in thinking that Sunday lunch should be at lunch time

[BramblyHedge]

Is it normal to have family Sunday lunch at 3pm? Off to mums later and that is when she is doing it which is just great with a 22m and 4 year old. Will have to do them a lunch snack to keep going and probably a tea snack as well. I am not usually precious about timings for naps/ food etc and they do roll with whatever we are doing but why can't it be either lunch or tea? It will only be grandparents and an aunt apart from us. GGrrrrr.

YANBU. It is a pain when you have young ones as you say - you'll going to have to do more work by giving them small meals either side.

Fine for adults, yes, but not for toddlers.

I know how you feel, sil always has Sunday lunch at 3pm. I'm not bothered with strict set mealtimes either but its just a stupid time for kids, they are either grazing constantly, really hungry and fed up or full up and wont eat anything.

YANBU; it's a pain.

I'd like to get lunch on the table for 1.30 (2 at the latest) on a Sunday. DH doesn't want to sit down until 3, or later if he can get away with it. Drives me mad, but we almost compromise on 2.30.

We often do Sunday 'lunch' at 5 - it gives us the day to do an activity and then back early afternoon to give me time to cook.

Agree that 3 is a rubbish time - but assume that you are not going over there every weekend, so one day out of the usual routine is not too much of a nightmare is it?

I can see that timing is inconvenient for you, but that would be a time I would choose.
Brunch late morning, Sunday lunch at 3ish, sandwich at 7ish.
My family all do Sunday lunch for then too, as it is too much to eat earlier and would sit heavily later.

I don't really do "should" when it comes to this sort of thing.

PIL get very anxious if they are not fed at regular times. And even drink to a timetable. Never have a cup of coffee because they fancy one. I do find that odd.

YABU! 'Sunday lunch' is a vague but yummy concept which in our family can start anytime between noon and 4pm. Christmas lunch has been known to slide to 6pm.

I have two DSs - 13mo and 3yo and they just eat at their normal time if it's not ready, and then again when it is.

Have a good breakfast and all will be well. It's a weekend, things can be relaxed.

It's not normal around these parts brambly! My parents stick to a very strict timetable

It is hard with little ones, when food is proffered at random times.

However if your mum has always done it at 3, then YABU as you should know what you;re in for by now. If she has suddenly started doing this just when it's a total PITA for you, then YANBU!

I couldnt eat a meal at 3pm, never mind the kids!

Sunday roast dinners here are aimed for 5pm. Normal lunch at lunch time and the roast becomes our evening meal.

As a one off occasion, I would just give a sandwich or similar at 12 and then crackers or something before bed.

YABU.

..I feed the urchins a large late breakfast, then a roast at about 3/4 pm.

This way I can kid myself that I only have to do two mass catering excercises of a Sunday.

...in truth I rarely stop catering for the greedy buggers.

Pain if you have little ones, but we've always had Sunday 'lunch' sort of mid-afternoon. Sometimes it stretches later on to early dinner instead with a light lunch.

It's ok as long as you have had a good sunday morning fry up to keep you going! It's awkward with kids but it won't hurt them to have a light snack.

Pity me, if we go to my MILs for a roast she'll put the veg on 3 hours before serving!

We usually eat at 'normal' times when we visit so that is why it threw me a bit (Christmas lunch is the one exception - that is often late whoever we are visiting and I can live with that as there is so much grazing going on anyway ). As you say, it isn't like it is every week - just mildly annoying this weekend!

If someone else is cooking for you, it can be any time they like. YABU. Eat the free food with good grace

Just give the children something to keep them going beforehand.

We tend to have a snacky lunch after church (about 12.30) and then "Sunday Dinner" with all the trimmings about 5.

But if at my parents it could be any time int eh afternoon. I just make sure kids (mine are older mind you) are fed late morning before we arrive and then I just ask for a snack for them if the full scale feast (and it is always amazing at my folks!!) is going to be late.

At Christmas we always had CHristmas Dinner at 3pm after "The Queen" and I think a lot of people do Sunday lunch at similar time. Personally I would find it hard to get a proper Sunday lunch on the table any time much before 3 as we are at church till 12.30/1.

3pm is lunchtime, at least at my in-laws and sometimes at my house.
Toddlers have a snack like a banana before nap and sometimes sleep till 2 or 3 pm - basically I'm not fussed what times meals are if I know about them.
It's only when someone invites me 'for lunch at 1' and then no food materialises I start to pass out - I keep snacks in my bag for such emergencies and sod 'politeness'!

as long as I don't have to cook it I don't care what time I'm fed

i'm getting hungry now!

3 is lunchtime at the weekends surely? the kids won't starve will they?

Off to your mums for a Sunday lunch later? Surely the problem is that it is Saturday rather than that it is being served at 3pm?

We usually have our Sunday lunch at around 3 - it fits in better with the rest of our day.

When my dc were little we always just fed them at their usual time, let them sit up for a "snack" at the table for the official meal, and kept some food back to give them at their usual tea time.

When going to a restaurant this paid off, as they didn't cost us so much!!

They aren't little for very long, TBH, and it doesn't do them any harm to learn to be a bit flexible.

When they are teenagers you will have difficulty getting them out of bed by 3pm for lunch

I wouldn't have eaten that late when the kids were young and would probably have avoided invitations to eat at that time. We're usually out Sundays anyway.
Now the kids are older if we're not going anywhere on a weekend day we have large brunch at 10-11 ish and then dinner at 5ish.

My mother cooks 'lunch' at this time, sometimes later