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to think breakfast for dinner is weird?

126 replies

PinkStarAtNight · 27/12/2022 20:48

This is a thing my BF's family do a lot. Full English breakfast fry up at dinner time- 'breakfast for dinner'.

This is having had a normal breakfast and lunch throughout the day, not like they've slept all day and got up at dinner time and so this is the first time they're eating.

I think this is so strange. Just wondering whether this is a thing that people do or if its just them? And am I being weird for being so against it?

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Spartak · 28/12/2022 02:21

My lovely Indian lodgers work nights, so I quite often join them for a biriyani or some else spicy and delicious at 8am, and then have coco pops in the evening.

MyMumSaysALot · 28/12/2022 02:21

I remember having breakfast for dinner when we were little.

It wasn’t until I was grown that I realised it was the only thing in the house my parents had to feed us.

mathanxiety · 28/12/2022 02:23

YABVU

It's a balanced meal if you include fried tomatoes and mushrooms, and very easy to prepare. We have it about once a month. I sometimes do fried potatoes with it and sometimes pancakes.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 28/12/2022 03:14

I don't have any issue with anyone who wants to eat fried food at any time of the day.

Deviants who sit down with a massive bowl of breakfast cereal, basically junk food for small children, at 10pm however...

They are invariably spoon-biters as well, shovelling it in as if they are frightened their mouth is going to heal closed if they pause for breath...

roseretrox · 28/12/2022 04:02

Breakfast foods in general aren’t always light and refreshing eg full English. It’s so heavy and stodgy that it actually suits being served for dinner as the main meal of the day. Also I feel like most of the components in breakfast food are eaten throughout the day anyway, doesn’t have to be exclusively eaten before 10am

NewPapaGuinea · 28/12/2022 05:25

What do find strange about it?

starrynight21 · 28/12/2022 05:31

Scurryfunge12 · 27/12/2022 20:53

What’s wrong with it? Can’t people eat sausage, bacon and eggs at any other time of day? Some people don’t like a big cooked meal at breakfast time. Nothing odd about it.

Exactly. Those foods are wonderful, and can be eaten at any time. That's why many restaurants have "all day breakfast", it's because everyone loves those foods. Nothing weird about it.

Pothoswithasparkle · 28/12/2022 07:43

Unless you are a labourer you don't need it for breakfast, but it makes good dinner.

I eat dinner for breakfast after party🤷🏻

Christmasbellsagio · 28/12/2022 07:46

We had breakfast for dinner last night and it was delicious

BloodyAutocarrot · 28/12/2022 10:51

What I want to know is who made these food "rules" and why do so many people (thankfully not on this thread) feel it's weird to break them? 🤔
Just eat what you want, when you want. I mean, it's not even 11am and I've just had a roast dinner for my first meal of the day and will probably have porridge for my last meal, something I often do when not at work. So what!

Cherrysoup · 28/12/2022 10:55

ChefsSalad · 27/12/2022 20:51

I love a brinner.

Same, it’s a regular dinner option here. Saying that, my DH just did the IHOP breakfast sampler for actual breakfast. 2 sausages (skinny chipolatas), snappable bacon, hash browns, 2 eggs. There should be pancakes too but we were too full so that’ll be lunch.

Hereforthekicks · 28/12/2022 11:03

Ramsbottom · 27/12/2022 20:59

I don’t understand what you mean you’re against it. Seriously, you’re against his family eating bacon sausage and egg for dinner?

😂

This

RoyFuckingKent · 28/12/2022 11:04

If I’ve had a big Sunday lunch I’ll very often grab a bowl of cornflakes for dinner.

really fancy a fry up now, wonder if there are any sausages languishing in the back of the freezer…

nameisnotimportant · 28/12/2022 11:08

Breakfast for dinner is the best thing ever

courgettigreensadwater · 28/12/2022 12:37

Lovely. Never really have a full English at breakfast time. Quite often DH and I will have d'oh or egg on toast with bacon on the side as a quick cheap evening meal as well. 😋

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PinkStarAtNight · 29/12/2022 20:30

wow so many responses! Haven't read them all, but just want to clarify when I say dinner I mean evening meal. What some people would call 'tea'

Also, its not their breakfast as in 'breaking a fast', its not the first thing of the day they're eating, they've already had breakfast and lunch.

Also, in terms of what they would have it would be a normal fry up with sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, hash brown, tomato, mushroom, back pudding etc

Just wanted to clarify those things because of what a couple of people said, but its looking like me and boyfriend are in the minority and weird for not liking it!

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Legallypinkish · 29/12/2022 20:36

It’s Brinner 😬.

we have it fir our dinner every so often or for lunch.

Breakfast is just that, the first meal of the day, the meal that breaks the nighttime fast.

Matildahoney · 29/12/2022 20:36

I'm afraid to say you're the strange one op. Full English, fry up, call it what you will is a perfectly normal, perfectly acceptable dinner.

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PinkStarAtNight · 29/12/2022 20:38

Yes of course I've heard of all day breakfast. I actually find not a lot of places near me do it, and tend to stop breakfast items around 11 or if you're lucky 12, BUT I actually do love an all day breakfast in the afternoon if I've slept in and its the first thing I'm eating. In this post I'm talking about having it for your evening meal when you've already had breakfast and dinner.

And no, its not a classist judgement thing. I actually consider boyfriend's family a lot more 'middle class' than I am. Its nothing to do with class, just personal preference and I wondered what other people thought 😊

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HoneyIShrunkThePizza · 29/12/2022 20:42

We do it often. I really like breakfast foods but wouldn't have a cooked breakfast at 6am before leaving the house on a weekday. It's also quick and easy. We don't eat meat so it's just mushrooms, beans, veggie sausages, roasted tomatoes etc on toast.

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PinkStarAtNight · 29/12/2022 20:44

I wouldn't like the idea of that either. I think I just have set ideas about what food I eat for each meal. I also have a weird thing where I can't eat any sort of meal on an empty stomach without first eating a breakfast item, like toast, cereal etc before going into something 'non breakfastey' like pasta or whatever. I know that I'm very weird for that one, and obviously in the minority on this one too 😂

I just thought because my boyfriend also finds it weird and its his own family, I would see what others out there said. But I'm happy to accept IABU!

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PinkStarAtNight · 29/12/2022 20:56

PinkStarAtNight · 29/12/2022 20:44

I wouldn't like the idea of that either. I think I just have set ideas about what food I eat for each meal. I also have a weird thing where I can't eat any sort of meal on an empty stomach without first eating a breakfast item, like toast, cereal etc before going into something 'non breakfastey' like pasta or whatever. I know that I'm very weird for that one, and obviously in the minority on this one too 😂

I just thought because my boyfriend also finds it weird and its his own family, I would see what others out there said. But I'm happy to accept IABU!

ooh sorry, this was meant to be in reply to the person who asked how I feel about cereal or porridge for dinner.

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Deadringer · 29/12/2022 20:59

A fry up is a perfectly normal dinner/tea for many people.

Isthisjustnormal · 29/12/2022 21:06

I never have time to cook a full English in the morning : and 50% of my family don’t tend to eat much at breakfast so we have ‘breakfast for dinner’ as a special treat occasionally: never thought to do chips instead: we always have it exactly as you’d have cooked breakfast, down to the tea and on alongside (don’t normally like tea with an evening meal). Lucky you, op!

RewildingAmbridge · 29/12/2022 21:08

When I was young occasionally especially if DM was out/busy or if we were coming back from somewhere and time was short, DF would cook a 'Friday fry up' for dinner, DB and I would go nuts for it. I haven't had one for a very long time, but that might need to change!