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

[quote PattyPan]@Comefromaway my parents eat around 9 now that I’ve moved out so my mother probably still would have done dinner for afterwards! I’m going to night school at the moment and one of our lectures is 7.30-9; the lecturer always closes the session saying she’s off to make dinner - she is Italian though.[/quote]
I’d be starving if i had to wait til 9.30pm - 10pm before eating (takes half an hour to get home then cook/heat up). And I don’t sleep well if I’ve eaten late.

Ds would never make it throughout a rehearsal. He’d end up snacking on junk.

@Incrediblytired

Nah. Adults eat around 7 unless eating with small children. I have small children so eat at 5.

I eat lunch at 5!

It’s not good for your digestion to eat late. We’ve usually eaten by 6pm/7pm at the very latest.

@ElizaLaLa

It would be interesting to know how old the people are that eat at or before 6 if it not because they want to eat with their children or work shifts.

I'm my mind, it's only OLD people that eat at 4,5,6pm.

40/41 here no kids, we've just finished and are now chilling out for the evening

Depends on your body clock. I’m an owl. The thought of eating before 11am at the earliest makes me queasy.

DicklessWonder

I agree.
I am asleep by 9.30pm every night. I don;t like eating later than 6pm.

Between 5 and 6, get the evening then... plus We are hungry

In my country lunch is the big cooked meal and dinner is a smaller snackier meal.

So dinner is late but it's easier to eat because it's just a sandwich or something like that.

Also good because I don't waste my evening cooking

DicklessWonder
Depends on your body clock. I’m an owl. The thought of eating before 11am at the earliest makes me queasy.

I am curious about your habits. If you eat at 11pm, what time do you go to bed? What time do you wake? Do you work? How much sleep do you get?

I prefer an early dinner. When I used to finish later (8pm). It’s too late for me to start having a big dinner at night.

I always used to start work at 6pm, so I would have dinner with my kids at 5pm at the minute my start and finish times are all over the place, it depends what time I am start/finish work.

We eat 5pm - 6pm or 2pm - 3pm on a sunday 😂

"I have a Saint to groom, shower to have before supper etc."

Which saint do you have to groom and how do you groom a saint anyway?

Bernard

YANBU. But personally I prefer to eat dinner around 6pm (commuting normally prevents this in normal times) because I'm ravenous by then.

Fascinating thread.

We are on a hybrid French / Brit schedule.

Lunch should be the main meal of the day (children get three courses at school), but DH and I tend to eat leftovers / sandwich, which is very non french. If I eat lunch at work, it’s three courses: they don’t even sell sandwiches or snacks there, so it’s all or nothing!

After school, at 4:30pm children have goûter - fruit, biscuits, pancakes, whatever.

We eat dinner between 7-7:30pn. This is late for DH and I (we grew up having tea at 5pm / 6pm), but early compared to DSs friends who mostly eat 8/8:30pm.

Absolutely no evening snacking, and supper (tea, toast, cereal before bed) is unheard of here.

I think it is class based in the U.K. (posher you are, the later you eat dinner). Here in France everyone eats at the same time, posh or not.

Now I'm working from home I have developed quite odd eating hours. I get up about 5am and have my first breakfast, then second breakfast around ten. Lunch at 3 and then usually don't bother with dinner.

of course nit. we aren't home from work until 7pm at the earliest!!!

We normally all (including dcs) between 5.30 and 6.30 - the actual time varies in normal times depending on if one of them has an activity they need to be at.

My partner and I always have dinner once DS is asleep, it's never 6pm

Kids eat around 5.30pm as I finish work at 5.I eat when DH gets home which can be around 8pm.Prefer to eat around 6.30pm but it's more important for me to sit and have a meal with him.We all eat together at the weekend around 6.30pm.

We normally eat around 6-6.30 but before children we'd eat fairly late - around 8.00. On a site for mums the answers are likely more skewed towards what your husband is saying.

We still eat at TEA at 5:30 to 6:00. As did my ex Dh who was proper posh. As does every person l know.

I'll say it again, YOU may call it Tea, and that is fine, but some others call it Dinner. When you go out for an evening meal, do you honestly ask for a Tea reservation?

I just book an evening meal . Never ever ask for dinner or tea. And if you lived in the north and booked dinner in the midday it would confuse the restaurants