To think most people *haven't* eaten dinner by 6pm??

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According to DP "most people" have eaten dinner by 6pm.

Referring to adults, not children.

He's obsessed with eating at a time I consider pretty early.

I'm giving him the side eye

We have it at 6sh so the kids can actually sit with us and start heading for bed early.

Otherwise if we wait till they sleep to start cooking we will never end up eating

I prefer to have everything out of the way so that I don’t need to do a thing after their bedtimes because it drains my energy

We eat about 6pm.
We eat later if going out to dinner.
But you shouldn't eat too late. If you are eating at 8.30pm what time are you going to bed?

In many parts of the country they have, as dinner is the meal in the middle of the day.

Though the OP is correct about the last meal of the day, whatever you call it. (I call it tea)

cooking by 6.00 ish.. Dinner 7.oo. I used to eat later but like a glass of wine with my dinner. If I eat later I don't feel like clearing up afterwards

I haven’t had dinner yet!

We generally eat between 5.30 and 6.30. The last few weeks it's standard for us to have finished by 6. Very occasionally it's later
We're 40/41, no kids, I'm wfh and generally work 8-4, partner works 6.30-3. We share the cooking.
Because of partners work hours were normally in bed by 9.30, he's up at 5 if he cycles to work, 5.30 if he drives. I wake when he does as I'm a light sleeper. He has lunch at 10.30, I have mine at 12

We normally eat dinner about 6ish, finish at 5 and only 25 min commute, we start dinner straight away because we are not normally starving.

During lockdown when we WFH though logged out at 5 and started dinner straight away so would normally be eating about half 5.

Personally I couldn’t deal with cooking dinner for 8/8:30. I like to eat my meal change into my pjs and settle down for the evening without thinking that I’ve still got to get up and cook.

Christ no, 6pm is ridiculously early unless you have young children, or perhaps are very elderly.

Dh and i have just finished eating now. Kids ate around 6.45pm

Oops that should say we are normally starving

DH and I eat between 8-8:30pm usually. Our young DC eat dinner at 4:45pm and then snacks at 6pm before bedtime. At the weekend, we all eat dinner together at around 5:30pm (it feels really early), but it will get later as they grow

When my daughter is here (DD aged 9) we eat at around 6. When it’s just me and DP we eat closer to 7. When DD was little we ate as a family at about 5pm (that was when I was married).

We are free spirits, anytime between 5 and 8 depending on what time we had lunch, how much we had for lunch, how I'm feeling.

We eat soon after 5, basically because we got into that routine during the last ten years. My husband was a taxi driver and got up at 5am, had lunch around 11.30 and got home from work at 4.30, ravenous.

Before that it was 6.15 as one of our sons lived here and he got home from work at 6.

Before 6 is weird unless you are under the age of 4.

After 9:30 is also weird unless you are in a very hot country.

We're done by that time

@UnityUnited 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s not always class thing. For us it’s a convenience thing.

In our twenties we worked in London in professional jobs with an hour commute. So we’d be home by 7pm/8pm and eat around 9pm.

After having DC1 I got a local job with no commute and DH set up his own business so we started naturally eating a bit earlier, between 7-8pm. At this point we didn’t eat with DC1 as she would eat at childcare.

This local job then switched to WFH as we moved areas (1hr away). I then had DC2 and we started eating together earlier as by this point DC1 was at School so no longer eating at childcare and used to eating dinner between 5pm - 6pm.

We’re from Greater London and now live in North Essex. So not a ‘Northern’ thing for us either.

You people who eat late - aren't you ravenous when you get in from work?

I've always started making and then eating the evening meal as soon as I get in from work.

What?! No - surely most adults don’t eat dinner till at least 7?? For us it’s 8pm

'Christ no, 6pm is ridiculously early unless you have young children, or perhaps are very elderly'

Everyone's different. And as dp does a very heavy manufacturing job wheres he's on his feet up to ten hours a day, come half five he really is hungry. Nothing infantile or elderly about us. We're in.bed by half 9 or ten as we both get up early..if we ate later than 6 we can't sleep..

What? Dinner as early as 8 or 9pm! What a bunch of middle class chavs you all are. Me and the pater eat so late it is practically breakfast. One time we were finishing dinner and the maid came through to light the fire in the morning room.

Until last year we ate after DS went to bed, so we started cooking after 7 and were usually eating by 8. This was because he was 4/5 and needed to eat reasonably early, and DH didn’t get home most nights until after 6. Now DH and I are wfh, and DS is older and can wait a bit later, we start cooking sooner and usually eat between 6 and 6.30. Its a little early for me, but it’s nice not to have to start cooking from scratch after putting him to bed when we’re tired.

i get home at 5 to 6!
been busy and am going to eat any minute now

I’m about to work out. Dinner will be at about 10:30pm.

(I had lunch at 5pm.)

I've just finished dinner. I could never get dinner ready to eat at 6 on a week day.