eating with the eldest dcs

Usually we aim for sometime between 6.30-8ish. On horrible weather days we'll sometimes do a 'Florida-time' dinner around 5-5.30

Between 5.30-7.30pm. Any later and I can't sleep as well.

In normal times I'm on my own for the evening meal as Dp is at work so if I'm in the ball il sit down to eat about 6-6:30.

Since covid Dp comes in about 6:30 and depending on what we are having and how long it takes to cook it's normally 7-8.

Pre children, I was rarely back home from work by 7pm/7.30pm so dinner was usually 8pm or later. Now that we have a toddler, we have dinner earlier so that we can eat as a family - so somewhere between 6 and 7pm usually, but the later it gets the crankier she gets.

Between 6 and 7 usually, sometimes later on weekends or when ds (14) isn’t at school.

Pre kids 7.30-8.30pm
Post kids 5.30-6.30 depending on what I'm cooking and how grouchy the kids are.

I love eating but definitely couldn't eat a dinner at 10.30pm, could eat crisps and chocolate though 😀

6:30-7

Between 9pm.and 10pm

Around 8. Before lockdown we wouldn’t even get home until 7pm on a good day. Even if we start cooking the second we get through the door (ugh) it would be 8 at the earliest. My family up north eat around 5:30, funny as we’re still in work for 30 mins + commute and they’re at home eating.

About 8pm. Mainly due to working commitments, sometimes later.

How do families manage to have family dinner at 5pm? I don't think I know anyone who both partners are home by then (but appreciate I work in an industry where long hours are normal and DH works long condensed days)

When I've finished my G&T and can be bothered to start cooking! I do have a 12 & 14 year old though so they're able to wait to eat... usually around 6.45/7pm!

Now we have a child, around 6 ish, when it was just us, could’ve been up to 10pm in summer (we live abroad too, so no one eats at 6, but there’s no way my dd can wait)

Usually about 6.30

4.30pm every day. But I'm hungry and eating cereal and toast at 9pm

6-6:30pm ish
Have always eaten together as a family since primary school age. Children had a snack when they came home and we all ate tea together later.