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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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SettlingForAnotherMuffin · 06/03/2023 14:13

eastegg · 06/03/2023 13:36

I’d have just settled for another muffin 😁

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Grin

touche!

MidlifeWhatNow · 06/03/2023 14:50

Snorted at 'I'd just stare at a pomegranate' 😂

I'd have a bit of toast with marmite and a cup of tea. Or crumpets with butter. Lovely.

Despite doing a lot of intermittent fasting, and therefore being quite used to not eating for 16+ hours on the trot, if I have lunch I will tend to want something in the evening too. My 'eating switch' gets flicked, it seems!

Siameasy · 06/03/2023 14:54

MidlifeWhatNow · 06/03/2023 14:50

Snorted at 'I'd just stare at a pomegranate' 😂

I'd have a bit of toast with marmite and a cup of tea. Or crumpets with butter. Lovely.

Despite doing a lot of intermittent fasting, and therefore being quite used to not eating for 16+ hours on the trot, if I have lunch I will tend to want something in the evening too. My 'eating switch' gets flicked, it seems!

Me too. Eating opens the floodgates. Once food is “suggested” that’s it. I can go 24-48hrs on fasts. 48hrs I actually find easier. Boring but less hungry. But I can never ever ever just have lunch although I can just have dinner.

nokidshere · 06/03/2023 14:57

Like lots of others I'd have something like crumpets (as long as they were warburtons) or cheese on toast about 9pm. My boys as teenagers would have been looking for something more substantial within an hour of finishing the roast.

Bread/gravy absolutely delicious.

MintyCedric · 06/03/2023 15:09

Yes…something light…cheese and biscuits, sandwich, toast…something like that.

ivykaty44 · 06/03/2023 15:14

It depends what Ive eaten in the morning, whether I ate breakfast or not and what Ive been doing.

But to go from 2pm one day until the following morning at 7am is 17 hours without food, I doubt most people would go for 17 hours without food unless they are fasting, don't have money for food.

maddiemookins16mum · 06/03/2023 15:32

LuckySantangelo35 · 05/03/2023 18:17

@maddiemookins16mum

whats do bad about that?

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Really?? So my last meal at 2pm then nothing to eat for the next 9 hours before I go to bed?

Mueslikid · 06/03/2023 15:41

It isn’t really “going for hours without food” if you are asleep for half of them, surely?
I wouldn’t ever go for 16 waking hours without food. But I might go for 8 hours and then go to bed, and then just eat breakfast as soon as I woke up. I don’t feel hungry while I’m sleeping.
I find if I eat too close to bedtime it keeps me awake anyway, easier to just sleep until a big breakfast.

Original poster
Laiste · 06/03/2023 15:52

SettlingForAnotherMuffin · 06/03/2023 12:54

I had a roast yesterday and said on the thread I would not eat again.

But the thread then made me so hungry I ended up defrosting some homemade lasagne from the freezer and eating that!

genuine lol 😂

sorry x

or not sorry! This is not an anti food thread Wink

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familyissues12345 · 06/03/2023 16:19

DH would, he feels short changed if he misses a meal - even if the one before was enormous ConfusedGrin

I'd probably not bother, but if hungry later in the evening I might have some toast or cereal

WishIwasElsa · 06/03/2023 16:33

I would but dc and dp most definitely would want another dinner.

zingally · 06/03/2023 16:34

I would.

Not a full on meal, but something like a couple of crackers and cheese at about 8-ish.

Elphame · 06/03/2023 16:37

Probably not.

Bellaboo01 · 06/03/2023 17:27

Laiste · 06/03/2023 11:04

I really had no expectations when i started this thread i was just sitting there thinking ''i still feel fullish - will i eat later? Will i not? Have i got anything i fancy ... ? (no crumpets in the house Sad) ''

Then i thought - I wonder what most MNetters do? And i didn't expect many replies but this is great! Lets carry on!

A warm handshake to all the fellow bread and gravy'ers out there and welcome to any new converts 😆

It's interesting that a few have felt this thread leans towards being anti-food, as personally i feel the opposite. I thought more would say they wouldn't eat again and I've loved reading all the different light snacks/small meals/bits and pieces that people have.

Some posters seem quite angered by the question. And the bread!

I'm quite surprised by the quantity of crumpets being eaten. Love them obvs. just didn't realise what a nation of crumpetters we are.

A special mention to @Bellaboo01 's dad who ''likes to* drink the vegetable water'' ?!? *😳😂 That's a new one for me. I mean it's fabulous and wins the thread really!

What else - oh yes! In the end DD3 came home at about 7 with a beautiful cream donut with strawberry bits for me, from the desert shop in town - so i ate that 😍

And then at 8 DH made cheeses on toast and i pinched a half slice of that! 😜

Thank you - yes my lovely Dad always used to drink the cabbage/greens water (I think it was a Welsh thing and in the war they didnt waste anything)!

Toomuchtrouble4me · 06/03/2023 17:43

Bread to dip? 🤢 You are being very unreasonable to include ‘bread to dip’ with a roast!
man’s yes, I’d eat a light supper later.

whatadayforadaydream · 06/03/2023 17:44

Yes, becauase otherwise it would be a good 18 hours between meals which is too long. I am not sure any meal would compensate for that. Also I don't tend to eat HUGE amounts of a roast. Just a normal amount really.

Hadsuchahardday · 06/03/2023 17:47

Of course! It’s only an hour after ’normal’ lunch eating time so a small sandwich meal anywhere from 6-8pm. We eat a full roast every Sunday at 1pm then eat again at 6 (sandwiches, crisps, cake and fruit).

ElonsMusky · 06/03/2023 17:49

Probably, but it would be a light second dinner.....This has me thinking of Thanksgiving in the US. We eat a massive belly busting meal around 2, but then later that night we make sandwiches from leftover turkey.

Reddahlias · 06/03/2023 17:53

But to go from 2pm one day until the following morning at 7am is 17 hours without food, I doubt most people would go for 17 hours without food unless they are fasting, don't have money for food.

See, I assumed the Roast lunch started at 2pm and by the time we'd finished including desserts and coffees, it would be at least 4pm!

So that would only be 15 hours of not eating.

MarkWithaC · 06/03/2023 17:55

YABU. Yes I would. I'd probably want something simple and plain, after all that meat/gravy/crunchy potato skin etc – maybe pasta and pesto with olives and baby spinach, or just some rice and steamed veg with nuts and seeds – but it'd be a pretty normal dinner portion in terms of size.
I don't get it when people say 'I had a huge breakfast/lunch so I don't need to eat again'. The whole point of digestion is that it burns up the food you've eaten and then you need to eat again!
Not me, but a friend recently went to an after-work event. It finished around 8pm and there'd been a social period after the speeches etc with food and drink, but it was just some cheese. Not sure there was even bread/crackers. She remarked on being hungry to a few people and apparently got a lot of Hmm and 'didn't you have lunch?' type comments. Well, sure, but lunch is at about 1pm and now it's 8pm!

All those on here feeling they have to justify wanting to eat again by saying they're fat or greedy – stop it! It really isn't greedy to be hungry again between 2pm and bed.

purplebunny2012 · 06/03/2023 17:57

Definitely

Nellylongstocking · 06/03/2023 17:59

BentleyRhythmAce · 05/03/2023 17:27

I'd want to eat, and I would eat. Otherwise you're potentially going, what, 18 hours without eating - for me that's too long.

The teeny tinies will be on saying they wouldn't eat for a week after a roast, and that anyone who would is grotesque and the reason the NHS is in a state. But they can fuck off.

I love you 😅

FatGirlSwim · 06/03/2023 18:01

I’d probably pick at the leftovers in the evening. We all would.

BashirWithTheGoodBeard · 06/03/2023 18:04

FatGirlSwim · 06/03/2023 18:01

I’d probably pick at the leftovers in the evening. We all would.

Actually yeah, if it was one I'd done rather than going out for it I'd probably pick a few of those lovely greasy bits off the chicken bones. Whether I was actually hungry or not lol.

Tabitha1960 · 06/03/2023 18:05

That's a normal day for me: one big meal mid-afternoon. No breakfast and no dinner.