To ask what time you eat your meals?

[Cherchezlaspice]

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

Oh and we are in the SE

8ish
1ish
6ish

I'm 63, don't work

On a school/work day
breakfast 6.30 - 7am (dh eats at 5am before work)
Lunch 1ish
Tea anytime between 4.30-7pm depending on what after school activities/hobbies dc have on.Tea
supper if the kids want it sometime between 8 + 9pm.

weekend we eat when I can be arsed doing food.
(North West England)

41, North. Me, DH, 3DCs all mid-late teens.

Me, breakfast at 6-6.30 or not at all, as I am IF some days. One single piece of toast and a coffee. DH MUST eat as soon as he wakes and couldn't go an hour or more before breakfast. The kids either eat/don't eat breakfast before school or college

11 am coffee and either fruit or a few nuts

1pm lunch

3.30ish. DCs have after school snacks. DD sometimes has a whole meal at this time as doesn't always have lunch at college

7-8pm dinner. Nothing after dinner

We used to eat our evening meal around 6 pm when the kids were smaller but my working day is longer now and I find I snack less if I have my main meal a bit later. If I was having tea at 5pm I'd be on the cheese and crackers by 9!

DH and I both working
two DSs in school
we live in France, but are Scottish

breakfast - boys, 7h15 as school starts at 8h00. DH and I don’t bother.

lunch - at work I eat at 12h20. My colleagues are very routine 😂. It’s three courses, healthy meal. DH is a teacher but has no set lunchtime - he usually has muesli that he takes with him. Boys both eat school lunch at 12pm - again, three courses.

dinner - 7pm/ 7:30. This is considered very early for most French families but it works for us.

no snacking in the evening, it’s really not a thing here at all.

North West, 2 adults, 2 primary children
breakfast: 7am
dinner: 12 ish
tea:6ish, can be earlier depending on kids activities
Weekends-depends on what we are doing.
I can’t believe @Cherchezlaspice can eat breakfast so late. We are already at our jobs by 7.45am so couldn’t possibly eat as late as 8.30.

Also if you eat breakfast nearly 2 hours earlier you’re likely to need an early tea. Plus I like to have my evening free to exercise/take kids to their activities etc.

I never get why there is inference that eating the evening meal ‘later’ is superior to eating at 5-6pm. Plus we eat as a family most days although DH is often back later so will reheat whatever the rest of us have had.

I find it mind boggling too!

breakfast for me around 6.30am. Rest of family 8am.
lunch 1pm ish
dinner 7.30-8.00pm

one 9 year old child. This is pretty much always been our routine. Evenings are filled with sports and after school/work hobbies. Only one evening a week do we get settled indoors before 7pm.

Oh and we have always eaten with our child. I did as a kid, and I personally don’t like the idea of “kids tea” first.

I usually eat breakfast of toast and fruit with the children at work at 9:30. When I'm not working I don't usually have breakfast.

Lunch about 12:30/1

Dinner with my children about 6.

There’s also lots of people going ‘I can’t believe some of you eat so late!’ So it clearly hasn’t occurred to them that others have different lives/schedules/habits either. Do you fail to understand them, as well?

People find things outside their norm to be intriguing. Not sure what the issue is.

Hahahahaha! No, we don’t tend to snack. The holding bun is a fabulous idea, though! 😁

That’s seems an unnecessarily prickly response.

I often WFH, and I start work at 9 o’clock. When I go in, I just take my smoothie with me.

It may be your inference, as I’m not seeing where anyone has implied that eating at any time is superior.

@Immaterialatthispoint Its interesting how differently we all live, isn’t it? I think a lot of other European countries have a fairly standardised approach to this. I love that we have so much range!

Varies but usually brunch about 11am then cup of tea and biscuit or cake about 5. Then a meal about 8pm.

Tea between 5 and 6.

work days
2am coffee
5am second coffee
(very occasionally I may have a chocolate bar for snack sometime in 5hw morning)
depending on when I finish work breakfast anytime between 10am - 12.30pm(either crumpet, toast or a load of chocolate biscuits)
Tea 5.30-6ish

non work days coffee 5-6am
breakfast 7.30am
graze on snacks throughout the day(sometimes healthy sometimes utter trash)
Tea 5.30-6ish

Live in London. Don't have a rule.

Breakfast 8.00
lunch 12.30
dinner 7.30
nothing in between apart from drinks

😂

There is an air of superiority about people who eat early though, its always '5 pm is far too early for adults to eat their evening meal' as if it's somehow childish to do so or that it's a bit unsophisticated compared with those who eat at 8 pm or later.

@Cherchezlaspice I think because you’ve referred to 9-5 as standard working hours. I consider that I work standard hours but I happen to do 8-4 rather than 9-5. Also by saying you are astonished that people eat so early and how we must have to work from home to be able to do this. I don’t consider the time I eat to be early. It’s normal for many families. Just as the time you eat is normal for you.

Those of you finishing work at 5.00 and eating at 5.30, how do you get it on the table so quickly?

@BarbaraofSeville yes I totally agree.

Breakfast is generally coffee. I'm disabled and fatigue is one of my big symptoms, so I'm not usually up much before 10. Might have a wee biscuit with the coffee.

Lunch around 1.

Dinner is between 6.30 and 7. Dh doesn't get home till later but ds is hungry earlier (he's 20!). Dh eats when he gets in about 7. Sometimes I wait and eat with him. More often now that ds and dd are often working over teatime. We'll move to about 8 mainly when ds leaves home in 3 weeks. I'm very flexible with my timings.

We're in Glasgow.

Breakfast at work about 10
Lunch at about 11 (I get the piss taken out of me daily about how early I eat my lunch. I can't help it. If it's there, I eat it)
Dinner approx 8pm
This is week days
Weekends are more fluid on timings