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Original poster

You've had a roast dinner at 2pm. Would you want to eat again before bed?

574 replies

Laiste · 05/03/2023 17:19

Big roast with all the trimmings - pork with crackling, 3 veg, Yorkshire puds, stuffing, gravy, bread to dip ect.

Would you want anything before bed, apart from a cup or tea or two?

YABU - yes i'd want/need to eat again.
YANBU - nope, that would do me for the rest of the day.

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smilingthroughgrittedteeth · 05/03/2023 18:27

It would do me for the day and i would be unlikely to eat again. DP would want a sandwich and the DC would still insist on dinner

furryfrontbottom · 05/03/2023 18:27

QueSyrahSyrah · 05/03/2023 17:35

I've recently rediscovered crumpets after literal decades of not eating one. I don't know what I was doing all that time, they're the breakfast / light lunch / snack / supper of the gods.

Thinly sliced butter only though, anything else is blasphemous.

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I have mine with honey.

pringlesinacan · 05/03/2023 18:27

Yep I'd have dinner at 6pm ish

Summerfun54321 · 05/03/2023 18:27

There's no way I have a stomach big enough to eat a meal to sustain me for 18 hours until breakfast the next morning. Pretty impressed people can put that amount of food away in one sitting.

Ratataty · 05/03/2023 18:28

While the veg is being prepped for the roast I bung some in the slow cooker and start a soup. I have 3 teenagers and a hollow legged husband. So Dinner (roast) was at 2. Now at 6:30 they're all eating veg soup and fresh bread. It means I don't have to cook again and there is something for them whenever they suddenly decide they're starving again.

pattihews · 05/03/2023 18:28

Yes, I'd want something more to eat. Are you suggesting we go from finishing eating at 3pm and then have nothing for 16 hours till say, breakfast at 7am? That's dieting.

The average roast dinner is maybe 1000 calories if it includes roast potatoes and Yorkshires. That's not so many more than a cheeseburger with fries and a full-fat Coke. Would you have a burger and fries at 2.30pm and expect to go through to breakfast?

Marmitemyway · 05/03/2023 18:29

Yes a snack or cheese and biscuits or something but I’m a late night snacker regardless of what I’ve eaten in the daytime

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 05/03/2023 18:29

Yes. I wouldn't want another cooked meal, but I'd definitely want something. I just can't eat enough at 2pm to last til next morning, I'm not a boa constrictor!

cryinginhmart · 05/03/2023 18:29

@LuckySantangelo35 seriously, do one with your picking through the thread jumping on comments to incredulously question people who eat more than you think is appropriate. It might be fun for you but as someone with an eating disorder I see your behaviour as deliberate and shitty. Stop it.

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Laiste · 05/03/2023 18:30

@SnarkyBag and @TheChosenTwo's DH - yay 😃 (bread)

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Workawayxx · 05/03/2023 18:30

id eat something else even if just a couple of crackers and cheese.

ohyouknowwhatshername · 05/03/2023 18:30

Ratataty · 05/03/2023 18:28

While the veg is being prepped for the roast I bung some in the slow cooker and start a soup. I have 3 teenagers and a hollow legged husband. So Dinner (roast) was at 2. Now at 6:30 they're all eating veg soup and fresh bread. It means I don't have to cook again and there is something for them whenever they suddenly decide they're starving again.

Would you like to come and live in my house? I wish I was as organised as you.

mondaytosunday · 05/03/2023 18:31

Yes. I don't go to bed til midnight. I'd definitely want something.

Togoodtobeforgotten · 05/03/2023 18:31

FoxInSocksSatOnBlocks · 05/03/2023 17:21

Of course. I’m not a big eater and only weigh 6 stone but I still need 3 meals a day.

How tall are you? That is not a healthy weight at all.

Twilight7777 · 05/03/2023 18:31

I’d be peckish at 8-9pm so maybe a sandwich or something small.

BluebellBlueballs · 05/03/2023 18:32

Yes

I'm always on the scoff

Original poster
Laiste · 05/03/2023 18:32

@fajitaaaa yep cheap white bead is fine. Best IMO!

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Crikeyalmighty · 05/03/2023 18:32

After a very rare Sunday lunch out at 3 pm , in about an hour, I'm going to have some nice cheese on an Uber posh and pricey flaxseed loaf I bought today. I'm gluten free for past 4 months for neuro problems and finding nice gluten free bread is not easy - so I'm interested to see what this is like- At £4 a loaf it had better be good!!

eastegg · 05/03/2023 18:32

Boxe · 05/03/2023 17:21

I don’t get why a roast had to be a bigger than usual meal. Surely if you ate any meal at 2pm, you’d want something later in the day?

When I have a roast, it’s the same amount of food as I’d have of any other type of food.

I don’t think anyone said it had to be. Just that it was.

Thoughtful2355 · 05/03/2023 18:33

I wouldnt eat like a full meal but i would want a lunch type meal as otherwise youve skipped a meal surely as a day has 3 meals in it, if you have a roast at 2pm then surely youve skipped lunch/ had a roast dinner for lunch so i would have my lunch for dinner instead ( yes where im from we use lunch for midday and dinner for evening meal)

LuckySantangelo35 · 05/03/2023 18:35

toomuchlaundry · 05/03/2023 18:25

@LuckySantangelo35 what do you eat, as you seem horrified if someone has more than one meal a day? Many people eat the standard 3 meals a day, with one of those meals being larger than the other two. Other people do eat differently, sometimes following the latest fad or celebrity diet.

@toomuchlaundry

if i had a particularly large and late lunch (which a toast with all the trimmings is) I would not have a meal later. I may have some fruit for example. But certainly not another hot, cooked meal. And certainly cos would not eat cos I think I should or cos I would be going x amount of hours of I didn’t eat.
also if you make a roast at lunch then cook another proper meal later… well that’s way too much cooking. I would be rather out having a run or in the pub or going for my nails or in the gym or whatever.

Truckinghell · 05/03/2023 18:35

Yes - because roasts are absolutely rubbish so I'd want something nice to eat.

WaddleAway · 05/03/2023 18:35

LuckySantangelo35 · 05/03/2023 18:19

I really think a lot of people on mumsnet eat cos they think they SHOULD rather than cos they need to or are actually hungry

it’s like they think they will perish if they miss a meal or something lol 😂

No. I eat when I’m hungry, but also when it fits in with my schedule (obviously I wouldn't leave a work meeting to heat up my lunch for example). Which generally works out to be around 3 times a day.
If I ate at 2pm I’d be hungry again at around 8pm, so I’d eat. What’s the problem with that?

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Laiste · 05/03/2023 18:35

Crikeyalmighty · 05/03/2023 18:32

After a very rare Sunday lunch out at 3 pm , in about an hour, I'm going to have some nice cheese on an Uber posh and pricey flaxseed loaf I bought today. I'm gluten free for past 4 months for neuro problems and finding nice gluten free bread is not easy - so I'm interested to see what this is like- At £4 a loaf it had better be good!!

oooh please update us when the £££ bread has been tested!

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WaddleAway · 05/03/2023 18:37

LuckySantangelo35 · 05/03/2023 18:35

@toomuchlaundry

if i had a particularly large and late lunch (which a toast with all the trimmings is) I would not have a meal later. I may have some fruit for example. But certainly not another hot, cooked meal. And certainly cos would not eat cos I think I should or cos I would be going x amount of hours of I didn’t eat.
also if you make a roast at lunch then cook another proper meal later… well that’s way too much cooking. I would be rather out having a run or in the pub or going for my nails or in the gym or whatever.

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Some people can’t eat huge portions. So if I had a ‘massive’ roast, I’d still only eat as much as I needed to make me feel satiated. I wouldn’t keep eating past being ‘full’. So I’d need to eat again later.