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

[JumboShiitake]

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

DH finishes work at 2.45pm each day ( starts work at 7.15am). We eat with the DC. I have no desire to tidy kitchen beyond 5pm! Have usually been up since 5am most days.

I tend to breakfast and lunch late. I have only just finished work now so dinner will be when it's cooked!

We eat about 7pm weekdays. Sometimes earlier or later on weekends depending on how we feel. My DCs will usually have a small snack when they get in from school at 5.30pm

Weekdays the kids eat about 5. At weekends we eat with them, about 5.30. Back when we both commuted I would get home by 6 and start cooking (or reheating) then, to eat for 6.30. Then bath etc for kids, if we waited til they were in bed it wouldn't be till 8.30 and we would be starving! Then awake with indigestion . I'm usually in bed by 10 for an early start the next day, so eating at 8 would not work for me. By the time you've eaten and cleared the kitchen, got things ready for the morning it's bedtime!

We have a pretty intense schedule here with SEND DC, so rarely eat dinner before 11pm. I would be destroyed eating my main meal at 6pm or before

@blowinahoolie

Breakfast 7am, lunch 11-11.30am, tea 4pm and supper 7pm.

That sounds OK if you start work early. I can't imagine having breakfast at 7am but I am not an early riser :-) and when I did have to get up at 7 to go to work, I'd breakfast at work. I'd shift lunch to 12.30-1.30pm; tea and supper at 4 and 7 are very civilised.

We eat as a family 7-7:30. Kids too.

I have dinner when I get in from work. Yesterday and today it was 8pm. Tomorrow and Friday night will be 11pm at the earliest. On weekends I tend to have it around 7 but that's already too early for me. Granted I grew up in Spain where the earliest we had dinner (in primary school) was 8/8.30pm. Turned into 9.30/10 when we moved up to secondary.

Eat dinner at 11? What time do you go to bed?!

I’ve been in bed an hour by then!

6PM? Blimey. We eat at 8ish. When the DC were little, they ate earlier, at 5ish, so we could get them into bed and asleep by 7. Once they were older, we would compromise and eat a 7ish. Now 8 is relatively early.

6.30 to eat with the kids ... otherwise be about 7-8

I eat dinner at half 12 - 1PM. However, tea is about half 5. We all eat the same things as a family, always have done. I couldn't eat as late as 7 as I'd want to be sat down for the evening by then. In normal times I'd go to running club or bootcamp and people would be like "I'm having XXXXX for tea" or "looking forward to my tea, I've earned it" and I'd be thinking I've already eaten. I just can't eat that late, but I do realise (and did before this thread) that it is weird to be so early and its not normal.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Eat dinner at 11? What time do you go to bed?!

I’ve been in bed an hour by then!

You've been blessed with regular working hours then On the days I finish work at 10pm and eat at 11pm, I'll be in bed at midnight-ish. Tomorrow work is 9-1pm and 6-10pm. Friday is the same. So I don't even get to sleep longer the morning after, alarm will be 6.30-7 😭

In my head, the proper times for meals include breakfast being taken between 6-8, lunch/dinner around 12-2pm and dinner/supper at around 6-8.

We eat at 8pm. I think 6pm is too early - too soon after lunch

"but we usually eat anywhere between 9pm and 10:30pm."

Haha, am usually asleep by then 🤣

We eat about 5.30 for the kids mainly tho!

I'm normally famished by 5pm!!

Not eaten yet, been on zoom Rock choir. Always eat quite late anyway and never in bed before midnight.

We never eat before 7pm here and usually closer to 8. I have breakfast about 7am, lunch somewhere between 12 and 1 (usually closer to 1), and a little snack or pick me up/ cup of tea about 4.

This schedule was for the entire family, kids included.

OP
Is your DH offering to cook dinner for the family at around 5? Or is he in effect asking that you drop tools and cook at an ungodly hour of the afternoon for him?

Like to be done and dusted by 6.30pm, can't stand eating much later as it lies heavily and I feel sick when I go to bed.

Around 6-6:30pm.
I don't like eating too late but obviously you don't always have a choice with work.

6 pm is too early, too soon after lunch? What time do you eat lunch?! 3.00pm?

I eat mine at 12:30, breakfast at 7. I’m quite peckish by 6.00 pm!

I usually don’t end up starting cooking until at least 7/7.30 unless I have to eat earlier because of my night school schedule and even then I’d not eat before 6. Wfh I usually finish work around 5.30 but when we were in the office if I left at 5 I wouldn’t get home until 6.30 so no chance. Growing up we used to eat around 8 as well, my mum actually was a bit snobby about a friend’s family who ate before 6 because it was ‘nursery time’

To compare with a PP, I too eat breakfast around 7.30am but lunch isn't until 2-2:30pm. So a 6pm dinner would be way too early. I guess it depends on how one's schedule looks. If you have a normal 9-5 office job then dinner at 6pm seems normal. If you work weird hours throughout the day, you gotta adapt your meals to that!