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

Breakfast- either nothing or something around 10.
Lunch- If no breakfast then between 12/1pm. If Ive had breakfast then maybe something light about 3.
Dinner- depends on the above but can be anywhere between 6-9pm.
I tend to average 2 meals per day not 3. I work predominantly from home so I can be pretty flexible with when I want to/need to eat.
The odd office days are probably more rigid, with with a desk breakfast, out for lunch and then evening meal at home. In part this is due to feeling embarrassed by my stomach rumbling loudly in a quiet office, as well as socialising with colleagues at lunch. (At home I don't tend to notice or if I do I don't care about the noise my stomach is making!)

Disclaimer- I am not purposely staying hungry. I have a health condition which means large meals and feeling full can cause other issues so it's often preferable to feel slightly hungry.

South East. No breakfast.
Lunch whenever and never together, and only sometimes have time.
Dinner 7:30 - 8
Two boys 21 and 17 they get themselves supper or sometimes something for lunch.

I WFH most days but work FT, so usually:
Breakfast: 7.30am
Lunch: 1ish but take 15 mins only, often eat at desk
Dinner: 7:30-8pm

On the days I go to the office:
Coffee/snack (e.g. banana) 6:30
Breakfast: 9am
Lunch: Half 1ish
Dinner: 8:30pm

Weekends - whatever we feel like!

No set time.

Me 48, husband 58, kids, early 20s.

When we are hungry.

I can't understand how so many people can't see past their own norm of 9-5 working hours with an hours commute.

What about the people who work shifts? Many 24/7 businesses operate 6-2, 2-10 and 10-6 or 4 on 4 off switching between night and day, or work at the weekend and less in the week, work part time and finish early, or WFH and eat early in the evening and do more work later.

Plus I can see that many people who have small children to do dinner, bath and bed for in the early evening might want to eat with them rather than have 2 rounds of cooking and eating.

Pre DC , workin full time, - breakfast 9.30, lunch 1/2, dinner 8 30/9
Post DC (work part time ) breakfast 9.30, lunch 12 30, inner 6.

Breakfast 7.30 if I have any
Lunch between 12 and 1 ish sometimes a bit later.
Dinner between half 5 and half 6 with dc.

Breakfast 7.30/8.00
Lunch 12.30
Supper 7.00

Breakfast 8.30-9 ish
Lunch 12-1.30 ish
Dinner 7 ish

2 adults, no dc.

In term time when I'm at work:

Breakfast: toast and tea at 8am, at school breakfast club
Lunch: between 12 and 1
Dinner: about 7:00-7:30pm

In school holidays breakfast and lunch Cary massively. Dinner remains the same as dh is still at work.

Dh doesn't get home til 7pm, hence eating after 7. We have always
eaten together. When dd was younger she'd have a small snack when she got home from school.

Honestly would be on the floor if I had to wait till 8pm+ to eat dinner. Breakfast is 7am, lunch is midday and dinner is 5:30-6pm. We have young DC so that affects things somewhat but I’ve never eaten dinner later than 7pm, ever.

Does no one else eat a large cake or bun every day around 4pm before their DC arrive home, which mysteriously helps them hold on til 7.30/8 for dinner

On working days I have breakfast at about 6.10, everyone else at about 7.10. Weekends more like 8. Lunch if we are home is between 12 and 1 usually. Dinner about 6.30.

When Ilived on my own I used to have dinner when I got in from work, so 5.30 - 6pm ish - and always got hungry by the evening and had to have a snack by 9 - 10pm. Then I met DH and he didn't eat until at least 8pm so we met somewhere in the middle and it gradually moved later and later!
I now work shifts including full nights so it's all over the place - I just try to eat 3 meals per day and space them out evenly. On days off I'm now firmly with DH in the dinner at 8pm camp.

Grown up DC but still working full time.

Breakfast, occasionally.
Lunch between 12.30 and 1.30
Dinner about 8.30pm.

If it weren't for work, I'd eat 11sies and an early dinner at 6ish which is what I did when dc were small and I didn't work. I was thin then.

Early 40's. 3 young DC, live in London. WFH / part time.

B: 11am
L: 2pm
D: 7pm

Kids eat at different times to us, their usual schedule is 7am, midday and 5pm but one of us usually sits with them and has a cuppa or else I'm in the room pottering.

If ate at the same time as the kids I'd need another dinner.

I saw the 5pm thread and would be disbelieving but my parents always, always, always had dinner at 5.15pm. Mum was a SAHM and dad was self employed. I had dinner at 5.15pm for my whole childhood (barring Sunday roasts and Xmas Dinner which were at 3pm!)

Me & Dh (40’s/50’s) and various kids age 10 upwards. Weekdays it’s below, at weekends we mostly have brunch about 11am, then a big supper about 5ish.

Breakfast: 6:45 for kids (we don’t eat breaky)
lunch: 12:30
supper: 6pm

we don’t like eating late, we are always the first person to goto the restaurant when we are abroad!

we are in the North,
meals are earlier during the week because of work.
breakfast 7.30am
lunch midday
tea 6pm

I think it's occupation rather than location that controls this.
Dinner has always been c. 20.00 for me. After a white-collar job & a commute, arriving home at 19.00 means a proper meal will be later.

GPs were farming families; so brekkers @ silly o'clock, dinner at lunchtime, etc

Mine became a bit eccentric during the pandemic and long Covid:

hot drink on waking 4-7am
first meal 11-ish
second meal 3-ish
(that's it).

I've discovered I really like having just two evenly sized, interchangeable meals, neither early nor late. It's also pretty much how I ate naturally in my twenties. It may normalise as I get better though.

Breakfast 830
Lunch 1230
Dinner 1730

No breakfast
Dinner 12pm
Tea 5/6 ish (apart from Friday when we have a takeaway after the kids are in bed around 8, by which time I have eaten half a pack of biscuits and some chocolate because I'm starving 😅)

2 kids in the Midlands

Im late 30's and DP is early 50's, DC 4,5 and 7

DP works odd hours so hes meals can be different than mine and the children but days hes at home its generally

Breakfast - 8am
Lunch - 12.30/1pm
Dinner - 5.30/6pm

Children are offered supper before bed at 7.30pm and sometimes will have crumpets, toast or cereal