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

Breakfast (porridge / cereal / yoghurt & fruit) at 8am
Lunch (soup / salad / sandwich / baked potato) at 1pm
Drink and snack (fruit / biscuit / cake) at 4pm
Supper around 7.30pm

Supper used to be sometime between 8 pm and 8:30 pm because DH wouldn’t be home before 7:30 pm as his commute is much longer than mine (an hour and a half compared to my 30 minutes). Now we are both working at home so can eat earlier. The type of snack we have around 4 pm is probably similar to what other people might have as part of an evening meal so we don’t get hungry by eating later.

I'd love to see a graph charting early/late eaters and shoes on/shoes off households.
I'm an early eater and shoes on. I imagine this says a lot about my roots!

C’mon people - it’s clear most people think eating late is best. So let’s talk snacking! If you eat at 8, what do you eat in the afternoon? Nothing at all?

"Surely they would be hungry again before bed?"
Well yes, this is why there is supper

@OFAHmusical

C’mon people - it’s clear most people think eating late is best. So let’s talk snacking! If you eat at 8, what do you eat in the afternoon? Nothing at all?

I eat at 6ish but still like an afternoon chocolate biscuit or piece of cake.

Good username by the way. I had to think a minute what it was.

@Comefromaway

And yours!

I do usually have a mid-afternoon piece of toast, cereal bar or something sweet around 4 to get me to the end of the work day! 😆

[quote OFAHmusical]@Comefromaway

And yours![/quote]
Honestly I’m so desperate for anything musical related at the moment I think I’d even go and see Cats.

Not the godawful film, I hope!

Possibly only for Stephen Macrae’s tap dancing.

But no, live theatre is what I’m craving.

Before or around 6 is normal for us. After 7 would be very late.

We always eat late, usually around 7.30.

If DS isnt here I usually eat around 9.

5pm here but only because we eat with our son. And we're usually starving by 8 pm which is why were getting fatter!

I would love to finish dinner by 6pm. Unrealistic in this house. More like 8pm at the earliest. I used to arrive home from work at 9pm & just skip dinner - that was actually preferable. Hate eating late. I'm going to start eating something simple & light for dinner, & bugger what my family want.

Usually by 5-5:30 latest.
Home at 4 and start cooking after a quick tidy
Up.
Kids are hungry and it’s easier to eat with them than to do the whole thing twice.
Youngest is in bed by 7:30, bath around 6:30 so if we are later it’s probably push bedtime back.
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a big meal at 8pm! It would feel so weird to me to eat dinner that late, so close to bed time.
Once kids are in bed I have a bath and relax on the sofa. Sometimes have a snack. Bed around 11.

Usually between 4:45 and 5:15. My stomach would be ingesting itself if I ate later than 6pm.

I can’t deal with eating too early as I then find myself craving sweet stuff later in the evening and rarely in bed before midnight.

Grew up eating dinner at 8pm when my dad got home from work and rarely eat before 7 now. Saying that, I still can’t seem to stop snacking between dinner and bed, so god knows the amount of crap I’d end up chowing down of an evening if I ate dinner at 6pm..

@Marinaloves

It’s so bizarre and English to eat so early Says a lot about our nation

probably goes with this obsession that children must be in bed by 6pm and cannot possible survive if any later. Gasps of sheer horror if they are ever invited to a wedding or a party!

Followed about the predictable moans about children waking up at dawn

@OFAHmusical - we usually eat late, I usually hate eating late, & we don't usually snack in the afternoon. TBH I often forget to have lunch if I had breakfast. I'm going on strike, I've decided. Early tea for me whenever possible, starting tomorrow!

@OFAHmusical

C’mon people - it’s clear most people think eating late is best. So let’s talk snacking! If you eat at 8, what do you eat in the afternoon? Nothing at all?

lunch?

I serve up dinner every day at 1pm especially with children at home during lock down and then just a light supper in the late evening around 8pm

I'm in work til 8 most days.. even on my day off we eat about 8

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer - I'd love it if DD woke up at dawn. 2:10 she was up this morning, downstairs watching TV. We only woke up when we heard her laughing at cartoons. That's 4 times in a week. And she's still in school... and she was up again at 7 each time for school. She's only 8, & goes to sleep at 8:30-9pm! I blame DH, apparently he was similar...

@Marinaloves

It’s so bizarre and English to eat so early Says a lot about our nation

What does it say about our nation?

Growing up I always had dinner straight from school, so by 4pm, then might have a slice of toast or cereal around 7/8pm. In our house now we always have dinner by 5.30pm. I'm currently working from home so all finished by 4pm and would be starving by 8pm, not to mention that would completely throw off bedtime with two preschoolers.

I'm not really a big breakfast and lunch eater so will normally have a brunch type meal at 11ish then dinner, and snacks whenever I'm hungry.

We eat at 5-5.30 with the kids. If DH and I are getting a takeaway and want to enjoy it in peace, we’ll leave it until 8.30ish when the kids are hopefully in bed, but that does feel late! There’s no chance to eat anywhere in between as it’s manic from 6.30 until kids are in bed.