To ask what time you eat your meals?

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Inspired by another thread, what time do you eat your meals every day? Posters were talking about having dinner at 5pm and I thought that was really interesting! It’s not something I’d previously come across.

Also interested in whether this varies by age or region, so it would great if you could say. I’ll start.

DH and I are in our 30’s, have no kids and live and work in Central London

Breakfast (well, a smoothie): 8.30am

Lunch: Half 1ish

Dinner: circa 8pm

Term time:
Breakfast 8am
Lunch 12pm
Dinner 5pm

Half term / holidays:
Breakfast 9-10am
Lunch 1pm
Dinner 6pm

50's adults with 11 year old. 7 am breakfast, 12 lunch (called dinner here), 6 pm dinner (called tea here). Northeast - we go out to work.

On work days breakfast 7 - 7:15, lunch about 12:30 , dinner 7:00 - 7:30.

We are originally southerners and moved to NW England 8 years ago. Our meal timings were average for where we lived before, but lots of people where we live now eat dinner much earlier (and call it tea). I don't like eating at 5 or 6, but I also wouldn't want to eat much after 8 from a digestion pov!

Depends on our toddler. Weekdays we eat around 8pm after he's in bed (he eats at nursery and is in bed for 7:30). On weekends we eat tea together so usually 4pm-4:30pm ish.

Breakfast - DD has it around 6.30am, I just mainline as many coffees as I can before the school run/holiday club.

Lunch - weekends between 12 and 1, weekdays I have it the same time if I remember or have time, usually too busy working and realise at 3pm that I've missed it.

Dinner - between 5pm and 6pm

Breakfast: DH 6am /rest of us 7:30/8am

Lunch: DH 11:30 am/ rest of us 12:30-1:30pm

Dinner: 5:30-6:30pm Teen DC sometimes eat later due to sport training, but we make one meal and they warm it up later.

I'm amazed at folk saying they eat dinner at 9pm! That's waaaaay too late for me. My body wouldn't digest it.

Also, what's this eating after the kids thing? I see this on drama shows sometimes and am like 😮. Why would I want to cook twice? The kids have always eaten what we eat, no kids type food. Is this what this means- kids type foods but then proper cooked dinner for the adults?

Breakfast 6
lunch typically 11, because I almost always have meetings scheduled from 12-3.
dinner 5-5:30

i wfh and have for many years, but even when I worked in the office, I tended to go in early and finish my day by 4:30 at the absolute latest. I’ve always had control over my schedule and I hate working later in the evening.

Sorry: In Scotland. Late 40s kids teens/ later primary.

Cannot understand people eating an evening meal as early as 5pm?!
I don't finish work until after that, nor does my husband!
Kids when they were at school didn't finish until after 5!

Seriously? 5pm? That's still the afternoon?!!!

Breakfast is about 7/7.30 (if I have it)
Lunch about 1/1.30 then evening meal about 7/7.30

I'm stumped with 5pm!! Most people are still at work then 😂

Yabu. Ask in Chat.

We eat with DD1 (3 years old) so it's at about 5:30/6:00. And we have lunch at midday because she's up early so we have an early breakfast.

Late-fifties. Midlands.

Breakfast: 5:30-6 am

Lunch: ideally around 12:00, but whenever I have time to stop work

Dinner: whenever I get home from work; usually some time between 7 and 8 pm

Breakfast 6:30 or 7
Dinner 12
Tea 5ish but sometimes 5:30
2 young children.

@Puffalicious For us it’s that DD comes home knackered and fed from nursery, generally she only wants a snack – peanut butter toast or a banana and milk – before bed and bath. So there’s no cooking twice. Whoever isn’t doing bedtime does the grown-up dinner. On the weekend she has leftovers from our night before, or we cook earlier for her and reheat ours later. Definitely not cooking twice! But she naturally wants to eat at 5pm and I very much don’t.

During term time, so working:

Breakfast around 7.30
Lunch during my break around 12.15
Dinner all together around 7.30

During the holidays, a lot more relaxed!!

@ihatesoaps I'm a sahm with 2 under 5 hence the 5pm tea.

DH and I are in our 30s, have a baby and live in North London.

Breakfast: 8.30 (used to be earlier but this is when DS has his first nap so it's easier to shower/eat etc then).

Lunch: any time between 12 and 2.

Dinner: 7.30/8 once DS has gone to bed - timing depends on how elaborate what we're making is.

Breakfast 8
(Dd skips it before school)
Lunch 1ish (daughter may have an apple at school)
Dinner 6-6.30 as my daughter hasn't eaten all day. If down to me I'd eat 7-7.30. When my husband was alive 8pm when he got in from work.

Breakfast 7.30
Lunch 12-1
Dinner 5-5.30
Evening snack 8

Same for both me and DD. We are Scandinavians living in UK and meals tend to be earlier over there. Would pass out if I had dinner at 9pm😅

Breakfast: me and DD 7/7:30, DH usually a bit later
Lunch: around 12
Dinner: DD and sometimes us 5:30, or we'll eat 7ish once she's in bed.

North west. Me and DH and 2 DC aged 4 and 3.
Breakfast any time between 7am and 9am depending on what we're doing.
Kids have snack about 11:30
Lunch - between 1 and 3, again depending. Sometimes the DC nap and then we eat lunch later, which accounts for the 3pm lunches.
Dinner - any time between 6 and 9pm. If the DC are eating with us, it's between 6 and half 7. Sometimes DH goes out in the evening and we eat when he gets in, around 9. But the kids have already eaten and gone to bed.
Me and DH usually have a snack in the evening, around 9-10.

North West England

Breakfast - I don't usually bother, but DH 7am
Dinner - 12 noon
Tea - between 6:30 - 7:30 depending whether I finish at 4 or 6

If children are small then 5-6pm makes total sense as a dinner (back from
school 4ish then dinner 5/30 let’s say). Some people like to eat as a family and small children (eg 5 and below) are in bed around 7-7.30pm. If you factor in bath time, stories/chasing them around to put them in pjs plus time for the actual eating etc that’s 5.30 approx dinner time 😃

I only have one meal a day so it's usually any time between 4pm and 7pm
Thirties, N.Ireland

2 adults + 2 year old, work 9-5, Scotland.

Breakfast 9:30 in work
Lunch 1:00
Dinner 5:30

I've discovered I don't like eating breakfast early and don't feel great if I eat in the evenings so time restricted eating works for me. I've also found a later breakfast means I don't need a morning snack.
Occasionally DP and I will eat once the toddlers in bed so will eat between 7-8 but depending on what it is I find that too late.