Would you expect another evening meal after a 4pm pub roast?

[Dinnerargument]

If you had a pub roast dinner at 4pm; would you expect to have a dinner that evening?

Please settle an argument with my DH…

Not if I ate at 4pm, but dh will probably have a bowl of cereal or toast around 7/8pm

No, but neither would I be wanting to eat a roast meal at 4pm.

No way!

a quarter sandwich? Do you mean a sandwich made with half a slice of bread? How would that satiate if you were 'especially peckish'?

I wouldn't expect another dinner but I would expect something to eat, toast or something.

My husband is more like you, and ascribes to the "I had a big lunch so why would I need food later" type of thing. My body digests food pretty much at the same rate regardless of meal size, so while I adjust for calories ingested I still eat something as I'll be hungry!

Went to my mum's for Easter lunch. Late lunch as long journey so by the time we started the meal it was nearly 3pm. Roast lamb, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, baked onions, gravy. Wine. Seconds. Then Apple crumble.

Went for a walk then was served tea and chocolate cake. Not really necessary but we all had some.

Got home about 9pm. No further meal but everyone has had a snack of kind, fetched by themselves. I had fruit.

No,I wouldn't want another meal, but I would be indulging in delightful evening of delicious but most likely unhealthy snacks, yum 😋

Probably some nibbles , I’ve had cheese and the addictive M&S balsamic pickled onions oh and a punnet of tomatoes as I’m on some weird tomato craving ride

Oh dear.

that came off sounding like competitive underrating and it is not what I meant. I just grab a piece of bread and tear it in half or a small roll and put some cheese on it or a bit of luncheon meat if we have it because it’s fast and I want something quick and I want something really easy and don’t want to generate any dishes. It’s barely a sandwich, it’s things thrown together and held on a napkin because the not creating any dishes is the really critical part. I eat real meals, I just like to eat all of them early in the day.

I had a full roast at 3pm followed by a big slice of cake at 5pm. By 9pm I was hungry again and had bacon sarnies.

Some days a meal out is enough to keep me going until the next day, sometimes I'm starving again in the evening. I tend to ignore what I "should" feel and listen to my body. Eat if you are hungry, don't eat if you are not.

🤣🤣🤣 this is exactly what we did tonight after Sunday lunch at 3:30pm. We had it in bed and much as I enjoyed it I did have quite bad heartburn after! 😁

No way! Toast or cheese and crackers and that would be late in the evening with a 4pm roast!

It’s tedious isn’t it?

Great post by the way.

Not a meal but I made sandwiches with leftover beef/ ham/ chicken/ stuffing at about 8pm for my guests which they all devoured after a big meal at 3pm.

Not a full on dinner, but if im hungry i just eat.

Why are people presuming her male partner is the one wanting / needing another meal?

Me female would be the one wanting to eat again about 8/9pm BUT not dinner.
Just something. Lol
Where male partner will still be full

I don't understand how there's a problem, if you're not hungry, don't eat. If your DH is hungry, I'm assuming he doesn't need your permission to eat? And he's capable of feeding himself?

Unless the issue is that he expects you to make him food, in which case it's irrelevant if others would eat or not, the problem isn't about food but a misogynistic man.

It depends when I got up and what else I had eaten. Many Sundays I get up late, have breakfast at midday, lunch at 4pm and dinner at 9pm. If I’m up early, breast may be at 7am and lunch at midday so then dinner at 4pm would be the last meal of the day.

A decent sized meal at 4 pm suits me perfectly. Its often what we do on holiday where, in Spain its the tail end of lunchtime so a perfectly normal time to eat a proper meal.

So a good breakfast at about 10-11 am when we are ready for it. Out and about for a bit, lunch at 3-4 pm, relax for a bit, perhaps a siesta, perhaps a late swim in the early evening. Then somewhere around 8 pm shower and go for a wander and drinks a tapa or two.

Shame that work and other people's expectations about eating not much all day in anticipation of 'a proper cooked dinner' get in the way.

But it would be good for the OP to clarify what the argument was about because it really does sound like her DH was expecting more food in the evening. So why couldn't he just make himself something?

Quoting myself to say I meant breakfast not breast…lol 😳

We had a roast at 4pm yesterday and just had a few snacks later that evening

I wouldn't want another proper meal, but I'd definitely be looking for a solid pudding or a snack later in the evening - a decent supper sized portion of a crumble, some cheese and crackers, or maybe a sandwich would be what I'd be looking for. I definitely would be hungry before bedtime if I ate at 4:30!

Surely this is the perfect opportunity for a hot cross bun

Good god , what an arse he is ..what did you tell him to do ?
my FIL would’ve expected me 🙄 to prepare something for him but not a full meal

It’s no wonder 2/3 of the population is fat!